Hilario Barrero

Hilario Barrero (born 1948) is a Spanish writer, translator, professor and poet. He also is a columnist with Fifth Column in The New York Times.

Biography He was born in Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain, in 1948, and he had 7 sibling. In 1976 Barrero published his first book: Siete sonetos (Seven Sonnets). In 1978, Barrero left Spain and settled in New York City and the poetry prize Muskiz lewd Café 2003 with the book The Rockefeller Center elevator.

His awards include also the Feliks Gross Endowment Award, given by the CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences (the award honors emerging scholars for their research and scholarly achievements). His work has appeared in magazines in the United States and Spain, and been collected in several anthologies.

In 2007 he began to publish El Diario de Brooklyn (in English: The Dailies of Brooklyn), a book of poetry that speaks about the life of New York and its features (people, scenes, etc.), especially the culture.

Works The books that he published are:

Books of poetry (Seven Sonnets), 1976 (In tempori belli, Verbum), 1999. (in Spanish: Walter and smoke), 2010 (Language of Wood: History of brief poetry in English only), 2011. (Family book), 2012

Diaries (Of loves and fears, Book of the Pexe), 2005. (Of loves and fears, Book of the Pexe), 2005. (Brooklyn Days, Book of the Pexe), 2007. (Address Brooklyn, Universes), 2009. (Brooklyn in White and Black), 2011.

Tales (A smell of sulfur, Book Notes), 2009.

Translations (Pre-textos)(By other way), 2007 (Pre-textos) (Delights and Shadows), 2009 (Grand Tour) (The lover of Italy), 2009

Anthologies . (Mapa poético) (Views of New York. (Map poetic)), (2000). , 2002 (Urban lines. Reading New York), 2002 (Skin-word (Sample of Spanish poetry in New York)), 2003 (Here I had to write), 2004 (Pins, The haiku in the Spanish poetry last), 2004 (Spanish Writers in America), 2007 (The Labyrinth of Ariadne, 10 years of poetry), 2008 (Light unharmed. Four poets, teachers, Valdediós), 2008 (Stories for Toledo, Cylea Editions), 2009 (Antología de poesía erótica) (Erato under the skin of desire (erotic poetry anthology)), 2010 (1975–2008) (Windows on the Atlantic: United States-Spain during the post-Franco (1975–2008)), 2011 (Poetic History of New York in Contemporary Spain) (Cátedra), 2012

Magazines He works in Clarín and he has published in Aldonza, Angélica, Arquitrave, Calandrajas, Downtown Brooklyn, El Súmmum, Grama, Hélice, Hermes, Hueso Húmero, Manxa, Poesía española, Reloj de arena, Revistatlántica y Turia.