The City Council awards the V International Poetry Prize ‘Ciudad de Estepona’ to the author Julia Viejo

The winning work, ‘Anidan minerales’, has been published by Pre-Textos and receives a prize of 7,000 euros.

The City Council of Estepona has awarded the V International Poetry Prize ‘Ciudad de Estepona’ to the author Julia Viejo Sanchez from Madrid, for her work ‘Anidan minerales’, in a ceremony held at the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center and chaired by the Mayor Jose Maria Garcia Urbano.

This contest, organized by the Consistory, has established itself as one of the most important in Spain for its high participation and its prize money: 7,000 euros and the publication of the winning work in the prestigious Editorial Pre-Textos, a benchmark in the field of poetry in Castilian language. In this fifth edition, more than 2,300 works have been submitted.

During the award ceremony, the audience had the opportunity to participate in a meeting with the author. The packed auditorium was closed with a performance by the artist Abraham Boba, vocalist of the group León Benavente.

The mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, has emphasized the consolidation of this literary award that was born with the vocation of permanence and to which he predicts many years of life given the growing interest that awakens in each edition.

Julia Viejo Sánchez (Madrid, 1981) is the author of the book of short stories ‘En la celda había una luciérnaga’ (Blackie Books, 2022) and the novel ‘Mala estrella’ (2024). She has participated in the anthology of short stories ‘Una Navidad así’ (Tusquets, 2024) and has edited two poetry anthologies by Gloria Fuertes (‘Lo que pasa es que te quiero’, 2023, and ‘La gente corre tanto’, 2024). He has also translated ‘Cometa rojo: arte incandescente y vida fugaz de Sylvia Plath’ (Bamba editorial, 2023).