María Esther García López (born, 8 December 1948, La Degollada,

Valdés, Asturias Valdés is a Spanish Municipalities of Spain, municipality in the province of Asturias. Its capital is Luarca. It borders the Bay of Biscay on the north, the municipalities of Navia (Spain), Navia and Villayón on the west, Tineo on the south, Sa ...

) is a poet and writer in Asturian and Spanish. She is the president of the Asociación de Escritores de Asturias (Asturias Writers Association). She graduated in pedagogy. She is a teacher and expert in Asturian philology. García is a corresponding member of

Academia de la Llingua Asturiana The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana or Academy of the Asturian Language (ALLA) is an Official Institution of the Government of the Principality of Asturias that promotes and regulates the Asturian language, a language of the Spanish autonomous ...

. She served as professor at Universidá Asturiana de Branu (UABRA) for 25 years. She also participated as a jury member in numerous literary competitions and poetry recitals.

Awards and honours

*2005, Tribute in Luarca from the “Valdés Siglo XXI” Women's Association for her work as a writer and researcher and for her work around the recovery of Asturian language and culture and the defense of women's rights. *2007, Uviéu Poetry Prize, in its first edition, with the poetry book ''Pisadas''. *2007, Winner of the Fernández Lema short story award with the story "Performance". *2007, “Xosé Álvarez” Award for a short story organized by the Asturian Center of Madrid. *2007, “Bronze Grouse”, an award given by the Asturianu Center in Madrid. *2009, Prize "León Delestal" Asturian Center of Madrid with the story The wedding. *2015, Third Prize for poetry "Andén" on the occasion of International Women's Day. *2015, "Friend of the Joaquín Rodríguez de Ḷḷuarca Library" Award. *2015, “Vaqueira de Honor” from the Vaqueiro and Vaqueirada Festival. *2015, "Timón" Award for her literary career. *2017, The Valdés Town Hall dedicates the Ḷḷibru de Ḷḷuarca Day to him. *2017, Poetisa del Alba for ''Alborada de Candás''.

Selected works

*''El Tatuaxe'', 1998 *''Ḷḷuribaga'', 2003 *''Zamparrampa: Poemas pa nenos ya nenas'', 2004 *''Tiempu d'iviernu'', 2005 *''Aventures del Quixote'', 2005 *''Historias de Vida ya señas de muerte'', 2006 *''Faraguyas'', 2007 *''Pisadas'', 2008 *''La maestra'', 2008 *''Musical-landia'', 2008 *''Performance'', 2009 *''Menú de Versos'', 2009 *''Deva y El Pitín'', 2010 *''A la gueta l'amor'', 2010 *''Alredor de la Quintana: Animales y otros bichos'', 2013 *''Quiero ser Arcu Iris'', 2014 *''Yo taba ellí'', 2015 *''Yo estaba allí'', 2016 *''Deva, Flor de Primvera'', 2017 *''Leo'', 2018 *''Haikusnora'', 2019 *''El color de los días'', 2019 *''La bruja en la Biblioteca'', 2019 *''A veces el amor es azul'', 2020

References

1948 births Living people 21st-century Spanish writers 20th-century Spanish writers 21st-century Spanish women writers 20th-century Spanish women writers Writers from Asturias Asturian-language writers {{Spain-writer-stub