María López Sández

María López Sández (2024)

María López Sández (Lugo, September 17, 1973) is a Galician philologist and essayist.[1] She is an academic numerary of the Royal Galician Academy (RAG).

Education

She graduated from IES Lucus Augusti [gl] and obtained a degree in Hispanic, English and Galician-Portuguese Philology from the University of Santiago de Compostela (USD). She received her doctorate in Literary theory and comparative literature from this university with the thesis, A descrición topográfica, o seu papel na construción dun imaxinario cultural no discurso literario galego ("Cantares gallegos", "Arredor de si" e o ciclo textual de "Tagen Ata"). (Topographic description, its role in the construction of a cultural imaginary in the Galician literary discourse - "Cantares Galicians", "Arredor de si" and the textual cycle of "Tagen Ata") (2006).[2] She received the End of Education Career Award of the Autonomous Community of Galicia, and the National Award for Completion of University Studies in Philology.[3]

Career and research

Lopez taught in secondary education at Centro público integrado [gl] (CPI) Fonte Díaz, Touro, Spain and at Instituto de Educación Secundaria [es] (IES) Xulián Magariños [gl] in Negreira.[4] She is also an associate professor at the USC Faculty of Education Sciences.[5] Her work as a researcher focuses on the relationship between Galician literature and landscape imagery and urban space, as well as the study of cartography as a semiotic of space.[6] She is the author of articles and studies on Rosalía de Castro, Rosalía e a paisaxe galega, Os efectos da aculturación en “El cadiceño” de Rosalía de Castro”. She has participated in international congresses with reports on Castro, O ensaio como subtexto na prosa de Rosalía de Castro, Cantares gallegos, novas perspectivas de análise.[7][6]

In 2022, she was elected an academic numerary of RAG. On March 11, 2023. She delivered her induction speech Onde abrolla o manancial: a paisaxe na raíz do ensaísmo galego (Where the spring flows: the landscape at the root of the Galician essay).[8]

Awards and honours

  • 2023, Premio 8 de Marzo[4]
  • 2020, Finalist, Raíña Lupa Award, for A noite da Deusa[4]
  • 2014, Finalist, La Voz de Galicia Novel Award, for O faro escuro[4]
  • 2012, Repsol Short Narrative Award, for A forma das nubes[9][10]
  • 2007, Ramón Piñeiro Prize for Essay, for Paisaxe e nación. A creación discursiva do territorio.[10]

Selected works in Galician

Essays

  • Paisaxe e nación. A creación discursiva do territorio (2008), Galaxia[11]
  • Movendo os marcos do patriarcado, co-author with Marilar Aleixandre, 2021[12] Translated into Spanish by the authors themselves.[13]

Narratives

  • A forma das nubes (2012)., Galaxia. Second edition, 2014.[14]
  • O faro escuro (2015), Galaxia[15]
  • A noite da deusa (2020), Galaxia, Costa Oeste ISBN 978-84-9151-469-5

Collective works

  • Libres e vivas (2021), Galaxia[16]

References

  1. ^ "María López Sández". aelg.gal. Galician Writers Association. April 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  2. ^ López Sández, María (2006). "A descrición topográfica: o seu papel na construción dun imaxinario cultural no discurso literario galego (Cantares gallegos, Arredor de si e o ciclo textual de Tagen Ata)" [The topographical description: its role in the construction of a cultural imaginary in the Galician literary discourse (Cantares Gallegos, Arredor de si and the textual cycle of Tagen Ata)]. investigacion.usc.gal. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  3. ^ "María López Sández". poesiagalega.org. 19 May 2011. Retrieved 1 September 2024 – via web.archive.org.
  4. ^ a b c d Enfoques, Redacción (9 March 2023). "María López Sández recibe el Premio 8 de Marzo en Negreira por sus años en el IES Xulián de Magariños" [María López Sández receives the March 8 Award in Negreira for her years at IES Xulián de Magariños]. Enfoques (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Maria Lopez Sandez". www.usc.gal. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  6. ^ "Galaxia de autores" [Galaxy of authors]. editorialgalaxia.es. 29 June 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2024 – via web.archive.org.
  7. ^ "María López Sández". mar-maior.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  8. ^ "María López Sández ingresará como membro de número da Real Academia Galega o 11 de marzo en Lugo" [María López Sández will enter as a full member of the Royal Galician Academy on March 11 in Lugo]. Real Academia Galega (in Galician). 2 March 2023. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  9. ^ "María López Sández recibiu o VI Premio de Narrativa Breve Repsol" [María López Sández received the 6th Repsol Short Narrative Award]. Editorial Galaxia (in Galician). 18 December 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  10. ^ a b "Premios de María López Sández" [María López Sández awards]. www.cervantes.es. Departamento de Bibliotecas y Documentación del Instituto Cervantes. Retrieved 1 September 2024.
  11. ^ "Catálogo de libros" [Book catalog]. editorialgalaxia.es. 29 June 2012. ISBN 978-84-9865-130-0.
  12. ^ Triñáns, Ana. "Marilar Aleixandre e María López reivindican nun libro o feminismo de Pardo Bazán" [Marilar Aleixandre and María López claim in a book the feminism of Pardo Bazán]. Nós Diario (in Galician).
  13. ^ "Moviendo Los Marcos Del Patriarcado" [Moving the Frames of Patriarchy]. bibliotraducion.uvigo.es.
  14. ^ "A forma das nubes" [The shape of the clouds] (in Galician). Editorial Galaxia. ISBN 978-84-9865-469-1.
  15. ^ "O faro escuro" [The dark lighthouse]. Editorial Galaxia (in Galician). ISBN 978-84-9865-591-9.
  16. ^ "Libres e vivas" [Free and alive]. Editorial Galaxia (in Galician). ISBN 978-84-9151-586-9.