Ada Salas

Ada Salas (Cáceres, Spain, 1965) graduated in Spanish Philology at University of Extremadura. In 1987 she was awarded the Juan Manuel Rozas poetry prize for her book Arte y memoria del inocente (1988). Her book Variaciones en blanco (1994) was awarded the 9th Hiperión Prize. In 1997 she published La sed and in 2003 Lugar de la derrota (both by Hiperión publishing house). On the same year Noticia de la luz was released by Escuela de Arte de Mérida. In 2005 she published the narrative compilation Alguien aquí. Notas acerca de la escritura poética (Hiperión). In 2008 her book Esto no es el silencio (Hiperión) was awarded the 15th Ricardo Molina – Ciudad de Córdoba prize. In 2010 she published Ashes to Ashes in collaboration with painter Jesús Placencia (by Editora Regional de Extremadura). In 2011 her essay El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética (Diputación de Badajoz) was publised and awarded the Fernando Pérez Essay Prize 2010.

Poem from Arquelogías (Pre-Textos, 2022)

Translated from the Spanish by Lucina Shell

Arna aistriú ón Spáinnis ag Colm Breathnach

Reproduced by kind permission of the author