María Mariño Carou (1907–1967) was a
Galician writer.
She was born on 8 June 1907 in a house on Rúa Cega in
Noia, A Coruña province. She was the daughter of Xosé Mariño Pais, a shoe maker. She was the fourth of five children. Her siblings were Concha (1898), Emilio (1901), Cándido (1902) and Asunción (1908). She had to leave school in order to work, because her father used to gamble in the taverns of Noia. Whilst Emilio found work as a mechanic and Cándido as a carpenter, María and her sisters helped out in domestic tasks. On 31 May 1939 Mariño Carou married Roberto Pose Carballido and also began to lie about her age. She died of
leukaemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia; pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or '' ...
on 19 May 1967, just before her sixtieth birthday.
In 1963 she published "Palabra no Tempo", arguably her best work.
Works
* 1963 - "Palabra no Tempo"
* 1990 - "Verba que comenza"
References
External links
Día das Letras Galegas
1907 births
1967 deaths
People from Noia (comarca)
Writers from Galicia (Spain)
20th-century Spanish women writers
20th-century Spanish writers
Women writers from Galicia (Spain)
Deaths from leukemia in Spain
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