Festival Internacional de Poesia Los Confines, Honduras

by Adrian GrimaPosted onMay 31, 2024

With the indefatigable Salvador Madrid, director of the Festival, who always reminds us that there is a whole team behind the Festival
In May 2024 I was invited to take part in the VIIIth edition of the Festival Internacional de Poesia Los Confines in Gracias and Copán Ruinas in the state of Lempira, Honduras. I would like to thank the leading Cuban and US poet and academic Víctor Rodríguez Núñez for recommending me to the festival director, Salvador Madrid, and his team.

It was indeed a great honour and pleasure for me to read my poetry in Maltese in Honduras, with translations in Spanish, and to meet so many inspiring poets and human beings. I’ve made many new friends in Honduras.

My book of poetry Klin u Kapriċċi Oħra (Klabb Kotba Maltin 2015) was translated into Spanish as Romero y otros caprichos (Editorial Efímera, 2024, ISBN 979-83-21015-40-7) by Antoine Cassar, a London-born Maltese poet, translator, and editor, who received his PhD in Medieval Literature in 2017 from the Universidad de Alcalá de Henares with a thesis in Spanish on the Italian sonnet introduced in Spain, “El soneto italiano y su introducción en la España del siglo XV: Desarrollo métrico y conceptual.”

Antoine’s poetic translations from Maltese were then edited by Victor Rodríguez Núñez who recently retired from his post as Professor of Spanish at Kenyon College in Ohio, USA.

Credits:
https://adriangrima.org/2024/05/31/festival-internacional-de-poesia-los-confines-honduras/