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Julio Herranz. He is a poet and a journalist.
He was born in Rota, Cádiz, but has lived in Ibiza since 1974. He is culture correspondent of the newspaper Última Hora, Ibiza and Formentera edition.
He has collaborated on several occasions with painters and photographers of the island, such as for example, Paco Romero, writing a poem to illustrate a series of paintings for the travelling collective exposition Ut Pictura Poiesis.
He also collaborated with another painter, Eduard Micus, in the edition of the large format book Conventus in Mare Nostro (1993), an interdisciplinary dialogue between the two artists.
Together with the photographer Germán G. Lama he worked on the exposition and book Desvarío (2005), and with the other photographer Pep Tur on the book Ibiza, Ibiza (2006).
His works include Armas de sueño y cuerpo (1979), Del ángel y su estirpe (1981), Memorias de la luz (1989) which won the ‘premio Jaén’ prize, La mirada perdida (1991) which won the ‘premio Rafael Alberti’, Cartas de amor sin embargo (1998), Suite aïllada (2001) the only one so far published in Catalan, Entre Endimión y Sísifo (2003) y El ángel yuxtapuesto (2004) with which he won the ‘premio Ciudad de Torrevieja’ and in which he develops his constant obsession for the figure of the angel.