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Nov 22, 1929 Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain Died on 12 Sep 2017 (aged 87)
Spanish poet
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About Xohana Torres
- Xohana Torres Fernández (November 22, 1929 – September 12, 2017) was a Spanish writer, poet, playwright, and member of the Royal Galician Academy whose best known works included the novel, Adiós, María (1971), which won the Galician literary prize from the Galician Center of Buenos Aires, and Estación ao mar (1980).
- Torres was part of a generation of writers who championed Galician language and literature during the Francoist era at a time when regional languages were routinely suppressed.Torres also directed Raíz e Tempo, the first cultural radio program broadcast exclusively in Galician.
- Examples of her works of children's literature include Polo mar van as sardiñas (1968) and Pericles e a balea (1984).Torres was born in Santiago de Compostela on November 22, 1931.
- She died in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, on September 12, 2017, at the age of 85.
