Rómulo Bustos Aguirre

Biography

Rómulo Bustos Aguirre is a Colombian writer, poet, and essayist born in Santa Catalina, Bolívar, Colombia, on September 5, 1954. His poetic work has been recognized nationally and internationally.

(Read also: Biography of Luis Carlos López “El tuerto López”)

He has been twice winner of the National Poetry Prize, the first in 1993 with the work En el traspatio del cielo and the second in 2019 with the work De moscas y de ángeles. He is described as a slow-writing author; his poetic work is inspired by the landscape and motifs of his native land, using exquisitely refined language rich in images and metaphysical, existential, and erotic suggestions.

Education

Bustos studied Law and Political Science at the University of Cartagena de Indias, Hispanic-American Literature at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo in Bogotá, and doctoral studies in Religious Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid.

OBRAS

• De moscas y de ángeles (2019) (Premio Nacional del Ministerio de Cultura)
• Casa en el aire (Pre-Textos, España, 2017)
• La pupila incesante, Obra poética: 1988-2013 (2013, 2016)
• La pupila incesante (2014)
• Obra Poética: Rómulo Bustos Aguirre (2010)
• Muerte y levitación de la ballena (2010)
• Sacrificiales (2007)
• Oración del impuro (Obra reunida, 2004)
• La estación de la sed (1998)
• Palabra que golpea un color imaginario (Obra reunida, 1996)
• En el traspatio del cielo (1993) (Premio Nacional del Ministerio de Cultura)
• Lunación del amor (1990)
• El oscuro sello de Dios (1988)

ANTOLOGÍAS

• La furia del cordero (Seshat Ediciones, 2019)
• Monólogo de Jonás (El Taller Blanco Ediciones, Bogotá, 2019)
• Parábolas del vuelo (2015)
• Rómulo Bustos Aguirre: Poesía escogida (2014)
• La mirada de Orfeo (2013)
• El Ángel insomne (2011)
• Doble Fondo III [Antología conjunta con el poeta venezolano Juan Calzadilla] (2010)
• De la dificultad para atrapar una mosca (2008)