Ángela Espinosa Ruiz
Ángela Espinosa Ruiz is an exophonic (Belarusian-language) poet and researcher. She was born in Málaga, Spain, in 1993. She studied things like Latin, Ancient Greek, and piano before turning to Slavic and Belarusian Philology, and finally defended her Ph.D. thesis in Literary Studies in 2019. She has published several poetry collections and translations, including a Spanish rendition of poems by Maksim Bahdanovič. She is a recipient, among others, of the Michaś Stralcoŭ Literary Prize ‘For the emotional and metaphorical richness of poetic language and the courageous striving to comprehend the mystery of Belarusian existence’. She is a member of PEN Belarus and the repressed Union of Belarusian Writers.