Santiago Lopo, born in
Vigo
Vigo ( , , , ) is a city and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, within the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. Located in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula, it sits on the southern shore of an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, the ...
in 1974, is a Galician writer, teacher and translator.
Biography
He currently works as a French teacher at the Escola Oficial de Idiomas of
Pontevedra
Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the '' Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality wh ...
. He began his professional career translating film scripts in English for TV. Since 2000 he has been a contributing writer for the magazine ''
Unión Libre'', where he has published several articles and translations.
Bibliography in Galician
Novels
*''Game over'', 2007, Biblos Clube de Lectores.
*''Peaxes'', 2009, Xerais.
*''Hora zulú'', 2012,
Editorial Galaxia
The Xeración Galaxia (Galaxy Generation) were a group of Galician language writers centred on the Editorial Galaxia (founded 1950) which was established to publish and translate modern texts that would develop Galician national literature. The n ...
.
*''A Diagonal dos Tolos'', 2014, Editorial Galaxia.
*''A arte de trobar'', 2017, Xerais.
*''A carteira'', 2021, Xerais.
Short stories
*''Sorrí, Nené, sorrí!'', 2014, in ''Grial: revista galega de cultura'', No. 202.
*''A voz das nereidas'', 2016, Editorial Elvira.
*''Siméon de la Manche'', 2018, in ''Contra o vento. 30 anos do Premio Manuel García Barros'', Editorial Galaxia.
*''Nómades'', 2021, in ''O libro da música'', Editorial Galaxia.
Translations
*''O meu criado e mais eu. Citomegalovirus'', originally by
Hervé Guibert. French-Galician translation with Xavier Queipo, 1998, Xerais.
Bibliography translated into Spanish
Novels
*''Hora zulú'', 2015, Mar Maior.
Awards
*VI Premio de Novela por Entregas de
La Voz de Galicia
''La Voz de Galicia'' ( en, The Voice of Galicia) is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. ''La Voz'' is highest circulation newspaper in Galicia and the eighth-highest circulation general-interest daily newspaper ...
in 2006, for ''Game over''.
*XXIV Premio García Barros in 2012, for ''Hora zulú''.
*VIII Premio Narrativa Breve Repsol in 2014, for ''A Diagonal dos Tolos''.
*Premio Xerais 2017, for ''A arte de trobar''.
*XXXVII Premio Antón Losada Diéguez in 2022, for ''A carteira''.
External links
Portico of Galician Literature (Biography, synopsis and texts translated into English)
* ttp://www.xerais.es/libro.php?id=2192880 ''Peaxes''br>''Hora zulú'' (Spanish edition)''A Diagonal dos Tolos''Unión libre. Cadernos de vida e culturasTV interview on ''TVG'' (2013)TV interview on ''TVG'' (2014)TV interview on ''TVG'' (2017)TV interview on ''TVG'' (2021)
1974 births
Writers from Galicia (Spain)
Galician translators
Living people
Galician-language writers
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