Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

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Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga (b. 1971, Madrid) holds a PhD in classical studies and is deputy director of culture at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid, Spain. As a novelist, he is the author of a trilogy about twentieth-century Spain (Santo diablo, No cantaremos en tierra de extraños, and Escarcha), among other works. An anthology of his poems has just been published under the title Escala. Poesía 1991–2023 (see WLT, Nov. 2024, 74).

The Song of the Mountain: The Earth Speaks

March 2025
Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga
Photo by Great Brut Here / Stock.adobe.com In his plea for the planet, in which “humans understand themselves as a harmonious part of the Earth, neither more nor less than other animals, plants…
Escala: Poesía, 1991–2023 by Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga

Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga
Granada. Sonámbulos Ediciones. 2023. 176 pages. All poetry anthologies offer readers a panorama of a writer’s life work as well as a view of the different creative stages through whi…
Two Poems from Spain

August 1, 2023 Ernesto Pérez Zúñiga
Photo by h heyerlein / Unsplash Field at Night On a night without you I descend into hell streetlamps become enemies Solitary I walk the salt mines my footprints are salt measuring fate salt like…