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The birth of Celso Emilio Ferreiro

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The birth of Celso Emilio Ferreiro

Historical milestone · Celanova, Terra de Celanova, Ourense

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Also born in Celanova, on 4 January 1912, was Celso Emilio Ferreiro, the youngest of seven children of a well-off, Galicianist family; at twenty he founded the Mocedades Galeguistas de Celanova with Xosé Velo and directed the weekly Adiante, entirely in Galician. Mobilised in the Civil War, he was sent as a radio telegraph operator to the Asturias front, and in 1937, on leave in his home town, he was arrested for political remarks and locked for three days in a stone cell of the local monastery. The foremost figure of social poetry in Galician and of the Xeración do 36, he was honoured with the 1989 Día das Letras Galegas. Author of Longa noite de pedra, the most influential Galician poetry book of the post-war period, written partly in exile in Venezuela. He died in Vigo in 1979.

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Photo: José Antonio Gil Martínez from Vigo, Spain (CC BY 2.0)

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