Ross Woods

A Lecturer in the Spanish Programme of the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, translator Ross Woods specializes in post-Civil War Spanish literature, with a particular focus on the theme of memory in the poetry of José Manuel Caballero Bonald. Among his publications: Understanding the Poetry of Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald: The Function of Memory in a Spanish Writer's Art (2012) and Revisiting the Past: Memory and Trauma in the Postwar Spanish Novel, (eds. Sarah Leggott and Ross Woods, 2013)

Awards

Swiss Literature Prize for Portraits of Absence

Books by Ross Woods

Pondering the Weight of Being: Selected Poems (1944-2013)

About Guernica

On Monday, April 26th, 1937, the bells of Santa Maria tolled, warning of the inhumane aerial raid that would reduce the Spanish city of Guernica into ruins. Men, women, children and animals were destroyed under the weight of the fiery nationalist bombs...

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