The winner of the Miguel Hernández-Valencian Community International Poetry Prize 2022 is Colombian writer Henry Alexander Gómez Ríos for his poetry book La Torre de los Caballos Azules.
According to the ruling that was announced this Thursday, March 24, of the Prize, Gómez Ríos' collection of poems is a “personal reflection of art, painting and music with imagination and personal style”.
In revealing his decision, the president of the jury, Javier Díez de Revenga, pondered that in the work of Gómez Ríos the “plot constructions of the poems form the backbone of all the compositions and unite the whole of the award-winning poetry collection, enriched by constant successes both in the formalization of the poematic structures and in the excellent poems in prose”.
He also highlighted “the originality of the scenarios and spaces created, which contain imagination and veneration for art and the history of a living and felt 20th century Europe in its artistic outpours. We were surprised by this European consciousness through the art of a Colombian poet who lives and works there.”
The Tower of the Blue Horses has 28 compositions that are mostly poems in poetic prose, without neglecting the short verse.
Henry Alexander Gómez Ríos was born in Bogotá in 1982 and holds a degree in Social Sciences from the Francisco José de Caldas District University and director of the Literature Festival 'Eye in the Ink' and between 2018 and 2019 he directed the District Poetry Workshop City of Bogotá.
He has also been awarded the Universidad Externado de Colombia National Poetry Prize, the Silva National Poetry House Prize and the José Verón Gormaz International Poetry Prize of Spain for the book Treatise of Dawn (2016).
His publications have also received awards, such as Memorial of the Tree (2013) Second National Poetry Prize Unpublished Work; Diabolus in Music (2014), Ciro Mendía National Poetry Award; Georg Trakl at Sunset (2018), and The Night Barely Breathe (2018), honorable mention in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Literature Competition and finalist of the National Poetry Prize of the Ministry of Culture.
In 2021 he received the Juan Ruiz de Torres International Short Story Prize for the book Tales to Sink a Submarine. He is the co-founder and editor of the Latin American Journal of Poetry La Raíz Inverted.
The award's decision came four days before this year marks the eightieth anniversary of the death of the Spanish poet Miguel Hernández, in Orihuela, Alicante, his hometown.
The jury was chaired by Francisco Javier Díez de Revenga, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Murcia, and composed of poet and professor Joaquín Juan Penalva, poet Ada Soriano and editor Juan Pastor.
The prize is organized by the Miguel Hernández Cultural Foundation and gives its winner 8,000 euros (about 8,807 dollars), an accrediting artistic element and the publication of the poetry book by the Madrid publisher Devenir.
This edition was attended by more than a thousand works from different countries, in addition to Spain.
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