Teresa Pascual (Grau de Gandia, 1952), is one of the most interesting voices in contemporary Catalan poetry. She also teaches philosophy and has translated Hans Magnus Enzenberger and Ingeborg Bachmann. Her most relevant collections include Flexo [Flexor] (1988), Les hores [The Hours] (Eliseu Climent, 1988), El temps en ordre [Time in Order] (Proa, 2002), Rebel·lió de la sal [Salt Rebellion] (Pagès editors, 2008), Vertical (2019) and El temps en ordre. Poesia reunida 1988-2019 [Time in Order: Collected Poems 1988-2019] (Institució Alfons el Magnànim, 2020). Diverse anthologies of her work have been translated into French, Galician, Basque, English, Dutch, Russian and Italian.
Tot passa baix [It All Goes on Down There], which won the 2023 Premi d’Or – one of the most important prizes in Catalan letters – , is a mature book in which the poet dispenses with personal names, references to time and historical circumstances, to make way for a sometimes impersonal, sometimes first-person plural voice, which confirms the radical solitude of the individual.
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