Mario Martín Gijón (born 1979 in Villanueva de la Serena, Spain) is a Spanish writer, poet and literary critic.
[1] He regularly contributes to literary reviews such as Clarín, Quimera and Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, as well as writing a weekly column for El Periódico Extremadura.
[2] In 2009 he received the Gerardo Diego Prize for Literary Research for his book José Herrera Petere en el surrealismo, la guerra y el destierro;[3] in 2011, the Amado Alonso Prize for Literary Criticism for La patria imaginada de Máximo José Kahn.
Vida y obra de un escritor de tres exilios;[4] in 2012, the Tigre Juan Prize for Inconvenientes del turismo en Praga y otros cuentos europeos;[5] in 2013, the Arturo Barea Prize for Cultural Research for La Resistencia franco-española (1936-1950).
[7] As a poet he published Latidos y desplantes (2011), Rendicción (2013; English translation Sur(rendering), 2020), Tratado de entrañeza (2014) and Des en canto (2019).