Xosé Vázquez Pintor

Pseudonym: Álvaro Carmoega - Pepe de Vila
Category: Poet, narrator, essayist and playwright
Birth Date: 30th November 1946
Birth Place: Melide (A Coruña)

Opinión
 Curriculum

After spending his childhood in Agolada (Pontevedra), he studied History, Journalism and Pedagogy. He works as teacher of Secondary Education in Pontevedra.
He collaborates in several Galician newspapers and magazines. He also made radio programmes and nowadays he coordinates a programme live on Morrazo TV.
He founded the theatre groups 'Ancoradouro' and 'Teatro casa da bola' in Cangas.
He is also working in the third volume of the anthropological essay Os vellos oficios and finishing his third novel.

 Work & Activities

POETRY:
1971.- Gándaras.
1975.- Terra e pan.
1977.- O espertar tamén é noso.
1984.- Ofidios de diario.
1989.- Na vertical da Noite (‘Ciudad de Ourense’ Prize).
1989.- No corazón mancado (‘Esquío’ Prize).
1996.- Rotación violeta, Banzados (unpublished).
Some of his poems were translated in Macedonia and Euskadi.
NARRATIVE:
De ida e volta (stories); Lume de Biqueira (novel),
Quen faga voar (novel); A entrega (story) and Mar de bronce (novel).
ESSAY:
Os vellos oficios, A tribo sabe.
THEATRE:
Teatro do Patacón.
A sombra da memoria, finalist of "Rafael Dieste" Prize (1999).
LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN:
A fraga encantada (theatre), A folla seca (Sotelo Blanco, Bolboreta collection nº 1, 2002), Sala de espera (school theatre), A Pinguela collection, 2002. The theatre play Asubío, Fina e Petra eran xente moi lareta is about to be published

 Other Interesting Aspects

POETRY PRIZES:
2001- “Uxío Novoneyra” for his book Banzados, Espiral Mayor Publications.
1989- "Esquío".
1989- "Ciudad de Ourense".
1982- "Pondal"
Finalist in:
1982- "Reconquista".
1980- "Xustas literarias galegas".
NARRATIVE PRIZES:
2001- “Torrente Ballester” for his novel A memoria do boi, Xerais Publications. With this novel he also got the Prize of Spanish Criticism in 2002 and it was also selected for the collection Biblioteca 120 of the newspaper La Voz de Galicia (2002).
2000- "Carvalho Calero".
2007- "Premio Risco de Creación Literaria".
1997- "Pedrón de Ouro" (2º).
THEATRE PRIZES:
1982- "O Facho".
1999- "Finalista del Rafael Dieste".