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Yolanda Castaño gana el premio Fundación Novacaixagalicia de poesía
, ''La Voz de Santiago'', 12 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013
Since 1990, she has lived in
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1977 births Living people 20th-century Spanish painters 21st-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish poets 21st-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish women writers 21st-century Spanish women writers Spanish women painters Spanish women poets Writers from Galicia (Spain) People from Santiago de Compostela Galician-language writers Women writers from Galicia (Spain) {{Galicia-writer-stub
Santiago de Compostela
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, 1977) is a Galician painter, literary critic and poet.Gomez, Joel (2013)Yolanda Castaño gana el premio Fundación Novacaixagalicia de poesía
, ''La Voz de Santiago'', 12 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013
Since 1990, she has lived in A Coruña
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, where she studied Spanish Philology
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at the University of A Coruña
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.
She translated her poems to Spanish
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and has been the General Secretary at the Association of Galician-language Writers (Spanish: ''Asociación de Escritores en Lengua Gallega'' / Galician: ''Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega'') and at Letras de Cal. She has also collaborated in several publications, such as ''Festa da palabra silenciada'', ''Dorna'', ''O Correo Galego'' (El Correo Gallego
''El Correo Gallego'' is a Galician newspaper founded in Ferrol, Spain, by José María Abizanda in 1878. In 1938 its owner, Juan Sáenz-Díez García, moved the daily to Santiago de Compostela; since then the paper has been headquartered there. ...
), ''A nosa terra'' and '' El Mundo''.
Pereira is co-director of journal ''Valdeleite'' (together with Olga Novo
Olga Novo (born 1975 in Vilarmao, A Pobra do Brollón) is a Galicia (Spain), Galician poet and essayist.
She studied Galician Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and was a high school teacher in several Galician centres, and ...
) and works for the TV programme ''Cifras e Letras'' ( TVG version of Countdown
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).
Works
*''Elevar as pálpebras''. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 1995. *''Delicia''. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 1998. *''Edónica''. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 2000. *''O libro da egoísta''. Vigo: Galaxia S.A., 2003. *''Libro de la egoísta''. Madrid: Visor, 2006. *''Profundidade de Campo''. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 2007 *''Erofanía'', Espiral Maior, 2009 *''A segunda lingua'', PEN Clube de Galicia, 2014Awards
*Antonio García Hermida Award *Atlántida Prize (1993) *Francisco Fernández del Riego Prize *III Fermín Bouza Brey Prize (1994) *II John Carballeira Poetry Award (1997) *Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega (1998) *Espiral Mayor Poetry Award (2007)References
External links
Yolanda Castaño's Webpage
1977 births Living people 20th-century Spanish painters 21st-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish poets 21st-century Spanish poets 20th-century Spanish women writers 21st-century Spanish women writers Spanish women painters Spanish women poets Writers from Galicia (Spain) People from Santiago de Compostela Galician-language writers Women writers from Galicia (Spain) {{Galicia-writer-stub