Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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March 10, 2026

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On Tuesday, March 10th, at 7pm, we will have an introduction to the current poetry of Castilla y León with Fermín Herrero.

This lecture series is part of the initiatives of the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language to promote and strengthen contemporary literary production in our region. Having successfully addressed current narrative and given a voice to young writers from Castilla y León, it is fitting to extend this outreach to poetry, a key genre for understanding the richness and complexity of the current literary landscape.
Castilla y León is a land of poets. From the Generation of '98 to the present day, poetry has been a privileged form of expression for narrating landscape, time, memory, and feeling. Our region boasts a rich list of writers who have been awarded the highest honors in Hispanic literature, such as the Cervantes Prize and the Castilla y León Literature Prize. Poets like Jorge Guillén, José Jiménez Lozano, Antonio Gamoneda, and Luis Mateo Díez have transformed poetic language into an instrument of depth and truth.
Today, this tradition is being renewed by authors of great projection and literary quality such as Juan Antonio González Iglesias, María Ángeles Pérez López, Tomás Sánchez Santiago or Fermín Herrero, whose book Sin ir más lejos was distinguished with the Critics' Prize.
The Lyre of the Muses cycle was created with the purpose of bringing this poetic vitality closer to the whole territory, disseminating its keys, enjoying its verses and vindicating poetry as a necessary language, also in our time.

Fermín Herrero Redondo (Soria, 1963)
A graduate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Zaragoza, he received the Castilla y León Literature Prize (2014) and the Critics' Prize for his work, Sin ir más lejos (Without Going Any Further). His work, comprising some twenty books of poetry, has been distinguished with the most prestigious awards in Spanish poetry and has been published primarily by Hiperión. Titles such as Tierras altas (Highlands), Tempero (Temperance), and La agradecer (Gratitude) stand out for their refined language and profound understanding of the human and natural landscape of Castile.
He collaborates as a literary critic in media such as ABC Castilla y León, La sombra del ciprés (El Norte de Castilla), Archipiélago, El Ciervo or Turia.

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