Biography

Beatriz Chivite Ezkieta was born in Spain in 1991 ans has lived in China, Nepal, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Italy, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. She begame to write poetry in Basque to feel closer to her roots and maintain an intimacy with the words of her childhood. The themes of her poetry are cities and their loneliness and the nomadism of our times.

Her books of poetry are Pekineko Kea (Pamiela, 2017); Metro (Arabako Foru Aldundia, 2014, translated into English as The Blue Line); Beinnale (Erein, 2017); Mugi/atu (Pamiela, 2019) and En las Ciudades / Nas Cidades / Hirietan (Papeles Minimos, 2020). She is the recipient of numerous prizes in her homeland an her poetry has been translated to Spanis, English, Galician, Slovenian, Fisian, Gaelic and Italian.

One of the aspects I enjoyed most about the course was the combination of theory and creativity and the wide variety of theories, histories, texts and authors that I got introduced to.

Beatriz Chivite Ezkieta: Posted on Facebook and IG on Nov 29, 2021

Experience at MALCS

My year at MALCS was a unique experience, I lived in Lamma Island and commuted every evening by ferry to HKU. Both the lectures and the interactions with tutors and classmates were very enrishing and offered me the possibility of widening my view on cultural studies.

My thesis project on the Sunday gatherings of Foreign Domestic Workers in Central introduced me to spatial theories and urbanism, and that led to a professional career in architectural world. As for my poetry writing, I believe reading other authors and learning about different literary histories widened what I thought was possible in my writing and enabled me to find a personal voice that reflected all my experiences both in Europe and Asia.

One of the aspects I enjoyed most about the course was the combination of theory and creativity and the wide variety of theories, histories, texts and authors that I got introduced to.