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ROSALÍA DE CASTRO

Dom, 24/03/2013 - 23:29 — adminmontse

rosalia

 

Santiago de Compostela 24 February 1837

Padrón 15 July 1885

 

 

 

 

She was a Galician romanticist writer and poet.


 

She wrote  in the Galician language and she became an important figure of the Galician Romantic Movement, known today as the Rexurdimento ("renaissance"), along with Manuel Curros Enríquez and Eduardo Pondal.


 

She married Manuel Murguía.  The couple had seven children.


The date she published her first collection of poetry in Galician, Cantares gallegos ("Galician Songs"), May 17, 1863, is commemorated every year as the Día das Letras Galegas ("Galician Literature Day"), an official holiday of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, and has been dedicated to an important writer in the Galician language since 1963.

 

cantares gallegod

 

And here you have two videos about some of her poems, pupils from 5 and 6 grade decorated them and Ella, our language assistant,read them:

 


 


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