Berta Piñán Explained

Berta Piñán Suárez
Office:Minister, Consejería de Cultura, Política Lingüística y Turismo del Principado de Asturias
Term Start:July 25, 2019
Birth Date:March 26, 1963
Birth Place:Caño, Cangas de Onís, Spain
Alma Mater:University of Oviedo

Berta Piñán Suárez (Caño, Cangas de Onís, Spain, March 26, 1963) is an Asturian writer,[1] professor of Spanish Language and Literature, full member of the Academy of the Asturian Language,[2] and since July 25, 2019, Minister of (Culture, Linguistic Policy and Tourism of the Principality of Asturias).[3]

Education

She studied at the Instituto de Cangas de Onís, where she returned as a teacher years later. At the age of 17, she began her studies at the University of Oviedo, where she graduated in .

Career

During her time at the Faculty of Letters, she came into contact with other young writers such as Xuan Bello and with whom she founded, in 1986, the literary magazine , which she co-directed until 1992.[4] These were years in which she frequented the literary gathering "Oliver" in Oviedo of and also began to publish in the magazine of the Academy of the Asturian Language, Spanish; Castilian: Lletres Asturianes y Suplementos del Norte.[5]

In 1985, she won the Poetry Prize of the Academy of the Asturian Language withherhis work Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese: Al abellu les besties, which was published in 1986. His poetic work also includes Asturian; Bable; Leonese; Asturleonese: Vida privada with which she won the Asturian poetry prize, (1991).[6] This was followed by the publication of Temporada de pesca (Trabe, 1998), Un mes (Trabe, 2003), and Noches de incendio (1985-2002) (Trea, 2005), with a bilingual selection of her poems. In 2008, the Valencian publishing house Denes presented the anthology in Catalan Un mes i altres poemes (translated by Jaume Subirana i Ortín).[7] In 2010. Piñán published her collection of poems La mancadura / El daño (2010).[8] She has translated into Asturian works by John Christopher (Les montañes blanques) and Giusseppe Ungaretti (Ventidós poemes), and has written several essays such as Notes de sociollingüística asturiana (Llibros del Pexe, 1991) or Alfaya (1989).

Committed to feminism, Piñán published in 2003 Tres sieglos construyendo la igualdá, ¿Qué ye'l feminismu? (Ámbitu) in which she gives the history of feminism for an adolescent audience, with illustrations by (National Illustration Award), a book dedicated to her adopted daughter.[9]

In 2004, at the 2004 Princess of Asturias Awards closing ceremony, the then Prince Felipe, read some verses from the poem "Una casa" from Piñán's book Un mes (2003) to highlight the work carried out for 20 years by the organization's Foundation and to underline the role that in the future, his wife, Letizia Ortiz, would play "in the care of that tree".—[10] [11]

From 2005 to 2011, Piñán was a member of the jury of the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.[12]

In 2005, Piñán published La maleta al agua, a collection of short stories and two poems whose thematic nexus is the reality of emigration. Her narrative work also includes children's literature, Lula, Lulina en Trabe (1996) his first work, or Arroz, agua y maíz Pintar-Pintar (2009) a social poetry book for children in which she tells in 20 poems 20 stories of children from different countries, winner of the "María Josefa Canellada Award" for Children's and Young People's Literature in Asturian in 2008.[13] In 2008 and 2009, she received the "Asturias Critics' Prize" awarded by the Asturias Writers' Association, in the category of Children's and Young People's Literature in Asturian with Les coses que-y prestten a Fran (2008) and L'estranxeru (2009)[14] and in 2012, the "Critics' Prize of Asturian Letters" with La mio hermana ye una mofeta.[15]

Involved in the movement for the official status of the Asturian language, in November 2007, Piñán took part in a march called by the and, together with the singer, Hevia, she read the communiqué at the end of the demonstration.[16]

On May 9, 2008, she became a full member of the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.[2]

Piñán and Bello are considered the main representatives in the field of poetry of the second generation of, a movement that tries to recover and dignify Asturian as a language of culture.[17] Their work is linked to the poetic Asturian literary tradition. Her work has been included in several anthologies, the Antoloxía poética del Surdimientu (1989) by Xosé Bolado, Nórdica, ultima poesía en asturiano (1994) by, Las muyeres y los díes de la poesía contemporánea asturiana (1995) by Leopoldo Sánchez Torre[18] [19] and the Antoloxía de muyeres poetes asturianes s.XX by Helena Trejo (2004).[20] Since July 25, 2019, Piñán has served as Minister of Culture, Linguistic Policy and Tourism of the Principality of Asturias in the government of the Asturian socialist Adrián Barbón.[21]

Awards and honours

Selected works

Poetry

Prose

Children and young adults

Non-fiction

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte Gobierno del Principado de Asturias Dirección y coordinación: Jesús Fernández Álvarez . CincoxCinco=Berta Piñán . Biblioasturias . 4 February 2023 . es.
  2. News: Berta Piñán, miembro de número de la Academia de la Llingua . 4 February 2023 . La Nueva España . 24 April 2008 . es.
  3. Web site: El Consejo de Gobierno toma posesión en la Junta General - Junta General del Principado de Asturias . www.jgpa.es . 25 July 2019 . 4 February 2023 . es.
  4. «Fundación Valdes-Salas Foro de literatura»
  5. Web site: PIÑÁN, Berta . www.araz.net . 4 February 2023.
  6. Web site: Consejería de Educación, Cultura y Deporte Gobierno del Principado de Asturias Dirección y coordinación: Jesús Fernández Álvarez . Convocada una nueva edición del Premiu 'Teodoro Cuesta' de Poesía . Biblioasturias . 4 February 2023 . es.
  7. News: La editorial valenciana Denes torna al catalán la obra poética de Berta Piñán . 4 February 2023 . asturnews.com . 12 May 2008 . ca.
  8. News: Berta Piñán versifica 'La mancadura' . 4 February 2023 . El Comercio . 11 December 2010 . es-ES.
  9. Web site: Piñan, Berta . Poemario de Mujeres . web.archive.org . 4 February 2023 . es . 24 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150924074846/http://www.poemariodemujeres.com/spip.php?rubrique314 . 2015-09-24 .
  10. Web site: El príncipe Felipe remata con un poema de Berta Piñán el so discursu nel Campoamor. Asturnews. Diario cultural asturiano.. ast. 15 October 2004.
  11. Web site: L'alusión del Príncipe a un llibru de Berta Piñán dispara les ventes de la obra ente públicu heteroxéneo. Asturnews. 2004. ast.
  12. Web site: IT . Desarrollado con webControl CMS por Intermark . Premiados - Premios Princesa de Asturias . Fundación Princesa de Asturias . 4 February 2023 . es.
  13. Web site: Berta Piñán gana el premio "María Josefa Canellada" con 'Arroz, agua y maíz'. El Comercio /EFE. 17 November 2008. es.
  14. Web site: Listado de premiados Asociación de Escritores de Asturias. es. 2023-02-04. 2012-06-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20120630080042/http://www.escritoresdeasturias.es/actividades/premios-de-la-critica-de-asturias/relacion-de-premiados.html?hemeroteca=false&pag=1. dead.
  15. News: Berta Piñán gana el premio Críticu de les Lletres Asturianes. La Nueva España. 19 November 2012. es.
  16. Web site: Asturnews ufre'l comunicáu lleíu por Hevia y Berta Piñán al final de la manifestación pola oficialidá del sábadu . Asturnews. Diario cultural asturiano. . 21 November 2007 . 4 February 2023. ast.
  17. Web site: Prieto Alonso. Esther. Poesía actual en Asturias, de la pérdida a la reacomodación. gob.es. es.
  18. Web site: La evolución poética de Lourdes Álvarez y Berta Piñán. Lletres Asturianes. ast.
  19. Web site: Berta Piñán. Araz.
  20. Web site: Presentación del libro. mforos.com.
  21. News: Pandiello . Óscar . Berta Piñán Suárez, consejera de Cultura, Política Llingüística y Turismo: "Vivimos un momento histórico para cuidar la llingua con voluntad política" . 4 February 2023 . El Comercio . 22 July 2019 . es.

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