Honorary Doctor Luis García Montero: Owners of Our Own Conscience

Luis García Montero is a writer, poet, literary critic, and essayist. He was born in Granada, Spain, in December of 1958 and started his university career in the Faculty of Hispanic Philology at the University of Granada where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1980 and his PhD in 1985. He is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada and the Director of the Cervantes Institute of Spain. He is also a member of Generación de los Ochenta (Generation of the 80’s) or Postnovísmos, related to the La Otra Sentimentalidad (The Other Sentimentality) Contemporary Spanish Poetry Group, alongside Javier Egea and Álvaro Salvador.

Among his books of poetry are: A puerta cerrada (2017); No puede ser así. Breve historia del mundo (2021); and Un año y tres meses (2022). He has also collected a selection of his works in poetry. 1980-2017 (2018); Una melancolía optimista (2019) and Almudena (2024). He is also the author of the novels: Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera (2009), No me cuentes tu vida (2012), and Alguien dice tu nombre (2014). He has also collected a sellection of his Works in Almudena (2015); Poesía. 1980-2015 (2015); La buena compañía (2016); Poesía. 1980-2017 (2018) and Una melancolía optimista (2019).

In his facet as a literary critic and essayist, we may find the publications of Un lector llamado Federico García Lorca (2016), Las palabras rotas (2019), Un orden conflictivo (2019), Prometeo (2022), La realidad de una esperanza. Galdós, la memoria y la poesía (2023), and Más flexibles que el mar son las palabras (2023), among others.