Writer and researcher
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Biography
Ioana Gruia (1978, Bucarest). In 1997 she has a scholarship for studying
in Granada. She has two licences, in Spanish Philology and Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, and a
PhD in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature (University of Granada). She is researcher and teacher at the Department of
General Linguistics and Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature (University of Granada).
She wrote the following books : Otoño sin cuerpo (finalist of the
Federico García Lorca Prize for Poetry of the University of Granada in
2002), Nighthawks (Federico García Lorca Prize for Short Story of the
University of Granada in 2007), Eliot y la escritura del tiempo en la
poesía española contemporánea (Visor, 2009), El sol en la fruta (Young Andalusia Prize for Poetry 2011, Renacimiento, 2011) and La vendedora de tiempo (Renacimiento/Espuela de Plata, 2013). El sol en la fruta, translated in French by Adrien Bagarry, was published in bilingual version at L'Harmattan (Paris, 2014).
She published poems in reviews as Renacimiento and a micro-story in the
blog of the prestigious literary critic Fernando Valls, La nave de los locos.
She also collaborated with plastic artists (Mercedes Luanco, Rosa
Fornals, María José Bustamante, Mercedes Fernández, Pilar Ortiz and
Maureen Booth). Some of her poems were selected and translated for
the trilingual catalogue (Spanish, French, English)
Granada. The Eyes of South, edited in 2005 by the University of Granada, the
European Parliament and the Autonomous Region of Andalusia.
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