Ánxeles Penas
Ánxeles Penas García (born 5 May 1943 in Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain) is a Spanish poet, first in Spanish and, since 1982, in Galician. She has also participated in more than 50 exhibitions as a sculptor and painter.
Ánxeles Penas

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- Name
- Ánxeles Penas
- Birth Name
- Ánxeles Penas García
- Birthplace
- Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain
- Occupation
- poet
- Education
- University of Santiago de Compostela
- Born
- 1943 · Teixeiro.
- Nationality
- Spain
- Languages
- Spanish · Galician
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Ánxeles Penas García (born 5 May 1943 in Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain) is a Spanish poet, first in Spanish and, since 1982, in Galician. She has also participated in more than 50 exhibitions as a sculptor and painter.
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Ánxeles Penas (born 1943) is a painter, poet and sculptor, of Spanish nationality. The painter was born in Teixeiro. Ánxeles Penas was educated at University of Santiago de Compostela. Languages used include Galician and Spanish.
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• Name — Ánxeles Penas • Birth Name — Ánxeles Penas García • Birthplace — Teixeiro, Curtis, Spain • Occupation — poet • Language — * Spanish • Galician • Education — University of Santiago de Compostela
Education
Education
She holds a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Santiago de Compostela (1970) and in Fine Arts (sculpture specialty) from the Faculty of Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid (1986). In addition, she studied music at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de A Coruña.
Career
Career
In the plastic arts field, she has the double skill of sculptor and painter and has participated in more than fifty exhibitions. Penas founded the Experimental Art Group A Carón in 1975. She is a member of Asociación Internacional de Amigos de la Universidad Libre Iberoamericana en Galicia (AULIGA), and sits on the Advisory Council of Serta, an inter-Roman poetry magazine, which is affiliated with the National University of Distance Education. In addition to Serta, she has collaborated with several other magazines including Zurgai, Festa da palabra silenciada, Clave Orión, Historia y vida, as well as in the Internet magazine EON MAGAZINE, and as art critic of El Ideal Gallego of Coruña, La Voz de Galicia ("Faíscas"), and El Diario de Ferrol. She has done studies of the works of Álvaro Cunqueiro, Celso Emilio Ferreiro, Rosalía de Castro, Xohana Torres, Tino Grandío, and Laxeiro.
Poetry
Poetry
• Galicia, fondo val (1982). Edicións do Castro. 72 pages.. • O santuario intocable (1992). Sotelo Blanco Edicións, Col. Leliadoura.. • Perfís e poéticas (2006). Baía Edicións. 106 pages.. • Antoloxía poética. Antología poética. Anthologie poétique, 2006, Espiral Maior. French translation by François Davo. • Amor deshabitado (2008). Espiral Maior. 68 pages.. • Triptico ártabro (2022). Laiovento. 86 pages..
Collective works
Collective works
• I Festival de Poesía no Condado 1981, S. C. D. Condado. • IV Festival da Poesía no Condado, 1984, S. C. D. Condado. • Escolma de poesía galega (1976-1984), 1984, Sotelo Blanco. • V Festival da Poesia no Condado, 1985, S. C. D. Condado. • VI Festival da Poesía no Condado, 1986, S. C. D. Condado. • VII Festival da Poesia no Condado, 1987, S. C. D. Condado. • IX Festival da Poesia no Condado. Escolma Poética, 1989, S. C. D. Condado. • Fondo en malva, en Homenaxe a Miguel González Garcés, 1991, Council of A Coruña. • XII Festival da Poesia no Condado, 1992, S. C. D. Condado. • XIII Festival da Poesia no Condado, 1993, S. C. D. Condado. • Amor en feminino: antoloxía das poetas galegas de Rosalía á Xeración dos 80, 2006, Baía Edicións. Edición de Maximino Cacheiro Varela. • Poemas coruñeses: antoloxía de textos poéticos dos séculos XIX e XX sobre a Coruña, 2008, Espiral Maior. • Cartafol de soños, homenaxe a Celso Emilio Ferreiro no seu centenario (1912-2012), 2012. • A cidade na poesía galega do século XXI, 2012, Toxosoutos. • 150 Cantares para Rosalía de Castro, 2015, (text). • Os aforismos do riso futurista, 2016, Edicións Xerais.
Poetry
Poetry
• Con los pies en la frontera (1976). • Ya soy para tu muerte (1980).
Prose
Prose
• Abelenda. Grandes pintores (2008). Council of A Coruña. 256 pages..
Translations
Translations
• Cantos caucanos, of Antón Avilés de Taramancos (2000). Espiral Maior. In Galician and Spanish. • Antología poética, of Eusebio Lorenzo Baleirón (2000). Espiral Maior. In Galician and Spanish.

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1943
Ánxeles Penas was born in 1943 at Teixeiro.
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Awards and honours
• Premio, Minervais Festival of the University of Santiago, 1970. • Premio Nacional, Jorge Manrique, 1971. • Premio, Festival of the Song of A Coruña, 1971. • Ribadavia Open Theater Award, 1974. • City of A Coruña Award, 1981.
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- 1.Biblioteca Virtual Galega. Ánxeles Penas.
- 2.Bibliografía de Artistas Gallegos, Ánxeles Penas. www.pintoresgallegos.com.
- 3.Fundación UNED. Serta. Revista Iberorrománica.
- 4.Ánxeles Penas. www.aelg.gal.
- 5.Ánxeles Penas - Volver a Artistas. www.radelrey.com.
- 6.Ánxeles Penas. elidealgallego.com. 7 April 2022.
- 7.Ánxeles penas. Diario de Ferrol.
- 8.Anthologie poétique. bibliotraducion.uvigo.es.
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