Trino Cruz

Born in Gibraltar in 1960. Of mixed Sephardi, English, Italian and Spanish ancestry,[1] he studied in Liverpool and London before returning to his birthplace in 1983.[2] He has been called a main example of the Spanish-language poetry both in Gibraltar and in the wider scope of the territories circling the Strait of the same name.[3] Commentator of Maghrebian poetry,[2] he has also translated works by authors such as Hassan Najmi and Saadi Yousef.[2][1] One of the defining traits of his literary work is miscegenation.[4] Trino Cruz has given the opinion that "Gibraltarian literature is a literature nonata" (not yet born),[5][6] attributing that status to political forces blocking the "creative instincts".[7]

A list of published compilations of poems authored by Cruz follows:[8]

• Lecturas del espacio profanado (Sevilla, 1992)
• Breve antología. Colección Cuadernos del Aula de Literatura José Cadalso, núm. 19. (San Roque, 1993)
• Como la mirada que ha de pervertir este espejo. Actas del II Ciclo de Conferencias Universitarias del Campo de Gibraltar, Instituto de Estudios Campogibraltareños (Algeciras; 1996).
• Rihla. Colección Abalorios de poesía (San Roque, 2003).
• Rihla (translation of Khalid Raissouni; Tangiers, 2015)

• Domínguez, César; Saussy, Haun; Villanueva, Darío (2015). Introducing comparative literature. New Trends and Applications. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-70267-6.
• Domínguez, César (2010). "Historiography and the geo-literary imaginary. The Iberian Peninsula: Between Lebensraum and espace vécu". In Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza; Anxo Abuín Gonzalez; César Domínguez (eds.). A Comparative History of Literatures in the Iberian Peninsula. 1. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. pp. 53–132. ISBN 978-90-272-3457-5.
• Luque, Alejandro (2003-04-09). "El gibraltareño Trino Cruz reúne dos décadas de su mejor poesía". El País.
• Stotesbury, John A. (2016). "Detecting a Literary Future in the Historical Past: The Gibraltar Case" (PDF). Armenian Folia Anglistika: 123–134.
• Yborra Aznar, José Juan (2005). "La frontera estéril: la literatura en español en Gibraltar". El Español en el Mundo. Anuario del Instituto Cervantes. Instituto Cervantes.
• Yborra Aznar, José Juan. "Espejos y espejismos: la poesía de Trino Cruz". Eúphoros. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (2002): 23. ISSN 1575-0205.