Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro

Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro (October 6, 1929, Outeiro de Rei–September 8, 2004, A Coruña]]]]) was a poet and academic who wrote in the Galician language. He was notable for his combative character and his political commitment.[1][2] His poetry touched on themes of love, art, his own political commitment, complaint of defects, etnography, physicas, history, inmateriality, mythology, the animal world, the poetic word, the passing of time, religion, society, language, agricultural works, urbanism, and geography. The Day of the Galician Letters was devoted to him in 2016.[3]

Biography

Manuel María was the son of two farmers, Antonio Fernández Núñez, who was the mayor of Outeiro de Rei, and Pastora Teixeiro Casanova. He went to primary school in his small village in Rábade. In 1942 he moved to Lugo to carry out his secondary studies at the Marist Brothers school. In Lugo, at the age of 20, he began his precocious literary career participating in a conference circuit called "Jóvenes valores lucenses." This who helped him get in touch with the members of the circle at the Méndez Núñez cafeteria (Luís Pimentel, Ánxel Fole, Juan Rof Codina, Aquilino Iglesia Alvariño, and others). This was his point of entry to the Galician literary world. His friendship with Uxío Novoneyra also dates from this period.

In 1950 he published his first collection of poems, Muiñeiro de brétemas, which inaugurated the so-called "Escola da Tebra" (School of Shadows). Fruit of his disappointment after failing the entrance exams to the University of Santiago was his second collection of poems, Morrendo a cada intre. He did the service in Santiago de Compostela and there he attended a gathering at Café Español, where he became a great friend of Carlos Maside. After finishing his military service, he went back to Lugo, where he studied to become an attorney and in 1954 he won Xogos Florais in Ourense.

Statue of Manuel María, in Monforte de Lemos.[4]

In 1958 it installed in Monforte how Procurator of the Courts, to the time that gave kinds in an academy and collaborated in an emisora of radio and to the following year married with Saleta Goi. In the agitated years sixty and seventy, Manuel María took part in the political reorganisation, in the secrecy, of the split nationalists, to the time that collaborated with numerous organisations devoted to the cultural recovery imparting conferences and reciting poems; it organized the editorial Xistral and with the his owner mounted the Bookshop of equal name, presented also in the Theater Capitol of Santiago the New Galician Song the 1 December 1968. Being the poetry his gender preferred, tried manually also with the essay, the narrative and the theater. It spent of a stance existencialista pessimist to the social and political commitment. Chosen corresponding member of the Real Galician Academy in 1970, renounced in a public letter that appeared in the Galician newspapers in 1975.

A grass-root militant of the UPG and of the Frente Cultural of the AN-PG, he was councillor in Monforte in 1979, but, in 1985, he left the political militancy and moved to Coruña to fully devote himself to literary and cultural activities. In the newspaper Our Earth, he wrote the column Walking on Earth. One of the last campaigns in which he collaborated was with the of Black Mockery and the Platform Anymore, the root of the disaster of the Prestige oil spill.

In the 1997 was appointed partner of honour of the Galician Writers Association.

Manuel María is one of the Galician poets more musicados, go in others recorded his poems how The Cart, María Manuela, Suso Vaamonde, Escape the winds, The Shark or Chorimas.

It went back to become a member in the RAG, of this turn how member of number, with 73 years, the 15 of February 2003, the proposal of Xosé Luís Franco Grande, Ramón Lorenzo Vázquez and Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, pronouncing the speech "IT Terra Chá: poetry and landscape", respondindo by Méndez Ferrín.[5]

The 7 of September of the 2013 inaugurated his house-museum in Outeiro de Rei, the House of the Vegetable gardens.[6]

On 4 July 2015, it was announced that the Royal Galician Academy it would dedicate the Galician Literature Day (May 17) of 2016 in his memory.[3]

Work

Poetic work

Plate in the Senior Square of Lugo

Narrative work

Dramatic work

Plate in homage it Manuel María in the his house of the Coruña, with some verses of the poem "Galicia".

Childish and juvenile work

Work ensaística

Epistolarios

Editions

Collective works

Statue of the sculptor José Antonio Ferrer Diéguez (Ourense, 1970), inaugurated the 3 August 2006, with the School of the Our Lady of the Ancient to the deep. The plate says:

O POVO que deixa perder a súa palabra creada, herdada, usada, revelada, aquela que lle é propia e singular, a que é unicamente súa, está empobrecendo ó mundo e perpetrando o seu propio xenocidio.

De OS LONXES DO SOLPOR, 1993
Manuel María.

Collaborations in the magazine Grial

Work in Castilian

Poetry

References

  1. ↑ «Adeus ao poeta Manuel María» Vieiros, 10/9/2004.
  2. ↑ «Muere el poeta gallego Manuel María, el molinero de la niebla» El Mundo, 21/9/2004 (Spanish).
  3. 1 2 RAG, ed. (2015-07-04). "O Día das Letras Galegas de 2016 estará dedicado a Manuel María".
  4. ↑ Maré (2006-09-12). Galicia Hoxe, ed. "Destrúen a escultura de Manuel María en Monforte". Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  5. ↑ "Membros da Academia - Plenario - Real Academia Galega". academia.gal. Retrieved 2016-03-10.
  6. ↑ Praza pública, ed. (2013-09-07). "Manuel María xa ten a súa casa museo". Retrieved 2015-07-08.
  7. ↑ Imaxe da portada da 2ª ed. (1967) modificada e aumentada de Terra Cha.
  8. ↑ Imaxe da portada de Mar maior.
  9. ↑ Imaxe da portada de 99 poemas de Manuel María.
  10. ↑ Odas nun tempo de paz e de ledicia en Google Books.
  11. ↑ Imaxe da portada de Cantos rodados para alleados e colonizados.
  12. ↑ Imaxe da portada de Catavento de neutrós domesticados
  13. ↑ Imaxe da portada de Versos do lume e do vagalume.
  14. ↑ Imaxe da portada de O camiño é unha nostalxia.
  15. ↑ Imaxe da portada de As lúcidas lúas do outono.
  16. ↑ Imaxe da portada de Cantigas e cantos de Pantón.
  17. ↑ Os soños na gaiola Consello da Cultura Galega
  18. ↑ Imaxe da portada de Galicia ano 70.

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