Sergio Navarro Ramírez, a poet and professor at the University of Granada, has been awarded the XXI Amado Alonso International Prize for Literary Criticism. The award, presented by the Amado Alonso Foundation, recognizes Navarro’s work titled Acts of Poetry Still Possible: Dissidences in the Regime of Postmodern Sensitivity. The prize includes a monetary award of 5,000 euros and the publication of the winning work in collaboration with the Valencian publishing house Pre-Textos.
The jury praised Navarro’s “in-depth analysis” of the poetry of Álvaro García, Ada Salas, Jordi Doce, and Esperanza López Parada, noting that their poetics represent significant elements in contemporary literature. Navarro’s theoretical reflection, which underpins the study of these poems, was commended for its exploration of “neohumanism” and for highlighting dissatisfaction with the postmodern condition.
About Sergio Navarro
Born in Marbella in 1992, Sergio Navarro Ramírez is a scholar with a strong academic background in Hispanic Philology and Audiovisual Communication. He earned a master’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Literature from the University of Navarra. Navarro has conducted research at prestigious institutions, including the Universities of Exeter, Bordeaux, and Freiburg.
He is the author of several poetry collections, including History of Touch (2022), An Impossible Image (2018), and The Struggle for Escape (2017), the latter of which earned him the Adonáis Poetry Prize. In addition to his poetry, Navarro has written numerous essays and articles on 20th- and 21st-century Spanish poetry. Currently, he works as a postdoctoral researcher under the Juan de la Cierva fellowship at the University of Granada.
About the Amado Alonso Foundation
Founded in 2001, the Amado Alonso Foundation aims to honor the life and legacy of Amado Alonso, a professor of language and literature at Harvard University. The foundation promotes research and educational initiatives related to Spanish philology, literary theory, and criticism. It also seeks to preserve and advance Alonso’s contributions to the field.
Since its inception in 2002, the Amado Alonso International Prize for Literary Criticism has been awarded to several notable scholars, including M.ª Isabel López Martínez, Ángel Pérez Martínez, and Andrés García Cerdán.