Hernán Bravo Varela was born in Mexico City in 1979. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, literary essays and other creations. He has published, in Spanish, various works by English-language poets such as Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. His most recent title is two books of poems brought together in a single volume by the Spanish publishing house Pre-Textos: Ejercicios de respiración and El Estado empresario mexicano, which will be published by Ediciones Era in 2024. In 1999 he won the Elías Nandino National Youth Poetry Prize and, in 2010, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Competition, in the category of Literary Non-fiction. Some of his work has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Danish and Finnish. He has been a member of the National Network of Artists since 2017. He currently works as an editor at UNAM’s Periódico de Poesía.
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