Modern Galician Literature: Authors, Trends, and Evolution
Modern Galician Literature
Prominent Authors
Manuel Rivas
Journalist and writer, Rivas enjoys success both in Galicia and internationally. His extensive literary output includes poetry, novels, short stories, drama, and journalistic chronicles. Notable novels include All Is Good, Eating Potatoes, Wild Company, Do You Love Me, Love?, The Carpenter’s Pencil, and The Hand of the Paíños. His work often features an ironic and sympathetic view of Galicia, blending rural and urban elements. Humorous notes combine with a depiction of the social realities of the region.
Xosé Luís Méndez-Ferrín
Starting with existential themes aligned with the Escola Tebra, Méndez-Ferrín transitioned to civil and protest poetry. Gunpowder and Magnolias (1976) marked a turning point in Galician poetry, breaking with the realistic social trends. His work blends lyrical and intimate themes with a demanding and consciousness-raising tone, characterized by an epic style and rich imagery.
Suso de Toro
A writer and screenwriter, de Toro’s work has significantly impacted recent Galician narrative. Key works include Polaroid, Land-Rover, Ambulance, Tic-Tac, The Shadow of the Thirteen Chimes, and Morgun. Common themes include urban settings, marginal characters, irony towards power structures, and the adoption of new audiovisual languages.
Uxío Novoneyra
Known for his landscape poetry, Novoneyra portrays the mountains of Courel, emphasizing the grandeur of nature against which humanity diminishes. His work expresses a deep connection and fusion with nature, encompassing social, intimate, and erotic themes. Notable works include Os Eidos, Calligraphic Poems, Fields, and Courel Book.
María do Carme Kruckenberg
After an initial existentialist phase, Kruckenberg shifted towards landscape and social poetry. Her work displays a notable ideological content and nationalist commitment, denouncing colonialism and advocating for the Galician language. Key works include Terra Chá and Poems to Build a Homeland.
Alfredo Conde
Primarily known for his narrative, Conde’s work began with the short story collection Memento of the Living (1974). Other works include Come and Drink, It’s the Love Boat, Memory of Noa, Now the Griffin Falls in the Wind, Always Kill Me, Romasanta: Uncertain Memories of the Wolfman, and Lukumi. He also contributes to literary journalism.
Alexandre-Marília
Having adopted Galician as their literary language, Alexandre-Marília has produced an extensive body of work, receiving numerous awards for narrative, poetry, translation, and comics. Notable works include The Ant’s Thigh, The Band Without a Future, Transit of Grammarians, The Clandestine Companion, and Counterpublics and Chaos Theory.
Xoán Torres
Torres’s poetry explores intimate and social themes, often focusing on the concept of time. As a narrator, he wrote Goodbye Maria, a novel within the new Galician narrative. His theatrical work includes The Other Side of the Iberr and A First-Class Hotel by the River.
Bernardino Graña
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-Current Literature. Factors:
· Arise new editorial: General Kalandraka, Ir Indo, Espiral Maior, Laiovento 1novo give impetus to the publication of texts Galician
Increases the number of books and readers
· The publishers diversifican its offer of titles and genres and incorporate translations
They break · literary prizes q contribute to the spread of new authors and works
· We know through the internet literature that is doing in Sao Paulo, has electronic publishing, digital magazines and servers texts of literature
. Some writers also spread his work in digital and many have personal pages CN: tappet bald, Rafa Villar, Marilia Alexander, Suso de Toro …
Narrative-present. 1gran experienced growth in recent decades. The number of narrators is now considerable. Those who came forward 60 still publishing new texts: Méndez Ferrín, married. nos70: Victor freixantes, Alfredo Conde, Xavier Alcalá. Nos80: Manuel Rivas, Suso de Toro, Dario Johan hut, Marina Mayoral. In recent years: Xosé Miranda, Francisco Alonso, Marilia Alexander jaureguizar Santi, Jorge BORRAZ, Anton Brook rabbit, pink Aneiros …
Topics discussed there qe noted the existing variety: historical romance, realistic, adventure, mystery, horror .. arise even new narrative subgenres: detective fiction, science fiction, fantastic … narrative aimed at children and youth: Fine Casalderrey Jose a.neria cross, Agustín Fernández Paz
Holidays-Generation Minerva. X Formed writers born in 30 and 40, publish their works at 50. Features: university education, monolingual Galician, active political engagement.
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-Paul from 1975. Removals: the death of Franco, democratic progress on the political, cultural and literario.no 78aprobase the Constitution, in our language 81estatuto of autonomía.a converted into an official language and restart the normalization process introduces progressively to education and other ámbitos.o Galician converted into an object of study and philological research and continue the process normativizacion.no 82publicase orthographic and morphological rules of the Galician language magazine in 1995 and in 2003 the so-called rule of consensus.