Rosalía de Castro
María Rosalía Rita de Castro, better known as Rosalía de Castro (Santiago de Compostela, 24 February 1837 – Padrón, 15 July 1885), was a poet, novelist and Galician nationalist ("Probe Galicia, non debes / chamarte nunca española" ["Poor Galicia, you should never / called yourself Spanish"]).
Contemporary feminism has trumped her as a pioneer.
For her novel "Daugher of the Sea" (1859), she wrote in the prologue, "Because it is not yet allowed for women to write about what they feel and what they know".
A native of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia nation or "historic nationality" of northwest Spain, she wrote in both Galician and Castilian.
Writing in the Galician language, after the Séculos Escuros (Dark Centuries), she became an important
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Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana Inés de la Cruz was born in a town in the Valley of Mexico to a Creole mother Isabel Ramírez and a Spanish military father, Pedro Manuel de Asbaje. As a child, she learned Nahuatl (Uto-Aztec language spoken in Mexico and Central America) and read and write Spanish in the middle of three years. Thanks to her grandfather's lush library, Juana Inés de la Cruz read the Greek and Roman classics and the theology of the time, she learned Latin in a self-taught way. In 1665, admired for her talent and precocity, she was lady-in-waiting to Leonor Carreto, wife of Viceroy Antonio Sebastián de Toledo. Sponsored by the Marquises of Mancera, she shone in the viceregal court of New Spain for her erudition and versifying ability. In 1667, Juana Inés
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Vanessa Springora
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Ramón del Valle-Inclán was born into an impoverished aristocratic family in a rural village in Galicia, Spain. Obedient to his father’s wishes, he studied law in Compostela, but after his father’s death in 1889 he moved to Madrid to work as a journalist and critic. In 1892 Valle-Inclán traveled to Mexico, where he remained for more than a year. His first book of stories came out in Spain in 1895. A well-known figure in the cafés of Madrid, famous for his spindly frame, cutting wit, long hair, longer beard, black cape, and single arm (the other having been lost after a fight with a critic), Valle-Inclán was celebrated as the author of Sonatas: The Memoirs of the Marquis of Bradomín, which was published in 1904 and is considered the finest no
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Han Kang
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Han Kang was born in 1970 in South Korea. She is the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the International Booker Prize, as well as Human Acts, The White Book, Greek Lessons, and We Do Not Part. In 2024, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.” -
Alfonso Daniel R. Castelao
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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.
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Emigrou a Arxentina en 1949, onde fixo a carreira de Xornalismo. Foi Secretario Xeral das Mocedades Galeguistas, e Secretario da Comisión Organizadora do histórico Congreso da Emigración Galega. Casou coa escritora cubana, de ascendencia galega, Anisia Miranda, en 1957. Xuntos fundaron ese mesmo ano “Follas Novas”, editorial e distr -
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“Nací al lado de la piedra junto a la montaña, en una madrugada de primavera, cuando la tierra, después de su largo sueño, se corona nuevamente de flores. Las primeras prendas que al nacer me pusieron las hizo mi madre cantando baladas antiguas, mientras el pan casero expandía en la antigua casa su familiar perfume y mis hermanos jugaban alegremente. Me llamaron Alfonsina, nombre árabe que quiere decir dispuesta a todo”.
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Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie also wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott, and was occasionally published under the name Agatha Christie Mallowan.
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Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller) was an English writer known for her 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, particularly those revolving around fictional detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple. She also wrote the world's longest-running play, the murder mystery The Mousetrap, which has been performed in the West End of London since 1952. A writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Christie has been called the "Queen of Crime". She also wrote six novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott. In 1971, she was made a Dame (DBE) by Queen -
Alejandra Pizarnik
Born in Buenos Aires to Russian parents who had fled Europe and the Nazi Holocaust, Alejandra Pizarnik was destined for literary greatness as well as an early death. She died from an ostensibly self-administered overdose of barbiturates on 25 September 1972. A few words scribbled on a slate that same month, reiterating her desire to go nowhere "but to the bottom," sum up her lifelong aspiration as a human being and as a writer. The compulsion to head for the "bottom" or "abyss" points to her desire to surrender to nothingness in an ultimate experience of ecstasy and poetic fulfillment in which life and art would be fused, albeit at her own risk. "Ojalá pudiera vivir solamente en éxtasis, haciendo el cuerpo del poema con mi cuerpo" (If I cou
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Sappho
Work of Greek lyric poet Sappho, noted for its passionate and erotic celebration of the beauty of young women and men, after flourit circa 600 BC and survives only in fragments.
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Ancient history poetry texts associate Sappho (Σαπφώ or Ψάπφω) sometimes with the city of Mytilene or suppose her birth in Eresos, another city, sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC. She died around 570 BC. People throughout antiquity well knew and greatly admired the bulk, now lost, but her immense reputation endured.
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Federico García Lorca
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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.
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Almudena Grandes
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As Emilie L. Bergmann said, her novel Las edades de Lulú (1989) "represented a breakthrough for eroticism in women's writing".
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Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
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Manuel Rivas Barrós began his writing career at the age of 15. He has written articles and literature essays for Spanish newspapers and television stations like Televisión de Galicia, El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El País, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16 in Galicia. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, and played an important role during the 2002 Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast.
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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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Virgil
born 15 October 70 BC
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Roman poet Virgil, also Vergil, originally Publius Vergilius Maro, composed the Aeneid , an epic telling after the sack of Troy of the wanderings of Aeneas.
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Xosé Neira Vilas
Naceu en Gres, Pontevedra, en 1928. É membro numerario da Real Academia Galega, Doutor Honoris Causa polas universidades da Coruña e da Habana, e Fillo Predilecto do Concello de Vila de Cruces. Entre outros galardóns recibiu a Medalla Castelao, o Pedrón de Honra, o Premio Trasalba. Premio da Crítica Española (novela en galego) e Premio da Crítica Galega (ensaio). É un dos escritores clásicos da literatura galega.
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Xohana Torres
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Rafael Dieste
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Cos seus contos e pezas de teatro, entre as que destacan «A fiestra valdeira» (1927) e «Dos arquivos do trasno» (1926), tentou modernizar o sistema literario galego afastándoo do ruralismo.
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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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O seu momento de maior esplendor produciuse no marco da Segunda República (1931-1936) cuns obxectivos estratéxicos que definiron a toda a xeración: afirmación da cultura galega nos ámbitos da modernidade, práctica constante da lingua galega como lingua culta en todas as súas manifestacións e formas de creación cultural e literaria, conexión con Europa e o pensamento contemporáneo, defensa da identidade nacional de Galicia…
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Alfonsina Storni
Alfonsina Storni was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the postmodernism movement.
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“Nací al lado de la piedra junto a la montaña, en una madrugada de primavera, cuando la tierra, después de su largo sueño, se corona nuevamente de flores. Las primeras prendas que al nacer me pusieron las hizo mi madre cantando baladas antiguas, mientras el pan casero expandía en la antigua casa su familiar perfume y mis hermanos jugaban alegremente. Me llamaron Alfonsina, nombre árabe que quiere decir dispuesta a todo”.
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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".
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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.
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Manuel Curros Enríquez
Manuel Curros Enríquez, nado en Celanova o 15 de setembro de 1851 e finado na Habana o 7 de marzo de 1908, foi un poeta e xornalista galego, un dos tres principais representantes do Rexurdimento da literatura galega, xunto a Rosalía de Castro e Eduardo Pondal.
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Eduardo Pondal
Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente, nado en Ponteceso o 8 de febreiro de 1835 e finado na Coruña o 8 de marzo de 1917, foi un poeta rexionalista galego, en lingua galega e lingua castelá, autor da letra do Himno de Galicia. Foi un dos tres grandes poetas do Rexurdimento, xunto con Rosalía de Castro e Manuel Curros Enríquez. En 1965 dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas.
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Eduardo María González-Pondal Abente (February 8, 1835 – March 8, 1917) was a Galician (Spain) poet, who wrote in both Galician and Spanish.
Of Hidalgo origin, Pondal was the youngest of a family of seven. From 1884 onwards he studied Latin in a school in Vilela de Nemiña which belonged to his cleric relative, Cristobal Lago. In 1848, he moved to Santiago de Compostela to st -
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Celso Emilio Ferreiro Míguez, nado en Celanova o 4 de xaneiro de 1912 e finado en Vigo o 31 de agosto de 1979, foi un escritor e político galeguista.
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Máximo expoñente da poesía social en lingua galega, a súa obra «Longa noite de pedra» é un dos libros chave para entender a literatura galega contemporánea e unha referencia obrigada de toda unha xeración de autores e lectores.
No 1964, participou na fundación da Unión do Pobo Galego (UPG) xunto con Méndez Ferrín, Reimundo Patiño e Lois Soto, organización de orientación nacionalista e marxista.
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Valentín Lamas Carvajal
Valentín Lamas Carvajal, nado en Ourense o 1 de novembro de 1849 e finado na mesma cidade o 4 de setembro de 1906, foi un autor e xornalista galego. No ano 1972 dedicóuselle o Día das Letras Galegas. Entre outros feitos, Lamas realizou dúas iniciativas importantes en relación co xornalismo e coa literatura en lingua galega, contando ambas con moi boa acollida: fundar o primeiro semanario en lingua galega, titulado O Tio Marcos d'a Portela, e publicar o Catecismo do labrego.
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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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