) is a 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...

 and one of the best known contemporary Asturian

Asturian people

The Asturians are one of the nationalisms of Spain, issuing from the historical country of the Principality of Asturias. They have Celtiberian heritage, related to its historical and cultural links with neighbouring Galicia, as well as Visigothic cultural influences most notably found in the...

 writers.

Poetry

In 1982, at barely 16 years old, he published his first book of poems in Asturian, Nel cuartu mariellu. His poetic works, apart from those published in university

University

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 magazines and in Lletres asturianes, continued with El llibru de les cenices (1988), Los nomes de la tierra (1991), El llibru vieyu, with which he won the Teodoro Cuesta prize for poetry in 1993, and Los Caminos Secretos (1996). In 1999 he published a bilingual anthology (asturian-Spanish

Spanish language

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) of his poetry, with the title La Vida Perdida.

Newspapers and magazines

Bello has also done numerous translations, especially of Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

 authors, and has collaborated on magazines such as Clarín, Adréi and Zimbru, having co-founded the last two with Berta Piñán and Esther Prieto, respectively. He also has been published in the newspapers La Nueva España and El Comercio and the weekly Les Noticies

Les Noticies

Les Noticies is a weekly newspaper founded in Asturias in 1996. It is the only newspaper written entirely in Asturian.It has nearly 20,000 readers and a weekly circulation of 5.000 newspapers.It is owned by Ambitu editions....

, of which he has been the director since 1997. In 2005 he founded Xunta d'Escritores Asturianos ("Congress of Asturian Writers").

Critical acclaim

His literary fame outside of the Asturian community came with his Spanish language translation of his own Hestoria Universal de Paniceiros, for which he received the Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Ramón Gómez de la Serna

Ramón Gómez de la Serna Puig was a Spanish writer, dramatist and avant-garde agitator. He strongly influenced surrealist film maker Luis Buñuel....

 prize and which was one of the most critically acclaimed Spanish books of 2003.

Poetry

• Nel cuartu mariellu (1982)
• Llibru de les cenices (1988)
• El llibru vieyu (1994)
• Los caminos secretos (1996)
• La vida perdida (1999)

Essays

• Como facer L'Habana ensin salir d'Asturies (1998)
• Ríu arriba (1998)
• La bola infinita (2000)

Narratives

• Pantasmes mundos, laberintos (1996)
• La memoria del mundu (1998)
• Historia universal de Paniceiros (2002)
  • Paniceiros, Areté, 2004, ISBN 9788439710424
• Los cuarteles de la memoria (2003)
• Meditaciones nel desiertu (2003)

Translations

• José Luis Olaizola
  José Luis Olaizola
  Jose Luis Olaizola is a writer.Born in San Sebastián, Spain in 1927, he was a lawyer for 15 years, until he found his vocation in writing. He has written novels such as La guerra del general Escobar which received the Premio Planeta of 1983...
  
  : Bibiana y el so mundu (1989)
• Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa
  Fernando Pessoa, born Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa , was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic and translator described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language.-Early years in Durban:On 13 July...
  
  : Estancu y otros poemes (1989)
• Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
  
  : El casu raru del dr. Jeckyll y mr. Hyde (1995)
• Arthur Conan Doyle
  Arthur Conan Doyle
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  : Tres aventures de Sherlock Holmes (1995)
• Álvaro Cunqueiro
  Álvaro Cunqueiro
  Álvaro Cunqueiro Mora was an Galician writer. He is the author of many works in both Galician and Spanish, including Merlín e familia...
  
  : Escuela de melecineros y fábula de varia xente (1997)
• Jaume Cela: Silenciu nel corazón.
• Various authors: Sieglu XX cambalache
• Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao
  Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao
  Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao , most commonly known as simply Castelao, was a Galician writer in Galician language and one of the main symbols of Galician nationalism...
  
  : Coses (2000)
• Jordi Sierra i Fabra: Nun llugar que llamen guerra (2002)

Others

• Alfaya (dictated material from Berta Piñán (1989))
• L'alborá de los malvises (Critical edition of the work of Constantino Cabal (1999))
• El sentimientu de la tierra (Anthology of contemporary asturian literature (1999))

External links

• "Archivos de la categoría ‘Xuan Bello’", Poesiaasturiana’s Weblog