Marina Mayoral Explained

Marina Mayoral Díaz (Mondoñedo, Spain,[1] September 12, 1942) is a Galician writer in Galician and Spanish.[2]

Early life and education

She has lived in Madrid since the age of 19, but always maintained strong emotional and cultural ties with Galicia.[3] She studied the first courses of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santiago de Compostela and graduated in Romance philology at the Complutense University of Madrid. She obtained her doctorate in 1971, with an extraordinary prize, with a thesis on the poetry of Rosalía de Castro, "Visión del mundo y estilo en la obra poética de Rosalía de Castro".[4]

Career

As a professor of Spanish literature at the Complutense University of Madrid, Mayoral performed many analyses of contemporary poetry and prose, and published numerous works of research and literary criticism, among which the studies on Rosalía de Castro, Emilia Pardo Bazán, and Valle Inclán stand out.[5] She has collaborated with La Voz de Galicia since 1990. She was co-director of the Biblioteca de Escritoras collection by Editorial Castalia and directed the Relatos collection by Editorial Edhasa and the Club de Clásicos collection by Grupo SM.[6]

The action of most of Mayoral's novels takes place in "Brétema", an imaginary place in Galicia. Several of her novels have been translated into German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Catalan and Chinese.[7]

In 2017, Mayoral was chosen as an honorary academic of the Royal Galician Academy.[8]

Selected works

In Galician

Novels

Essays

Collective works

In Spanish

Novels

Short stories

Essays

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Marina Mayoral . galegos.galiciadigital.com . Gallegos . 31 August 2024 . gl.
  2. Book: Mayoral Díaz, Marina . Dicionario biográfico de Galicia . 2011 . 2 . 298 . Ir Indo Edicións . gl .
  3. Web site: Pleno . Real Academia Galega . 31 August 2024 . gl-ES.
  4. Web site: Visión del mundo y estilo en la obra poética de Rosalía de Castro . produccioncientifica.ucm.es . 31 August 2024.
  5. Web site: Marina Mayoral . Editorial Galaxia . web.archive.org . 31 August 2024 . 26 October 2019.
  6. Web site: Marina Mayoral . Raspabook . web.archive.org . 31 August 2024 . 26 October 2019.
  7. Web site: Marina Mayoral . www.xerais.gal . Editorial Xerais . 31 August 2024 . gl.
  8. News: Mayoral analiza os motivos polos que Murguía destruíu as cartas de Rosalía, no seu ingreso na RAG . 31 August 2024 . Galicia Confidencial . 2 December 2017 . gl.
  9. Marina Mayoral ganó el primer premio de cuentos Hucha de Oro. El País. 17 March 1983 . 1134-6582. es. Gabriela. Cañas.
  10. Web site: O PEN Clube premia Marina Mayoral “pola súa defensa das mulleres escritoras”. Sermos Galiza. Redacción.
  11. Web site: O premio Alvite distingue a traxectoria como articulista de Marina Mayoral. La Voz de Galicia. 2 May 2021.