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Alexandre Nerium
Is the pen-name of Francisco Manuel López Martínez, born at Fisterra in 1960. He was always attached to the sea: he has been a sailor and diving fisher of razor-shells; he now works for the Fishing Museum at the Castelo de San Carlos in the same town. 
He began his poetic fate in the Batallón Literario da Costa da Morte. His first poems appeared In Feros Corvos, the magazine published by this association. A few months later he was awarded the tenth Poetry Prize “Rosalía de Castro” (Cornellá, Barcelona, 1996) for his work Cidadela (O verxel das sete fontes). He went on to publish in verse anthologies like De mar e vento ( Espiral Maior, A Coruña, 1997), Poesía na noite, Vis à Vis,  Nós, Rumbo ás illas, Namorados da Costa da Morte, O mundo da pesca na Literatura Galega, 47 poetas de hoxe cantan a Curros Enríquez, Negra sombra. Intervención Poética contra a Marea Negra, Homenaxe dos poetas galegos a Federico García Lorca contra a súa morte, and Palavras de vento e de pedra, which was published in the Encontro (Meeting) do Vento at Castelo Novo, Fundão (Portugal). He has collaborated in the journals Dorna, A Xanela, Lúa Nova, Terra bárdica, Atenea, and others.
He was awarded other poetry prizes, such as “Antón Zapata”, “Meigas e trasgos”, “Faustino Rei Romero”, “Manuel Orestes Rodríguez López”, “Anduriña Voandeira” and the 7th “Johán Carballeira” (Bueu, 2002) with the poetry miscellany Vogar de couse (Espiral Maior, 2003).
He has been working for some time on an anthology of poetry related to the Fisterra countryside, which he expects to publish this year.

Arnau Pons
Is a poet of the Catalan language. He was born in Felanitx (Mallorca) in 1965 and now lives in Barcelona. He translates poetry and essays from French, Portuguese and German into Catalan and Spanish. He is a member of the research team of the French philologist Jean Bollack (Paris), who has been studying conflicts of interpretation in Paul Celan’s poetry (he has collaborated and extended Bollack’s book Piedra de corazón). In 1995 he published a translation of the cycle Atemkristall (Cristal de sopro) by Celan. In 1996, A desclòs, his first book of poetry, appeared. In 1997, two titles followed: Desertar — also published in France — and Dessecament. All of them are self-published in very limited editions. One should also mention his translations of Portuguese poets: an anthology by Luiza Neto Jorge (with his foreword As Luizíadas), as well as his translations of As pedras negras, by Gastão Cruz and Última ciência, by Herberto Helder. His many translations for various literary journals include such authors as Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa, Jacques Dupin, Dino Campana, Nelly Sachs, Luís Miguel Nava, Ossip Mandelstam and Julia Roessler.

Bernat Nadal
Was born in 1950, in Manacor-Mallorca, and he started writing poetry at 18, under the influence of some of the major Catalan poets in Mallorca : Blai Bonet and Miquel Ángel Riera. All his poetry was written in Catalan, even when, during his childhood and teenage years, teaching in Catalan was forbidden in the "colegios". He is the author of a work of fiction, Petrus, and seven books of poetry: La desintegració del desig, Elegies, Tretze poemes, Contribucions Especials,Gai Saber, Estrúmbol, and Teorma del somni. His poetry has also appeared in two volumes - his selected poems and his collected poems. Some of his poems have been included in a number of anthologies of Catalan poets in English and French. One of his poems has been translated into Portuguese by Manuel de Seabra.

Esteban Pujals Gesalí
Who was born in Madrid in 1952, is the author of Blanco nuclear (1985), Juegos de artificio (1986) and La cólera del caracol (forthcoming). He has translated poems by T.S.Eliot (Four Quartets, l988), John Ashbery (April Galleons, 1994) and Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons, 1998), as well as an anthology of recent American poetry ín Spanish translation (La lengua radical, 1993). He teaches English and American literature at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

Helena Villar
Born in Becerreá-Lugo, in 1940, Helena Villar Janeiro has been a secondary school teacher (of Galician Language and Literature). Conference speaker, poet, prose writer, press contributor and translator, she was part of the poetry group Cravo Fondo (1977) and editor of the poetry collections Eusebio Lorenzo and Arte de Trobar. She was co-founder of the Galician PEN Club and is still its secretary. Villar Janeiro is the President of the Rosalía de Castro Foundation and a member of the Council for Galician Culture.

Jesús Munárriz
Has published the following poetry titles between 1975 and 2006: Viajes y estancias, De aquel amor me quedan estos versos, Cuarentena, Esos tus ojos, Camino de la voz, Otros labios me sueñan, De lo real y su análisis, Corazón independiente, Nada más que la verdad, Viento fresco, Artes y oficios, Viva voz (Canciones), Flores del tiempo, Viajes y estancias (with the author’s collages) and two children’s books, Disparatario and Con pies pero sin cabeza. Two anthologies of his work were published under the titles: Peaje para el alba (Antología 1972-2000) and Antología poética (Lorca, 2004).
Munárriz has published translations of Hölderlin, Heine, Celan, Rilke, Schwob, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Arp, Eluard, Aragon, Bonnefoy, Donne, Shakespeare, Keats, Wilde, Cesário Verde, Pessoa, Eugénio de Andrade, Herberto Helder, Graça Moura and Drummond de Andrade, among others and, in collaboration with several other translators, of Jayyam, Ho Xuan Huong, Brecht, and Pound, to mention a few. His poems have in turn been translated into more than twelve languages.
He graduated in German Philology and has been the director of the publishing house Ediciones Hiperión since its foundation in 1975.
His literary merits have recognized abroad - in France, where he was awarded the title of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters, and in Italy, where he won the International Poetry Prize Clemente Rebora.
Munárriz comes from Navarra; he was born in San Sebastián (1940) and raised in Pamplona, but he has lived in Madrid since he was 18.

José María Antolín
A poet, a painter and a sculptor, was born in Valladolid, Spain, in 1968. He took his degree in Philosophy and History of Art. He received the Prémio Nacional de Pintura, in 1990, and has published several books of poetry, among which are Ojo Vivo (1990-93), Los Animales Extinguidos (1995) and El Cuerpo del Libro Quemado (1998). Presently he is working on a project based on The Wasteland, by T.S. Eliot, and Don Quijote, by Miguel de Cervantes.

José Ángel Cilleruelo

Manuel María

Miguel Anxo Fernán-Vello
Was born in Lugo, Galicia, in 1958. He studied music, psychology and philology. Poet and playwright, he has published plays, which include Cuarteto para unhua noite de verao (1988) and A Casa dos afogados (1989), as well two books of essays. His poetry is translated into various languages, and includes Entre água e fogo (Cantos de terra posuída (1987), Trópico de luas (1992), Poemas da lenta nudez (1994) and As certezas do clima (1996). He is the Secretary-General of the Associação de Escritores de Língua Galega and Literary Director of Edições Espiral Maior.

Miro Villar
Is a professor of Galician language and literature, a poet, fictionist, literary critic and translator in several journals and magazines.
He was part of the Batallón Literario da Costa da Morte, of the team of the journal Dorna and the Editorial Board of the poetry series "Ablativo Absoluto" of Edicións Xerais de Galicia.
As a poet he wrote Ausencias pretéritas [Espiral Maior, 1992], 42 décimas de febre [Toxosoutos, 1994], Abecedario da desolación  [Espiral Maior, 1997; Tívoli-Europa Prize 1998], Equinoccio de primavera [Esquío, 1998; nominated for the Tívoli-Europa Prize 1999] and Gameleiros [Xerais, 2002]. His poetry has been translated into Castilian, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, English, Russian, Albanian and Serbo-Croat in the volume Il cammino di Santiago. La giovane poesia d'Europa nel 1997 [Melteni, 1998].
His poems can also be found in many literary journals, in the collectively authored Ao mar de adentro [1989] and A rota dos baleeiros [1991] from Edicións do Dragón, as well as in the anthologies Para saír do século [Xerais, 1997], Río de son e vento [Xerais, 1999], dEfecto 2000 [Letras de Cal, 1999], A tribo das baleas [Xerais, 2001] and the collectively authored Nós. Batallón Literario da Costa da Morte [Concello de Corcubión, 1997], Mar por medio [Concello de Corcubión, 1998], Ourense, craro río, verde val [Concello de Ourense, 2001] and 47 poetas de hoxe cantan a Curros Enríquez [Xerais, 2001].
As a prose writer he received the 1985 and 1987 Modesto R. Figueiredo Prizes awarded by the Patronato Pedrón de Ouro in the category short story for Augas de silencio e Verbas cruzadas con Amaranta [Ediciós do Castro, 1987/1988], and the Curuxa Literaria by the Museo do Humor de Fene. In the field of children’s and junior literature he published Carlota, a marmota [Xerais, 2000] and Carlota e a bota perdida [Xerais, 2002].
As an essay writer he has taken part as reporter in many conferences and literary events, his reports have been published in the proceedings, and has edited and annotated several critical editions like the Antoloxía poética de Gonzalo López Abente [Espiral Maior, 1995], Unha lectura de O soño sulagado [Xerais, 1998], Roberto Blanco Torres. Orballo da medianoite [Xerais, 1998], A poesía galega de Xervasio Paz Lestón [Do Castro, 1998], and was co-author of the volumes Publicacións periódicas and Obras in the Diccionario da Literatura Galega [Galaxia, 1997/1999]. He also co-authored with Xesús Alonso Montero Textos e documentos para o congreso sobre García Lorca [Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 1998] and Guerra civil (1936-1939) e literatura galega [Consello da Cultura Galega, 1999]. He is now writing his doctoral thesis on the Galician poetry of Antón Zapata García.
He has translated into Galician the essay As pegadas de Santiago na cultura de Fisterra de Benjamín Trillo Trillo [Fundación Caixa Galicia, 1999], Jorge Justo Padrón’s poetry miscellany Calafrío [Xerais, 2000] and the poems of Bernardino Graña in Poesía gallega contemporánea [Litoral, 1996].

Ponç Pons
Was born in Menorca, in 1956. Professor of Literature, poet, fiction writer and translator, he has published the following books of poetry: Al Marge, Lira de Bova, Desert encès, On s´acaba el sender [Award Joan Alcover Ciutat de Palma], Estigma [Award Jocs Florals de Barcelona and Award of the Writers Association], El Salobre [Award Carles Riba], Abissínia y Pessoanes [Award Alfons el Magnànim and Critics Award]. He handwrites at candle light in a little stone cottage in a field know as Sa Figuera Verda. He has translated Miguel Torga, Alexandre O´Neill, Jorge de Sena, Eugénio de Andrade, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Salvatore Quasimodo.

Ramiro Fonte
A poet, prose writer and essayist, Ramiro Fonte was born in Pontedeume, Corunha, in 1957. Ramiro Fonte made his debut as a poet in the collective Cravo Fondo, in the late 70s and in 1983 he published his first book, As cidades do nada, which was followed by Designium (1984), Pensar na tempestade (1986), Pasa un segredo (1988), Adeus Norte (1991), Luz do mediodía (1995), O cazador de libros (1997), Mínima Moralidade (1998), Capitán Inverno (1999), and A rocha dos proscritos (2005). His poems have been translated into Catalan, Italian, French, English and Russian. Versions of poems in the books Pasa un segredo, Adiós Norte, Luz de mediodía and Capitán Invierno have been translated into Spanish. He has so far published two anthologies of his poetic work: Escolma poética (1991) and Ámbito dos pasos (1996), while his poems have appeared in many anthologies of Galician and Peninsular poetry.
As a prose writer, he published Catro novelas sentimentais (1988), As regras do xogo (1990), Aves de paso (1990) and Os leopardos da lua (1993). Two volumes of his fictionalized biography as a child have been published to this date: “Vidas de infancia”: Os meus ollos (2003) and Os ollos da ponte (2004); As pontes no ceo is forthcoming.
He has worked on essays and literary research and has published a book about 20th century poetry, As bandeiras do corsário (1995). He writes articles on literary criticism for various journals and the daily press. Ramiro Fonte was awarded the following prizes: Crítica de Galicia, Crítica Española, Losada Diéguez, Esquío, Miguel González Garcés and Irmandade do Libro.
He is currently the director of the Cervantes Institute in Lisbon.

Xavier Rodríguez Baixeras
Was born in Tarragona, Spain, in 1945. He is a high school professor of Spanish Language and Literature. His books of poems include Fentos no mar (1981), Lembranza do areal (1985), Anos de Viaxe (1987), which won the Premio da Crítica Espanhola (1987), Visitantes (1991), which won the Premio Gonzalez Garces, Nadador (1995), which won the Premio da Critica Galega, and Beira Norte (1997), which won the Premio Crítica Española (1997). He is a translator as well.

Xavier Seoane

Xesús Rábade Paredes
Has a BA in Philosophy and Letters and is a professor of Galician Language and Literature at Santiago de Compostela. A poet, a fiction writer, essay-writer and translator, he also gives lectures. He was a member of the Cravo Fondo (1977), a group for poetic innovation, and co-founded the PEN Clube de Galicia.
His work has been anthologized and translated into several languages.
Poetry awards: Manuel Antonio, Galicia, Esquío and González Garcés, among others.
Poetic works: Xuntos cara ó mañán (1969), O sangue na paisaxe (1979), No aló de nós (1981), Matria de sombra (1987), Poldros de música (1993), Cabeleira de pedra (1993), Os dedos dos loureiros (2000), Anos da memoria (2006) and Bortel do canto (2007)
He has written critical essays on Rosalía, Pondal, Curros, Novoneyra and Antón Avilés, and edited the anthology Ramón Cabanillas. Escolma poética (2003).
He is also the author of many pieces in anthologies and journals.

Xosé Maria Cáccamo

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