Luisa Castro
Encyclopedia
Luisa Castro is a Spanish poet and writer in Galician
and Castilian
. She has lived in Barcelona
, New York
, Madrid
and Santiago de Compostela
. She collaborates with articles in Galician press.
Her first collection of poems, Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo (Definitive Odyssey: :Posthumous Book) was published in 1984. Her next book, Baleas e baleas (1988), was her first work in Galician language
. Her first novel was El somier (Bed Base) (1999).
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
and Castilian
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
. She has lived in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
and Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain.The city's Cathedral is the destination today, as it has been throughout history, of the important 9th century medieval pilgrimage route, the Way of St. James...
. She collaborates with articles in Galician press.
Her first collection of poems, Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo (Definitive Odyssey: :Posthumous Book) was published in 1984. Her next book, Baleas e baleas (1988), was her first work in Galician language
Galician language
Galician is a language of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia, an autonomous community located in northwestern Spain, where it is co-official with Castilian Spanish, as well as in border zones of the neighbouring territories of Asturias and Castile and León.Modern Galician and...
. Her first novel was El somier (Bed Base) (1999).
Prizes
- 1986 Premio Hiperión with Los versos del eunuco (The Eunuch's verses).
- 2001 Premio AzorínPremio AzorínThe Premio Azorín de Novela is one of the most important literary awards for works written in the Spanish language...
with El secreto de la lejía (Bleach Secret) - 2006 Premio Biblioteca Breve with La segunda mujer (The Second Woman)
Poetry
- Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo. Madrid: Arnao, 1984
- Los versos del eunuco. Madrid: Hiperión, 1986. (Premio Hiperión 1986)
- Baleas e baleas. Ferrol: Sociedad de Cultura Valle-Inclán, 1988
- Los seres vivos. 1988
- Los hábitos del artillero. Madrid: Visor Libros S.L., 1989. (Premio Rey Juan Carlos 1990)
- Ballenas. Madrid: Hiperión, 1992
- De mí haré una estatua ecuestre. Madrid: Hiperión, 1997
Narrative
- El somier. Barcelona. Anagrama, 1990. (Finalista del VIII Premio Herralde 1990)
- La fiebre amarilla. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1994
- Mi madre en la ventana.' En: Madres e hijas. Freixas, Laura (ed.) . Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996
- El amor inútil. En Páginas amarillas. Madrid: Lengua de trapo, 1997, pp. 137-145
- No es un regalo. En Vidas de mujer. Monmany, Mercedes (ed.) . Madrid: Alianza, 1998, pp. 245-253.
- El secreto de la lejía. Barcelona: Planeta, 2001. Novela. Premio AzorínPremio AzorínThe Premio Azorín de Novela is one of the most important literary awards for works written in the Spanish language...
2001 - Viajes con mi padre. Barcelona: Planeta, 2003
- Cuando más feliz soy. El Cultural, 26 jun 2003, p. 6
- Una patada en el culo y otros cuentos, 2004. Premio Torrente Ballester 2004
- La segunda mujer, 2006. Seix Barral. Premio Biblioteca Breve.
Essay
- Carmen Martín Gaite. In Retratos literarios Retratos literarios: Escritores españoles del siglo XX evocados por sus contemporáneos. Freixas, Laura (ed.) . Madrid: Espasa Calpé, 1997, pp. 306-307
- Diario de los años apresurados. Madrid: Hiperión, 1998