Elvira Sastre

Elvira Sastre Sanz (born 1992) is a Spanish writer, poet, philologist, and literary translator.

Biography and professional career Elvira Sastre was born in 1992 in Segovia, Spain. Her father encouraged her to take an interest in literature, thanks to which Sastre later became a professional writer. She wrote her first poem at the age of 12, and later started her blog "Relocos y recuerdos", when she turned 15. The blog has been inactive since 2019. She soon won a poetry prize for her work Saudade.

A couple years later, she started her degree in English Studies in Madrid. Meanwhile, Sastre continued writing and began to participate in poetry events, together with a number of singer-songwriters and famous poets.

In 2013, Sastre began her career as a writer with the publication of her work Cuarenta y tres maneras de soltarse el pelo, edited by Lapsus Calami publishers, with preface by Benjamín Prado, who introduced Sastre into Spanish contemporary poetry. In May 2014, Valparaiso Edicones publishers, based in Spain and Latin America, proposed that she publish her second book of poems.

Works

Books Tú la acuarela/Yo la lírica (Coautora) (2013). Cuarenta y tres maneras de soltarse el pelo (Lapsus Calami, 2014). La soledad de un cuerpo acostumbrado a la herida (Visor Libros, 2016). Aquella orilla nuestra (Alfaguara, 2018). Días sin ti (Seix Barral, 2019).

Translations Poemas de Amor, by Oscar Wilde. Milk and honey, by Rupi Kaur. La deriva by Vetusta Morla. Los hijos de Bob Dylan, by Gordon E. McNeer. Highly illogical behavior, by John Corey Whaley. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, by Lana Del Rey.

Poems Besides her poetry blog "Relocos y recuerdos", she makes photo poems and video poems.