Yolanda Castaño

Yolanda Castaño

Yolanda Castaño Pereira (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) is a Galician painter, literacy critic and poet.^[1]

Yolanda Castaño (2010)

Since 1990, she has lived in Corunna, where she studied Spanish Philology at the University of A Coruña.

She translated her poems to Spanish and has been the General Secretary at the Association of Galician-language Writers (Spanish: Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega) and at Letras de Cal. She has also collaborated in several publications, such as Festa da palabra silenciada, Dorna, O Correo Galego (El Correo Gallego), A nosa terra and El Mundo.

Pereira is co-director of journal Valdeleite (together with Olga Novo) and works for the TV programme Cifras e Letras (TVG version of Countdown).

Works

• Elevar as pálpebras. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 1995.
• Delicia. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 1998.
• Edónica. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 2000.
• O libro da egoísta. Vigo: Galaxia S.A., 2003.
• Libro de la egoísta. Madrid: Visor, 2006.
• Profundidade de Campo. Corunna: Espiral Maior, 2007
• Erofanía, Espiral Maior, 2009
• A segunda lingua, PEN Clube de Galicia, 2014

Awards

• Antonio García Hermida Award
• Atlántida Prize (1993)
• Francisco Fernández del Riego Prize
• III Fermín Bouza Brey Prize (1994)
• II John Carballeira Poetry Award (1997)
• Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega (1998)
• Espiral Mayor Poetry Award (2007)

References

1. Gomez, Joel (2013) "Yolanda Castaño gana el premio Fundación Novacaixagalicia de poesía", La Voz de Santiago, 12 November 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2013

External links

• Yolanda Castaño's Webpage