About Xohana Torres
Lived 1929 – 2017 (aged 87). Xohana Torres was a Spanish poet, writer, playwright, narrator, children's writer and novelist.
Xohana Torres Fernández (22 November 1929 – 12 September 2017) was a Spanish writer, poet, playwright.
Biography Torres was born in Santiago de Compostela on 22 November 1931. Torres was part of a generation of writers who championed Galician language and literature during the Francoist era at a time when regional languages were routinely suppressed.
Torres also directed Raíz e Tempo, the first cultural radio program broadcast exclusively in Galician. Examples of her works of children's literature include Polo mar van as sardiñas (1968) and Pericles e a balea (1984).
She died in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, on 12 September 2017, at the age of 85.
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Who was Xohana Torres?
Spanish poet (1931-2017)
When was Xohana Torres born?
Xohana Torres was born on 22 November 1929 in Santiago de Compostela.
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Xohana Torres died on 12 September 2017 in Vigo.
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Xohana Torres was a poet, writer, playwright, narrator, children's writer and novelist.
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Xohana Torres was Spanish.
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