Short Biography. Writing models Adult learners. Basic English.

1. Galician Poet and Translator
Galicia Literature Day is dedicated to him in 2014

2. He was born in Guitiriz (Galicia)
He was born on 19 February 1914

3. He went to school in Guitiriz and when he was 17, he moved to the
Seminar in Mondoñedo.
He became a teacher. He taught English in a private school : Leon XII
in Vilagarcía de Arousa.

4. He married Maria Teresa Zubizarreta
Bengoechea
They had three children (Jose Mari,
Maite and Iñigo)

6. He moved to Madrid.
He lived in Madrid until his retirement.

7.  He wrote his first poems when he was
very young.
 He won several poetry awards for
example: “Juegos Florales en Betanzos”
in 1946.
 He published a lot of poems in different
magazines.
 “Penélope” is his most famous poem.

8. “Nimbos” is a collection of 32
poems

9.  He wrote unpublished poems in Galego,
Spanish, Latin, German and mainly,
French.
 He translated some poems from other
languages into Spanish and Galego.
 He also translated a few Spanish and Galego
poems into other languages for example
English.

10. Of Beauty or Love I don’t sing,
Beauty is a vain ornament
Which will soon fade,
And Love is but a dark shade.
OCTAVIA
—Oh, is Love but a dark shade?
—That, and nothing else.
The flowers with which you’re crowning
Proudly your head as a goddess—
How soon you’ll see that they are
Only ash
OCTAVIA
—Why, are the flowers only ash?
—That, and nothing else.
In your present blooming happiness,
Can you tell me what is happiness,
Can you tell me?
OCTAVIA
—Like a passing wind is happiness?
—Yes, it’s only a wind, my child,
Nothing else!
After young, passionate days,
When you’ve left behind a thousand
Disenchantments,
You’ll find but air, shades, emptiness—
Nothing else, my dear child,
Nothing else!
SP >EN
Ramón de Campoamor
XI.
The
Vanity
of
Beauty
To
Octavia

11. He
translated
Ian
Fleming’s
novels
about
James Bond

12. He died on 2 October 1990. He was 76 years old.

13. IMAGES AND INFORMATION TAKEN FROM GOOGLE
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