María Esther García López (born, 8 December 1948, La Degollada,
Valdés, Asturias
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) 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
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. García is a corresponding member of
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.
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
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
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.
*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
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