Manuel Amor Meilán

Pseudonym: He used the pseudonym 'Manuel Molina Mera' when he published a series of Galician biographies in different newspapers.
Category: Journalist, poet, novelist, playwright, historian
Birth Date: 31st January 1867 († 9th December 1933)
Birth Place: A Coruña
 Curriculum

He was one of the founders of the Galician Academy and member of the Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando, Academy of Fine Arts in Barcelona, Academy of Fine Arts and Science in Toledo and the Archaeological Society in Pontevedra. He worked as civil servant at the County Council Offices in Lugo. He collaborated in the newspaper El Regional, and then became the editor for 20 years. He also edited the newspaper La Provincia. Besides, he collaborated in other newspapers and publications such as La Ilustración Artística, Revista de España, La Ilustración Ibérica...

 Work & Activities

Manuel Amor Meilán showed bilingualism in Galicia, writing both in Galician and Castilian language. POETRY He published some books in Castilian language such as Pedro Madruga (1887), Dolores. (Álbum de mi hija) (1890), Floralba (1902), Cuentos y romances (1907) and Romances (1916). NOVEL He published Mendo de Maceda o los amores de un noble (1882), Justicias y crueldades (1883), Desde la honradez al crimen (1884), Amante, esclava y verdugo (1889), La Corona de fuego o el secreto de una tumba, Sol y sombra. Cuentos y paisajes (1893), El último hijodalgo (1893), La Cadena (1905), La Bella Cintia, Suriña and Carne de poetas (1913). He also wrote Xuana and Os fillos da praya in Galician language THEATRE He published El regreso and El corazón y la ley (1897), Sísifo, Las alas rotas, Robo sin fractura, De la corte al cortijo, Floridor, Men Rodríguez Tenorio, In articulo mortis and La vida en Lugo. He also wrote about Galician history in the monographs Hernández (El Murillo de la escultura), La ofrenda y el entierro en Galicia en el teatro antiguo, Galicia y la nacionalidad española, Memoria crítico-bibliográfica sobre el teatro regional gallego and so forth.