Berta García Faet

Berta García Faet (born 1988, Valencia) is a Spanish poet, translator, and scholar of Hispanic Literature.[1]

Life and work

Berta García Faet has published seven books of poetry in Spanish, most recently, in 2018, Corazón tradicionalista. Poesía 2008-2011 with La Bella Varsovia,[2] edited by Elena Medel. She is also the author of the books Los salmos fosforitos (Fluorescent Psalms, La Bella Varsovia, 2017), La edad de merecer (The Eligible Age, La Bella Varsovia, 2015), Fresa y herida (Strawberry and Wound, Diputación de León, 2011), Introducción a todo (Introduction to Everything, La Bella Varsovia, 2011), Night club para alumnas aplicadas (Nightclub for Studious Schoolgirls, Vitruvio, 2009), and Manojo de abominaciones (A Bunch of Abominations, Ayuntamiento de Avilés, 2008).

She has won the following prizes: Premio Nacional de Poesía “Antonio González de Lama,” 2010;[3] IV Premio de Poesía Joven “Pablo García Baena,” 2011;[4] VII Premio Nacional de Poesía “Ciega de Manzanares,” 2009;[5] XVI Premio de Poesía “Ana de Valle,” 2008.[6]

García Faet has studied at the University of Valencia, Pompeu Fabra University, and the City College of New York; she is currently a doctoral candidate in Hispanic Studies at Brown University.[7]

The Eligible Age

The Eligible Age is an English translation of García Faet's La edad de merecer by U.S. American translator Kelsi Vanada[8]. Unai Velasco calls it "one of the most significant books of the last few years...Berta García Faet has become the most representative voice of her generation."[9] The first of García Faet's books to be translated into English, The Eligible Age was published by independent press Song Bridge Press in 2018.[10]

In a review of the translation, reviewer Laura Wetherington writes, "The Eligible Age does not disappoint, which is to say it’s equally complex, surprising, and funny."[11]

Bibliography
  • Manojo de abominaciones, 2008
  • Night club para alumnas aplicadas, 2009
  • Introducción a todo, 2011
  • Fresa y herida, 2011
  • La edad de merecer, 2015
  • Los salmos fosforitos, 2017
  • Corazón tradicionalista. Poesía 2008-2011, 2018
  • The Eligible Age, 2018 (in English)
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References
  1. "BERTA GARCÍA FAET". DESFICI magazine - La revista cultural de València (in Catalan).
  2. Varsovia, La Bella. "Novedad: Corazón tradicionalista. Poesía 2008-2011, de Berta García Faet".
  3. Press, Europa (12 November 2010). "Berta García Faet obtiene el Premio Nacional de Poesía Antonio González de Lama por la obra 'Fresa y Herida'". europapress.es (in Spanish).
  4. "Premio de Poesía Joven "Pablo García Baena" - Top Cultural". Top Cultural (in Spanish). 11 April 2016.
  5. "Presentado el poemario "Night Club para alumnas aplicadas", de Berta García Faet". Manzanares (in Spanish). 26 July 2016.
  6. "Amor, seudoamor y soledad para ganar el premio Ana de Valle". El Comercio (in Spanish). 22 November 2008.
  7. "Graduate Students - Hispanic Studies". www.brown.edu.
  8. "Kelsi Vanada".
  9. "Books". Song Bridge Press. 16 April 2014.
  10. "Books". Song Bridge Press. 16 April 2014.
  11. "The Eligible Age – Berta García Faet". Full Stop.
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