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"Eduardo Blanco Amor
1897-1979"
"Modesto Eduardo Blanco Amor ( Orense , 14 as September as 1897 - Vigo , 1 as December as 1979 ) was a writer and journalist Spanish , who wrote in both Galician and Castilian.
Biography
His father left the family home when Eduardo was only three years old. In 1915 , at the age of seventeen, he began working as an executive secretary at El Diario de Orense . During this time he frequented the gatherings of Vicente Risco , a figure that had a decisive importance in his future defense and promotion of Galician culture. In 1919 he emigrated to Buenos Aires ( Argentina ), where he continued in contact with Galician intellectuals from the emigration, taking an active part in the Federation of Galician Societies, founded in 1921 , which sought to bring together all Galician immigrants. In 1923 he founded withRamiro Isla Couto the magazine Terra , in Galician language. In 1925 he joined the Argentine newspaper La Nación , where he met Argentine writers such as Leopoldo Lugones , Borges , Sabato and Mallea , and Uruguayans such as Horacio Quiroga .
In 1927 he began his literary career with the novel Os Nonnatos , which was followed the following year by the book of poems Romances Galegos .
Also this year and in Buenos Aires, he participated together with Domingo Rial Seijo , Ramón Suárez Picallo and Ramón Peña in the re-founding of Celtiga magazine .
In 1928 he returned to Galicia as a correspondent for the newspaper La Nación . During this first return he met Castelao and several intellectuals from the Galeguista Party and the Nós group , and wrote Poema en catro tempos , which he would later publish in Argentina in 1931 . From Buenos Aires he later collaborated with the magazine Nós with several poems and three chapters of his unfinished novel A escadeira de Jacob .
He returned to settle in Spain as a correspondent for The Nation between 1933 and 1935 , and met in Madrid to Federico García Lorca , to which he joined a great friendship; Blanco was the one who published Lorca's Six Galician Poems (1935).
He defended the republican cause from Argentina when the Spanish civil war broke out . For the next 20 years he used Spanish exclusively in his literary work, with works such as Los miedos ( 1963 ) or La catedral y el niño ( 1948 ). In 1956 he returned to Galician with Cancioneiro , and in 1959 he published a novel of great importance for the renewal of Galician narrative , La parranda (original title in Galician: A esmorga ).
In Buenos Aires he founded and directed the Teatro Popular Galego. He was also director of the Galicia magazine , published by the Galician Center of Buenos Aires.
He returned to Spain in 1965 , and published another work that had a great impact, the short story book Os biosbardos ( 1962 ). Its last stage was very fruitful, despite being postponed by the official culture: in 1970 it gave birth to a new edition of A esmorga , and in 1972 the extensive novel Xente ao lonxe appeared . In his last years he paid great attention to the theatrical genre, with works such as Farsas para Títeres ( 1973 ) and Teatro pra a xente ( 1975 ).
He died in Vigo on December 1, 1979 . His remains rest in the San Francisco de Orense Cemetery .
Many of his narrative works ( A esmorga , Xente ao lonxe , Os biosbardos ) take place in a fictional city, Auria , a literary transposition of his native Orense. Critics have found in their fiction echoes of authors such as Valle-Inclán or Eça de Queirós .
Work in Galician:
Os Nonnatos (narrativa, 1927)
Romances galegos (poesía, 1928)
Poema en catro tempos (poesía, 1931)
A escadeira de Jacob (narrativa, inconclusa)
Cancioneiro (poesía, 1956)
A esmorga (prosa, 1959). Traducido al español: Parranda (1960).
Bartoméu e os Biosbardos (relato, 1962).
Os biosbardos (cuentos, 1962). Traducido al español: Las musarañas (1975)
O reló de area (cuentos, 1965)
Xente ao lonxe (narrativa, 1972). Traducido al español: Aquella gente... (1976)
Farsas para títeres (teatro, 1973)
Teatro pra xente (teatro, 1974)
Poemas galegos (poesía, 1980)
Proceso en Jacobusland (Fantasía xudicial en ningures) (teatro, 1980)
Castelao escritor (Ensayo 1986)
Work in spanish:
Horizonte evadido (poesía, 1936)
En soledad amena (poesía, 1941)
La catedral y el niño (narrativa, 1948)
Chile a la vista (ensayo, 1950)
Las buenas maneras (ensayo, 1963)
Los miedos (novela, 1963)
Seis farsas para títeres (teatro, Buenos Aires 1950)
Farsas y autos para títeres (teatro, Madrid 1976)"
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