[News] Poetry contest winner Carla Llamunao Vega: “This book has been liberating for me”

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The academic was the winner of the “Yosuke Kuramochi Poetry Collection” Call with her collection of poems “Bird Watching and Other Flights”, together with Felipe Caro, creator of “Nothing or the Observable Void of Space”.

In Temuco in 1991, Carla Fernanda Llamunao Vega was born, academic, poet and one of the winners of the First Call “Yosuke Kuramochi Poetry Collection”, with her work “Birdwatching and Other Flights”.

Llamunao, who has lived almost all of her life in Loncoche, along with her mother Elizabeth and her sister Catalina de ella - today a law student at UCT - recognizes that finding out about her recognition is a milestone in the her brief literary life.
She studied Pedagogy in Spanish and Communication at Ufro, a master's degree in Hispano-American Literature at the UACh and is currently developing her doctorate in Hispano-American Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. In addition, she serves as director of the same degree that she studied, at the Universidad de la Frontera.

Llamunao's work will be published - along with that of Felipe Caro - by Ediciones UCT, as titles 1 and 2 of the Yosuke Kuramochi Poetry Collection.

“When I found out that I was one of the winners it was very exciting, and without trying to ignore that area, I consider that this achievement is even greater than academic achievements, because this sort of crosses the personal to take it to the artistic level, allowing me to position myself from another perspective on creative work,” he explained.

Passion for letters
– How did this link with poetry come about?

 

 

– Poetry is one of my great loves: I have a great passion for researching it, teaching it and reading it.

- Since when?

– Since adolescence. Then I entered Pedagogy in Spanish without being so aware that literature was my forte, but I did discover that greater love. That led me to decide to do a master's degree and today a doctorate.

Before I read more fiction. At the age of 15 I read “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, by Gabriel García Márquez, which fascinated me, or “The Glass of Milk”, by Manuel Rojas, although my connection with poetry was always present. At school, for example, they always made me read and make declamations.

– When did you start writing?

– At university, at 19 years old. With a workshop carried out by the poet Guido Eytel Lagos, which was parallel to our classes. We were a very small group and where I learned a lot.

– What defines your creation, what themes are there?

– I have thought about that and I think the themes are broad, but today I am with birds; I have become obsessed with birds, as they are such a present element, but very ignored. We have not realized, for example, how they have adapted to the urban environment.

And I began to remember important moments with birds. This collection of poems is linked to that and, for example, some visions of love and other themes.

I have been able to metaphorize and express through birds.

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For Carla this will be her first published book. Until now she had only reviewed three of her poems in magazines.

 

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