Professor and columnist Pilar Pallarés has been awarded the National Poetry Prize 2019 for her work Tempo fossil , which has an endowment of 20,000 euros and granted by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
Tempo fossil has been chosen "for transmitting with experience wisdom and emotion, at a lucid and torn time, the experience of the loss and destruction of the lived, of what configures us, from a landscape consciousness as a living body" , according to the press release issued by said ministry.
Pilar Pallarés (Culleredo, A Coruña, 1957) has a degree in Galician Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela , works as a professor of Galician literature and collaborates as a columnist in various media, such as A nossa terra , El País or Si scrive .
In 1979 his first published book, Entre lusco e fusco , won the Nova do Facho Poetry Prize and in 1983 his next work, Seventh Soidade , won the Esquío Prize.
He has published the books of poems: Livro das devoracions (1996), Poemas (2000), Leopardo son (2011), for which he received the Galician Language Writers Association Award; and Tempo fossil (2018), deserving of the 2018 Critics Award.
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