{"id":6948,"date":"2017-11-18T11:31:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/?p=6948"},"modified":"2017-11-18T11:31:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T09:31:10","slug":"ben-clark-wins-the-2017-poetry-prize-with-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/ben-clark-wins-the-2017-poetry-prize-with-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Clark wins the 2017 poetry prize with work done during a Moj\u00e1car council and Valpara\u00edso Scholarship."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cLa Polic\u00eda Celeste\u201d, by the Ibizan poet, Ben Clark, has been awarded the XXX International Loewe Foundation Poetry Prize.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The Jury, chaired by V\u00edctor Garc\u00eda de la Concha, along with Piedad Bonnett, Francisco Brines, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Caballero Bonald, Antonio Colinas, Soledad Pu\u00e9rtolas, Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00f3n Ripoll, Jaime Siles and Luis Antonio de Villena, remarked on the book\u2019s unaffected simplicity and openness.  The collection of poems, they added, &#8220;is full of anecdotes, not simply in black and white, but which the writer has taken to another level and enriched.&#8221;<br \/>\nBen, who stayed in Moj\u00e1car last January to take up a scholarship from the local Council and the Valpara\u00edso Foundation, won the prestigious prize out of 706 of the world\u2019s best poets, from 31 countries.<br \/>\nDuring his visit, he finished his award winning poetry book and also gave a recital to the 4th year students at the town\u2019s Rey Alabez School, which both Ben and the youngsters really enjoyed. He first grabbed their attention by saying &#8220;not all poets are dead&#8221; and from that moment on, he kept them entertained with readings and, by answering the questions his work and career raised. Remembering Ben\u2019s happy times in Moj\u00e1car, culminating in this winning work, the town now sends him their heartfelt congratulations.<br \/>\nThis Spanish writer who resides in Ibiza, was born in Great Britain and has been bestowed with many literary awards including; the Hyperion Prize, the VII Felix Grande National Young Poetry Prize, the IV RNE Young Poetry Prize and the Joan Alcover Ciutat de Palma Award.<br \/>\nHe has also taken up scholarships at the Antonio Gala Foundation, the Hawthornden Castle International Retreat for Writers in Scotland and the Ch\u00e2teau de Lavigny International Writers&#8217; Residence in Switzerland.<br \/>\nNow, added to his glowing curriculum vitae, is the Loewe Foundation Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLa Polic\u00eda Celeste\u201d, by the Ibizan poet, Ben Clark, has been awarded the XXX International Loewe Foundation Poetry Prize. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualidad-en","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mojacar.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}