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Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

É un político e escritor galego amplamente recoñecido como un dos referentes da literatura galega contemporánea; é membro da Real Academia Galega desde o 30 de setembro de 2000, da cal é presidente dende o 23 de xaneiro de 2010.

De neno viviu na casa materna na rúa da Reza de Ourense. O seu pai, Venancio Méndez Feijóo, era fillo dun comerciante de Vilanova dos Infantes; e a súa nai, María Ferrín Novoa, era filla do mestre e xornalista Ángel Ferrín Moreiras. Na cidade de Ourense fixo o primeiro curso de Bacharelato, e en 1949 trasladouse coa súa familia a Pontevedra, onde rematou os estudos de grao medio no Instituto da cidade. Nesa etapa foi tomando conciencia da realidade lingüística e cultural e do papel que o galeguismo de preguerra, coa

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Ramón Cabanillas

Ramón Cabanillas (Fefiñáns, Cambados, 1876-Cambados, 1959) foi funcionario do Concello de Cambados e, aos trinta e catro anos, emigrou a Cuba, onde viviu ata 1915. Na Habana publicou os poemarios No desterro (1913) e Vento mareiro (1915). De volta a Galicia, foi colaborador de A Nosa Terra, converténdose na voz lírica do movemento das Irmandades da Fala. Autor de Da terra asoballada (1917) e Na noite estrelecida (1926), libro no que Cabanillas reelabora os mitos do ciclo artúrico; no 1927 publica A rosa de cen follas, poemario intimista de tema amoroso. No ano 1920 foi elixido membro da Real Academia Galega e, no 1929, da Real Academia Española. Despois da súa estadía en Madrid na década de 1940, comeza unha nova etapa como poeta coa escolm

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William Montgomery Watt

William Montgomery Watt was a Scottish historian, an Emeritus Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Watt was one of the foremost non-Muslim interpreters of Islam in the West, was an enormously influential scholar in the field of Islamic studies and a much-revered name for many Muslims all over the world." Watt's comprehensive biography of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, Muhammad at Mecca (1953) and Muhammad at Medina (1956), are considered to be classics in the field .

Watt held visiting professorships at the University of Toronto, the Collège de France, and Georgetown University, and received the American Giorgio Levi Della Vida Medal and won, as its first recipient, the British Society for Middle Eastern St

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Lars Svensson

Lars Åke Svensson (born 1941) is a Swedish ornithologist, who received an honorary degree from the Uppsala University in 2004. He specialises in the identification of passerine birds. In 2008 he published a paper on the poorly known Large-billed Reed-warbler (Acrocephalus orinus) which "dramatically changed ornithological perception of the Large-billed Reed Warbler"

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Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

Of French-Canadian ancestry, Kerouac was raised in a French-speaking home in Lowell, Massachusetts. He "learned English at age six and spoke with a marked accent into his late teens." During World War II, he served in the United States Merchant Marine; he completed his first novel at the time, which was published more than 40 years after his death. His first published book was The Town and the City (1950), and he achieved widespread fame and notoriety with his second, On the Road, in 1957. It made him a beat icon, and he went on to publish 12 more novels and num

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Raymond Carver

Carver was born into a poverty-stricken family at the tail-end of the Depression. He married at 19, started a series of menial jobs and his own career of 'full-time drinking as a serious pursuit', a career that would eventually kill him. Constantly struggling to support his wife and family, Carver enrolled in a writing programme under author John Gardner in 1958. He saw this opportunity as a turning point.

Rejecting the more experimental fiction of the 60s and 70s, he pioneered a precisionist realism reinventing the American short story during the eighties, heading the line of so-called 'dirty realists' or 'K-mart realists'. Set in trailer parks and shopping malls, they are stories of banal lives that turn on a seemingly insignificant detai

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Doris Lessing

Doris Lessing was born into a colonial family. both of her parents were British: her father, who had been crippled in World War I, was a clerk in the Imperial Bank of Persia; her mother had been a nurse. In 1925, lured by the promise of getting rich through maize farming, the family moved to the British colony in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Like other women writers from southern African who did not graduate from high school (such as Olive Schreiner and Nadine Gordimer), Lessing made herself into a self-educated intellectual.

In 1937 she moved to Salisbury, where she worked as a telephone operator for a year. At nineteen, she married Frank Wisdom, and later had two children. A few years later, feeling trapped in a persona that she fear

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Antonio Buero Vallejo

Antonio Buero Vallejo was a Spanish playwright considered the most important Spanish dramatist of the Spanish Civil War. During his career he won three National Theatre Prizes (in 1957, 1958 & 1959), a National Theatre Prize for all his career in 1980, the National Literature Prize in 1996, and the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Spain's highest literary honour, in 1986. From 1971 until his death he was a member of the Real Academia Española.

From 1934 to 1936 Vallejo studied art and painting at San Fernando Escuela de Arte, in Madrid. During the civil war, he served as a medical aid in the Republican army. After the war he was imprisoned for six years. After being released he wrote Story of a Stairway in 1949. This work presented a graphic pictu

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Javier Cercas

Javier Cercas Mena (Ibahernando, provincia de Caceres, 1962) es un escritor y traductor español.

Hijo de un veterinario rural, cuando contaba cuatro años, en 1966 su familia se trasladó a Tarragona, y allí estudió con los jesuitas. Es primo carnal del político Alejandro Cercas. A los quince años la lectura de Jorge Luis Borges le inclinó para siempre a la escritura. En 1985 se licenció en Filología Hispánica en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y más tarde se doctoró. Trabajó durante dos años en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana; mientras estaba allí se publicó su primera novela, El móvil, y compuso su segunda novela; desde 1989 es profesor de literatura española en la Universidad de Girona. Está casado y tiene un hijo. Se transformó e

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Gabriel García Márquez

Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. García Márquez, familiarly known as "Gabo" in his native country, was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. In 1982, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

He studied at the University of Bogotá and later worked as a reporter for the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and as a foreign correspondent in Rome, Paris, Barcelona, Caracas, and New York. He wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories, but is best-known for his novels, such as One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985). His works have achieved significant critical acclaim and widespr

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Dashiell Hammett

Also wrote as Peter Collinson, Daghull Hammett, Samuel Dashiell, Mary Jane Hammett

Dashiell Hammett, an American, wrote highly acclaimed detective fiction, including The Maltese Falcon (1930) and The Thin Man (1934).

Samuel Dashiell Hammett authored hardboiled novels and short stories. He created Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon), Nick and Nora Charles (The Thin Man), and the Continental Op (Red Harvest and The Dain Curse) among the enduring characters. In addition to the significant influence his novels and stories had on film, Hammett "is now widely regarded as one of the finest mystery writers of all time" and was called, in his obituary in the New York Times, "the dean of the... 'hard-boiled' school of detective fiction."

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Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky was born in Kyiv in 1903 into a successful banking family. Trapped in Moscow by the Russian Revolution, she and her family fled first to a village in Finland, and eventually to France, where she attended the Sorbonne.

Irène Némirovsky achieved early success as a writer: her first novel, David Golder, published when she was twenty-six, was a sensation. By 1937 she had published nine further books and David Golder had been made into a film; she and her husband Michel Epstein, a bank executive, moved in fashionable social circles.

When the Germans occupied France in 1940, she moved with her husband and two small daughters, aged 5 and 13, from Paris to the comparative safety of Issy-L’Evêque. It was there that she secretly began

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the Spanish language and Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
Vargas Llosa rose to international fame in the 1960s with novels such as The Time of the Hero (La ciudad y l

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Molière

Sophisticated comedies of French playwright Molière, pen name of Jean Baptiste Poquelin, include Tartuffe (1664), The Misanthrope (1666), and The Bourgeois Gentleman (1670).

French literary figures, including Molière and Jean de la Fontaine, gathered at Auteuil, a favorite place.

People know and consider Molière, stage of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also an actor of the greatest masters in western literature. People best know l'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives), l'Avare ou l'École du mensonge (The Miser), and le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid) among dramas of Molière.

From a prosperous family, Molière studied at the Jesuit Clermont college (now lycée Louis-le-Grand) and well suited to begin a life in the

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Camilo José Cela

Camilo José Cela Trulock was a Spaniard writer from Galicia. Prolific author (as a novelist, journalist, essayist, literary magazine editor, lecturer ...), he was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy for 45 years and won, among others, the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 1987, the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1989 ("for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability.") and the Cervantes Prize in 1995.

In 1996 King Juan Carlos I granted him, for his literary merits, the title Marquis of Iria Flavia.

His son, Camilo José Cela Conde is also a writer.

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Fernando de Rojas

We know little information about Fernando de Rojas, a Castilian author.

He wrote La Celestina , originally titled Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea, in 1499. People see this description of a tragic love affair as the beginning of literary Renaissance of Spain. The author published anonymously but revealed his name and famous birthplace in an acrostic code at the beginning of the second edition in the year 1500. None of his contemporaries mention him, and we know of no other work.

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Eduardo Mendoza

Eduardo Mendoza Garriga studied law in the first half of the 1960s and lived in New York between 1973 and 1982, working as interpreter for the United Nations.

He maintained an intense relationship with novelists Juan Benet and Juan García Hortelano, poet Pere Gimferrer and writer (and neighbour) Félix de Azúa.

In 1975 he published his very successful first novel, La verdad sobre el caso Savolta (The Truth about the Savolta Case), where he shows his ability to use different resources and styles. The novel is considered a precursor to the social change in the Spanish post-Franco society and the first novel of the transition to democracy. He describes the union fights from the beginning of the 20th century, showing the social, cultural and econo

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Federico García Lorca

Born in Fuente Vaqueros, Granada, Spain, June 5 1898; died near Granada, August 19 1936, García Lorca is one of Spain's most deeply appreciated and highly revered poets and dramatists. His murder by the Nationalists at the start of the Spanish civil war brought sudden international fame, accompanied by an excess of political rhetoric which led a later generation to question his merits; after the inevitable slump, his reputation has recovered (largely with a shift in interest to the less obvious works). He must now be bracketed with Machado as one of the two greatest poets Spain has produced in the 20th century, and he is certainly Spain's greatest dramatist since the Golden Age.

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Michael McDowell

Michael McDowell is a prolific horror writer who has distinguished himself with a varied body of work within the genre. He was born in Enterprise, Alabama, in 1950 and died of AIDS-related illness in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1999.

His first horror novel, The Amulet, relates the tragedies that befall various individuals who come in possession of a supernatural pendant in a small town.

In McDowell's second novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon, a murdered woman's corpse is dispatched into a river, but her spirit roams the land, and in the evening hours it seeks revenge on her killer even as he plots the demise of her surviving relatives.

Don D'Ammassa, writing in the St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, noted that McDowell's ability to

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Emmanuel Carrère

Emmanuel Carrère is a French author, screenwriter, and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion, and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.

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Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao was a dramatist of the Spanish Golden Age.

Calderón initiated what has been called the second cycle of Spanish Golden Age theatre. Whereas his predecessor, Lope de Vega, pioneered the dramatic forms and genres of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Calderón polished and perfected them. Whereas Lope's strength lay in the sponteneity and naturalness of his work, Calderón's strength lay in his capacity for poetic beauty, dramatic structure and philosophical depth. Calderón was a perfectionist who often revisited and reworked his plays, even long after they debuted. This perfectionism was not just limited to his own work: many of his plays rework existing plays or scenes by other dramatists, improving their depth, comp

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Carlos Casares

Carlos Casares Mouriño naceu en Ourense en 1941 e morreu en Vigo en 2002. Escritor e crítico literario, foi unha das personalidades máis importantes da cultura galega das últimas catro décadas. É autor de obras tan significativas como as novelas Ilustrísima e Os mortos daquel verán e os libros de relatos Vento ferido e Os escuros soños de Clío. Dirixiu a editorial Galaxia e a revista Grial ata o seu pasamento.
É de destacar, tamén, o traballo como columnista, principalmente en La Voz de Galicia entre 1992 e 1998, recollido en sete volumes publicados por Galaxia de 2005 a 2008, titulados Á marxe. O ano 2017 dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas.

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Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

É un político e escritor galego amplamente recoñecido como un dos referentes da literatura galega contemporánea; é membro da Real Academia Galega desde o 30 de setembro de 2000, da cal é presidente dende o 23 de xaneiro de 2010.

De neno viviu na casa materna na rúa da Reza de Ourense. O seu pai, Venancio Méndez Feijóo, era fillo dun comerciante de Vilanova dos Infantes; e a súa nai, María Ferrín Novoa, era filla do mestre e xornalista Ángel Ferrín Moreiras. Na cidade de Ourense fixo o primeiro curso de Bacharelato, e en 1949 trasladouse coa súa familia a Pontevedra, onde rematou os estudos de grao medio no Instituto da cidade. Nesa etapa foi tomando conciencia da realidade lingüística e cultural e do papel que o galeguismo de preguerra, coa

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Ramón J. Sender

Ramón José Sender Garcés fue un novelista español. De espíritu rebelde y autodidáctico, se sintió siempre atraído por la ideología del anarquismo, incluso cuando, avanzada la vida, se apartó de las actitudes izquierdistas de su juventud. Tras realizar el servicio militar en Marruecos, se inició en el periodismo y colaboró en publicaciones radicales y libertarias.

Sus primeras novelas son de testimonio social y propósito denunciatorio: el antimilitarismo de Imán (1930), sobre la guerra de Marruecos; su ataque al régimen policiaco en O.P.: orden público (1931); la lucha anarquista en Siete domingos rojos (1932) y el relato de la insurrección cantonal de Cartagena (1873) en Mr. Witt en el cantón (1935). Durante la guerra civil luchó en Sierra d

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Domingo Villar

Domingo Villar was a Spanish crime writer. He was born and raised in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, and lived in Madrid. He published novels featuring Inspector Leo Caldas, a dyed-in-the-wool Galician detective, and Rafael Estévez, his down to earth assistant from Zaragoza who finds it difficult to cope with the Galician sense of irony.
He passed away from complications after a stroke.

Domingo Villar (Vigo, 1971) inauguró con Ojos de agua la exitosa serie protagonizada por el inspector Leo Caldas. El segundo título, La playa de los ahogados, supuso su consagración en el panorama internacional de la novela negra, obteniendo excelentes críticas y ventas. En 2019 se publica El último barco, el esperado regreso del inspector Caldas. La serie ha sido tra

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Alfonso Daniel R. Castelao

Alfonso Daniel Manuel Rodríguez Castelao, nado en Rianxo o 29 de xaneiro de 1886 e finado no exilio en Buenos Aires (Arxentina) o 7 de xaneiro de 1950, está considerado o Pai do nacionalismo galego. Castelao foi un intelectual comprometido coa terra e co país. Na súa persoa reuníanse as facetas de narrador, ensaísta, dramaturgo, debuxante e político galego, chegando a ser a figura máis importante da cultura galega do século XX. Ademáis, estudou medicina, pero confesaba: "Fíxenme médico por amor ao meu pai; non exerzo a profesión por amor á humanidade".

Foi homenaxeado co segundo Día das Letras Galegas, no ano 1964. En decembro de 2011 a Xunta de Galicia declarou a súa obra como Ben de Interese Cultural inmaterial.

A Real Academia Galega de Be

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Miguel de Cervantes y Cortinas, later Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His novel Don Quixote is often considered his magnum opus, as well as the first modern novel.

It is assumed that Miguel de Cervantes was born in Alcalá de Henares. His father was Rodrigo de Cervantes, a surgeon of cordoban descent. Little is known of his mother Leonor de Cortinas, except that she was a native of Arganda del Rey.

In 1569, Cervantes moved to Italy, where he served as a valet to Giulio Acquaviva, a wealthy priest who was elevated to cardinal the next year. By then, Cervantes had enlisted as a soldier in a Spanish Navy infantry regiment and continued his military life until 1575, when he was captured by Algerian corsairs. He was then rele

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Antón Riveiro Coello

Antón Riveiro Coello (Xinzo de Limia, 1964). Cursó estudios de Derecho en la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela y actualmente trabaja como funcionario de la Administración Autonómica. Es uno de los narradores de más prestigio de la narrativa gallega contemporánea y, entre su obra, traducida a varios idiomas, destacan los títulos Valquiria (Ed. Novo Século, 1996), Premio Camilo José Cela de Narrativa; Parque Central e outros relatos (Espiral Maior, 1996); A historia de Chico Antela (Espiral Maior, 1997), Accésit en el Premio Manuel García Barros de Novela; A quinta de Saler (Galaxia, 1999, 3ª ed.), Finalista en los Premios de Narrativa Torrente Ballester y Xerais de novela; Animalia (Galaxia, 1999, 2ª ed.), Premio Café Dublín de Narrativa

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David Uclés

DAVID UCLÉS (Úbeda, 1990), licenciado y máster en Traducción e Interpretación por francés, alemán e inglés, es, además, escritor, músico y dibujante. Ha publicado las novelas La península de las casas vacías (Siruela/Premio Cálamo Mejor Libro 2024), Emilio y Octubre (Dos Bigotes) y El llanto del león (Premio Complutense de Literatura). Fue galardonado con las becas Leonardo y Montserrat Roig. En sus obras predomina el realismo mágico.

Ha trabajado en Alemania, Suiza y Francia, y ha escrito para Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, La Vanguardia, Revista L y Actúa. También ha participado en varios festivales literarios: Centroamérica Cuenta, Festival 42, FLEM, Book Friday y Literaktum, y clausuró la Biennal de Pensament de Barcelona.

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Eduardo Blanco Amor

Eduardo Blanco Amor (Ourense 1897-Vigo 1979), fue el hijo menor de una familia modesta y autodidacta desde su infancia. Blanco Amor entró como secretario de dirección en el El diario de Orense con 17 años. Participa desde joven en el ambiente literario de la ciudad, conociendo el magisterio de Vicente Risco, figura de importancia decisiva en la defensa y promoción de la cultura gallega. Emigra a Buenos Aires en 1919, en plena eclosión cultural. Animador de las instituciones gallegas más allá del mar, dedicó toda su vida a la concienciación y culturización de los emigrantes. En 1923 fundó con Isla Couto la revista gallega Terra; participó también en otra publicación galleguista, Céltiga. En 1926 entró a formar parte del diario argentino La N

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Carlos Casares

Carlos Casares Mouriño naceu en Ourense en 1941 e morreu en Vigo en 2002. Escritor e crítico literario, foi unha das personalidades máis importantes da cultura galega das últimas catro décadas. É autor de obras tan significativas como as novelas Ilustrísima e Os mortos daquel verán e os libros de relatos Vento ferido e Os escuros soños de Clío. Dirixiu a editorial Galaxia e a revista Grial ata o seu pasamento.
É de destacar, tamén, o traballo como columnista, principalmente en La Voz de Galicia entre 1992 e 1998, recollido en sete volumes publicados por Galaxia de 2005 a 2008, titulados Á marxe. O ano 2017 dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas.

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Marcial Valladares

Marcial Valladares Núñez, nado en Vilancosta (A Estrada) o 10 de xuño de 1821 e finado no mesmo lugar o 20 de maio de 1903, foi un xornalista, poeta, novelista e lexicógrafo galego. No ano 1970 a Real Academia Galega dedicoulle o Día das Letras Galegas.

Fillo de José Dionisio Valladares Gómez, cursou a carreira de Dereito na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, licenciándose en 1844. Adicouse ao xornalismo e á política, pero en 1866 retirouse ó seu lugar natal para se consagrar ás letras.

Era irmán da escritora Avelina Valladares.

O 'Señor de Vilancosta' foi un dos escritores máis prolíficos do rexurdimento.

Como lexicógrafo, é autor do Diccionario gallego-castellano (1884) con 11.000 vocábulos que recolleu entre 1850 e 1884, ao que incorpor

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Manuel Antonio

Manuel Antonio Pérez Sánchez, nado en Rianxo (Barbanza, A Coruña, Galicia) o 12 de xullo de 1900 e finado en Asados (Rianxo) o 28 de xaneiro de 1930, foi un poeta galego.

«De catro a catro. Follas sin data d'un diario d'abordo» é un libro de poesía de Manuel Antonio publicado en marzo de 1928 pola Editorial Nós. É a única obra que o autor publicou en vida, e está considerado a súa obra por excelencia.

Dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas no 1979.
En 2011 inaugurouse a súa casa-museo en Rianxo.

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Álvaro Cunqueiro

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