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Piedad Bonnett (Amalfi, Colombia, 1951) has a degree in Philosophy and Letters from Universidad de Los Andes and a master's degree in Theory of Art and Architecture from the National University of Colombia. She has published eight poetry collections and multiple anthologies. She is also a playwright and the author of six novels and a memoir about the death of her son, Lo que no tiene nombre, which was included in Babelia - El País list of the 100 Best Books in the last 25 years. She is also the author of the autobiographical book La mujer incierta. Among other prizes, she has won the Colombian Culture Institute's National Poetry Prize in 1994 for El hilo de los días; the 2011 Casa de América Poetry Prize in Madrid for Explicaciones no pedidas; the 2012 Víctor Sandoval Prize at the Encuentro de Poetas del Mundo Latino in Mexico for her contributions to Spanish-language poetry. the 2014 Casa de las Américas José Lezama Lima Prize; and the 2016 Generation 27 Prize in Málaga for Los habitados. Her novel Qué hacer con estos pedazos was one of the five finalists of the V Biennial Mario Vargas Llosa Novel Prize in 2023, and in 2024 she received the XXXIII Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.
