Xosé María Díaz Castro Explained
| Xosé María Díaz Castro |
| Birth Name: | Xosé María Díaz Castro |
| Birth Date: | 19 February 1914 |
| Birth Place: | Guitiriz, Galicia |
| Death Place: | Lugo, Galicia |
| Occupation: | Writer and translator |
| Language: | Galician |
| Alma Mater: | University of Salamanca |
| Spouse: | María Teresa Zubizarreta Bengoechea |
| Children: | Three (José Mari, Maite and Íñigo) |
| Signature: | Díaz Castro sinatura.svg |
Xosé María Díaz Castro (b. Guitiriz, 19 February 1914 – d. Lugo, 2 October 1990) was a Galician poet and translator.
Galician Literature Day is dedicated to him in 2014.[1]
Work
Authors that he translated
To Spanish: Verner von Heidenstam, Henrik Pontoppidan, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, G. K. Chesterton, Frederick Forsyth, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Alphonse de Lamartine and Paul Claudel.[2]
To English: Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti.[3]
References
Further information
- AAVV; Homenaxe a X. M. Díaz Castro, Xermolos, Guitiriz, 1987, 192 p., .
- Blanco Torrado, A.; A ascensión dun poeta, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Novacaixagalicia, Compostela, 1995, 143 p., .
- Requeixo, Armando;, Xosé María Díaz Castro, vida e obra, Editorial Galaxia, Vigo, 2014, 200 p., .
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.realacademiagalega.org/novas/-/asset_publisher/E4jf/content/dia-das-letras-galegas-a-diaz-castro?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.realacademiagalega.org%2Fnovas%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_E4jf%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_count%3D2 Día das Letras Galegas a Díaz Castro
- Requeixo, Armando; Unha aproximación a Nimbos de Xosé María Díaz Castro, Revista Galega do Ensino, nº 12, 1996, p. 101-120 (Dialnet).
- http://entrada.egu.es/egu_xunta/html/index.php?op=ver&id=47908&buscado=D%EDAZ%20CASTRO&opcion=entrada&pantalla=# Díaz Castro, Xosé María (Parga, Guitiriz 19-2-1914 – Lugo 2-10-1990)
