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Birth of Francisco Añón

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Birth of Francisco Añón

Historical milestone · Outes, Noia, A Coruña

In the hamlet of Boel, in the parish of San Pedro de Outes (Outes, A Coruña), Francisco Añón Paz was born on October 9, 1812, a Galician poet and journalist, precursor of the Rexurdimento and a collaborator of the first provincialist generation. The son of a well-off farming family, he studied Philosophy and Theology in Santiago de Compostela and graduated in Law in 1845. In 1846 he moved to Lisbon, where he lived until 1850, and afterward traveled through France, Italy and southern Spain in the service of an English nobleman; he later lived in Seville and in Madrid, the city where in 1875 he founded the association La Galicia Literaria, of which he was president, and where he died in 1878, sunk in poverty. The 1966 Día das Letras Galegas (Day of Galician Letters) was dedicated to him.

9 de octubre de 1812

Photo: Mark Gasoline (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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