Claudio Rodriguez Fer

Claudio Rodriguez Fer (Lugo, Galicia, 1956) is a Galician writer. He is the author of numerous literary works (poetry, narrative, theatre and essay) in the Galician language and of works of modern literary studies in Spanish. He was a Visiting Professor at the City University of New York, at the University of Southern Brittany and at the Universite Haute Bretagne at Rennes, where he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa. He is Director of the Chair Jose Angel Valente of Poetry and Aesthetic at Universidade of Santiago de Compostela, where he also directs the Moenia magazine. With Carmen Blanco, he coordinates the intercultural and libertarian magazine Union Libre. Cadernos de vida e culturas. He has published, spoken, and read his work in numerous parts of Europe, America and Africa.

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• Poetry
• Prose
• Essay
• Edition and Introduction
• References

Claudio Rodriguez Fer published his collected poems in Amores e clamores ['Love and Cries'; Edicios do Castro, 2011] and his narrative in Contos e descontos ['Stories and Not'; Toxosoutos, 2011].

He grouped his poetry in thematic cycles: the erotic, in Vulva (1990), which includes Poemas de amor sen morte ['Poems of Love Without Death'; 1979], Tigres de ternura ['Tender Tigers', 1981], Historia da lua ['Moon Story', 1984], A boca violeta ['Violet Mouth', 1987] and Cebra ['Zebra', 1988]; film, in Cinepoemas ['Filmpoems', 1983]; historical themes, in the Memory Trilogy, comprising Lugo Blues [1987], A loita continua ['The Struggle Continues', 2004], and Amote vermella ['I Love You Red', 2009]; and the nomadic poems, which to date include Extrema Europa [1996], A unha muller desconocida ['To an Unknown Woman', 1997], Viaxes a ti ['Trips to You', 2006] and Unha tempada no paraiso ['A Stay in Paradise', 2010], this last volume with an in-depth commentary by Olga Novo.

His critical work includes Poesia galega ['Galician Poetry', 1989], Arte Literaria [1991], A literatura galega durante a guerra civil ['Galician Literature During the Civil War', 1994], Acometida atlantica ['Atlantic Attack', 1996], Guia de investigacion literaria [1998] and numerous books and editions on the narrator Anxel Fole and the poet Jose Angel Valente, along with other Galician (Castelao, Dieste, Carballo, Angel Johan, Cunqueiro) and non-Galician (Dostoevsky, Machado, Borges, Neruda, Cernuda) writers.

Translated to English in "Beyond and other poems", by Diana Conchado, Kathleen N. March, Julian Palley and Jonathan Dunne, Birmingham-Oxford, Galician Review, 3–4, 1999–2000, 105–132; in Entre duas augas, by Kathleen N. March, Santiago de Compostela, Amaranta Press, 2003, 13–23; in Contemporary Galician Poets ("An Old Man and a Boy (Revolutionary Project on Lugo Wall)" and "From Trace of Woman"), by Jonathan Dunne, A Poetry Review Supplement, Xunta de Galicia, 2010, 52–55; Tender Tigers, by Kathleen N. March, Noia, Editorial Toxosoutos, 2012; Rosalia's Revolution in New York, by Kathleen N. March, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, A tola sonando, 2014, and Deathless Loves, by Diana Conchado and others, Santiago de Compostela, Edicions Follas Novas, 2015.

In prose: An Anthology of Galician Short Stories. Asi vai o conto, by Kathleen March, Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 1991, 144–149,