Xela Arias Castaño (1962 in
Lugo – 2003 in
Vigo
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) was a Spanish
Galician-language poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...
and translator.
She translated works by
Jorge Amado
Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912 – 6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in ...
,
Camilo Castelo Branco
Camilo Castelo Branco, 1st Viscount of Correia Botelho (; 16 March 1825 – 1 June 1890), was a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, plays and essays). His writing is considered original i ...
,
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
,
Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought ...
and
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (1885 in A Coruña, Galicia – 1964 in Madrid) was a popular Galician journalist and novelist of the early 20th century. Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth.
Early l ...
into
Galician.
Works
*''Denuncia do equilibrio'', 1986
*''Tigres coma cabalos'', 1990
*''Darío a diario'', 1996
*''Intempériome'', 2003
External links
Revista de la UCM
1962 births
2003 deaths
20th-century Spanish poets
21st-century Spanish poets
Galician poets
Galician translators
Translators from Spanish
Translators from English
Translators to Galician
Galician-language writers
20th-century translators
21st-century translators
Spanish women poets
20th-century Spanish women writers
21st-century Spanish women writers
People from Lugo
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