Alberto Pizzarello was a
Gibraltar
Gibraltar ( , ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory and British overseas cities, city located at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Bay of Gibraltar, near the exit of the Mediterranean Sea into the A ...
ian poet who wrote mainly in Spanish. He came from
Catalan Bay
Catalan Bay () is a bay and fishing village in Gibraltar, on the eastern side of The Rock away from Westside.
Etymology
Although the origin of Catalan Bay's name is documented, a couple of theories co-exist. Documentary evidence suggests th ...
and was affectionately known as "the poet-fisherman of the Rock" or "el poeta-pescador." His best known work is ''Mis poesías,'' an anthology of poems exploring his youth in Gibraltar and the years he spent in
Madeira
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during the
Second World War
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. The Spanish literary critic José Juan Yborra Aznar, writing for the
Instiuto Cervantes, declared that Pizzarello "se perfila como un poeta autodidacta que se basa en la experiencia vivida, que, como la de muchos ciudadanos, estuvo marcada por la evacuación y el exilio forzoso, lo que llevó consigo la configuración de un espacio que termina poseyendo connotaciones muy peculiares en su localismo."(He emerges as a self-taught poet who is based on his lived experience, which, like that of many citizens, was marked by evacuation and forced exile, which led to the configuration of a space that ends up having very peculiar connotations in its localism.)
References
Gibraltarian male writers
Gibraltarian poets
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