Eduardo Blanco AmorW
Eduardo Blanco Amor

Eduardo Modesto Blanco Amor was a Galician writer and journalist who wrote in Galician and in Spanish.

Carmen BlancoW
Carmen Blanco

Carmen Blanco is a Spanish feminist writer and activist. She is Professor of Galician Literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela. With Claudio Rodriguez Fer she coordinates the intercultural and libertarian journal Unión Libre. Cadernos de vida e culturas and the Asociación para a Dignificación das Vítimas do Fascismo.

Fina CasalderreyW
Fina Casalderrey

Fina Casalderrey is a Spanish writer and educator, considered to be one of the most important writers of Galician children's literature.

Yolanda CastañoW
Yolanda Castaño

Yolanda Castaño Pereira is a Galician painter, literacy critic and poet.

Rosalía de CastroW
Rosalía de Castro

María Rosalía Rita de Castro, was a Spanish poet, strongly identified with her native Galicia and the celebration of the Galician language.

Florentino López CuevillasW
Florentino López Cuevillas

Florentino López Alonso-Cuevillas was a Spanish anthropologist and prehistorian, although in the course of his life he also became involved in writing, primarily essays and fiction. Like several other Galician intellectuals of his generation, he was a member of Xeración Nós, of the Seminar of Galician Studies and the Irmandades da Fala, combining the cultural and linguistic activities he carried out in those institutions with a discrete participation in pro-Galican politics. However, his social and political activities were profoundly disrupted by the victory of nationalists in the Spanish Civil War, although in the 1940s he returned to his commitment to the spread of Galician culture as a full member of the Royal Galician Academy, and of the Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento.

Xosé María Díaz CastroW
Xosé María Díaz Castro

Xosé María Díaz Castro was a Galician poet and translator.

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y CorbelleW
Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle was a Spanish politician, journalist and author of the Romanticism and the Rexurdimento. He contributed to the renewal of the Galician language.

Manuel María Fernández TeixeiroW
Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro

Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, better known as Manuel María, was a Spanish poet and academic who wrote in the Galician language. He was notable for his combative character and his political commitment. His poetry touched on themes of love, art, his own political commitment, drawing attention to wrongs, ethnography, physics, history, immateriality, mythology, the animal world, poetic expression, the passing of time, religion, society, language, agricultural labour, urbanism, and geography. The Day of Galician Literature was devoted to him in 2016.

Xesús Ferro RuibalW
Xesús Ferro Ruibal

Xesús Ferro Ruibal is a theologian, Latinist and writer from Galicia.

Xosé Filgueira ValverdeW
Xosé Filgueira Valverde

Xosé Fernando Filgueira Valverde, or sometimes José Filgueira Valverde, was a Spanish writer, intellectual, researcher, scholar and critic in Galician language and Spanish. He was known as "O vello profesor" to Galician intellectuals.

Úrsula HeinzeW
Úrsula Heinze

Úrsula Heinze de Lorenzo is a writer and translator in Galician and German residing in Galicia. Her extensive literary works include poetry, novels, essays, short stories and children's literature. She moved from Germany to Galicia in 1968. She has worked for the Radio Galega Compañía de Radio Televisión de Galicia and El Correo Gallego and is a former President of the PEN club of Galicia.

Francisca Herrera GarridoW
Francisca Herrera Garrido

Francisca Herrera Garrido was a Galician writer of poems and novels.

Dalmacio Iglesias GarcíaW
Dalmacio Iglesias García

Jesús María José Dalmacio Iglesias García (1879–1933) was a Spanish Carlist politician, active almost exclusively in Catalonia. His career climaxed during one term in the Congress of Deputies (1910–1914) and one term in the Senate (1918–1919). He did not manage to build his personal following; in historiography he is considered a unique case of a right-wing revolutionary who strove to launch a Christian, violent, urban, working class, anti-establishment movement. The bid ultimately failed and in the 1920s Iglesias withdrew from active politics.

Valentín Lamas CarvajalW
Valentín Lamas Carvajal

Valentín Lamas Carvajal (1849–1906) was a Spanish journalist. He was one of the founders of Royal Galician Academy.

Santiago LopoW
Santiago Lopo

Santiago Lopo, born in Vigo in 1974, is a Galician writer, teacher and translator.

Evaristo Martelo PaumánW
Evaristo Martelo Paumán

Evaristo Martelo y Paumán del Nero Nuñez y Zuazo-Mondragón, 6th Marquess of Almeiras (1850-1928), was a Spanish aristocrat, writer and politician. He is known chiefly as a poet who contributed to emergence of the literary Galician and who is counted among protagonists of the so-called Rexurdimento. He perceived galego as a royal language of ancient rulers, framed in the Celtic mythology, and opposed the concept of Galician as a rural folk speak. Martelo engaged in few organisations related to the Galician culture and was a member of the Royal Galician Academy. Politically he supported the Traditionalist cause and served as leader of the Carlist provincial organisation in La Coruña; he has never engaged in buildup of the Galician nationalism.

Xosé Luís Méndez FerrínW
Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín is a Galician writer and poet and is widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature. A doctor in philology, he studied philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Romanic philology at the University of Madrid.

María Victoria MorenoW
María Victoria Moreno

María Victoria Moreno Márquez was a Spanish writer and teacher. She was one of the pioneers of literature for children and young people in Galician. The Day of Galician Literature was devoted to her on 17 May 2018.

Teresa MoureW
Teresa Moure

María Teresa Moure Pereiro is a Galician writer. She lectures in Linguistics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She has published essays, novels, children's books and a play. She was awarded the Lueiro Rey Prize and the Arzobispo San Clemente Prize for her first novel A xeira das árbores and the Ramón Piñeiro Essay Prize for Outro idioma é posible. Her highly acclaimed novel Herba moura won the Xerais Prize for novels, the AELG Prize, the Irmandade do Libro á Autora Prize, the Benito Soto Prize for the best novel of 2005 and the Premio de la Crítica Española. She also received the Rafael Dieste Theatre Prize in 2007 for her play Unha primavera para Aldara. Her work has been translated into several languages. She provides her students of Linguistics with a new perspective on a discipline which continues to have roots in the European and Latin tradition.

Olga NovoW
Olga Novo

Olga Novo is a Galician poet and essayist.

Ramón Otero PedrayoW
Ramón Otero Pedrayo

Ramón Otero Pedrayo was a Galician geographer, writer and intellectual. He was a key member of the Galician cultural and political movement Xeración Nós.

Pilar PallarésW
Pilar Pallarés

Pilar Pallarés García is a Galician poet. She won the National Poetry Award, a prize awarded annually by the Ministry of Culture of Spain, in 2019 for her book of poems Tempo fósil; English translation: Fossil Time.

Valentín Paz-AndradeW
Valentín Paz-Andrade

Valentín Paz-Andrade was a Galician lawyer, writer, politician, journalist, poet, businessman and economist.

Lois PereiroW
Lois Pereiro

Luis Ángel Sánchez Pereiro alias Lois Pereiro was a Galician poet and writer.

Luís PimentelW
Luís Pimentel

Luís Vázquez Fernández-Pimentel was a Galician poet.

Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez CastelaoW
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao

Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao, commonly known as Castelao, was a Spanish politician, writer, painter and doctor. He is one of the fathers of Galician nationalism, promoting Galician identity and culture, and was one of the main names behind the cultural movement Xeración Nós. He was also one of the founders and president of the Galicianist Party.

Andrés Torres QueirugaW
Andrés Torres Queiruga

Andrés Torres Queiruga is a Galician theologian, writer and translator.

Roberto Vidal BolañoW
Roberto Vidal Bolaño

Roberto Vidal Bolaño was a Galician playwright and actor. Galician Literature Day is dedicated to him in 2013.

Antón Villar PonteW
Antón Villar Ponte

Antón Villar Ponte . He was one of the most important galicianists before the civil war. As a journalist he worked in A Nosa Terra, Nós, La Voz de Galicia, El Pueblo Gallego, and El Noroste.

Rafa VillarW
Rafa Villar

Rafa Villar is a Galician writer noted especially in the field of poetry. He has a degree in Galician-Portuguese Philology from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, and works in the linguistic normalization service of the Confederación Intersindical Galega. He was spokesman for the national operator of the Plataforma Nunca Máis and part of the directive of the Galician Writers Association. He is a member of the Batallón Literario da Costa da Morte and was also one of the founders and promoters of the publishing firm Letras de Cal.