JULIO PAVANETTI

JULIO PAVANETTI (b. 1954, Montevideo, Uruguay)

Poet and cultural promoter living in Benidorm, Spain, since 1977. Director of the World Poets Association “Liceo Poético de Benidorm”. Director of the International Poetry Festival “Benidorm & Costa Blanca” (FIPBECO), Spain. . Director of the poetry collection “Biblioteca Azul” of Editorial Germanía, Valencia, Spain. Director of the poetry collection “Azul” of Editorial Enkuadres, Alzira, Valencia, Spain. Associate Academic and Honorary Member of the North American Academy of Modern Literature (NAAML); Full Member of the TOMITANA Academy of Tomis (Constanța), Romania. Member of the International Writers Association IWA Bogdani with headquarters in Brussels and Pristina (Kosovo). Honorary and Corresponding Member of the Circle of Venezuelan Writers. Member of the Association of Spanish Writers and Artists (A.E.A.E.) Member of the Spanish Professional Writers Association (A.C.E.) Member of PEN Club Spain. Member of the Valencian Association of Writers and Literary Critics (C.L.A.V.E.) Member of C.E.D.R.O. (Spanish Center for Reprographic Rights) He received many national and international awards and honors. He has published 13 anthologies with the Liceo Poético de Benidorm and 19 personal books, six of which were published in Romania (2), and one each in Greece, Albania, Italy, and India; four bilingual in English and Spanish; and one trilingual in Spanish, English, and Arabic. He has taken part in more than 150 anthologies. Many of his poems have so far been translated into 30 languages: English, Italian, Sicilian, Neapolitan, Catalan, Arabic, French, Romanian, Portuguese, Croatian, Czech, Serbian, Bosnian, Polish, Azerbaijani, Slovak, Albanian, German, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Bulgarian, Turkish, Malay, Bengali, Persian (Farsi), Vietnamese, Greek, and Mycenaean Greek (Linear B). They have been published in countless national and international newspapers and specialist journals, both digital and in print. He has translated poems by various authors from English, Portuguese, and Italian, and has translated the book “Life Lives in Me” by the Albanian-Kosovar poet Jeton Kelmendi from English.