Ramón Sandoval


Birth Date: In 1961
Birth Place: Sober (Lugo)
 Curriculum

As a civil servant of the Post Service, he lived in Villaviciosa (Asturias) and A Rúa de Valdeorras (Ourense) and has been living in Vigo for seventeen years.

 Work & Activities

He began to write in Spanish and since the mid 90’s he has written in Galician. He has published poems in several literary magazines: Aguamarina, Aquiana, Arboleda, Brisa, Clarín, Cuadernos de Poesía Nueva, El Parnaso, Galicia en Madrid, Gemma, Nirvana Populi, Peliart, Primacía, Orchilla, Temas de Asturias, Trébede...

He participated in “Encontros de Poetas Valdeorreses” for several years in O Barco de Valdeorras and A Rúa de Valdeorras.

He spent over ten years without writing but he took it up again about four years ago.

 

PUBLISHED BOOKS:

“Como una lluvia” (poetry book), 1990.

"Territorios estraños", 2013.

 

LITERARY PRIZES:

-“II Certamen de Poesía Orchilla”, second prize (1988)

-“XI Certamen de Poesía Feliciano Rolán”, second prize, A Garda (1997) with the poem “Houbo un tempo en que fomos nenos”.

-“I Certamen de Poesía Manuel Leiras Pulpeiro”, second prize, Mondoñedo (2012) with “Cicatrices do insomnio”.

-“XVIII Certamen Literario Manuel-Oreste Rodríguez López”, first prize, Paradela (2013) with the poem “Conta atrás”.

-He won the sixth edition of Victoriano Taibo Poetry Contest with the book “Territorios estraños”, Gondomar (2013).

-He is included in “Antología de Poetas Españoles e Hispanoamericanos de Hoy, Tomo V”, Barcelona (1987), “Poesía Galicia. Antología 1990”, “Versos y Voces de Prometeo, Volumen 1”, Madrid (1991), “Antología: Los Nuevos Poetas”, Barcelona (1994) and “Cancionero General de Prometeo”, Madrid (1994).