Domingo Villar
Illustration — Domingo Villar in 2014 Domingo Villar (6 March 1971 – 18 May 2022) was a Galician crime writer.
Domingo Villar
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- Born
- 1971 · Vigo.
- Died
- 2022 · Vigo.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- writer · journalist · film screenwriter
- Fields
- athlete · creative and professional writing · film screenwriting · gastronomy
- Languages
- Spanish · Galician
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Illustration — Domingo Villar in 2014 Domingo Villar (6 March 1971 – 18 May 2022) was a Galician crime writer.
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Biography
Biography
He was born and raised in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, and lived in Madrid. He published two novels featuring Inspector Leo Caldas, a dyed-in-the-wool Galician detective, and Rafael Estévez, his down to earth assistant from Zaragoza who finds it difficult to cope with the Galician sense of irony. Both novels were originally published in Galician before being translated into Spanish by the author himself. They have also been translated into several other European languages. Villar died in Vigo on 18 May 2022, at the age of 51, after suffering a stroke two days prior.
Works
Works
2006: Ojos de agua (Spanish) • (Galician: Ollos de auga) • (English: Water-blue eyes, tr. Martin Schifino) • (German: Wasserblaue Augen, tr. Peter Kultzen) • (Italian: Occhi di acqua, tr. S. Sichel) • (Swedish: Nattens mörka toner: Ett fall för kommissarie Leo Caldas, tr. Lena E. Heyman) 2009: La playa de los ahogados • (Galician: A praia dos afogados) • (English: Death on a Galician Shore, tr. Sonia Soto) • (German: Strand der Ertrunkenen, tr. Carsten Regling) • (Swedish: De drunknades strand, tr. Lena E. Heyman) • (French: La plage des noyés, tr. Dominique Lepreux) La playa de los ahogados was brought to the screen in 2015 by the director Gerardo Herrero, based on a filmscript by the author.
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Domingo Villar is recorded as writer, journalist and film screenwriter.
Firma del escritor Domingo Villar
Domingo Villar Vázquez (Vigo 1971 - Vigo 2022)
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Life and career
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1971
Domingo Villar born at Vigo.
2022
Domingo Villar died at Vigo.
Prizes
• Premio Sintagma (2007) • Premio Antón Losada Diéguez (2010) • Libro del año por la Federación de Libreros de Galicia (2010) • Premio Brigada 21 for best novel published in Spanish (2009) • XXV Premio Nacional "Cultura viva" Narrativa (2016)
Literature
Literature
Literature
O último barco de Domingo Villar en francés: problemas e técnicas de tradución, Revista Galega de Filoloxía, 2023
TRADUCCIÓN E IMPACTO, TRANSFER, 2023
Translation Landscapes, 2025
Novela negra con sabor gallego, Signa: Revista de la Asociación Española de Semiótica, 2014
Os nomes propios de "A Praia dos Afogados" de Domingo Villar na versión Portuguesa e na autotradución Española, Diacrítica, 2025
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