Ada Salas

{{Short description|Spanish poet and author}}

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Ada Salas or AdaMc (born 1965) is a Spanish poet and author. She has worked as a teacher. Her poetry is known for its inclusion of pauses.{{Cite journal|last=Ávila-Martínez|first=Jaime|date=2013-03-05|title=Ada Salas: un lirismo en harapos|url=http://journals.openedition.org/agedor/826|journal=L'Âge d'Or|issue=6|doi=10.4000/agedor.826|issn=2104-3353|access-date=25 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190622121257/https://journals.openedition.org/agedor/826|archive-date=22 June 2019|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}

Life

Ada (Moreno) Salas was born in Cáceres, Spain in 1965.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYeuDQAAQBAJ&dq=ada+salas+poet&pg=PA115|title=Spanish Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology|last=Cullell|first=Diana|date=7 October 2014|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719090950|language=en}} She earned a doctorate in philology at the University of Extremadura. She taught in France at the University of Angers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poemas-del-alma.com/ada-salas.htm|title=Ada Salas - Poemas de Ada Salas|website=www.poemas-del-alma.com|access-date=7 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191007141450/https://www.poemas-del-alma.com/ada-salas.htm|archive-date=7 October 2019|url-status=live}} Juan Manuel Rozas was meant to have been her teacher, but he died in 1987. Salas entered the competition named in his memory and won the award in 1988{{Citation|title=Ada Salas en la biblioteca del Instituto Cervantes de Dublín|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNTmHs3OhLY|language=en|access-date=30 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140113202802/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNTmHs3OhLY|archive-date=13 January 2014|url-status=live}}

= Awards and recognition =

  • 1988 Arte y memoria del inocente Salas, Ada. Published by the Universidad de Extremadura II Premio "Juan Manuel Rozas" de Poesía.{{Cite book|title=Arte y memoria del inocente|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=1988|publisher=Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Extremadura|isbn=8477230145|edition=1st|location=Cáceres|oclc=20297176}}
  • 1994 Variaciones en blanco . the Hiperión Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://dublin.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha81121_16_2.htm|title=In two voices: Ada Salas + Leeanne Quinn|date=2012|website=Instituto Cervantes|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930172411/https://dublin.cervantes.es/FichasCultura/Ficha81121_16_2.htm|archive-date=30 September 2019|access-date=30 September 2019}}
  • 2007 Esto no es el silencio won the 15th Ricardo Molina – Ciudad de Córdoba prize.{{Cite web|url=https://www.hiperion.com/premio-ciudad-de-cordoba-ricardo-molina/|title=Premio Ciudad de Córdoba Ricardo Molina|date=2007|website=ediciones hyperion|url-status=live|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023185021/https://www.hiperion.com/premio-ciudad-de-cordoba-ricardo-molina/|archive-date=23 October 2019}}
  • 2011 El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética (Diputación de Badajoz) Fernando Pérez Essay Prize {{Cite book|title=El margen, el error, la tachadura : de la metáfora y otros asuntos más o menos poéticos|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=2010|publisher=Diputación de Badajoz|isbn=9788477961550|location=Badajoz|oclc=707960408}}
  • 2011 El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética (Diputación de Badajoz) won the Fernando Pérez Essay Prize

= Works =

  • Arte y memoria del inocente (1988){{Cite web|url=https://bicidue.com/2016/07/28/ada-salas-el-silencio-y-el-dolor/|title=Ada Salas el silencio y el dolor|date=28 July 2016|website=Bicidue Revista Literaria|url-status=live|access-date=23 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191023162800/https://bicidue.com/2016/07/28/ada-salas-el-silencio-y-el-dolor/|archive-date=23 October 2019}}
  • Variaciones en blanco (1994){{Cite book|title=Variaciones en blanco|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=1994|publisher=Hiperión|isbn=8475174124|edition=1st|location=Madrid|oclc=31536551}}
  • La sed (1997){{Cite book|title=La sed|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=1997|publisher=Hiperión|isbn=8475175031|location=Madrid|oclc=37151405}}
  • Lugar de la derrota (2003){{Cite book|title=Lugar de la derrota|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=2003|publisher=Hiperión Ediciones|isbn=847517728X|edition=1st|location=Madrid|oclc=51976269}}
  • Noticia de la luz
  • Escuela de Arte de Mérida prose
  • Alguien aquí. Notas acerca de la escritura poética{{Cite book|title=Alguien aquí : notas acerca de la escritura poética|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=2005|publisher=Hiperión|isbn=8475178243|edition=1st|location=Madrid|oclc=60831640}}
  • Esto no es el silencio{{Cite book|title=Esto no es el silencio|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=2008|publisher=Hiperión|isbn=978-8475179124|location=Madrid|oclc=233028219}}
  • A la Misericordia y Las tinieblas by Robert Desnos - she and Juan Abeleira translated
  • No duerme el animal (2009) (compilation){{Cite book|title=No duerme el animal : poesía, 1987-2003|last=Salas|first=Ada|isbn=9788475179254|location=Madrid|oclc=423586225|year=2009}}
  • Ashes to Ashes (2010)
  • Limbo y otros poemas{{Cite book|title=Limbo y otros poemas|last=Salas|first=Ada|isbn=9788415576662|location=Madrid|oclc=862072832|year=2013}}
  • Diez mandamientos {{Cite book|title=Diez mandamientos|last=Salas|first=Ada|date=2016|publisher=La Oficina|isbn=9788494440120|location=Madrid|oclc=954315267}}
  • Poesía española reciente, Cano Ballesta, Juan 1980-2000 {{Cite book|title=Poesía española reciente, 1980-2000|last=Cano Ballesta|first=Juan|date=2001|publisher=Ediciones Cátedra|isbn=8437618908|location=Madrid|oclc=47798054}}
  • El margen, el error, la tachadura. Notas acerca de la escritura poética (Diputación de Badajoz)
  • Salas, with Juan Abeleira, translated A la Misteriosa y Las tinieblas by the French writer Robert Desnos{{Cite book|title=A la misteriosa; Las tinieblas|last1=Desnos|first1=Robert|last2=Salas|first2=Ada|last3=Abeleira|first3=Juan|date=1996|publisher=Hiperión|isbn=8475174698|edition=bilingüe|location=Madrid|oclc=48151466}}
  • La otra joven poesía española (Igitur, 2003)
  • Poesía española reciente,Cano Ballesta, Juan {{cite book|title=Poesía española reciente, 1980-2000|publisher=Ediciones Cátedra|date=2001|isbn=8437618908|oclc=47798054|last=Cano Ballesta|first=Juan}} 1980-2000
  • Descendimiento, Valencia, Pre-Textos, 2018{{Cite book|title=Descendimiento|last=Salas|first=Ada|isbn=9788417143817|edition=1st|location=Madrid|oclc=1086296227|year=2018}}

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