Xurxo Borrazás Fariña, born in Carballo, Spain, on 6 August 1963, is a Spanish writer in Galician language and translator from English to Galician.

Biography

He earned a degree in English philology from the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. At this time, he began to write poetry, and then continued writing narrative fiction. He has translated Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (for Galaxia) and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulker into Galician. His fiction has been defined as experimental and transgressive. Some of his novels have been translated into Spanish, English, Russian and Portuguese. Several stories have appeared in English in the anthology From the Beginning of the Sea published in Oxford by Foreign Demand. He has lectured at Spanish and British universities and writes articles on the fields of culture and politics for Galician press.

Works

Awards

• 1994 Premio de la Crítica de narrativa gallega, for Vicious
• 1995 Premio San Clemente, for Vicious
• 2001 Premio Antón Losada Diéguez in category Creación literaria, for Na maleta
• 2008 Premio de la Crítica de Galicia in category Ensayo y Pensamiento, for Arte e parte

References

• "Xurxo Borrazás Fariña". Praza das Letras (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 July 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2010.

External links

• Author profile at Editorial Galaxia
• Text of "Blackbirds"
• Fragment in English from "Ser ou non"
• "Paper on Minority Language Literature"
• La aldea muerta, novel, in Google books
• yuard. A story in Litro magazine