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The Uxío Novoneyra House-Museum

Folgoso do Courel, Quiroga, Lugo

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The Uxío Novoneyra House-Museum

Monument · Folgoso do Courel, Quiroga, Lugo

The house that today houses the foundation dedicated to Uxío Novoneyra is preserved in the hamlet of Parada, where the poet was born on 19 January 1930 and where, after falling ill with pleurisy in 1953, he lived in seclusion until 1962; Folgoso de Caurel was from then on the main physical reference point of his verse, especially of the poetry collection Os Eidos, published in 1955 with texts written between 1952 and 1953. The son of a peasant family, Novoneyra became one of the most outstanding voices of 20th-century Galician poetry, and in 2010 the Día das Letras Galegas was dedicated to him; he died in Santiago de Compostela in 1999. The family house, restored in the early 21st century, has a ground floor and one upper storey, with a cellar, stables and forge around a courtyard, and today houses the foundation that bears his name.

Photo: Estevoaei (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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