Eugenio Novo Neira alias Uxío Novoneyra (b. Parada de Moreda, Courel

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, 19 January 1930-d. Santiago de Compostela

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, 30 October 1999) was a poet and a Children's book writer from Galicia, in Spain

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He was the son of a family of farmers. He started writing poems while he studied Secondary Education

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 in Lugo

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. Then he moved to Madrid

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 to study Philosophy

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 and Literature

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. In 1951, he came back to Galicia and started his publications in Galician language

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. In 1962, he went back to Madrid

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 again and worked in radio and TV programmes. In 1973, he married Elva Rey, they had three children. In 1983 he went definitely to Santiago de Compostela

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 where he worked for the Writers in Galego Language Association until he died in 1999. In his works, he expresses his nationalist and Marxist interests without ignoring the poetic patterns.

Books

• Os eidos (1955), Vigo
  Vigo
  Vigo is a city and municipality in north-west Spain, in Galicia, situated on the ria of the same name on the Atlantic Ocean.-Population:...
  
  , Edicións Xerais de Galicia, 84-7507-455-3
• Os eidos 2. Letanía de Galicia e outros poemas (1974), Vigo
  Vigo
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   Ed. Galaxia 84-7154-221-8
• Poemas caligráficos (1979) Madrid, Brais Pinto, ISBN 84-85171-05-5
• Libro do Courel (1981)
• Muller pra lonxe (1987) Lugo, 84-505-4535-8
• Do Courel a Compostela 1956-1986 (1988) Santiago de Compostela, Sotelo Blanco 84-86021-80-4
• O cubil de Xabarín (1990) Madrid, Edlevives : 84-263-1956-4
• Tempo de elexía (1991) Oleiros
  Oleiros
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  , Vía Láctea 84-86531-58-6
• Gorgorín e Cabezón (1992) Madrid,Edelvives, 84-263-2170-4
• Poemas de doada certeza i este brillo premido entre as pálpebras (1994) A Coruña
  A Coruña
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  , Espiral Maior 84-88137-39-7
• Betanzos: Poema dos Caneiros e Estampas (1998)
• Dos soños teimosos Noitarenga (1998) Santiago de compostela, Noitarenga, 84-921096-5-3
• Ilda, o lobo, o corzo e o xabarín (1998) Zaragoza
  Zaragoza
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  , Edelvives, 84-263-3727-9
• Arrodeos e desvíos do Camiño de Santiago e outras rotas (1999)A Coruña, Hércules Ediciones, 84-453-2306-7