A translator for Amanda Gorman s poem has been dropped in Spain
CNN has also contacted Gorman s publisher, Viking Studio, and its parent company, Penguin, for comment.
Gorman is the US youth poet laureate and was one of the breakout stars of US President Joe Biden s inauguration, where she read The Hill We Climb.
The publisher s decision comes shortly after Dutch writer Marieke Lucas Rijneveld handed back a commission to translate Gorman s work, following a backlash from critics who questioned why a White writer had been chosen to translate a Black writer s work.
Obiols told CNN that he thought the decision to revoke his commission was down to the pressure of US social movements.