Jose Luis Blanco Vega (Mieres, 22 July 1928–A Corunna, 25 January 2005) was a

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, and

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from

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Career

He joined the

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at the age of 22 and remained a member until his death. He earned a degree in

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from the

Comillas Pontifical University Comillas Pontifical University () is a private Catholic Church, Catholic university run by the Spanish Province of the Society of Jesus in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. The university is involved in a number of academic exchange programmes, work practi ...

and then he studied novitiate in

Salamanca Salamanca () is a Municipality of Spain, municipality and city in Spain, capital of the Province of Salamanca, province of the same name, located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is located in the Campo Charro comarca, in the ...

. In 1958, he moved to

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to study

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. Under the mentorship of biblical scholar Luis Alonso Schökel, he became a

literature Literature is any collection of Writing, written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially novels, Play (theatre), plays, and poetry, poems. It includes both print and Electroni ...

and

cinema Cinema may refer to: Film * Film or movie, a series of still images that create the illusion of moving image ** Film industry, the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking ** Filmmaking, the process of making a film * Movie theate ...

, contributing significantly to both fields. He wrote articles and works on the relationship between

and

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, such as ''Cinema in the Classroom'' and ''Cinema Stories: Learning to See''. He was a regular contributor to the magazines ''Estría'', ''Jesuits'', and ''Review of Literature, Art, and Shows (Review)'', and was the founder of the educational journal ''Parents and Teachers'' and the annual ''Cinema to Read''. As a translator from

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, he is known for translating

Virgilio Fantuzzi Virgilio, the Italian and Spanish form of Virgil may refer to: *Virgilio, Lombardy, a ''frazione'' of the ''comune'' of Borgo Virgilio in the Italian province of Mantua *Virgilio.it, a website People with the given name *Virgilio Barco Vargas (192 ...

's monograph ''Pier Paolo Pasolini''. Critic Tomas Yerro included Blanco Vega in the literary movement

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, proposed by

Florencio Martínez Ruiz Florencio is a name which may refer to: Given name *Florencio de Valeránica, 10th century Castilian monk, scribe and miniaturist *Florencio Abad (born 1954), Filipino lawyer and politician * Florêncio Carlos de Abreu e Silva (1839–1881), Braz ...

, which grouped poets writing in Spanish from the second half of the 20th century. His poems remained unpublished until 1997. He also wrote liturgical hymns.

Works

* ''The Snail: Activities Guide'' (1982) * ''Abraham and the Stars'' (1985) * ''The Ballad of Ruth'' (1985) * ''Moses, the Liberator'' (1986) * ''Literary Style: Art and Craft'' (1995; co-authored with Luis Alonso Schökel and Francisco Pérez Gutiérrez) * ''And I Have Love for the Visible'' (1997)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Blanco Vega, Jose Luis Spanish Jesuits 20th-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish writers Spanish Academics Spanish film critics 1928 births 2005 deaths