Miriam Reyes, 2025 National Poetry Prize

Miriam Reyes has been awarded the 2025 National Poetry Prize for her work "Con" (La Bella Varsovia, 2024), at the suggestion of the jury meeting today. The prize, awarded by the Ministry of Culture, is worth 30,000 euros.

The jury chose her work "Con" for "being a collection of poems that participates in the public conversation regarding the possibilities of relationships. The author's voice traces the territory of the mutual with force and originality, giving it an exceptional cosmic sense . The work's rhythm focuses on the dimensions of the relationship with the other. And it does so from a linguistic intelligence that thinks and moves, while writing, from the nakedness of consciousness and body."

The jury also noted that Miriam Reyes "has achieved a very suggestive architectural structure , where the sound and rhythm make 'Con' an excellent collection of poems that, while being conceptually acute, questions and lays bare each and every one of our emotions."

The award recognized Chus Pato in its last edition , joining a long list of winners, including Miren Agur Meabe, Yolanda Castaño, Aurora Luque, Olga Novo, Pilar Pallarés and Antònia Vicens, among others.

Miriam Reyes is a poet, editor, and translator born in Orense. At the age of eight, she emigrated to Caracas, where she studied Literature at the Central University of Venezuela. She later earned a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona.

In addition to 'With' (La Bella Varsovia, 2024), she has published the poetry collections 'Black Mirror' (DVD, 2001), 'Sleeping Beauty' (finalist for the 19th Hiperión Poetry Prize , Hiperión, 2004), 'Evictions' (Hiperión, 2008), 'I, Interior, Body. Poetic Anthology' (Argentina, 2013), 'Do What I Say' (Bartleby, 2015), 'Cold Pressed' (Malasangre, 2016) and 'Sardiña' (Chan da pólvora, 2018). Her poetry is collected in the volume 'Strange Way of Being Alive' (Mixtura, 2022).

Since 2001, he has experimented with audiovisual writing and multimedia recitals, bringing poetry to other formats and settings.