Ánxeles Penas Explained

Ánxeles Penas
Birth Name:Ánxeles Penas García
Birth Place:Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain
Occupation:poet
Alma Mater:University of Santiago de Compostela

Ánxeles Penas García (born 5 May 1943 in Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain) is a Spanish poet, first in Spanish and, since 1982, in Galician. She has also participated in more than 50 exhibitions as a sculptor and painter.

Education

She holds a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1970) and in Fine Arts (sculpture specialty) from the Faculty of Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid (1986). In addition, she studied music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de A Coruña.[1]

Career

In the plastic arts field, she has the double skill of sculptor and painter and has participated in more than fifty exhibitions.[2] Penas founded the Experimental Art Group A Carón in 1975. She is a member of Asociación Internacional de Amigos de la Universidad Libre Iberoamericana en Galicia (AULIGA), and sits on the Advisory Council of Serta, an inter-Roman poetry magazine,[3] which is affiliated with the National University of Distance Education.[4] [5]

In addition to Serta, she has collaborated with several other magazines including Zurgai, Festa da palabra silenciada, Clave Orión, Historia y vida, as well as in the Internet magazine EON MAGAZINE, and as art critic of El Ideal Gallego of Coruña,[6] La Voz de Galicia ("Faíscas"), and El Diario de Ferrol.[7] She has done studies of the works of Álvaro Cunqueiro, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Rosalía de Castro, Xohana Torres, Tino Grandío, and Laxeiro.

Awards and honours

Selected works

In Galician language

Poetry

Collective works

In Spanish language

Poetry

Prose

Translations

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Ánxeles Penas . Biblioteca Virtual Galega . 25 July 2023 . gl.
  2. Web site: Bibliografía de Artistas Gallegos, Ánxeles Penas . www.pintoresgallegos.com . 25 July 2023 . es.
  3. Web site: Serta. Revista Iberorrománica . Fundación UNED . 25 July 2023 . es.
  4. Web site: Ánxeles Penas . www.aelg.gal . 25 July 2023 . gl.
  5. Web site: Ánxeles Penas - Volver a Artistas . www.radelrey.com . 25 July 2023 . gl.
  6. Web site: Ánxeles Penas . elidealgallego.com . web.archive.org . 25 July 2023 . es . 7 April 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220407003725/https://www.elidealgallego.com/firmas/apenas . 2022-04-07 .
  7. Web site: Ánxeles penas . Diario de Ferrol . 25 July 2023 . es.
  8. Web site: Anthologie poétique. bibliotraducion.uvigo.es . Internet Archive. https://web.archive.org/web/20200606013542/http://bibliotraducion.uvigo.es/traduccions_ver.php?id=4726 . 2020-06-06 . gl.