Christian Formoso is a Chilean and Magellan Poet. He has won several awards, among them the “Binacional Literary Award of Patagonia Chile-Argentina” (1998 and 2000), the “Municipal Award City of Punta Arenas” (2010), and the prestigious “Pablo Neruda Prize” (2010), granted by the Pablo Neruda Foundation. The jury that unanimously awarded him praised “the originality of his poetry, where he brings together the historical, the ethnic, the indigenous and the domestic. What stands out in his work is the Patagonian universe and his profound poetic vision of this world.”
Christian has published six collections of poems. The most recent is “bellezamericana” (Santiago de Chile, Cuarto Propio, 2014), and the most important until now is “El cementerio más hermoso de Chile” (Santiago de Chile, Cuarto Propio, 2008). His poems have been collected in anthologies and media in Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, France, Spain, Greece, and the United States.
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