Poet, essayist and translator, Olvido García Valdés was born on December 2, 1950 in Asturias, Spain. She holds degrees in Philosophy from the University of Valladolid, and Romance Philology from the University of Oviedo. She resides in Toledo, Spain.
Her poetry collections, except for her most recent Lo solo del animal (2012), have been published together in one volume Esa polilla que delante de mí revolotea (Poesía reunida 1982–2008).
She has translated into Spanish Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poetry books, and in collaboration a wide anthology of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva. She is also author of the biographical essay Teresa de Jesús, texts for art catalogs and numerous works of literary reflection.
She was co-editor of the literary magazines Los Infolios and El signo del gorrión. Her poetry has been translated into many languages. Among other awards, in 2007 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de Poesía (National Poetry Prize) for her collection Y todos estábamos vivos (And we were all alive).
奧爾維多．加西亞．巴爾德斯，詩人、散文作家、譯者，1950年12月2日生於西班牙阿斯圖里亞斯，先後在巴里亞多利德大學攻讀哲學，以及在奧維埃多大學學習羅曼語族語言文學，現定居於西班牙托萊多。
除了最新一本詩集《動物獨奏》（2012）之外，巴爾德斯的其他所有詩集都彙編進了《在我面前盤旋的這隻飛蛾：1982–2008作品全集》之中。
她將意大利導演、詩人皮埃爾．保羅．帕佐里尼的詩集譯成了西班牙語，並與人合譯了俄國女詩人安娜．阿赫瑪托娃和瑪琳娜．茨維塔耶娃的選集。巴爾德斯也是16世紀西班牙神秘主義者亞維拉的德蘭（又譯聖特蕾莎）的傳記作者，並撰有大量的藝術與文學批評文章。
她是文學雜誌《對開本》和《麻雀的蹤跡》的編輯。她的詩歌已被翻譯為多種外語。她獲得了很多文學獎項，其中包括2007年因詩集《我們都活著》而獲得的西班牙國家詩歌獎。