Philologist, poet, essayist and critic, the writer Carlos Bousoño (Boal, Asturias, 1923) is a Doctor of Philosophy and titular professor in the faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of Alcalá de Henares in Madrid.

The poetic work of Bousoño, considered to be a scholar of symbolism in poetry, is composed of a good number of books, among which we find "Subida al amor", "Primavera de la muerte", "Hacia otra luz" and "Oda en la ceniza", a work which represented the step from realist poetry to a new, more symbolic style, with which he won the Critics Prize in 1968. To this award he would later add the National Prize for Literature, granted in 1978 for his essay "El irracionalismo poético (El símbolo)", and the National Prize for Poetry (1990) for his work "Metáfora del desafuero". In 1993 he received the Spanish National Prize for Arts in recognition of his whole literary career, and in the same year he published "El ojo de la aguja".

Carlos Bousoño has declared that he cannot conceive of life without poetry and that, if poetry did not exist, he would not be interested in life.

Bousoño is also the author of various works of literary theory and criticism, among which we may single out his "Teoría de la expresión poética", for which he obtained the Fastenrath Prize. A Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, since 1979, and of the Hispanic Society of America, he is also an honorary member of the Society of Spanish and Hispanic-American Studies of the American University of Boulder (Colorado).