Xuan Bello

Xuan Bello Fernán (* 1965 in Tinéu , Asturias ) is a Spanish poet, writer and translator who writes in Spanish and Asturian .

Life

At the age of 16 he published his first volume of poetry, Nel cuartu mariellu . He studied at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Oviedo and was able to establish contacts with writers such as Antón García , José Luis García Martín , Víctor Botas , Berta Piñán , Fonsu Velázquez , Xuan Ignaciu Llope and José Luis Piquero . He wrote for the literary magazines Lletres asturianes , Clarín and Adréi .

Bello is considered to be one of the most important contemporary Asturian writers. In 2010 he received the Premiu de la Crítica RPA (Critics' Prize for Literature of the Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias) for the collection of poetry Ambos mundus , in 2017 he was awarded the Premiu Nacional de Lliteratura Asturiana for his literary work in Asturian.

Bello is a Corresponding Member of the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (ALLA).

Works

Poetry

Nel cuartu mariellu , 1982
Llibru de les cenices , 1988
El llibru vieyu , 1994.
Los caminos secretos , 1996.
La vida perdida. Llibros del Pexe, Gijón 1999, ISBN 84-89985-26-X (Bilingual anthology of poetry; contains El llibru de les cenices = El libro de las cenizas. Los nomes de la tierra = Los nombres de la tierra. El llibru vieyu = El libro viejo. Los caminos secretos = Los caminos secretos ).
Os nomes da terra. Los nomes de la tierra. Edicións Positivas, Santiago de Compostela, 2010, ISBN 978-84-87783-25-8 . (Bilingual edition).
Anvil mundos. Poesía 1988-2009. Trabe, Uviéu 2010, ISBN 978-84-8053-591-5 .

Essays

Como facer L'Habana ensin salir d'Asturies , 1998.
Ríu arriba , 1998.
La bola infinita , 2000.

Novel, narrative

Pantasmes mundos, laberintos , 1996.
Hestoria universal de Paniceiros , 2002.
- Spanish edition: Historia universal de Paniceiros , 2003; Galician 2008; Catalan 2008.
Los cuarteles de la memoria , 2003.
Meditaciones nel desiertu , 2003.
La cueva del olvidu , 2006.
La Hestoria Tapecida , 2008. Hestories varies

Youth literature

El nuberu ye bona xente , 2003.

Translations

José Luis Olaizola: Bibiana y el so mundu ( 1989 ).
Álvaro de Campos (pseudonym of Fernando Pessoa ): Estancu y otros poemes , 1989.
Robert Louis Stevenson : El casu raru del dr. Jeckyll y mr. Hyde , 1995.
Arthur Conan Doyle : Tres aventures de Sherlock Holmes , 1995.
Álvaro Cunqueiro : Escuela de melecineros y fábula de varia xente , 1997.
Jaume Cela: Silenciu nel corazón .
Sieglu XX cambalache (texts by Kipling, Pound, Ungaretti, Auden, Ferrater, Elitis, de Sena, Pavese etc.)
Alfonso Daniel Rodríguez Castelao : Coses , 2000.
Jordi Sierra i Fabra: Nun llugar que llamen guerra , 2002.

Autobiography

Incierta historia de la verdad . Editorial Rata, Barcelona 2019, ISBN 978-84-16738-20-5 .

Others

Berta Piñán, Xuan Bello: Alfaya. Llibru d'aprendizaxe. Serviciu de publicaciones del Principáu d'Asturies, [Bilbao] 1989, ISBN 84-86795-60-5 (didactic material).
L'alborá de los malvises , 1999 (Critical Edition by Constantino Cabal ).
El sentimientu de la tierra , 1999 (anthology of contemporary Asturian literature).

None of his works has yet been translated into German.

literature

Nathan Richardson: "Global Citizenship Made-in-Asturias: Xuan Bello's Paniceiros." In: Romance Notes , Vol. 54, No. 1, 2014, pp. 75-82. ( doi: 10.1353 / rmc.2014.0008 , Project MUSE, accessed January 15, 2017, English).

Web links

Commons : Xuan Bello - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Xuan Bello in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

↑ Xuan Bello, ganador del primer Premiu Nacional de Lliteratura Asturiana. In: La Voz de Asturias, January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
↑ L'Academia . Retrieved January 15, 2017.
↑ Review: Antía Marante Arias: “Un canto de señardá”. In: Revista de Poesia , 2011, No. N1, November, pp. 64-67. (academia.edu, accessed January 15, 2017, Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Bello, Xuan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bello Fernán, Xuan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish poet, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH	1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tinéu , Asturias

[1] Xuan Bello, ganador del primer Premiu Nacional de Lliteratura Asturiana. In: La Voz de Asturias, January 13, 2017. Retrieved January 15, 2017.

[2] L'Academia . Retrieved January 15, 2017.

[3] Review: Antía Marante Arias: “Un canto de señardá”. In: Revista de Poesia , 2011, No. N1, November, pp. 64-67. (academia.edu, accessed January 15, 2017, Spanish).