Teresa Moure

Teresa Moure é professora na Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galiza). Autora polifacética, as suas obras vêm sendo distinguidas com diversos reconhecimentos, tornando-a a autora mais premiada da história da literatura galega, e foram traduzidas para distintas línguas europeias. No ano 2013 publica um artigo na imprensa que comove a sociedade galega expressando o seu sentir, comum a outras autoras e autores, sobre a necessidade de escrever em diante no Acordo Ortográfico para rejeitar a situação de anormalidade da literatura galega e a sua inclusão na literatura espanhola e fazer parte dum movimento internacional onde o galego seja visto como uma variedade dentro da língua portuguesa. Aparece nesse momento a sua primeira obra poética

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