biography
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Villar Ponte, Antón
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pronunciation:
[veelyah(r) pontay
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| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1936)
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| biography:
| Galician playwright, novelist, and essayist, born in Viveiro, Lugo, NW Spain. He founded the regional Irmandades da Fala in 1916 and wrote stirring calls for regional cultural autonomy in essays such as Nacionalismo galego: a nosa afirmación regional. After qualifying as a pharmacist at Santiago University he practised in Fox, went to Madrid as a journalist, then to Cuba, and finally returned to Galicia in 1916. With Ramón Cabanillas Enríquez he wrote O mariscal (1926), a historical-legendary play, and then began to publish plays of his own, of which the most enduring are O tríptico teatral (Santiago 1928), consisting of A patria do labrego, on caciquismo; Almas mortas, on emigration; Entre dous abismos, on superstition; and Os evanxeos da risa absoluta (Santiago, 1934), a folk-play of great charm and vivacity. |
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