Snakes and landscapes
Maria Beneyto Award – XXXVI City of Valencia Awards
Iban L. Llop (Borriana, 1975) is a philologist, translator and poet. Since 2007 he has been a professor of Catalan language and literature at the Department of Humanistic and Social Sciences of the University of Sassari. With regard to literary production, he has published the collection of poems Sala d’espera (2013); Battles of Sardinia (2011), Iban Jafadja City of Alzira Prize 2010; Crònica de Calabria (2009), winner of the 2009 Alfons el Magnànim Poetry Prize; Book of Naples (2003), Ausiàs March Prize 2002; Blue Hotel (2000), Miquel Àngel Riera Award 1999; Brackish leather and corcaded wood. He has translated the dramatic work Light Steps, by Dacia Maraini and The Contrary Word, by Erri De Luca. With Serps i paisatges he has won the Maria Beneyto Prize for poetry in Valencian at the XXXVI City of Valencia Awards.
