About Luisa Castro
Born 1966. Luisa Castro is a Spanish writer, essayist, journalist, opinion journalist, poet and short story writer.
Luisa Castro (born 1966, in Foz, Lugo) is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish. She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid, Santiago de Compostela, Naples and Bordeaux. She is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Dublin, Ireland.
Her first collection of poems, Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo (Definitive Odyssey: :Posthumous Book) was published in 1984. Her next book, Baleas e baleas (1988), was her first work in the Galician language. Her first novel was El somier (Bed Base) (1999).
Prizes 1986 Premio Hiperión with Los versos del eunuco. 2001 Premio Azorín with El secreto de la lejía. 2006 Premio Biblioteca Breve with La segunda mujer.
Works
Poetry Odisea definitiva: Libro póstumo. Madrid: Arnao, 1984 Los versos del eunuco. Madrid: Hiperión, 1986. (Premio Hiperión 1986) Baleas e baleas. Ferrol: Sociedad de Cultura Valle-Inclán, 1988 Los seres vivos. 1988 Los hábitos del artillero. Madrid: Visor Libros S.L., 1989. (Premio Rey Juan Carlos 1990) Ballenas. Madrid: Hiperión, 1992 De mí haré una estatua ecuestre. Madrid: Hiperión, 1997 Actores vestidos de calle. Madrid: Visor, 2018 La fortaleza: Poesía reunida (1984-2005). Madrid: Visor, 2019 Un amor antiguo. Vigo: Galaxia, 2022
Narrative El somier. Barcelona. Anagrama, 1990. (Finalista del VIII Premio Herralde 1990) La fiebre amarilla. Barcelona: Anagrama, 1994 Mi madre en la ventana.' En: Madres e hijas. Freixas, Laura (ed.) . Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996 El amor inútil. En Páginas amarillas. Madrid: Lengua de trapo, 1997, pp. 137–145 No es un regalo. En Vidas de mujer. Monmany, Mercedes (ed.) . Madrid: Alianza, 1998, pp. 245–253. El secreto de la lejía. Barcelona: Planeta, 2001. Novela. Premio Azorín 2001 Viajes con mi padre. Barcelona: Planeta, 2003 Cuando más feliz soy. El Cultural, 26 jun 2003, p. 6 Una patada en el culo y otros cuentos, 2004. Premio Torrente Ballester 2004 La segunda mujer, 2006. Seix Barral. Premio Biblioteca Breve.
Essay Carmen Martín Gaite. In Retratos literarios Retratos literarios: Escritores españoles del siglo XX evocados por sus contemporáneos. Freixas, Laura (ed.) . Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1997, pp. 306–307 Diario de los años apresurados. Madrid: Hiperión, 1998
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