Name: Heaven
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Author: Manuel Vilas

Type

Physical Book

Author

Manuel Vilas

Translated by

James Womack

Publisher

Carcanet Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x13.5x1 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9781784108861

Synopsis "Heaven"

A collection of dark, funny Iberian poems about drinking, sex and death. Manuel Vilas speaks in the voice of bitter experience, experience which seems intent on sending him up. He is a novelist as well as a poet, and his poems tell stories as the speaker moves quixotically across the map and between romances. His instinct for rhythm gives the reader a firm sense of place and tone. Universal in their concerns, taking in love and the end of love, life and the end of life, the poems are also resolutely Spanish in how they speak - bluntly, humorously - always alert for the fantastic. This is the first translation of Vilas's two major collections Heaven (El cielo, 2000) and Heat (Calor, 2008) into English. Thematically fuelled with alcohol, death and sex, they go off into free-wheeling megalomaniacal flights of fantasy. The translator, James Womack, has won prizes for his versions of Vilas and of the Russian poet Mayakovsky.

Manuel Vilas

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(Barbastro, 1962) is the author of six poetry collections and his lyrical work has been compiled in Amor (2010), in Poesía completa (2016), and in Una sola vida (2022). His narrative work begins with España, followed by Aire nuestro, Los inmortales, El luminoso regalo, and the storybooks Zeta and Setecientos millones de rinocerontes.

He is the author of the travel book América, of Listen to me, and of Lou Reed era español. His novel Ordesa (2018) was translated into more than twenty languages and chosen as the book of the year by Babelia and won the Femina Prize, awarded in France to the best foreign novel. Alegría (2019), translated into several languages, was a finalist for the Planeta Prize. In 2021 he published Los besos. Nosotros is his most recent novel and has been awarded the Nadal Prize for Novel 2023.

He collaborates with El País and other media.

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