Xurxo Borrazás Explained

Birth Name:	Xurxo Borrazás Fariña
Birth Date:	6 August 1963
Birth Place:	Carballo, Spain
Alma Mater:	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Occupation:	Writer
Years Active:	1991–present

Xurxo Borrazás Fariña (born 6 August 1963) is a Spanish writer in Galician and translator from English to Galician.

Biography

He was born in Carballo, Spain, and earned a degree in English philology from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. At this time, he began to write poetry, and then continued writing narrative fiction. He has translated Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (for Galaxia) and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner into Galician. His fiction has been defined as experimental and transgressive. Some of his novels have been translated into Spanish, English, Russian and Portuguese. Several stories have appeared in English in the anthology From the Beginning of the Sea published in Oxford by Foreign Demand. He has lectured at Spanish and British universities and writes articles on the fields of culture and politics for Galician press.

Works

Novels

• Cabeza de chorlito (1991)
• Vicious (Criminal) (1994), English translation 2015
• Eu é (1996)^[1]
• O desintegrista (1999)
• Na maleta (2000)
• Pensamentos Impuros (2002)^[2]
• Ser ou non (2004)^[3]
• Costa norte/ZFK (2008)
• Covalladas. Prosa vertical (2010)

Short stories

Collections:

• Contos malvados (1998), collection of 13 short stories
• Brevedume (2019), collection of aphorisms

Non-fiction

• Arte e parte (2007), essays

Awards

• 1994 Premio de la Crítica de narrativa gallega, for Vicious
• 1995 Premio San Clemente, for Vicious
• 2001 Premio Antón Losada Diéguez in category Creación literaria, for Na maleta
• 2008 Premio de la Crítica de Galicia in category Ensayo y Pensamiento, for Arte e parte

References

• Web site: Xurxo Borrazás Fariña . Praza das Letras . 6 July 2010 . es . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727184223/http://www.prazadasletras.org/letras/autores/autor/523/xurxo-borrazas-farina . 27 July 2011 .

External links

• Author profile at Editorial Galaxia
• Text of "Blackbirds"
• Fragment in English from "Ser ou non"
• "Paper on Minority Language Literature"
• La aldea muerta, novel, in Google books
• yuard. A story in Litro magazine

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2018-03-16 . Bitraga. Biblioteca de tradución galega . 2023-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180316151707/http://bibliotraducion.uvigo.es/traduccions_ver.php?id=4243 . 16 March 2018 .
2. Web site: 2020-06-06 . Bitraga. Biblioteca de tradución galega . 2023-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200606001230/http://bibliotraducion.uvigo.es/traduccions_ver.php?id=5014 . 6 June 2020 .
3. Web site: 2020-06-06 . Bitraga. Biblioteca de tradución galega . 2023-05-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200606001220/http://bibliotraducion.uvigo.es/traduccions_ver.php?id=5013 . 6 June 2020 .