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Ánxeles Penas
Ánxeles Penas García (born 5 May 1943 in Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain) is a Spanish poet, first in Spanish and, since 1982, in Galician. She has also participated in more than 50 exhibitions as a sculptor and painter. Education She holds a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1970) and in Fine Arts (sculpture specialty) from the Faculty of Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid (1986). In addition, she studied music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de A Coruña. Career In the plastic arts field, she has the double skill of sculptor and painter and has participated in more than fifty exhibitions. Penas founded the Experimental Art Group ''A Carón'' in 1975. She is a member of ''Asociación Internacional de Amigos de la Universidad Libre Iberoamericana en Galicia'' (AULIGA), and sits on the Advisory Council of ''Serta'', an inter-Roman poetry magazine, which is affiliated with the National University of Distance Edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teixeiro
Teixeiro, or Teijeiro in Spanish, is a small community located in the province of A Coruña, in the Galician region of Spain. It is part of the municipality of Curtis in the comarca of Betanzos of which it is capital. The town hall of Curtis (''Casa do Concello'') is in Teixeiro as well as the ''Plaza de España'' ("Plaza of Spain"). Notable people * Ánxeles Penas Ánxeles Penas García (born 5 May 1943 in Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain) is a Spanish poet, first in Spanish and, since 1982, in Galician. She has also participated in more than 50 exhibitions as a sculptor and painter. Education She holds a degree ... (born 1943), poet External links XuveCurtis.com- Website dedicated to the youth in the Curtis municipality. (Galician)Casa Miraz- Website for the popular ''Casa Miraz'' restaurant. (Spanish)Foro-Ciudad.com - TeixeiroProfile for ''Teixeiro'' in Foro-Ciudad.com. (Spanish) Province of A Coruña Populated places in Galicia (Spain) {{galicia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Álvaro Cunqueiro
Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora ( Mondoñedo, December 22, 1911 – Vigo, February 28, 1981) was a Galician novelist, poet, playwright, and journalist. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including ''Merlín e familia'' ("Merlin and family"). He was a cofounder of the Galician Writers Association. In 1991, Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him. Life Cunqueiro was born to Joaquín Cunqueiro Montenegro, a pharmacist, and Pepita Mora Moirón of Mondoñedo (where he was infamous for his practice of stealing coats at parties). He did his ''bachillerato'' (secondary school) studies in the ''Instituto Xeral e Técnico'' (General and Technical Institute) in the city of Lugo, where he befriended the writers Evaristo Correa Calderón and Ánxel Fole. He began to study in the Department of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1927, but abandoned his studies to dedicated himself to journalism, writing for various newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Spanish Poets
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1943 Births
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Xohana Torres
Xohana Torres Fernández (22 November 1929 – 12 September 2017) was a Spanish writer, poet, playwright. Biography Torres was born in Santiago de Compostela on 22 November 1931. She was a member of the Royal Galician Academy. Her best known works included the novel, ''Adiós, María'' (1971), which won the Galician literary prize from the Galician Center of Buenos Aires, and ''Estación ao mar'' (1980). Torres was part of a generation of writers who championed Galician language and Galician literature, literature during the Francoist Spain, Francoist era at a time when Languages of Spain, regional languages were routinely suppressed. Torres also directed ''Raíz e Tempo'', the first cultural radio program broadcast exclusively in Galician language, Galician. Examples of her works of children's literature include ''Polo mar van as sardiñas'' (1968) and ''Pericles e a balea'' (1984). She died in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, on 12 September 2017, at the age of 85. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosalía De Castro
María Rosalía Rita de Castro (; 23 February 1837 – 15 July 1885), was a Galician poet and novelist, considered one of the most important figures of the 19th-century Spanish literature and modern lyricism. Widely regarded as the greatest Galician cultural icon, she was a leading figure in the emergence of the literary Galician language. Through her work, she projected multiple emotions, including the yearning for the celebration of Galician identity and culture, and female empowerment. She is credited with challenging the traditional female writer archetype. Life Writing in Galician and Spanish, after the period known as the ''Séculos Escuros'' (lit. Dark Centuries), she became an important figure of the Galician Romantic movement, known today as the '' Rexurdimento'' ("Renaissance"), along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal. Her poetry is marked by '' saudade'', an almost ineffable combination of nostalgia, longing and melancholy. She married Manuel Murg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celso Emilio Ferreiro
Celso Emilio Ferreiro Míguez (1912–1979) was a Galicianism (Galicia), Galicianist activist, writer, poet, and political journalist. Early years Ferreiro was born in Celanova, into a well-off Galicianist family. In 1932, at the age of twenty, he created the ''Mocedades Galeguistas de Celanova'' (''Galicianist Youths of Celanova'') with Xosé Velo Mosquera. In 1934 he also participated in the creation of the ''Federación de Mocedades Galeguistas'' (''Federation of Galicianist Youths''). Some time after this Ferreiro got into trouble because of an article published in his magazine ''Guieiro''. Francoist Spain Ferreiro was mobilized in the Spanish Civil War by the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist troops. He studied law, and contributed to many magazines and newspapers over the period of the Francoist State. In 1966 Ferreiro travelled to Venezuela, where he collaborated with the ''Galician Brotherhood''. He fell out with the Galician nationalists in Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Diario De Ferrol
''Diario de Ferrol'' is a Galicia (Spain), Galician daily newspaper founded in Ferrol, Spain, Ferrol, Spain, in 1998 by Editorial La Capital (company of El Ideal Gallego, DXT Campeón, Diario de Arousa and Diario de Bergantiños). It is the distributed mostly in metropolitan area of Ferrolterra having an important section dedicated to local news. Additionally covers regional and national news thanks to the collaboration it was with the newspaper La Razón (Madrid), La Razón. It's the 13th most distributed newspaper in Galicia with an audience in 2017 of 18K readers. Until the early 1980s, Ferrol had a popular newspaper with a very similar name ''El Ferrol Diario ''which became extinct during the critical years of the decade which saw the advent of democracy and the recession in the shipbuilding industry. The building which hosts the headquarters of ''Diario de Ferrol'' also hosts a museum devoted to the history of the newspaper manufacturing in general, though it focuses in Fer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis, Spain
Curtis is a municipality of northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia. Its capital is Teixeiro, where its town hall is located. It belongs to the comarca of Betanzos. Curtis has a population of 4,244 inhabitants (INE, 2008). Footballer Lucas Vázquez was born in Curtis in 1991. See also List of municipalities in A Coruña A Coruña (province), A Coruña is a provinces of Spain, province in the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain, that is divided into 93 Municipalities of Spain, municipalities. Spanish census, ... References Municipalities in the Province of A Coruña {{galicia-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
