Valencian writer Ricardo Bellveser dies at 73



The Valencian writer Ricardo Bellveser He died this Wednesday at the age of 73 as a result of Cancer pancreas, as Levante-EMV, a newspaper belonging to the same publishing group as this medium, has learned. The author had been battling the disease for two years.

He was an honorary member of the Ateneo Blasco Ibáñez and the Ateneo Mercantil. He studied Philology at the University of Valencia and Information Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a poet, novelist and essayist and a renowned literary critic practicing journalism in different Spanish and Latin American newspapers and magazines.

He won National Prize for Living Culture Poetry in 2017. He was a university professor at Theory of Literature, director of the Alfons el Magnànim Institution and academic elected to the Valencian Academy of Llengua. He was invited to numerous festivals and congresses, mainly those of Belgrade, Yasnaya Polyana (Russia), Berlin, Lebanon, Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, and he gave classes or seminars in different Spanish universities.

In addition, he was a member of the Governing Council of the IVAM, member of the Consell Valencià de Cultura and of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts San Carlos.

His first books were of poetry, attracted by the aesthetics of the newest, from there they arise Body to body (1977) and The strategy (1977). They followed Manuals (1980) and Captive and disarmed (1987). These books were collected under the title of Symmetric memory (1995) that closed his first creative stage. In 2018 he published the anthology The dream of the tightrope walker, in which the author himself made a selection of the best poems of all his work.

The second poetic stage began with: Julia in July (1999), Birch water (2002), Success paradox (2003), Fragility of wounds (2004), The ashes of the nest (2009), Gardens (2013), Spring night (2016), The dream of the tightrope walker (2018). He followed Spring night (2016) in which he demanded the return to the poetry of emotion.

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