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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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 -
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.
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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.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, W -
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the most influential and emotionally powerful authors of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she demonstrated literary talent from an early age, publishing her first poem at the age of eight. Her early life was shaped by the death of her father, Otto Plath, when she was eight years old, a trauma that would profoundly influence her later work.
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Plath attended Smith College, where she excelled academically but also struggled privately with depression. In 1953, she survived a suicide attempt, an experience she later fictionalized in her semi-autobiographical novel The Bell Jar. After recovering, she earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study -
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi (Persian: مرجان ساتراپی) is an Iranian-born French contemporary graphic novellist, illustrator, animated film director, and children's book author. Apart from her native tongue Persian, she speaks English, Swedish, German, French and Italian.
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Satrapi grew up in Tehran in a family which was involved with communist and socialist movements in Iran prior to the Iranian Revolution. She attended the Lycée Français there and witnessed, as a child, the growing suppression of civil liberties and the everyday-life consequences of Iranian politics, including the fall of the Shah, the early regime of Ruhollah Khomeini, and the first years of the Iran-Iraq War. She experienced an Iraqi air raid and Scud missile attacks on Tehran. Accordin -
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.
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She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul -
Almudena Grandes
She studied Geography and History at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She was married to the poet Luis García Montero. In 1989 she won the La Sonrisa Vertical prize with her erotic novel Las edades de Lulú, which has been translated into several languages. Bigas Luna made a movie based on this book, as did Gerardo Herrero with Malena es un nombre de tango and Juan Vicente Córdoba with El lenguaje de los balcones in his film Aunque tú no lo sepas.
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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".
Her books speak about the Spanish people in the last quarter of the 20th century and the first years of the 21st century. She shows in them a great realism and an inten -
Patrick Süskind
From 1968-1974 he studied medieval and modern history in Munich and Aix-en-Provence. In the '80s he worked as a screenwriter, for Kir Royal and Monaco Franze among others.
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After spending the 1970s writing what he has characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass (The Double Bass, 1981), which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide. -
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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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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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"]).
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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.
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Celso Emilio Ferreiro
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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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.
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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 -
Marilar Aleixandre
María Pilar Jiménez Aleixandre, nada en Madrid o 1 de maio de 1947, é escritora en lingua galega, tradutora, bióloga e académica de número da Real Academia Galega.
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De avoas e avós andaluces, valencianos e madrileños, naceu en Madrid en 1947. Di sentir saudade dos sitios nos que viviu, Ceuta, Doña Mencía (Córdoba), e Madrid, pero dende 1973 reside en Galicia, onde adoptou o galego como a súa lingua literaria e se converteu nunha das escritoras galegas actuais con obra máis consolidada e recoñecida. É profesora da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, onde ensina Didáctica das Ciencias Experimentais e Educación Ambiental, dende 1988.
O primeiro relato que escribiu, un conto sobre vampiros, foi o xermolo de Agardando polos morcegos. Logo viñer -
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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 -
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".
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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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Berta Dávila
A escritora Berta Dávila (Santiago 1987), que moi nova sorprendeu gañando o Premio
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Biblos-Pazos de Galicia para menores de 21 anos e culminando da man de Agustín
Fernández Paz a súa notable primeira novela Bailarei sobre a túa tumba (2008), é hoxe unha recoñecida poeta e narradora con poemarios como Corpo baleiro (2007) e Raíz da fenda (2013, premios Johán Carballeira, da Crítica española e da AELG) e obras narrativas como libro de relatos A arte do fracaso (2010), traducido para o castelán e o xaponés, ou a novela O derradeiro libro de Emma Olsen, premio de narrativa breve Repsol en 2013, co que obtivo tamén o premio Ánxel Casal ao mellor libro de ficción 2013. Tamén foi nomeada pola AGE autora do ano en 2014. -
Manuel Jabois
Manuel Jabois Sueiro (Sanxenxo, Pontevedra, 1978) es un periodista y escritor español.
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Begoña Caamaño
Begoña Caamaño Rascado (Vigo, 14 de octubre de 1964-Santiago de Compostela, 27 de octubre de 2014) fue una periodista y escritora española en gallego, así como una feminista y activista política.
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En sus inicios profesionales, trabajó en los servicios informativos de Radio Popular en su ciudad natal y Radio del Noroeste. Fue corresponsal en Vigo de la Agencia de Noticias de Galicia y del diario madrileño El Sol y colaboró en A Nosa Terra, Tempos y Novas da Galiza. A partir de 1989 se incorporó a la Radio Galega. Desde la delegación de Vigo, junto con Rosa Martínez, inició el programa Trecolas. En 1992 pasó a la redacción central de la emisora donde desarrolló tareas como redactora de diversos servicios de información en el Diario Cultural. -
Javier Castillo
Javier Castillo is an author and business consultant. His first novel, "El día que se perdió la cordura", has sold more than 30.000 copies and has been ranked in Amazon TOP 100 for more than 450 days. Recenly "SUMA de LETRAS", a publishing house part of Penguin Random House has bought the rights to distribute the book worldwide in Spanish.
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Javier Castillo's writing is potent, rhythmic and focused on the feelings. Prepare your mind to be highjacked by his words and to fall in love with his characters. He dominates time and location jumps with mastery, leaving you hanging of an eternal cliff. -
Andrea Nunes Brións
Licenciouse en Filoloxía Hispánica pola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela no ano 2009. É unha activista política e feminista. A súa obra céntrase no xénero poético, está escrita na súa maior parte en lingua galega e é de carácter marcadamente feminista. Colabora de maneira activa en publicacións e proxectos relacionados co xénero e a lingua.
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O seu primeiro poemario Corrente do esquecemento apareceu en 2007 editado por Aturuxo (Federación Galega de Asociacións Lésbicas, Gais, Bisexuais e Transexuais). En 2011 publicou Todas as mulleres que fun, un poemario ilustrado por Annet Borrás de temática erótica e de crítica contra o capitalismo, o patriarcado e a falta de consciencia ecolóxica. Este libro foi finalista nos premios AELG e o últim -
Bea Lema
Beatriz Lema Rivera (1985), known as Bea Lema, is a Spanish cartoonist and illustrator, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Comic Award. Her works have been published in both Spanish and French.
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In 2017, she published her first comic in galician, O Corpo de Cristo, which was nominated and later named winner of the XII Castelao Comic Award of the Provincial Council of A Coruña, becoming the first woman to receive this award. Thanks to a scholarship she remade her work at the Maison des auteurs in Angoulême, and it was later published in France under the title Des maux à dire.
Her first work, renamed to Spanish as El Cuerpo de Cristo and published this time by the Astiberri publishing house, was awarded the 2024 National Comic Award, which was -
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Alana S. Portero
Alana S. Portero (Madrid, 1978) es una escritora, poeta, dramaturga y directora escénica española que escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB con un enfoque concreto en la realidad de las mujeres trans.
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Nació y se crio en el barrio de San Blas en Madrid, y se licenció en Historia, especializándose en Historia Medieval, por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Es escritora, dramaturga y directora escénica.
Es cofundadora de la compañía de teatro STRIGA, que dirigía y en la que actuaba. Escribe sobre cultura, feminismo y activismo LGTB para varios medios, como la revista Agente Provocador, ElDiario.es, El Salto, SModa y Vogue España, además de en su propio Patreon.
Portero ha escrito diversos libros de poemas: La habitación de