David Rosenmann Taub

David Rosenmann-Taub (born May 3, 1927) is a Chilean poet, musician, and artist. He began writing poetry at a very early age; his first long poem titled El Adolescente (“The Adolescent”), was written at age fourteen and published four years later. Concurrently he studied composition, counterpoint, and fugue with the celebrated composer Pedro Humberto Allende.

At 21, he won the Sindicato de Escritores prize for his first book of poetry, Cortejo y Epinicio (Cortege and Epinicion). In the three decades that followed, Rosenmann-Taub published more than ten volumes of poetry, including Los Surcos Inundados (The Flooded Furrows), La Enredadera del Júbilo (The Vine of Jubilance), Los Despojos del Sol (The Spoils of the Sun), and El Cielo en la Fuente (The Sky in the Fountain). For Los Surcos Inundados, he received the Premio Municipal de Poesía, the Chilean equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. His poetry has been admired by authors as disparate as Witold Gombrowicz, Victoria Ocampo, and Francis de Miomandre. Armando Uribe Arce, the recent winner of Chile's Premio Nacional, described Rosenmann-Taub as “the most important and profound living poet of the entire Spanish language.”