Valentina Ramona de Jesús
From 6 October to 25 November 2021

Valentina Ramona de Jesús is a Colombian poet and pugilist. Her first book of poems Dos metros cuadrados de piel (Valparaíso Ediciones, 2021) won the National Poetry Prize. The manuscript of her second work La biología de las sombras, received in 2021 the writing stipend giving by the state of Berlin. She has been an invited poet at the Poesiefestival Berlin and the Latin American Poetry Festival Latinale. Her poetry, essay and fiction appear in various anthologies in Colombia and Germany. Her translation into English of Viaje a pie by Fernando González received the Jan Michalski fellowship. She studied cultural studies, philosophy and comparative literature in India and Germany. She currently studies a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires.