Luz Pozo Garza Explained

Luz Pozo Garza
Birth Date:21 July 1922
Birth Place:Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain
Death Place:A Coruña, Spain
Occupation:poet, essayist, literary critic
Language:Spanish
Nationality:Spanish
Alma Mater:University of Oviedo
Children:Gonzalo Vázquez Pozo
Awards:Castelao Medal (1995)

Luz Pozo Garza (Ribadeo, 21 July 1922 – A Coruña, 20 April 2020),[1] was a Spanish poet and a member of the Royal Galician Academy.

Biography

She began her studies in Ribadeo with the painter and sculptor, Prieto Coussent.[2] At the age of fourteen, due to the Spanish Civil War and the persecution of her father, she moved with her family to Lugo and later to Larache (Spanish protectorate in Morocco). Back in Galicia, she settled in Viveiro. There, she carried out various musical studies that left a unique mark on her poetics. She also studied education and philology of Romanesque art.

Her first works were published in Las Riberas del Eo, Lana Noche, Poesía Española, Ínsula or Vida Gallega. Her mentor was Dionisio Gamallo Fierros.[3]

Later, after settling in Vigo, she developed a long teaching career at the Nigrán as a teacher of Spanish language and literature in Secondary education, retiring in 1987. Between 1975 and 1976, she co-directed the magazine, Nordés with Tomás Barros Pardo. She also promoted the creation of the magazine, Clave Orión.Pozo Garza was a member of the Royal Galician Academy since 29 November 1996. Her first speech was entitled Diálogos con Rosalía.[4]

Pozo Garza was, according to Rosario Álvarez Blanco[5] an illustrious voice in poetry since the publication of her first collection of poems in Galician, El pájaro en la boca (1952), which inaugurated the Xistral collection. In her later work, Luz Pozo expressed a poetry charged with sensuality and depth, in which love, existential concern, homeland, freedom and even death intersect, composing texts of authenticity and maturity.

Legacy

In 2001, Pozo Garza was nominated as an honorary member of the Galician Language Writers Association (letter Y). Next, the "Tribute to the writer in her land" was celebrated with her in Ribadeo, with a poem that she selected from the book Vida secreta de Rosalía. That same year, Ribadeo dedicated a street to her. Likewise, there are dedicated streets in her name in the municipalities of Culleredo (in El Burgo) and in La Coruña.[6]

In 2018, her name was given to the Viveiro Language School and Viveiro honored her as an adoptive daughter.[7] [8]

On January 18, 2020, she was named Ribadeo's "favorite daughter", at the proposal by the Councilor for Culture, Pilar Otero Cabarcos.[9] [10]

Awards and honours

Selected works

Poetry in Galician

Poetry in Spanish

References

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. News: 20 April 2020. Falece a poeta Luz Pozo Garza. gl. Nós. 20 April 2020.
  2. Web site: 18 April 2020. Luz Pozo Garza, Filla Predilecta de Ribadeo. 20 April 2020. La Voz de Galicia idioma=gallego.
  3. Web site: 15 January 2020. Concello de Ribadeo. Luz Pozo Garza. 20 April 2020. Ribadeo. gl. Novas.
  4. Web site: Pozo Garza, Luz. 29 November 1996. Real Academia Gallega. Diálogos con Rosalía. 20 April 2020. La Coruña. gl.
  5. Web site: Álvarez Blanco, Rosario. 17 May 2008. As mulleres na Real Academia Galega. 20 April 2020. gl. Álbum de mulleres.
  6. "Callejero de Culleredo. Rúa Poeta Luz Pozo». callejero.net. 2004-2020.
  7. "Luz Pozo Garza xa dá nome á Escola Oficial de Idiomas de Viveiro". (4 June 2018). Praza (in Galician) (La Coruña).
  8. "Luz Pozo Garza xa é filla adoptiva de Viveiro". (18 November 2018). Nòs (in Galician) (Santiago de Compostela).
  9. "Ribadeo reconoce a Luz Pozo Garza como hija predilecta". (18 January 2020) El Progreso (Lugo).
  10. "Pleno extraordinario o 30 de decembro - Novas. Concello de Ribadeo". Novas (in Galician). Ribadeo. (25 December 2019).
  11. Web site: A Fundación Otero Pedrayo premia a Luz Pozo Garza, 'a máis sublime das poetas galegas'. 4 April 2019 . 20 April 2020. gl.
  12. Book: Pozo Garza, Luz . Diccionario da literatura galega. Obras III. Códice Calixtino. Vilavedra . Dolores . 2000. 93 . 20 April 2020. gl. Vigo . Editorial Galaxia. 84-8288-365-8.

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