Portico of Galician Literature

Biography

Anxo Angueira lectures in Galician literature at the University of Vigo. He has written four books of fiction, the most famous of which is Listing Ship, winner of the Xerais Prize for novels, about the tensions in a Galician village in the build-up to the Spanish Civil War. He is also the author of several poetry collections and essays on the history of Galician literature, in particular the Galician Revival of the second half of the nineteenth century. He is president of the Rosalía de Castro Foundation in Padrón and has produced Galician editions of both this poet’s major Galician works, Galician Songs and New Leaves, for the publishing house Edicións Xerais. He is very linked to this part of Galicia, just south of Santiago de Compostela, on the banks of the river Sar, having been born nearby and lived there all his life.

Synopsis

Listing Ship (192 pages) is a novel about the simmering tensions in a Galician village before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. It is also a novel about the possibilities of modernism, progress, in a rural setting, the opportunity for different forces to come together in search of the common good. The novel is set in Sernanselle, a village to the southwest of Santiago de Compostela, in the Arousa estuary, based on the village where the author himself grew up.

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