Antonio Colinas Lobato is a Spanish writer (poet, novelist, journalist, translator, essayist) and intellectual who was born in La Bañeza, León, Spain on January 30, 1946. He has published a variety of works, but is considered to be above all a poet. He won Spain's National Prize for Literature in 1982, among several other honors and awards.
"Sus motivos más constantes son la eternidad que se ha refugiado en los vastos campos castellanos, el dominio universal de la muerte, la búsqueda de la hermosura y la verdad a través de la contemplación apasionada de la noche".