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David Pujante (Cartagena, 1953). Creative work: "La propia vida" (Editora Regional de Murcia, 1986), "Con el cuerpo del deseo" (Universidad de Murcia, 1990), "Estación marítima" (Huerga y Fierro, 1996), "La Isla" (Pre-Textos, 2002), "Itinerario" (Editora Regional de Murcia, 2003), "Animales despiertos" (Renacimiento, 2013), "El sueño de una sombra" (Calambur, 2019). His poetic oeuvre has appeared in various anthologies in France and Italy, such as "Cinque poeti spagnoli" (Arsenale, Rome, 1987), "Ágora" (Paris, 1995), "Poesie autografe di autori spagnoli contemporanei" (Rimini, Raffaelli Editore, 2006), and "Tre poeti murciani" (Poesia 2.0, Rome, 2013). The Hispanic American Academy of Good Letters awarded him the Dámaso Alonso Prize (2018) for the entirety of his academic and poetic work. "Upon assembling this gallery of characters, I realize that there have been numerous occasions on which I have resorted, throughout my poetic creation, to this lyrical device: the lyrical-narrative. On some other occasion, I have left written record of the imprint of the epic upon my tastes and readings, and furthermore upon my manner of writing. I stated then that if I were required to define my most narrative poems, so replete with distinct voices originating from my manifold reading experiences, I would speak of epic fragments. However, it would be an error to consider them a cultured exercise. They constitute an exercise in timidity. I felt, from a very young age, the necessity to recount my tastes, my fears, my desires, my thoughts; yet simultaneously, an incapacity to recount them directly, in an unadorned manner. In Cavafy, I discovered that I could utilize a series of historical masks in order to be myself without revealing myself unadorned. Consequently, I commenced doing so, and, as I felt comfortable, I continued doing so. And to what extent! Only today, upon looking back, do I realize!"