Ada Salas


Ada Salas or AdaMc is a Spanish poet and author. She has worked as a teacher. Her poetry is known for its inclusion of pauses.

Life

Ada Salas was born in Cáceres, Spain in 1965. She earned a doctorate in philology at the University of Extremadura. She taught in France at the University of Angers. Juan Manuel Rozas was meant to have been her teacher, but he died in 1987. Salas entered the competition named in his memory and won the award in 1988

Awards and recognition

  • 1988 Arte y memoria del inocente Salas, Ada. Published by the Universidad de Extremadura II Premio "Juan Manuel Rozas" de Poesía.
  • 1994 Variaciones en blanco. the Hiperión Prize.
  • 2007 Esto no es el silencio won the 15th Ricardo Molina – Ciudad de Córdoba prize.
  • 2011 El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética Fernando Pérez Essay Prize
  • 2011 El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética won the Fernando Pérez Essay Prize

Works

Arte y memoria del inocente Variaciones en blanco La sed Lugar de la derrota Noticia de la luzEscuela de Arte de Mérida proseAlguien aquí. Notas acerca de la escritura poéticaEsto no es el silencioA la Misericordia y Las tinieblas by Robert Desnos - she and Juan Abeleira translatedNo duerme el animal Ashes to Ashes Limbo y otros poemasDiez mandamientos Poesía española reciente, Cano Ballesta, Juan 1980-2000 El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética