The Mexican poet Eduardo Lizalde visits the Alhambra before collecting the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize

The Mexican poet Eduardo Lizalde (Mexico City – 1929) devoted the first day of his stay in Granada to visiting the Alhambra with his wife, Hilda Rivero. The Director of the Council of the Alhambra and Generalife, María del Mar Villafranca, received the writer in the Palace of Charles V and presented him with a copy of a book of drawings of the monument by the artist Miguel Rodríguez-Acosta entitled “Alhambra. Cuaderno de dibujos”. Next Thursday the writer will receive the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize in a ceremony to be held at the Manuel de Falla Auditorium at which the Prince and Princess of Asturias will be guests of honour.
The writer decided to place his admiration for the Alhambra on written record by signing the book of honour with a touching dedication in which he expressed his “thanks” for the “generosity” of all the people who “have welcomed us to the jewel that is the Alhambra, the grand Alhambra”.
Later Fernando Valverde, a poet from Granada, took Eduardo Lizalde and his wife on a guided tour of the Nasrid Palaces.
The Mexican poet Eduardo Lizalde, a member of the generation of 1945, was awarded the Federico García Lorca International Poetry Prize for his “personal and original” voice. This year 44 authors from 16 different countries were proposed by 72 institutions as candidates for the prize.