Pere Gimferrer
Pere Gimferrer is a Spanish poet, translator and novelist. He is twice winner of Spain's Premio Nacional de Poesía.
He was born in Barcelona in 1945. He writes both in Castilian and Catalan. In Castilian, he has written the poetry collections Arde el mar, Amor en vilo, Interludio azul and Tornado. In Catalan, he has written the novel Fortuny, and the poetry collection El vendaval. For lifetime achievement, he won the Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas in 1998 and the International Octavio Paz Prize for Poetry and Criticism in 2006.
Gimferrer was elected to Seat O of the Real Academia Española on 18 April 1985, he took up his seat on 15 December the same year.
