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Behind the 'Glück case': how to be a poet and make ends meet

2020-11-29T17:08:29.686Z


Poetry doesn't pay the bills, and neither does the Nobel Prize. The middle class barely receives 300 euros per collection of poems and moonlighting is imposed


You cannot write poetry after Auschwitz or before the end of the eight hours of work.

The deed does not pay the bills, except in rare exceptions such as a Nobel Prize in Literature, endowed with 830,000 euros.

“That's why I'm a veterinarian, because no matter how much I sell books, it won't pay for the rent or the food.

Copyright is money that I don't have and when it arrives, I save it, ”says María Sánchez (Córdoba, 31 years old), a writer, who in 2017 published ...

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