Olga Novo

Olga Novo

Olga Novo (born 1975 in Vilarmao, A Pobra do Brollón) is a Galician poet and essayist.

She studied Galician Philology at the University of Santiago de Compostela and was a high school teacher in several Galician centres, and a Galician literature professor at the University of Southern Brittany, in Lorient.

She has published her works and essays in several publications (Festa da Palabra Silenciada, Dorna, Xistral, El País, ABC…).

Works

Magnalia, with the painter Alexandra Domínguez and the poet Xoán Abeleira.

Poetry

• A teta sobre o sol (1996)
• Nós nus (1997)
• A cousa vermella (2004)
• Cráter (2011)

Essay

• Por un vocabulario galego do sexo. A terminoloxía erótica de Claudio Rodriguez Fer (1995)
• O lume vital de Claudio Rodriguez Fer (1999, 2008)
• Uxío Novoneyra. Lingua loaira (2005)
• Introdución a Unha tempada no paraíso de Claudio Rodríguez Fer (2010)
• Erótica Medieval Galaica (2013)
• No principio foi o pracer (2017)

Translations

• El contradiscurso de las mujeres. Historia del proceso feminista, by Carmen Blanco.

Prizes

• Ánxel Fole Award of research Uxío Novoneyra. Lingua loaira.
• Losada Diéguez Award, Nós nus.

External links

• Ficha da autora na Biblioteca Virtual Galega
• The Barcelona Review