Ramón Otero Pedrayo
Ramón Otero Pedrayo ( born March 5, 1888 in Ourense, † April 10, 1976 ) was a Spanish novelist, who wrote in Galician language.
Life
Otero studied in Madrid and Santiago de Compostela, law, philosophy and literature. After his return to Ourense he was contributor to the magazine La Centuria and counted alongside Vicente Risco, Florentino Cuevillas and Primitivo Rodriguez Sanjurjo to a group of young writers who joined under the influence Antón Losada Diéguez ' the Galician nationalist movement. He taught history geography and history at the Seminario de Estudos Galegos and debuted in 1925 as a writer with a collection of short stories under the title Pantelas, home libre.
There were other prose works, including Caminos da vida (1928 ) and the autobiographical novel Arredor de sí ( 1930). In addition, Otero was still politically active: he worked as a public speaker, co-founded the Partido Galeguista and 1931 was elected to the Constituent Assembly. He sat down in 1936 for the Popular Front, and retired during the Spanish Civil War to the possession of his family in Trasalba back.
1950 Otero became professor of geography and history at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. He participated in the founding of the Editorial Galaxia part, wrote for their collection Entre a Vendima ea Castiñeira and wrote reviews for the magazine Grial. Otero left behind an extensive narrative work, but also emerged as a poet, was a well-known essayist and was considered an important representative of the Galician Resistance during the Franco dictatorship. When he died in 1976 achtundachtzigjährig, he was the patriarch of Galician literature. Besides Risco, Afonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao and Losada Diéguez Otero is counted for Grupo Nos.
Works
- Pantelas, home libre (1925 )
- Arredor de sí
- Entre a Vendimia e a Castiñeira
- Ramiro (1926 )
- Escrito na néboa (1926 )
- Os Caminos da vida (1928 )
- Arredor de sí (1930 )
- A romería de Xelmírez (1934 )
- Fra Vernero (1934 )
- Devalar (1935 )
- O mesón dos Ermos (1936 )
- O Señorito because Reboraina (1960 )