Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín
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Ourense
Ourense is a city in northwestern Spain, the capital of the province of the same name in Galicia. Its population of 108,674 accounts for 30% of the population of the province and makes it the third largest city of Galicia.-Population:...
, 7 August 1938) Galician writer
Writer
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and poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature
Galician literature
Galician language literature is the literature written in Galician. The earliest works in Galician language are from the early 13th-century trovadorismo tradition...
. Doctor
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in philology
Philology
Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
. Studied philosophy
Philosophy
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at the University of Santiago de Compostela
University of Santiago de Compostela
The Royal University of Santiago de Compostela - USC is a public university located in the city of Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. A second campus is located in Lugo, Galicia....
and Romanic
Romance languages
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philology at the University of Madrid
Complutense University of Madrid
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He teaches literature
Literature
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at the Instituto Santa Irene in Vigo
Vigo
Vigo is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.-Population:...
. He also writes for the daily newspaper Faro de Vigo
Faro de Vigo
Faro de Vigo is a Galician newspaper from Vigo. It is the oldest Spanish newspaper still in circulation. Its headquarters are located in Chapela, Redondela...
and directs the quarterly political critic magazine A Trabe Ouro. Ferrín is a member of the Real Academia Galega
Real Academia Galega
The Royal Galician Academy is an institution dedicated to the study of Galician culture and especially the Galician language; it promulgates norms of grammar, spelling, and vocabulary and works to promote the language. The Academy is based in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The current president is...
(Galician
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
Royal Academy). At present he is the president of that Academy. And he is Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Vigo
University of Vigo
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He was proposed to the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
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in literature by the Galician Writers Association
Galician Writers Association
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in 1999. He has been awarded with the Galician Critics Prize, Spanish Critics Prize and National Critics Prize.
Politics
Ferrín maintains an active political activist life. Supporting political and social initiatives as Redes Escarlata. He is a member of the nationalist literary group Brais Pinto.He was a founding member of Unión do Povo Galego (Union of the Galician People) and centered in a marxist independentist ideology. Also member of Frente Popular Galega
Frente Popular Galega
The Galician People's Front is a Galician political organization with a socialist and nationalist ideology.After the Galician People's Union accepted the participation of the Bloque Nacionalista Galego in the Galician Parliament in 1986, 13 members of its Central Committee led by Mariano Abalo...
(Popular Galician Front) and founder of Galiza Ceibe.
Literary work
As a poetPoet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
he became notorious with his first work Voce na néboa (Voice in the fog) 1957.
- Antoloxía Popular (popular anthology) 1972, with the pseudonymPseudonymA pseudonym is a name that a person assumes for a particular purpose and that differs from his or her original orthonym...
Heriberto Bens. - Sirventés pola destrucción de Occitania (Servants for the destruction of OccitaniaOccitaniaOccitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...
) 1975. - Con pólvora e magnolias (With gunpowder and magnolias) 1977.
- Poesía enteira de Heriberto Bens (Complete poetry of Heriberto Bens) 1980.
- O fin dun canto (The end of a singing) 1982.
- Erótica (Erotic) 1992.
- Estirpe (Breed/Lineage) 1994.
- O outro (The other one) 2002.
- Contra Maquieiro (Against Maquieiro) 2005
His works in prose
Prose
Prose is the most typical form of written language, applying ordinary grammatical structure and natural flow of speech rather than rhythmic structure...
, include narrative
Narrative
A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...
and essay
Essay
An essay is a piece of writing which is often written from an author's personal point of view. Essays can consist of a number of elements, including: literary criticism, political manifestos, learned arguments, observations of daily life, recollections, and reflections of the author. The definition...
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- Percival e outras historias (Percival and other stories) 1958.
- O crepúsculo e as formigas (The twilight and the ants) 1961.
- Arrabaldo do norte (Arrabaldo north) 1964.
- Retorno a Tagen Ata (Return to Tagen Ata) 1971.
- Elipsis e outras sombras (EllipsisEllipsisEllipsis is a series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted. An ellipsis can also be used to indicate an unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence...
and other shadows) 1974. - Antón e os inocentes (Antón and the innocents) 1976.
- Crónica de nós (Chronicles of us) 1980.
- Amor de Artur (The love of Artur) 1982.
- Arnoia, Arnoia 1985.
- Bretaña Esmeraldina 1987.
- De Pondal a Novoneyra (From PondalEduardo PondalEduardo María González-Pondal Abente was a Spanish poet, who wrote in both Spanish and GalicianOf 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...
to NovoneyraUxío NovoneyraEugenio Novo Neira alias Uxío Novoneyra was a poet and a Children's book writer from Galicia, in Spain....
) 1984. - Arraianos 1991
- No ventre do silencio (Inside the womb of the silence) 1999.