The writer Dolores Tórtola Hernández (Lola Tórtola) has been awarded this Monday with the 2024 Miguel Hernández National Young Poetry Prize, for her first book, Lthe gods destroyed (Ediciones Rialp), a text that the jury of the prize, endowed with 30,000 euros, considers “round, which sings a heartbreaking song and shows the poetic magic of Lola Tórtola.” The 27-year-old writer also received a second prize from the Adonáis Poetry Prize for the same text in 2022.
Tórtola, a graduate in Medicine and now a resident of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery, enters the radar of Spanish poetry with a book that, according to the jury “as a travel notebook, displays a capacity to miss and be strange and “It is surprising because of the risky commitment to a poetry of critical awareness of the annihilated culture.” The jury also recognizes his “personal, forceful voice, loaded with suggestive images and its intensity and the emotion of a passionate language.”
In its last edition, the award recognized Mayte Gómez Molina, joining a long list of winners, among whom are Ismael Ramos, María Elena Higueruelo Illana, Alba Cid, Ángela Segovia, Xaime Martínez or Berta García Faet, among others.