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José María Alvarez was born in Cartagena, Spain, in 1942. A graduate of philosophy and literature, he has always been a writer. It is significant that a corrected and expanded edition of his complete poems Museo de Cera (Wax Museum), a total of 622 pages, was published in 1990. His poems have been published alone or in collections in places as far apart as China, Nicaragua, and Sweden. In 1976 he won a grant for literary creation from the March Foundation. He has translated Hölderin, Shakespeare’s sonnets, and the complete works of the Greek poet Kavafis. In 1985 he presided over the international homage to Ezra Pound in Venice. In 1990 he published La caza del zorro (The Fox Hunt), and in 1992 he won the XIV La Sonrisa Vertical Prize for his novel La esclava instruida (The Educated Slave). The jury was made up of Luis G. Berlanga, the editor of the series, Juan García Hortelano, Charo López, Ricardo Muñoz Suay, Almudena Grandes, Juan Marsé, and Beatriz de Moura in representation of Tusquets Editores.