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Beatriz Villacañas
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| Born | 1964 Toledo,  Spain |
| Occupation | Poet, essayist, literary critic |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Genre | Poetry |
Beatriz Villacañas (born in 1964 in Toledo, Spain) is a talented writer. She is known for her beautiful poetry, thoughtful essays, and literary criticism. She teaches English and Irish literature at a university in Madrid, Spain.
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About Beatriz Villacañas
Beatriz Villacañas was born in Toledo, Spain. She studied English language and literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She earned her PhD there and now works as a professor. She teaches about English and Irish literature. Her father, Juan Antonio Villacañas, was also a well-known poet.
Beatriz has lived in the United Kingdom and taught Spanish there. She has also translated poems by famous English and Irish poets. These include William Shakespeare, W. B. Yeats, and Seamus Heaney. Ireland is like a second home to her because of her family and work. She has written many articles about Irish literature. She also wrote Literatura Irlandesa, which was the first complete study of Irish literature in Spanish.
She has been invited to many poetry festivals and conferences. For example, she attended Féile na Bealtaine, an international poetry festival in Dingle, Ireland, in 2007. She also helped translate some of her father's poems into English. These were published in a book called Juan Antonio Villacañas: Selected Poems.
Her Writings
Beatriz Villacañas writes poetry, short stories, articles, and essays. Her poetry often explores big ideas like love, life, death, and suffering. She also thinks a lot about spiritual questions. For example, she wrote: "Time sculptures and destroys us/ Eternity awaits and rescues." And another line says: "Each discovery nourishes a new enigma."
Critics have praised her unique poetic style and her skill with different poetry forms. They often mention how her poems have a special musical quality.
Poetry Books
Here are some of Beatriz Villacañas's poetry collections:
- Jazz, published in 1991
- Allegra Byron, published in 1993
- El Silencio está lleno de nombres (Silence is Full of Names), which won the Ciudad de Toledo Prize in 1995
- Dublín, which won the Primera Bienal Internacional Eugenio de Nora Prize in 2001
- El Ángel y la Física (The Angel and Physics), published in 2005
- Juan Antonio Villacañas: Selected Poems, a bilingual book (Spanish/English) she translated with Michael Smith in 2009
- La gravedad y la manzana (Gravity and the Apple), published in 2011
- Testigos del asombro, published in 2014 (also published in Mexico in the same year)
- El tiempo del padre (The time of the father), published in 2016
- Cartas a Angélica (Letters to Angélica), a small collection of poems published in 2016
- La voz que me despierta (The voice that wakes me up), published in 2017
- Astrología interior (Inner Astrology), a collection of her poems published in 2019
- De la vida al verso (From life to verse), published in 2020
Academic Books
Beatriz Villacañas has also written several academic books. These books are often about literature and research:
- Los Personajes Femeninos en las Novelas de Thomas Hardy (Female Characters in Thomas Hardy's Novels), published in 1991
- Mirando hacia la isla occidental: primera aproximación a la Literatura Irlandesa (Looking Towards the Western Island: First Approach to Irish Literature), published in 2002
- La Poesía de Juan Antonio Villacañas: Argumento de una Biografía (The Poetry of Juan Antonio Villacañas: Theme of a Biography), published in 2003
- Literatura Irlandesa (Irish Literature), published in 2007
Featured in Other Works
Beatriz Villacañas's poems and studies have been included in many different collections and books. This shows how important her work is in the literary world. Some examples include:
- Cien Poetas de Castilla-La Mancha, 1986
- Poetas de Toledo, 1991
- Poetisas españolas: Antología general, 1996-2002
- Ilimitada Voz: Poetas Españolas del S. XX, 1940-2002, 2003
- Historia poética de Nueva York en la España contemporánea, 2012
See also
In Spanish: Beatriz Villacañas para niños
