Álvaro Cunqueiro

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Life

Cunqueiro was born to Joaquín Cunqueiro Montenegro, a pharmacist, and Pepita Mora Moirón of Mondoñedo. In 1921, he moved to Lugo to pursue his bachelor's degree, and then moved to Santiago de Compostela, where studied philosophy and literature at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1927. He started publishing in 1929 by collaborating on some magazines.

During the Spanish Second Republic, he became a militant of Partido Galeguista and after the Spanish Civil War, hid in Ortigueira, where he worked as a teacher.

In 1937 he returned to publishing and in 1939 moved to Madrid as the editor of the newspaper Diario ABC. In 1943 he left Falange and in 1944 his journalism certificate was revoked by Franco's regime. In 1946 returned to Galicia and wrote for Galician newspapers.

Works

Galician language

Poetry

*"Mar ao Norde" (1932)
*"Poemas do si e non" (1933)
*"Cantiga nova que se chama Riveira" (1933)
*"Dona do corpo delgado" (1950)
*"Palabras de víspera" |(1974)

Prose

*"Merlín e familia" (1955)
*"Crónicas do sochantre" (1956)
*"O incerto señor Don Hamlet, Principe de Dinamarca" (1958)
*"Escola de Menciñeiros" (1960)
*"Si o vello Sinbad volvese ás illas" (1961)
*"A noite vai coma un río" (1965)
*"Xente de aquí e de acolá" (1971)
*"Os outros feirantes", (1979)

Spanish language

*"Elegías y canciones" (1940)
*"Balada de las damas del tiempo pasado" (1945)
*"Crónica de la derrota de las naciones" (1954)
*"Las mocedades de Ulises" (1960)
*"Flores del año mil y pico de ave" (1968)
*"Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes" (1969)
*"Vida y fugas de Fanto Fantini della Gherardesca" (1972)
*"El año del cometa con la batalla de los cuatros reyes" (1974)
*"Tertulia de boticas prodigiosas y Escuela de curanderos" (1976)

Awards

* Spanish Critic Prize (1958)
* Valle-Inclán Prize in Galician Theatre (1960)
* Premio Nadal (1968)
* Gil Vicente Prize (1973)
* Día das Letras Galegas (1991)

External links

* [http://www.terrademiranda.net Mondoñedo]
*gl icon [http://www.mondonedo.net Álvaro Cunqueiro no Portal de Mondoñedo]