LUISA FUTORANSKY (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1939). A storyteller, poet, essayist, and translator, she studied music at the Buenos Aires Municipal Conservatory (1953-1961) and contemporary and early Anglo-Saxon poetry with Jorge Luis Borges at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Buenos Aires (1965-1968). In 1967, she received her law degree from the same university and in 1971 obtained a residency scholarship at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. After living in China, where she worked for Radio Beijing, and Japan, where she was a journalist for the Spanish-language service of NHK and a music professor at the Musashino University of Music (Tokyo), she decided to move to Paris in 1981, where she has lived ever since, working at the Centre Georges Pompidou and as a staff writer for the Agence France Presse. She has received multiple awards, including the Carmen Conde Poetry Prize (1984), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1991), scholarships from the Centre National des Lettres (France 1993 and 2010) and the Konex Letras - Poetry Prize - Five-Year Period 2019-2023. Among his latest published titles we highlight: The Leviathan Years (which brings together five collections of poems published by Leviathan: Inclinations, Nettles, Cave Painting, Marching by Day and Humus, Humus (2025); The Pilgrim Years. Poetry 1975-1997 (which brings together five volumes published during that period in Spain: The Name of the Winds, Barks and Flashes, The Sanguine, To Prender de gajo and To Leave, I Say (2022); The Argentine Years. Poetry, 1963-1972 (which brings together four first volumes published during those years: Strong Drink, The Heart of Places, Babel, Babel and What is Watered by the Dry (2019). In 2024, in collaboration with Lucía Iglesias Kuntz, he published the essay collections Toco madera and Las malqueridas.