Javier Alvarado

Javier Alvarado (1982) is a Panamanian poet who has won national and international poetry awards, including Honorable Mention for the Casa de las Américas Prize, the Central American “Rogelio Sinán” Prize, the Nicaraguan “Ruben Dario” International Prize, and the “Nicolás Guillén” International Prize. In 2014, Javier was awarded the Medardo Ángel Silva Prize for his collection Carta Natal al país de los Locos. In 2015, he received the Rocardo Miró Poetry Prize, the highest award for Panamanian letters. In 2017, he obtained the Hispano-American Prize for Poetry in San Salvador, and in 2018 he won the Hispano-American Juegos Florales Prize of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Other honors include Honorable Mention for the Fernando Rielo World Prize for Mystical Poetry, as well as the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and Damaso Alonso prizes.  Javier has published many books of poetry, including two anthologies.  He is a corresponding academic of the Honduran and Panamanian Academies of the Spanish Language.