Santiago Lopo, born in
Vigo
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in 1974, is a Galician writer, teacher and translator.
Biography
He currently works as a French teacher at the Escola Oficial de Idiomas of
Pontevedra
Pontevedra (, ) is a city in the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain), Galicia, in northwestern Spain. It is the capital of both the ''Pontevedra (comarca), Comarca'' and Province of Pontevedra, and the capital of the Rías Baixas. It is als ...
. He began his professional career translating film scripts in English for TV. Since 2000 he has been a contributing writer for the magazine ''
Unión Libre
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Places
* Unión, Paraguay
* Unión Municipality, Falcón, Venezuela
* Unión, Montevideo, Uruguay
* Unión Cantinil, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
* Unión, San Luis, Argentina
* Unión Department, Córdoba Province, Argentina
* ...
'', where he has published several articles and translations.
Bibliography in Galician
Novels
*''Game over'', 2007, Biblos Clube de Lectores.
*''Peaxes'', 2009, Xerais.
*''Hora zulú'', 2012,
Editorial Galaxia.
*''A Diagonal dos Tolos'', 2014, Editorial Galaxia.
*''A arte de trobar'', 2017, Xerais.
*''A carteira'', 2021, Xerais.
Short stories
*''Sorrí, Nené, sorrí!'', 2014, in ''Grial: revista galega de cultura'', No. 202.
*''A voz das nereidas'', 2016, Editorial Elvira.
*''Siméon de la Manche'', 2018, in ''Contra o vento. 30 anos do Premio Manuel García Barros'', Editorial Galaxia.
*''Nómades'', 2021, in ''O libro da música'', Editorial Galaxia.
*''A pantasma da insua'', 2023, Editorial Elvira.
Translations
*''O meu criado e mais eu. Citomegalovirus'', originally by
Hervé Guibert
Hervé Guibert (14 December 1955 – 27 December 1991) was a French writer and photographer. The author of numerous novels and autobiographical studies, he played a considerable role in changing French public attitudes to HIV/AIDS. He was a ...
. French-Galician translation with Xavier Queipo, 1998, Xerais.
Bibliography translated into Spanish
Novels
*''Hora zulú'', 2015, Mar Maior.
Bibliography translated into English
Novels
*''The Postwoman'', 2024, Small Stations Press.
Awards
*VI Premio de Novela por Entregas de
La Voz de Galicia
''La Voz de Galicia'' () is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. ''La Voz'' is the newspaper with the highest circulation in Galicia and the eighth-highest circulation of the general-interest daily newspaper in Spa ...
in 2006, for ''Game over''.
*XXIV Premio García Barros in 2012, for ''Hora zulú''.
*VIII Premio Narrativa Breve Repsol in 2014, for ''A Diagonal dos Tolos''.
*Premio Xerais 2017, for ''A arte de trobar''.
*XXXVII Premio Antón Losada Diéguez in 2022, for ''A carteira''.
External links
Portico of Galician Literature (Biography, synopsis and texts translated into English)''The Postwoman'' (English edition)
* ttp://www.xerais.es/libro.php?id=2192880 ''Peaxes''br>''Hora zulú'' (Spanish edition)''A Diagonal dos Tolos''Unión libre. Cadernos de vida e culturasTV interview on ''TVG'' (2013)TV interview on ''TVG'' (2014)TV interview on ''TVG'' (2017)TV interview on ''TVG'' (2021)
1974 births
Writers from Galicia (Spain)
Galician translators
Living people
Galician-language writers
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