Claudio Rodriguez Fer
Claudio Rodríguez Fernández (Lugo, Spain, 1956), better known as Claudio Rodríguez Fer, 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, University Paris Est Marne-La Vallèe at the University of Southern Brittany and at the Université Haute Bretagne at Rennes, where he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa.
Also recorded as Claudio Rodríguez Fernández
Claudio Rodriguez Fer

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- Name
- Claudio Rodríguez Fer
- Birth Name
- Claudio Rodríguez Fernández
- Born
- 6 April 1956
- Birthplace
- Lugo, Galicia, Spain
- Spouse
- Carmen Blanco
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- poet · playwright · essayist · university teacher · writer · literary critic · narrator
- Fields
- essay
- Honours
- Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega · honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2
- Languages
- Spanish · Galician
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Claudio Rodríguez Fernández (Lugo, Spain, 1956), better known as Claudio Rodríguez Fer, 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, University Paris Est Marne-La Vallèe at the University of Southern Brittany and at the Université Haute Bretagne at Rennes, where he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa.
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Claudio Rodriguez Fer (born 1956) is an essayist, literary critic and narrator, among other activities, of Spanish nationality. The essayist was born in Lugo. Claudio Rodriguez Fer worked for City University of New York, University of Paris and University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, among others.
The work spans essay. Languages used include Galician and Spanish. Honours include honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2 and Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega.
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Biography
Biography
Fer worked across poet, playwright, essayist, university teacher and writer and 2 further recorded occupations. The registers place that work in essay. This article rests on 1 published texts and 19 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
The recorded working language is Spanish and Galician. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are essay. Employment is recorded with University of Santiago de Compostela, City University of New York and University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany. Distinctions recorded are Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega and honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2.

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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Claudio Rodríguez Fer • Birth Name — Claudio Rodríguez Fernández • Born — 6 April 1956 • Birthplace — Lugo, Galicia, Spain • Spouse — Carmen Blanco
Poetry
Poetry
• Poemas de amor sen morte (1979) • Tigres de ternura (1981), Tender Tigers (2012) • Cinepoemas (1983) • Historia da lúa (1984) • A boca violeta (1987) • Lugo blues (1987) • Vulva (1990) • Cebra (1991) • A muller núa (1992) • Extrema Europa (1996) • A unha muller descoñecida (1997) • Rastros de vida e poesía (2000) • Moito máis que mil anos (2000) • A vida. Gravados sobre corpo (2002) • A loita continúa (2004) • Viaxes a ti (2004), Voyages à toi (2008) • Ámote vermella (2009) • Unha tempada no paraíso (2010), Uma temporada no paraíso (2019) • Amores e clamores (Poesía reunida) (2011) • Terra extrema de radiación amorosa (2011) • O cuarto bretón / La pièce bretonne (2014) • Revolución rosaliana en Nova York / Rosalía's Revolution in New York (2014) • Icebergs (Micropoemas reunidos) (2015) • Ansia das alas / L'ansia di avere le ali (2015) • Amores sen morte / Deathless Loves (2015) • A cabeleira (Poema en 35 idiomas) (2015) • A cabeleira (Poema en 60 idiomas) (2016) • Os amores profundos / Les amours profonds (2016) • Anarquista o nada (Poemas de la memoria libertaria) (2016) • A cabeleira multilingüe (Poema en 65 idiomas) (2017) • Pai meu (Amén, camarada) (Poema en 8 idiomas) (2017), 11 (2019), 16 (2020) • Limiares sen límites / Πύλες απειράριθμες (2017) • A muller sinfonía (Cancioneiro vital) 2018) • Corpoética (catálogo de exposición) 2018) • Diálogos imposibles / Dialogues impossibles (2018) • Criptografías (2018) • Máis alá do bosque / Dincolo de pădure (2018) • Beleza ou barbarie / Bellesa o barbàrie (2019) • A viaxe vermella (María Casares) (Poema en 11 idiomas) (2021) • ADN do infinito (2021), DNA do infinito (2024) • Nova York, Novos Poemas / New York, New Poems (2022) • A cabeleira (Poema en 70 idiomas) (2023)
Prose
Prose
• Meta-relatos (1988) • A muller loba (1993) • Belas e bestas (2002) • O muiñeiro misterioso (2005) • A bela mestra (2005) • Os paraísos eróticos (2010) • Contos e descontos (Narrativa completa) (2011)
Essay
Essay
• A Galicia misteriosa de Ánxel Fole (1981) • Antonio Machado e Galicia (1989) • Poesía galega (1989) • Arte literaria (1991) • José Ángel Valente (1992) • Comentarios de textos contemporáneos (1992) • Comentarios de textos populares e de masas (1994) • A literatura galega durante a guerra civil (1994) • Material Valente (1994) • Acometida atlántica. Por un comparatismo integral (1996) • Ánxel Fole. Vida e obra (1997) • O mundo lucense de Ánxel Fole (1997) • Ánxel Fole. Unha fotobiografía (1997) • Guía de investigación literaria (1998) • Borges dende o labirinto galego (2008) • Valente: el fulgor y las tinieblas (2008) • Meus amores celtas (2010) • Valente vital (Galicia, Madrid, Oxford) (2012) • Borges y todo (Escepticismo y otros laberintos) (2013, 2023) • Valente vital (Ginebra, Saboya, París) (2014) • Valente vital (Magreb, Israel, Almería) (2017) • Valente infinito (Libertad creativa y conexiones interculturales) (2018) • Valente epistolar (Correspondencia de José Ángel Valente con sus amistades) (2022) • Santiago Marcos, poeta topo contra el fascismo (2023) • Poetas concatenados: Cavafis, Cernuda, Valente y Gamoneda (2024)
Edition and Introduction
Edition and Introduction
• Contos de lobos, by Ánxel Fole (1985, 1989) • Cántigas de alén, by José Ángel Valente (1987, 1989, 1996) • Con pólvora e magnolias, by Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín (1989) • Os eidos, by Uxío Novoneyra (1990) • Guerra literaria, by Rafael Dieste (1991) • Verbas de chumbo, by Castelao (1992) • Poesía perdida, by Ricardo Carballo Calero (1993) • Obras reunidas, by Ángel Johán (1993) • Cartafolio galego, by Ánxel Fole (1996) • Obra galega completa, by Ánxel Fole (1997) • A lenda do Grande Inquisidor, by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1998) • Cuaderno de versiones, by José Ángel Valente (2001) • Cima del canto, by José Ángel Valente (2002) • Obra literaria completa, by Ánxel Fole (2003) • Obras completas II. Ensayos, by José Ángel Valente (2002) • Ensayos sobre José Ángel Valente, de Juan Goytisolo (2009) • Musgo / Moss, de Emily Dickinson, with translation to Galician (2015)
Life and work
Life and work
Claudio Rodriguez Fer was born on 1 January 1956 in Lugo. Fer held the nationality of Spain. Married to: Carmen Blanco. Fer worked as poet, playwright, essayist and university teacher, and the authority record catalogues a further 3 occupations under the same name, among them writer, literary critic and narrator. Fer was employed by University of Santiago de Compostela, City University of New York, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, University of Southern Brittany and University of Paris. The fields Fer worked in include essay. Fer worked in Spanish and Galician.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1956
Claudio Rodriguez Fer was born in 1956 at Lugo.
1981
Receives Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega.
2012
Receives honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2.
Teaching
Fer taught, and is recorded as university teacher. The work is documented at University of Santiago de Compostela, City University of New York, University of Rennes 2 – Upper Brittany, University of Southern Brittany and University of Paris.
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Honours and awards
They run from 1981 to 2012.
2 honours stand against the name
Premio de la Crítica de poesía gallega, dated 1981. Honorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2
2012
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