Rafael Dieste (1899-1981) foi un escritor, poeta, dramaturgo e ensaísta fundamental na literatura galega do século XX, vinculándose coas vangardas literarias e cultivando o teatro e a narrativa, especialmente o relato. Na súa obra destacan A fiestra valdeira e Dos arquivos do trasno. Tentou modernizar o sistema literario galego distanciándoo do ruralismo.
Rafael Dieste (1899-1981) was a fundamental writer, poet, playwright, and essayist in 20th-century Galician literature. He was associated with literary avant-gardes and cultivated theater and narrative, especially short stories. His notable works include A fiestra valdeira and Dos arquivos do trasno. Dieste sought to modernize the Galician literary system, distancing it from ruralism.
Chus Pato (Ourense, 1955) é unha das máis destacadas poetas contemporáneas galegas. A súa produción poética, que explora as fronteiras dos xéneros, ten recibido numerosos recoñecementos, como o Premio da Crítica da poesía galega por Hordas de escritura (2008), o premio Losada Diéguez en dúas ocasións por Nínive (1997) e Hordas de Escritura (2009) ou o premio Clara Campoamor (2018). En 2024 recibiu o Premio nacional de poesía.
Chus Pato (Ourense, 1955) is one of the most prominent contemporary Galician poets. Her poetic work often explores the boundaries of literary genres, has received numerous awards. Among the most notable recognitions are the Galician Poetry Critics' Award for Hordas de escritura (2008), the Losada Diéguez Prize on two occasions for Nínive (1997) and Hordas de Escritura (2009), and the Clara Campoamor Prize in 2018. In 2024, Pato was awarded the National Poetry Prize.
Ramón Otero Pedrayo (1888-1976) foi unha das grandes figuras da Xeración Nós, o afamado grupo de intelectuais que nas décadas de 1920 e 1930 incorporaron a cultura galega á alta cultura do seu tempo. Literato, xeógrafo e ensaísta, retratou na súa literatura o ocaso da fidalguía e do vello mundo rural.
Ramón Otero Pedrayo (1888-1976) was one of the great figures of the Xeración Nós, the famous group of intellectuals who in the 1920s and 1930s incorporated Galician culture into the high culture of their time. A writer, geographer and essayist, he portrayed in his literature the decline of the nobility and the old rural world.
Emma Pedreira é unha das voces literarias máis recoñecidas da xeración dos 90. Escritora en poesía e en prosa, Pedreira ten gañado algúns dos premios máis relevantes do panorama literario galego actual, como o premio Xerais, o premio da Crítica Española ou o Fiz Vergara Vilariño. As balas de prata é un colección de textos inéditos escolmado pola autora.
Emma Pedreira is one of the most widely-known literary voices of the generation of the 90s. Author of poetry and prose, Pedreira has received several of the most important awards of the current Galician literary scene, including those for Xerais, Spanish Criticism, and Fiz Vergara Vilariño. Silver Bullets is a collection of unedited texts chosen by the author.
Luísa Villalta (1957-2004) foi, segundo a Real Academia Galega, "unha das grandes figuras da literatura galega emerxidas na segunda metade dos anos 80 e primeiros 90". Luísa Villalta foi homenaxeada no Día das Letras Galegas 2024, a gran celebración colectiva da lingua e da cultura galegas.
Luisa Villalta (1957-2004) was, according to the Royal Galician Academy, “one of the great figures of Galician literature in the 80s and the beginning of the 90s.” Luisa Villalta will be honored on the Day of Galician Letters 2024, which is the great collective celebration of Galician language and culture.
Claudio Rodríguez Fer é un escritor e académico de dilatada traxectoria tanto na investigación como na creación literaria. Nacido en Lugo en 1956, a obra de Rodríguez Fer, de profundo alento contemporáneo e transdisciplinar, ten sido traducida a numerosos idiomas Preséntase unha selección de dous relatos do libro inédito Belas e bestas.
Claudio Rodríguez Fer is a writer and university professor with an extensive career in both literary criticism and creative writing. Born in Lugo, Rodríguez Fer’s work has a strong contemporary and cross-disciplinary nature, and has been translated to numerous languages. Presented here are two stories taken from the unedited book, Beauties and Beasts.
Vicente Risco foi un dos membros máis relevantes da Xeración Nós, o grupo de intelectuais que consolidou a cultura galega nas primeiras décadas do século XX. Dedalus en Compostela, publicado na revista Nós en 1929. é un texto representativo dos intereses do grupo en conectar a cultura galega coa creación europea do seu tempo. O relato narra un paseo por Compostela con Stephen Dedalus, trasunto de James Joyce no Ulises e no Retrato do artista cando novo.
Vicente Risco was one of the most important writers of the Nós [We] Generation, the group of intellectuals who consolidated Galician culture in the first decades of the twentieth century. Dedalus in Compostela, published in the journal Nós in 1929, is a text that is representative of the group’s interest in connecting Galician culture to European creation of the time. The story tells of a walk through Compostela with Stephen Dedalus, modeled on James Joyce’s Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
Eduardo Pondal foi un dos poetas máis destacados do Rexurdimento cultural galego do século XIX. Estes oito poemas, que inclúen Os pinos, a base do Himno Galego, foron tomados da antoloxía Eduardo Pondal. Os cantos eran da Patria (120 poemas) preparada por Manuel Ferreiro para a Real Academia Galega.
Eduardo Pondal was one of the most oustanding poets of the Galician Resurgence in XIXth century. These eight poems, including Os pinos, base of the Galician Anthem, were taken from the anthology Eduardo Pondal. Os cantos eran da Patria (120 poemas) [Eduardo Pondal. The Songs Were From the Homeland (120 poems)] prepared by Manuel Ferreira for the Royal Galician Academy.
Este poemario póstumo editado en 1959 pola editorial Galaxia é a obra fundamental de Luís Pimentel, médico lugués e poeta vinculado ás vangardas literarias da década de 1920 e figura de relevancia na modernización da poesía galega nas décadas centrais do século XX.
This posthumous book of poetry was published in 1959 by Galaxia Press is the major work of Luis Pimentel, physician from Lugo and poet linked to the literary avant-garde in the 1920s, an important figure in the modernization of Galician poetry in the mid-twentieth century.
Rosalía de Castro publicou este texto en castelán en El Álbum del Miño en 1858. Considérase o primeiro manifesto feminista publicado en Galicia e está moi influenciado polas correntes de reivindicación da muller que estaban a aparecer na Europa do momento.
Rosalía de Castro published this text in Spanish in El Álbum del Miño in 1858. It is considered to be the first feminist manifesto published in Galicia and is strongly influenced by the trends in the vindication of women’s rights that were appearing in Europe at the time.
Aínda que Rosalía de Castro, a gran figura das letras galegas do século XIX, empregou a lingua galega sobre todo para a expresión poética, consérvanse tamén tres textos en prosa. Contos da miña terra publicouse na Tipografía Galaica, na Coruña, en 1864.
Although Rosalía de Castro, a major figure of Galician letters of the nineteenth century, used the Galician language principally for poetry, there are also three texts in prose. This is one of them. Contos da miña terra was published by Tipografía Galaica in A Coruña in 1864
Daniel A. Rodríguez Castelao foi unha figura fundamental na arte, cultura e política galega do século XX. Un ollo de vidro, publicado en 1922 nunha colección de literatura popular en lingua galega promovida pola Editorial Céltiga, é un dos seus relatos máis populares. No relato, Castelao bota man da cultura tradicional galega e a súa relación coa morte.
Daniel A. Rodríguez Castelao was a major figure in Galician art, culture, and politics of the twentieth century. “A Glass Eye,” published in 1922 in a collection of popular literature in the Galician language promoted by Céltiga Press, is one of his best-liked stories. In it, Castelao relies on traditional Galician culture and its relationship with death.