Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín (
Ourense
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, 7 August 1938) is a
Galician writer and poet and is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary
Galician literature. A
doctor
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in
philology
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, he studied philosophy at the
University of Santiago de Compostela
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and
Romanic philology at the
University of Madrid.
He teaches literature at the ''
Instituto Santa Irene'' in
Vigo
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. He also writes for the daily newspaper ''
Faro de Vigo
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History and profile
''Faro de Vigo'' was published for the first time on Novemb ...
'' and directs the quarterly political critic magazine ''
A Trabe Ouro''. Ferrín is a member of the
Real Academia Galega (
Galician Royal Academy). He was the president of that Academy from January 2010 until February 2013, when he resigned, accused of hiring relatives. On 1 March 2013 he resigned his chair of academic.
[http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/ocioycultura/2013/03/14/ferrin-consuma-sua-dimision-denuncia-rag-perigo/0003_201303G14P43993.htm] He is Doctor
Honoris Causa
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of the
University of Vigo.
He was proposed to the Nobel Prize in literature by the
Galician Writers Association in 1999. He has been awarded with the
Galician Critics Prize,
Spanish Critics Prize and
National Critics Prize.
Politics
Ferrín maintains an active political activist life. Supporting political and social initiatives as
Redes Escarlata. He is a member of the nationalist literary group
Brais Pinto.
He was a founding member of
Unión do Povo Galego (Union of the Galician People) and centered in a
marxist
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independentist ideology. Also member of
Frente Popular Galega (Popular Galician Front) and founder of
Galiza Ceibe-OLN.
Literary work
As a poet he became notorious with his first work ''
Voce na néboa'' (Voice in the fog) 1957.
* ''Antoloxía Popular'' (popular anthology) 1972, with the pseudonym Heriberto Bens.
* ''Sirventés pola destrucción de Occitania'' (Servants for the destruction of
Occitania
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) 1975.
* ''Con pólvora e magnolias'' (With gunpowder and magnolias) 1977.
* ''Poesía enteira de Heriberto Bens'' (Complete poetry of Heriberto Bens) 1980.
* ''O fin dun canto'' (The end of a singing) 1982.
* ''Erótica'' (Erotic) 1992.
* ''Estirpe'' (Breed/''Lineage'') 1994.
* ''O outro'' (The other one) 2002.
* ''Contra Maquieiro'' (Against Maquieiro) 2005
His works in
prose
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, include narrative and essay.
* ''Percival e outras historias'' (Percival and other stories) 1958.
* ''O crepúsculo e as formigas'' (The twilight and the ants) 1961.
* ''Arrabaldo do norte'' (Arrabaldo north) 1964.
* ''Retorno a Tagen Ata'' (Return to Tagen Ata) 1971.
* ''Elipsis e outras sombras'' (
Ellipsis
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and other shadows) 1974.
* ''Antón e os inocentes'' (Antón and the innocents) 1976.
* ''Crónica de nós'' (Chronicles of us) 1980.
* ''Amor de Artur'' (The love of Artur) 1982.
* ''Arnoia, Arnoia'' 1985.
* ''Bretaña Esmeraldina'' 1987.
* ''De Pondal a Novoneyra'' (From
Pondal to
Novoneyra) 1984.
* ''Arraianos'' 1991
* ''No ventre do silencio'' (Inside the
womb
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of the silence) 1999.
References
External links
UPG Website
Redes Escarlata WebsiteGalician Royal Academy
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1938 births
Living people
People from Ourense
Galician poets
Galician-language writers