Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro Explained

Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro
Birth Date:6 October 1929
Birth Place:Outeiro de Rei, Galicia
Death Place:A Coruña, Galicia
Nationality:Spanish, Galician
Occupation:Poet, Academic

Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, better known as Manuel María (October 6, 1929, Outeiro de Rei - September 8, 2004, A Coruña), was a Spanish 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, drawing attention to wrongs, ethnography, physics, history, immateriality, mythology, the animal world, poetic expression, the passing of time, religion, society, language, agricultural labour, urbanism, and geography. The Day of Galician Literature was devoted to him in 2016.[3]

Biography

Manuel María was the son of two well-to-do 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 of 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 helped him get in touch with members of a group that met at the Méndez Núñez cafeteria: Luís Pimentel, Ánxel Fole, Juan Rof Codina, Aquilino Iglesia Alvariño, and others. This was his introduction to Galicianism and the Galician literary world. His friendship with Uxío Novoneyra also dates from this period.[4]

In 1950 he published his first collection of poems, Muiñeiro de brétemas ("Miller of mists"), which inaugurated the so-called "Escola da Tebra" (School of Shadows). His disappointment after failing the entrance exams to the University of Santiago inspired his second collection of poems, Morrendo a cada intre ("Dying every minute"). He did his military service in Santiago de Compostela and there he attended a gathering at Café Español, where he became a great friend of Carlos Maside. He then returned to Lugo, where he studied to become an attorney. In 1954 he won a prize at the Xogos Florais (Floral Games) in Ourense.[4] In 1958 he became a court attorney in Monforte de Lemos, where he remained most of the rest of his life. To that city he dedicated a collection of poems, Cancioneiro de Monforte de Lemos. The following year he married Saleta Goi García in Lugo.[4]

Although poetry was his preferred medium, Manuel María also attempted essays, narratives and plays. He moved away from a pessimistic existentialist position towards social and political commitment. In the troubled period of the 1960s and 1970s, he took part in the undercover reorganisation of the Galician nationalist political parties; he also worked with various organisations devoted to restoring Galician culture, arranging conferences and reciting poems. He managed the Xistral publishing house and together with its founder he ran the bookshop of the same name. He was made a corresponding member of the Royal Galician Academy in 1970, but renounced his membership in a public letter that appeared in the Galician newspapers in 1975.

A grass-root militant of the Galician People's Union and of the Frente Cultural of the Galician National-Popular Assembly, he was elected councillor in Monforte in 1979 for the Galician National-Popular Bloc. He resigned in 1985, and moved to A Coruña to fully devote himself to literary and cultural activities. His column, Walking on Earth, appeared in the newspaper Our Earth. One of the last campaigns in which he took part was in response to the Prestige oil spill disaster, under the names of Burla Negra (" Black Mockery") and the Plataforma Nunca Máis ("Never More" Platform).

In 1997 he was appointed partner of honour of the Galician Writers Association. He was re-admitted to the Royal Galician Academy in February 2003, under the sponsorship of Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín and others.[5] [6] respondido por Méndez Ferrín.[7]

He died at A Coruña on 8 September 2004, and was buried in the church of Santa Isabel, Outeiro de Rei.[4] [8]

Honours

On 7 September 2013 his house-museum in Outeiro de Rei was opened, Casa das Hortas ("the House of the Vegetable gardens").[9] On 4 July 2015, it was announced that the Royal Galician Academy would dedicate Galician Literature Day (May 17) of 2016 to his memory.[3]

Work

Works in Galician

Poetry

Prose

Drama

Juvenile works

Essays

Correspondence

Collections

Articles in Grial magazine

Works in Spanish

Poetry

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.vieiros.com/nova.php?Ed=1&id=38289 «Adeus ao poeta Manuel María»
  2. http://www.elmundo.es/elmundolibro/2004/09/09/poesia/1094724356.html «Muere el poeta gallego Manuel María, el molinero de la niebla»
  3. Web site: O Día das Letras Galegas de 2016 estará dedicado a Manuel María. 2015-07-04. RAG. Real Academia Galega.
  4. http://academia.gal/figuras-homenaxeadas/-/journal_content/56_INSTANCE_8klA/10157/667763#http://academia.gal/dicionario_rag/miniSearch.do Biography on the RAG website
  5. Web site: Membros da Academia - Plenario - Real Academia Galega . academia.gal. 2016-03-10.
  6. http://academia.gal/documents/10157/27090/Manuel+Maria+Fern%C3%A1ndez+Teixeiro.pdf "A Terra Chá: poesía e paisaxe"
  7. http://academia.gal/plenario?p_p_id=ManageChairs_WAR_ragportal&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_ManageChairs_WAR_ragportal_action=showAcademic&_ManageChairs_WAR_ragportal_selLetter=F&_ManageChairs_WAR_ragportal_id=1034 Membros de número da Real Academia Galega
  8. Pereiro, Xosé Manuel: «Necrológica: Manuel María Fernández Teixeiro, poeta» El País, 11/9/2004 .
  9. Web site: Manuel María xa ten a súa casa museo. 2013-09-07. Praza pública. Praza pública. 2015-07-08.
  10. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/obras/listarPorXenero.htm?xenero=POESIA Páxina coas portadas dalgúns dos seus libros de poesía
  11. http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2015/09/30/11/51555490.jpg Cover image of the 2nd edition. (1967) edited and expanded
  12. http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2015/11/05/12/52550706.jpg Cover image
  13. Losada Castro, 1969, p= 19.
  14. http://cloud2.todocoleccion.net/discos-vinilo/tc/2014/05/17/17/43374391.jpg Cover image
  15. http://academia.gal/plenario?p_p_id=ManageChairs_WAR_ragportal&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_ManageChairs_WAR_ragportal_action=showAcademic&id=1034 Ficha de académico no sitio web da RAG
  16. http://cloud2.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-otros-idiomas/tc/2011/06/11/27429565.jpg Cover image
  17. https://books.google.com/books?id=oooVAQAAMAAJ Odas nun tempo de paz e de ledicia
  18. http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2015/10/08/10/51702363.jpg Cover image
  19. http://cloud2.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2010/11/05/22563609.jpg Cover image
  20. http://cloud2.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2013/04/01/36536965.jpg Cover image
  21. http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2015/05/11/23/49294886.jpg Cover image
  22. http://cloud2.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-otros-idiomas/tc/2010/08/27/21231452.jpg Cover image
  23. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/publicacions/ver.htm?id=5 Catalogue entry
  24. http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-poesia/tc/2015/10/22/16/52223125.jpg Cover image
  25. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/publicacions/ver.htm?id=2 Catalogue entry
  26. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/upload/recursos/cat_3/21/unha-vez-foi-o-trebon.pdf Unha vez foi o trebón
  27. Web site: Aventuras e desventuras dunha espiña de toxo chamada Berenguela . 2017-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160416110310/http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/upload/recursos/cat_3/24/aventuras-e-desventuras-dunha-espina-de-toxo-chamada-berenguela.pdf . 2016-04-16 . dead .
  28. http://www.culturagalega.org/lg3/novidade.php?Cod_prdccn=313 Os soños na gaiola
  29. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/obras/ver.htm?id=68 Catalogue entry
  30. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/tenda/ficha.htm?id=8&isPack=false Catalogue entry
  31. http://www.casamuseomanuelmaria.gal/noticias/publicase-a-correspondencia-entre-manuel-maria-e-ramon-otero-pedrayo-1951-1974.htm Publícase a Correspondencia entre Manuel María e Ramón Otero Pedrayo (1951-1974)
  32. https://books.google.com/books?id=B1THAAAACAAJ Catalogue entry
  33. http://www.culturagalega.org/especiais/aviles/catalogo_traducidas.pdf Catálogo de obras literarias en lingua galega traducidas a outros idiomas. Unha primeira achega
  34. http://cloud1.todocoleccion.net/libros-segunda-mano-ensayo/tc/2015/10/08/13/51707190.jpg Cover image
  35. http://bvg.udc.es/ficha_obra.jsp?id=IIFedaPo1&alias=Xavier+Seoane Catalogue entry and cover image
  36. http://www.bvg.udc.es/ficha_obra.jsp?id=IIFedaPo2&alias=Manuel+Rivas Catalogue entry and cover image
  37. http://www.xermolos.org/paxina_nova/index.php/actividades/libros/88-12-anos-na-busqueda-da-nosa-identidade Catalogue entry and cover image
  38. http://datos.bne.es/obra/XX2630513.html Catalogue entry na BNE