Children categories
Xavier Alcalá
Xavier Alcalá is one of Galicia’s most established writers. He has published over twenty works of fiction in the last thirty years. Themes in his work include emigration and the Spanish Civil War. Most recently he has published the trilogy Evangelical Memory, an extremely well documented account of the experiences of the Evangelical communities in Galicia during the twentieth century. Other well known novels include Our Ashes and Fable. He has written widely about his travels in Latin America…
Marilar Aleixandre
Marilar Aleixandre is professor of experimental sciences at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She is the author of several collections of poetry and adult and young adult fiction. She has written four novels and a collection of short stories, Wolves on the Islands. Her novel Theory of Chaos received the Xerais Prize for best novel in 2001. Two poetry collections were awarded top prizes, including Mutations, a recreation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses written in the voices of women…
Diego Ameixeiras
As well as being a journalist and screenwriter for Galician television, Diego Ameixeiras is one of Galicia’s most accomplished crime writers. His eight novels sometimes feature a detective, other times people living on the margins of life. He is not afraid to deal with contemporary issues such as political ambition and the preferential shares banking scandal. A lot of the action in his novels is centred around the city of Ourense, called Oregón. His most famous novels are Tell Me Something Dirty (2009)…
Rosa Aneiros
A journalist and screenwriter, Rosa Aneiros is best known as a writer of adult and young adult fiction. She won prizes for her novels Resistance (2002), about two lovers involved in the resistance to the twentieth-century dictatorship in Portugal, The Sea Came to See Me (2004), about a biologist confronting the Prestige oil spill, and Winter Sun (2009), about a woman who escapes the Spanish Civil War and has to face the voices and wounds of exile. As a children’s writer, she caught attention with her novel Butterfly Wings (2009)…
Xosé Carlos Caneiro
Xosé Carlos Caneiro is an accomplished narrator, poet and journalist. He is one of few writers to have won all three major Galician fiction prizes: the Blanco Amor, the Xerais and the García Barros. He is best known for his series of five novels The Misfortune of Solitude (1992, the Xerais), A Game of Apocrypha (1997, the Torrente Ballester and finalist for the Spanish National Book Award), Melancholia Perhaps (1999, the García Barros), The Centuries of the Moon (1999) and Ébora…
Fina Casalderrey
Fina Casalderrey is one of Galicia’s most successful writers of children’s and young adult fiction and taught for many years at secondary level. She has published more than forty books and twice been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (in 2010 and 2012). In 1996 she was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature for The Mystery of Lúa’s Children. Her works have been included in the White Ravens Catalogue (Marriage Forbidden, Papa! and Who Wants to Adopt Me?). She has also written…
Francisco Castro
Francisco Castro has covered numerous topics in his books for adults and young people – a collection of erotic stories, Geographies, a book narrated by a drug dealer, Lost Generation, a historical novel set in the sixteenth century, The Words of Mist, which won the García Barros Prize. He has won the Blanco Amor Prize for a long novel with Spam, the Voz de Galicia Prize for a novel by instalments with The Heart of Snow White, and the Sarmiento Prize awarded by Galician schoolchildren…
Fernando M. Cimadevila
Fernando M. Cimadevila is the author of a series of novels dedicated to The Secret World of Basilius Hoffman, in which the explorer of hidden worlds and part-time knight Basilius Hoffman goes off in search of the legendary Cartographer’s Diary in the company of his nephew. Three novels in this series have been published to date: The Thief of Dreams (2011), A Lighthouse in the Dark (2013) and The Battle for Avalon (2015). He has written a series of children’s novels…
Ledicia Costas
Ledicia Costas is the author of two children’s books, Scarlet Fever the Late Departed Cook (2015) and its prequel Emeraldine the Late Departed Kid (2016), in which the narrative is interspersed with cooking recipes. For the first of these, she was awarded the Spanish National Prize for Literature in 2015. She has also written several young adult novels: A Star in the Wind (2000); Heart of Jupiter (2012), available in English, about the dangers of online relationships…
Berta Dávila
Berta Dávila is the author of three poetry collections: Empty Body (2007), Inside (2008) and Root of the Fissure (2013), which won the Spanish Critics’ Prize for best poetry collection. She has also written three books of fiction: the novel I Will Dance on Your Tomb (2008), the book of short stories The Art of Failure (2010), translated into Spanish and Japanese, and the novel Emma Olsen’s Last Book (2013), her best-known work, translated into Spanish…
Xabier P. DoCampo
Xabier P. DoCampo is one of Galicia’s most distinguished writers. As a schoolteacher, he has been heavily involved in movements of educational reform in Galicia. He has also contributed greatly, in libraries and other settings, to the promotion of reading. He has worked as an actor and scriptwriter. But he is best known for his works of fiction aimed at younger readers, of which there are more than thirty. These have been included in the IBBY Honour List…
Pedro Feijoo
Pedro Feijoo is one of Galicia’s most exciting contemporary authors. Trained as a musician, he has taken part in numerous musical projects and written a survey of the state of Galician music. His story ‘The Viaduct’s Secret’ was published in 2011. But his greatest success came a year later with the publication of the novel Children of the Sea, awarded the Martín Sarmiento and San Clemente Prizes for fiction and shortlisted for the Xerais Prize for best novel…
Agustín Fernández Paz
Agustín Fernández Paz is a best-selling Galician author of children’s and young adult fiction. He has published more than forty books and his work has been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish among others. He has twice been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and in 2012 was Spain’s nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (the children’s Nobel). His books are regularly included in the IBBY Honour List and the White Ravens Catalogue…
Elena Gallego Abad
An experienced journalist, Elena Gallego Abad is the author of a series of novels about Dragal, the Galician dragon seeking to reincarnate in the body of a boy, Hadrián. The saga comprises three novels – Dragal I: The Dragon’s Inheritance (2010); Dragal II: The Dragon’s Metamorphosis (2011); Dragal III: The Dragon’s Fraternity (2012) – and further novels are planned. A film, together with other multimedia content, is currently in production. Elena Gallego Abad is the author of another novel, Seven Skulls (2014)…
Xabier López López
Xabier López López is the author of numerous novels, including: The Notebook (2001), awarded the Risco Prize for fantasy literature; Monkey in the Mirror (2002), awarded the Lueiro Prize for a short novel; The Life That Kills Us (2003), awarded both the García Barros and the Spanish Critics’ Prizes; and Chains (2013), winner of the Xerais Prize for best novel, in which the author comes across a woman reading his novel on the beach…
Inma López Silva
Inma López Silva teaches dramatic theory at the Galician School of Dramatic Art and holds a doctorate in Galician philology. Her work varies between novels such as Concubines (2002), awarded the Xerais Prize for best novel, and Memory of Cities without Light (2008), awarded the Blanco Amor and San Clemente Prizes, and books of a more intimate nature such as diaries about her experiences living in New York (New York, New York, 2007) and becoming a mother…
Manuel Lourenzo González
Manuel Lourenzo González is one of few writers to have been awarded the three major Galician prizes for novels – the Blanco Amor, the Xerais and the García Barros – with the three adult novels he has published: Archaeophagy (1995), The Garden of Floating Stones (2008) and Atl (2012). He is the author of six collections of short stories, including a selection set in Pontevedra, Storks at the Bottom of the Estuary (2015), and numerous titles aimed at younger readers…
Andrea Maceiras
Andrea Maceiras has studied Galician and Spanish philology, and holds a PhD from Coruña University. She has published several children’s and young adult novels: Project Butterfly (2007) about a mathematician who sets out to verify the butterfly effect; Tamurana Violet (2010) about an island whose inhabitants are coloured violet; The Secret of the Ocellated Lizard (2012) about a boy who returns to the village; Clouds of Evolution (2013) about three people who meet in a bus station…
Teresa Moure
Teresa Moure is one of Galicia’s most accomplished writers. She is the author of five novels, the most famous of which is Black Nightshade, which received numerous accolades when it was first published, including the Xerais Prize for best novel and the Spanish Critics’ Prize for Galician fiction. She writes essays and theatre. Two essays, Another Language Is Possible and We Re-Queer a New World, received the Ramón Piñeiro Prize for best essay, while A Spring for Aldara won the Rafael Dieste Prize for best play…
Miguel-Anxo Murado
Miguel-Anxo Murado is a well-known Galician writer and journalist who spent periods of time in the ex-Yugoslavia and the Middle East. Much of his fiction is based on these experiences. Noise: War Stories details his experiences in Bosnia and Croatia, End of the Century in Palestine reflects on his work as a press officer for the United Nations during the Second Intifada, The Fever Dream grew out of an attack of fever in Cairo. One of his most lyrical story-books is Ash Wednesday…
Xosé Neira Vilas
Xosé Neira Vilas (1928-2015) had a rural upbringing. At the age of 21, he moved to Argentina, where he entered into contact with important Galician cultural figures and founded the publishing house Follas Novas. He married the writer Anisia Miranda and together they moved to Cuba, where they remained for thirty years before returning to Galicia in 1992. His book Memoirs of a Peasant Boy is one of the most successful novels in the history of Galician literature…
Xavier Queipo
Xavier Queipo holds degrees in biology and medicine and surgery. Since 1989, he has lived and worked in Brussels, Belgium. He has published numerous works of fiction, among them Arctic and Other Seas (1990), The Northwest Passage (1996), Kite (2001), Dragoness (2007) and Extramunde (2011), and has been awarded many prizes, including the García Barros and Xerais Prizes for best novel. Several of his works have been translated into French, Portuguese and Spanish…
María Xosé Queizán
María Xosé Queizán has been a leading figure in the feminist movement of the Iberian peninsula for the last forty years, ever since she published her groundbreaking essay The Woman in Galicia (1977). Apart from her essays, which include studies on Mary Shelley and Emilia Pardo Bazán, she has written numerous works of fiction, including The Likeness (available in English), Love of Tango and Attention, Guard!, which look at marginalized groups in society and their struggle for equal rights…
Anxo Rei Ballesteros
Anxo Rei Ballesteros was a highly accomplished writer who combined the use of different narrative techniques with a critical, philosophical approach to the world we live in. He wrote four novels, the last published posthumously: Of Angels and the Dead, Sun-Ray, Will I See You Again? and Night of the Little Owl. He also published a book of short stories, The Shadow of Your Dreams. His essay Time and Revenge, a study of time through the prism of Shakespeare’s Hamlet…
María Reimóndez
María Reimóndez is the author of seven novels, including The Knitting Club (2006), Pirate (2009) and three novels in which the secondary characters of one novel become the protagonists of another: On the Road to Extinction (2012), From the Conflict (2014) and The Music of Living Beings (2015). She is the founder of an NGO, Implicadas/os no Desenvolvemento (Involved in Development), devoted to eradicating gender discrimination in countries such as India and Ethiopia…
Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas is Galicia’s most international writer. He has published eight books in English: four novels, two poetry collections and two books of short stories (one a film tie-in, Butterfly’s Tongue). His novel The Carpenter’s Pencil, which has also been made into a film, is the most widely translated work of Galician literature and has been translated into thirty languages. His most recent novel, also a film, is All Is Silence, which was published by Harvill Secker in May 2013…
Antón Riveiro Coello
Antón Riveiro Coello is one of the most promising writers of his generation. He has published eight novels, the most famous of which are Bakunin’s Turtledoves (winner of the García Barros Prize for best novel in 2000) and Laura in the Desert (winner of the Spanish Critics’ Prize for Galician fiction in 2011). He also has several collections of short stories, including most recently Casas Baratas, stories set in the provincial town where the author grew up, and Water Ghosts, as well as essays, children’s literature and poetry…
María Solar
María Solar works in the fields of both journalism and literature. For many years, she has been a presenter for Galician television and radio. Having studied both journalism and biology, she has published essays on ecology. Her numerous children’s books have been included in the prestigious White Ravens Catalogue. My Favourite Nightmare was voted best children’s book of the year on the literary blog Fervenzas Literarias and won the Lazarillo Prize awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture…
Anxos Sumai
Anxos Sumai has been a regular online diarist, and this gave rise to her first two books, Guardian Angels (2003) and Melody of Used Days (2005), diaries that function as novels. Since then, she has published two more works of fiction, This Is How Whales Are Born (2007), which won the Repsol Short Fiction Prize and made her the Galician Publishers’ Association author of the year, and Harvest Moon (2013), awarded the García Barros Prize for best novel and the Spanish Critics’ Prize…
Suso de Toro
Suso de Toro is the author of eight novels for adults, including Thirteen Chimes, which won him the Spanish National Prize for Literature in 2003. The critic Basilio Losada described the novel Tick-Tock as perhaps the most impressive novel ever written in the Galician language. He has published several collections of short stories, including the groundbreaking Polaroid, a reference point in modern Galician literature, as well as three novels for younger readers. He teaches Galician language…
