Elisa Fernández Guzmán, Winner of the 2025 Miguel Hernández National Young Poetry Award

The jury selected her work “Después del pop” for “conveying truth with the power of an apparent simplicity that seduces, captivates, and shakes”.

Elisa Fernández Guzmán, Winner of the 2025 Miguel Hernández National Young Poetry Award.

Madrid – Elisa Fernández Guzmán has been awarded the 2025 Miguel Hernández National Young Poetry Award for her work “Después del pop” (Rialp), as proposed by the jury convened today. The award, granted by the Ministry of Culture, carries a prize of €30,000.

The jury selected her work for “conveying truth with the power of an apparent simplicity that seduces, captivates, and shakes. “Después del pop” features a magnificent construction of scenes, places, and atmospheres that combines a profound lyrical sensitivity with the ability to honestly articulate the emotional experience of adolescence, first love, and the passage of time”.

The jury also noted that the author “uses the theme of love to speak about the very act of poetic creation, taking risks with a direct style in which irony, drama, and celebration are all present. With everyday language, without falling into banality or forsaking musicality, Elisa Fernández Guzmán interprets the world through the lens of love and achieves a poetic expression of tenderness”.

The previous edition of the award recognized Lola Tórtola, joining a long list of recipients that includes Ismael Ramos, María Elena Higueruelo Illana, Alba Cid, Ángela Segovia, Xaime Martínez, and Berta García Faet, among others.

Biography

Elisa Fernández Guzmán (Huelva, 2000) holds a degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Granada and a Master’s in Audiovisual Screenwriting from the University of Seville. “Después del pop” is her first poetry collection, with which she won the runner-up prize in the Adonáis Poetry Prize in 2023.

Jury

The jury was chaired by María José Gálvez Salvador, Director General of Books, Comics, and Reading at the Ministry of Culture; with Jesús González González, Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Books, Reading, and Spanish Letters, serving as vice chair.

The members included: José Javier Cercas Mena (Javier Cercas), representing the Royal Spanish Academy; Luciano Rodríguez Gómez, representing the Royal Galician Academy/Real Academia Galega; Miren Agurtzane Meabe Plaza (Miren Agur Meabe), representing the Royal Academy of the Basque Language/Euskaltzaindia; María del Carmen Rubio Larramona (Carme Rubio), representing the Institute of Catalan Studies/Institut d’Estudis Catalans; Inmaculada Cerdà Sanchis, representing the Valencian Academy of the Language/Acadèmia Valenciana; Ignacio Elguero Olavide, representing the Collegiate Association of Writers of Spain (ACE); Julia Barella Vigal, representing the Spanish Association of Literary Critics; María Ángeles Samperio Martín, representing the Federation of Associations of Journalists of Spain (FAPE); Jaume Subirana Ortín, representing the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities (CRUE); Fernando Reviriego Picón, representing the UNED Center for Gender Studies; Andrea Abreu López, representing the Ministry of Culture; and Lola Tórtola, the previous year’s award recipient.