Selena Millares

Selena Millares (born Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1963) is a Spanish writer and professor.

She was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and got her Ph.D. in Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has lived in Minneapolis, Paris, Berlin, Santiago de Chile and Alghero. Since 1996, she is a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She is the author of numerous essays as well as creative works (poetry, prose, painting), which suggest an interdisciplinary dialogue and the return to the original humanism, based on the integral conception of art and thought.

Awards

2013, International Poetry Award of the city of Sassari, Italy. 2014, International Literature Award Antonio Machado, Collioure, France.

Works Páginas de arena (poetry), 2003 Isla del silencio (poetry), 2004 Cuadernos de Sassari (poetry), 2013 Sueños del goliardo (poetry and painting), 2013 Isla y sueño (catalogue and poetry), 2014 El faro y la noche (novel), 2015

Essays La maldición de Scheherazade, 1997 Rondas a las letras de Hispanoamérica, 1999 Neruda: el fuego y la fragua, 2008 La revolución secreta, 2010 De Vallejo a Gelman, 2011 Prosas hispánicas de vanguardia, 2013