Rafa Villar (

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, 1968 - ) is a Galician writer noted especially in the field of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings ...

. He has a degree in Galician-Portuguese Philology from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and works in the linguistic normalization service of the Confederación Intersindical Galega. He was spokesman for the national operator of the Plataforma Nunca Máis and part of the directive of the Galician Writers Association. He is a member of the Batallón Literario da Costa da Morte and was also one of the founders and promoters of the publishing firm Letras de Cal. He began to become known in the year 1991, when he won the Premio Fermín Bouza Brey for new authors with ''Liques da Memoria''. He is interested in alternative publishing formats, and was one of the first Galician authors to digitize their works. He has his own personal website, Mares de Simbad, where he offers part of his body of poetry along with articles on the topic of creating and editing literature. He also participated in the creation of the digital publisher Retagarda Edicións, which offers books on disk. He won the

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, awarded by the city of Vilagarcía de Arousa, for his book ''Casa ou sombra''. As a narrator, he won the

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for short stories. In 2006, he won the

Premio Eusebio Lorenzo Baleirón The poetry prize Premio Eusebio Lorenzo Baleirón was created in 1988 by the city of Dodro, Spain, with the objective of contributing to the reaffirmation of Galician poetry and to honor the poet Eusebio Lorenzo Baleirón. The winning poems have be ...

for the Galician poem, ''Escoración dos días''. He is currently a Galician Nationalist Bloc

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and a prominent member of the

Galician Movement for Socialism The Galician Movement for Socialism (MGS, ''Movemento Galego ao Socialismo'' in Galician language) is a Galician communist, pro-independence and feminist organization. The MGS was born in March 2009, although its origins go back to the summer ...

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About Rafa Villar
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