Juan Carlos Mestre is a Spanish poet and visual artist. He’s the recipient of the Adonais Poetry Prize for Antífona del Otoño en el Valle del Bierzo (Anthem for Autumn in Valle del Bierzo).
After a several-year sojourn in Chile, he returned to Spain and wrote the Jaime Gil Biedman Prize-winning poetry book, La poesía ha caído en la desgracia (Poetry Has Fallen from Grace). La tumba de Keats (Keats’s Tomb), which he composed in Italy, won the Jaén Poetry Prize in 1999.
His prints and paintings have been exhibited in galleries all over Europe, the United States and Latin America. In 2009, he was awarded the National Poetry Prize for his collection La casa roja (The Red House).
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