Xosé Neira Vilas (November 3, 1928 – November 27, 2015) was a Galician writer.

Life

Son of peasants, he studied finances by mail. In 1949 he emigrated to

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, where he contacted with authors close to

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and Ramón de Valenzuela. In 1953 he founded Mocedades Galeguistas (Galicianist Youths) and in 1957 he married writer Anisia Miranda. In 1961 he left Argentina for

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. He died in 2015, aged 87.

List of works in Galician

Prose

* '' Memoirs of a Peasant Boy''. Edicións Follas Novas, 1961. Translated into English by Camilo Ogando (2007). * ''Xente no rodicio''.

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, 1965. * ''Camiño bretemoso''. Galaxia, 1967. * ''Historias de emigrantes''. Patronato da Cultura Galega de Montevideo, 1968. * ''A muller de ferro''. Galaxia, 1969. * '' Remuíño de sombras''. Editorial Castrelos, 1972. * ''Lar''. Akal, 1973. * ''Aqueles anos do Moncho''. Akal, 1977; Colección Arealonga. * ''O ciclo do neno''. Akal, 1978. Included ''Memorias dun neno labrego'', ''Cartas a Lelo'' e ''Aqueles anos do Moncho''. * ''Nai''. Akal, 1980; Colección Arealonga. * ''Querido Tomás''. Ediciós do Castro, 1980. High-contrast-camera-video

Neira Vilas lendo un fragmento de Querido Tomás.
/ref> * ''Pan''. Galaxia, 1986. * ''Tempo novo''. Ediciós do Castro, 1987. * ''Papeis''. Castromil, 1992. * ''Charamuscas''. Galaxia, 1993. Included ''Lar'', ''Nai'' e ''Pan''. * ''Contos de tres mundos''. Edicións Xerais de Galicia, 1995. * ''O home de pau''. Xerais, 1999. * ''Relatos mariñeiros''. Xerais, 2003. * ''A fuxida de Manuel''. Pío García Edicións, 2007. * ''Esperando o leiteiro''. Galaxia, 2012.

Literature for children

* '' O cabaliño de buxo'', Ediciós do Castro, 1971. * ''Cartas a Lelo'', Ediciós do Castro, 1971. * ''Espantallo amigo''. Ediciós do Castro, 1971. * ''A marela Taravela''. Edicións Celta, 1976. * ''Contos vellos pra rapaces novos''. Ediciós do Castro, 1983. * ''De cando o Suso foi carteiro'', Ediciós do Castro, 1988. * ''Chegan forasteiros''. Ediciós do Castro, 1992. * ''O xardín de Irene''. Edicións Embora, 2015.

Poetry

* ''Dende lonxe''. 1960. * ''Inquedo latexar''. Xistral, 1969. * ''Poesía recadada''. Espiral Maior, 1994. * ''Dende Gres''. Espiral Maior, 2004. * ''Cantos de sol a sol''. GaliNova, 2014. * ''Cantos que veñen de lonxe''. CD-book with music by Xervasio Sánchez, 2014.

Essay

* ''Galegos no Golfo de México''. Ediciós do Castro, 1980. * ''Encrucilladas''. 1981. * '' Castelao en Cuba''. Ediciós do Castro, 1983. * ''A prensa galega en Cuba''. Edicións do Castro, 1985. * ''Índice da revista El Eco de Galicia (A Habana, 1878-1901)''. Ediciós do Castro, 1988. * ''Guerrilleiros''. Ediciós do Castro, 1991. * ''Na outra banda do mar''. Editorial Compostela, 1992. * '' Rosalía de Castro e Cuba''. Patronato Rosalía de Castro, 1992. * ''Memoria da emigración. I''. Ediciós do Castro, 1994. * '' Eduardo Blanco-Amor, dende Buenos Aires''. Edicións do Castro, 1995. * ''A lingua galega en Cuba''. Consello da Cultura Galega, 1995. * ''Memoria da emigración II''. Ediciós do Castro, 1995. * ''Memoria da emigración III''. Ediciós do Castro, 1996. * ''Galegos que loitaron pola independencia de Cuba''. Ediciós do Castro, 1998. * ''Crónicas galegas de América. Rolda primeira''. Ediciós do Castro, 1999. * ''Crónicas galegas de América. Rolda segunda''. Ediciós do Castro, 2000. * '' Manuel Murguía e os galegos da Habana''. Ediciós do Castro, 2000. * ''A cultura galega en Buenos Aires, 1950-1960''.

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, 2001. * ''Crónicas galegas de América. Rolda terceira''. Ediciós do Castro, 2002. * ''Prosas varias''. Fundación Otero Pedrayo, 2004. * ''O sarillo do tempo''. Xerais, 2004. * ''Xentes e camiños''. Xerais, 2005. * ''Vinte anos retornando''. Xerais, 2006. * ''Arredor do mundo''. Xerais, 2007. * ''Neira Vilas, os anos da Arxentina: 1949-1961: textos recuperados''. Galaxia, 2008. * ''Actas do Congreso Manuel María. Literatura e Nación''. Fundación Manuel María, 2009. * ''Encontros con Laxeiro''. Ir Indo Edicións, 2009. * ''Lóstregos''. Xerais, 2009. * ''Presenza galega en Cuba''. Xerais, 2010. * ''Penúltimo dietario''. Xerais, 2011. * ''100 anos do Himno galego''. Edicións Embora, 2012. * ''Cancela aberta''. Xerais, 2013. * ''Neira Vilas. Memoria gráfica''. Edicións Bolanda, 2013. * ''Con Anisia Miranda na

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''. Embora, 2014. * ''Días de Cuba''. Galaxia, 2014. * ''Epistolario diverso''. Edicións Embora, 2014. * ''Galicia en Cuba. Lingua, Rosalía, loitas''. Consello da Cultura Galega, 2014. * ''

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. Crónica dunha fecunda amizade''. Edicións Bolanda, 2014. * ''Semente galega en América''. Bolanda, 2015.

List of works in Spanish

Prose

* ''En la extraña ciudad: cuentos y recuentos''. Arte y Literatura, La Habana, 1982.

Essay

* ''Los días cubanos de Alfonso Castelao''. Unión, La Habana, 1988. * ''Presencia diversa de los gallegos en Cuba''. Xunta de Galicia, 2007.

References

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