Aurelio González Ovies

Who is Aurelio González Ovies?

Aurelio González Ovies is a Spanish writer and poet from Asturias. He has a Ph.D in Classical Philology and he is a teacher of Latin at the University of Oviedo, where he served as vice dean of the Faculty of Philology from 1996 to 2008.

In his poetry several literary prizes highlights since his first collection of poems, Las horas en vano, to the most recent, No, as well as the anthology bringing together twenty years of poems Esta luz tan breve and his revealing incursion into the children's literature with seven illustrated poetry albums. Several of these titles have been co-published in different languages, the last book published is Versonajes.

He is also a regular contributor to Asturian newspapers, now he writes biweekly poetry column for La Nueva España.