Bio

Unai Velasco is a poet, editor and translator. He runs the publishing house Ultramarinos and is part of the editorial team of the Royal Spanish Academy's Classics Library. He has published the poetry collections En este lugar (In This Place) (Això no és Berlín, 2012: Miguel Hernández National Youth Poetry Award; republished by La Bella Varsòvia, 2019) and El silencio de las bestias (The Silence of the Beasts) (La Bella Varsòvia, 2014). His work has been included in anthologies such as Tenían veinte años y estaban locos (They Were Twenty Years Old and Crazy) (La Bella Varsòvia, 2011) and Millennials. Nueve poetas (Millennials: Nine Poets) (Alba, 2021). Since 2017 he has been working on his new poetry collection, Animales muy raros y bellos (Very Rare and Beautiful Animals). He has translated into Spanish authors such as Blanca Llum Vidal, Irene Solà, Vicenç Altaió, Perejaume, David B. and Blutch, among others.

Project

He will translate Mireia Calafell's poems into Spanish.