| Birth Place: | Córdoba, Spain |
Elena Medel (born 1985) is a Spanish poet based in Madrid. She has published many collections of poetry, and is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, now an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama.
Elena Medel was born in Córdoba, Spain, in 1985.[1]
Medel has published several collections of poetry, including Mi primer bikini (2001; DVD 2002;[1] translated into English by Lizzie Davis, My First Bikini, 2015); Tara (2006); and Chatterton, which won the Loewe Young Poets Prize in 2014.[2] She has also published chapbooks Vacaciones (2004)[3] [1] and Un soplo en el corazón (2007). She wrote "El mundo mago" (2015), an essay about Spanish poetAntonio Machado.
She has also republished many of her poems in the volume Un día negro en una casa de mentira (2015), and her work has been translated into several languages, including Italian and Portuguese.[1]
She is the editorial director of La Bella Varsovia, formerly a publishing house focused on poetry. In November 2021, La Bella Varsovia became an imprint of the publishing house Anagrama, with Medel continuing as director.[4]