Work & Activities

In the books El envés (1969), Laberinto y Cía (1970) and El descanso del camellero (1971) there is a collection of all his articles published in Faro de Vigo.
POETRY: Cunqueiro started his literary activity as a poet. Mar ó norde (1932) is a group of poems about the sea. In 1933, he published Poemas do si e non and Cantiga nova que se chama ribeira. He also wrote Elegías y Canciones (1940), which contains poems written in Galician language between 1934 and 1936, Dona do corpo delgado (1950) and Herba aquí e acolá (1980).
NARRATIVE: Cunqueiro was very successful in his narrative production. He wrote in Castilian language at first. His production started in 1936 with the book El mundo y otras vísperas. Then he published La historia del caballero Rafael (1939), Balada de las damas del tiempo pasado (1945), El Caballero, la muerte y el diablo (1956), Las mocedades de Ulises (1960), Un hombre que se parecía a Orestes (1969), El año del cometa (1974) and La otra gente (1975). His narrative work in Galician language started when he published Merlín e familia in 1955, As crónicas do Sochantre (1956) and Si o vello Simbad volvese ás illas... (1961). Escola de menciñeiros (1960), Xente de aquí e acolá (1971) and Os outros feirantes (1979) are portraits of real and imaginary characters that show the psychology of the Galician man. Tesouros novos e vellos (1964) are stories about different mythological fantasies.
THEATRE: Besides prose and verse he also wrote some theatre plays: O incerto señor don Hamlet, príncipe de Dinamarca (1958) and A noite vai coma un río (1969) are his most important ones. He also wrote cookery books such as La cocina cristiana de Occidente (1969) or A cociña galega (1973) and several tourist catalogues. He also translated into Spanish Merlín y Familia (1957), Las crónicas del Sochantre (1959), Cuando el viejo Simbad vuelva a las islas (1962) and Tertulia de boticas prodigiosas y escuela de curanderos (1976).