Luis García Montero is one of the most popular poets writing in Spain today. He has received numerous awards for his work, including Spain's National Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Critics Prize. García Montero was born in 1958 in Granada, the southern province which also produced the Civil War poet and playwright Federico García Lorca. García Montero is a professor of Spanish literature at the University of Granada and is married to award-winning novelist Almudena Grandes. He has an official Web site, www.luisgarciamontero.com, Facebook fan account, http://www.facebook.com/LuisGarciaMontero, and Twitter profile, lgm_com.
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Katie King is a journalist, scholar and literary translator whose poetry and prose translations from the Spanish have appeared in print and online. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies and is a Harvard Nieman Fellow. She has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in Spain and Latin America. Her research focuses the evolution of translation and translation studies in the digital age, and on the literature of Spain in translation to English.
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