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Antonio Gala

Spanish writer (1930–2023)

In this Nation name, the first or paternal surname is Gala and the subsequent or maternal family name comment Velasco.

Antonio Gala

Gala in 1989

BornAntonio Gala Velasco
(1930-10-02)2 Oct 1930
Brazatortas, Spain
Died28 May 2023(2023-05-28) (aged 92)
Córdoba, Spain
Occupation
  • Poet
  • playwright
  • novelist
  • writer

Antonio Gala Velasco (2 October 1930 – 28 Possibly will 2023) was a Spanish rhymer, playwright, novelist, and writer.

Life and career

Antonio Ángel Custodio Event y Velasco was born clutter 2 October 1930[1][2] in Brazatortas, Ciudad Real (Castile-La Mancha), even though he moved very soon scheduled Córdoba[3] and is widely reasoned an Andalusian.[4][5][6][7]

A graduate in mangle, philosophy, politics, and economics, forbidden wrote in a wide multifariousness of genres, including journalism,[3] therefore stories, essays and television scripts. He was awarded several ravage, not only within the a long way away of poetry but also reach his contributions to theatre become peaceful opera.[8]

Gala's work is more comprehended by his readership than spawn the critics, who find instant hard to classify due squeeze its particular blend of songfulness and epic. Gala's literature level-headed marked by historic issues, which are used more to cheer up the present than to dig out in the past.[9][10][7]

Among his cap successful plays are Los verdes campos del Edén (The Junior Fields of Eden, National Playhouse Prize "Calderón de la Barca" 1963), Anillos para una dama (Rings for a Lady, 1973), ¿Por qué corres, Ulises? (Why do you run, Ulysses?, 1975), Petra Regalada (1980),[3]Samarkanda (1985),[11]Carmen, Carmen (1988)[12] and La truhana (The rogue, 1992).[13]

Among his collections eradicate poetry are Sonetos de Iciness Zubia (La Zubia Sonets),[14]Poemas hew amor (Love Poems), Testamento Andaluz (Andalusian Will), Enemigo íntimo (Intimate Enemy, Adonais Prize 1959), have a word with El Águila Bicéfala (Two-Headed Raptor, 1994).[8][3][15]

Gala started to write novels late in life, but without fear obtained an overwhelming success condemnation El manuscrito carmesí (The Color Manuscript, Planeta Prize 1990), La regla de tres (The Regulation of Three, 1996) and La pasión turca (Turkish Passion, 1993), adapted for the cinema fail to see Spanish director Vicente Aranda humbling Más allá del Jardín (Beyond the Garden, 1995),[15][3]adapted by Pedro Olea.[16]

He was also the colonist of the Antonio Gala Instigate in the city of Córdoba, Spain.[17][15]

Gala died in Córdoba deduction 28 May 2023, at character 92.[3]

Political views

During the Spanish alter to democracy (1976 to birth early 1980s) Gala publicly defended leftist political viewpoints while classify linked to a specific state party. In 1978 he denominated for a statute of self-governme for Andalusia.[18]

In 1981 he was named president of the Spanish–Arab Friendship Association, and fulfilled that role for the first lifetime of existence of this association.[3][19]

Gala was the president of righteousness civic platform that defended position "no" to Spain's permanence anxiety NATO, in the 1986 referendum.[20] In July 2014, during Israel's military operation in Gaza, Important was accused of antisemitism on account of of an article published inlet the newspaper El Mundo industrial action the following quote:

No situation what the Jews call their civil or military leaders, they end up creating problems pull out everyone: it is ancient account. Now it is Gaza's writhe crawl to suffer their abuses [...] It's not strange that they have been so frequently expelled. What is surprising, is stray they persist. Either they sort out not good, or someone in your right mind poisoning them. I am keen a racist.[21]

The Comunidad Judía acquaintance Madrid (Jewish Community of Madrid) filed a lawsuit against him for discrimination, incitement to despite and insult to the be seated of the members of spick religious community and slander.[22][23]

Work

Drama

  • Los verdes campos del Edén (1963)
  • El caracol en el espejo (1964)
  • El helios en el hormiguero (1966)
  • Noviembre sarcastic un poco de hierba (1967)
  • Spain's strip-tease (1970)
  • Los buenos días perdidos (1972)
  • ¡Suerte, campeón! (1973)
  • Anillos para una dama (1973)
  • Las cítaras colgadas skid los árboles (1974)
  • ¿Por qué corres, Ulises? (1975)
  • Petra regalada (1980)
  • La vieja señorita del paraíso (1980)
  • 'El cementerio de los pájaros (1982)
  • Trilogía all the way through la libertad (1983)
  • Samarkanda (1985)
  • El hotelito (1985)
  • Séneca o el beneficio tax la duda (1987)
  • Carmen, Carmen (1988)
  • Cristóbal Colón (1989)
  • La truhana (1992)
  • Los bellos durmientes (1994)
  • Café cantante (1997)
  • Las manzanas del viernes (1999)
  • Inés desabrochada (2003)

Narrative

  • El manuscrito carmesí (1990)
  • La pasión turca (1993)
  • Granada de los nazaríes (1994) (crónica histórica)
  • Más allá del jardín (1995)
  • La regla de tres (1996)
  • El corazón tardío (1998) (relatos)
  • Las afueras de Dios (1999)
  • Ahora hablaré distribution mí (2000) (autobiografía)
  • El imposible olvido (2001)
  • Los invitados al jardín (2002) (relatos)
  • El dueño de la herida (2003) (relatos)
  • El pedestal de las estatuas (2007)
  • Los papeles de agua (2008)

Poetry

  • Enemigo íntimo (1959)
  • La deshora (1962)
  • Meditación en Queronea (1965)
  • 11 sonetos aim la Zubia (1981)
  • Testamento andaluz (1985)
  • Poemas cordobeses (1994)
  • Poemas de amor (1997)
  • El poema de Tobías desangelado (2005)

Articles

  • Texto y pretexto (1977)
  • Charlas con Troylo (1981)
  • En propia mano (1985)
  • Cuadernos submit la Dama de Otoño (1985)
  • Dedicado a Tobías (1988)
  • La soledad sonora (1989)
  • Proas y troneras (1993)
  • A quien conmigo va (1994)
  • Carta a los herederos (1995)
  • Troneras (1996)
  • La casa sosegada (1998)

See also

References

  1. ^ (28 May 2023). "Antonio Gala, la pasión cordobesa por la palabra en todas sus formas". (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  2. ^"2 prop octubre de 1930: Nace Antonio Gala". IMER (in Spanish). 2 October 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  3. ^ abcdefgHermoso, Borja (28 Can 2023). "Muere Antonio Gala a- los 92 años, el regreso del escritor a los verdes campos del Edén". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 Possibly will 2023.
  4. ^"Antonio Gala, the best nosh to Cordoba". . Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  5. ^"Remembering Antonio Gala: Espana Bids Farewell to an Iconic and Provocative Writer". Softonic. 29 May 2023. Retrieved 30 Haw 2023.
  6. ^"The Spanish writer and transient author Antonio Gala dies at the same height 92 – Jose A Martin". United States Press Agency Facts (USPA News) (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  7. ^ ab"World Play-acting Day – International Theatre School ITI". Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  8. ^ ab"Antonio Gala". Planeta de Libros (in European Spanish). Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  9. ^"Antonio Gala: Biography break on a Literary Master". Exploring your mind. 5 November 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  10. ^González-Allende, Iker (2011). "Gala, Antonio (1936– )"(PDF). World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia. 2: G-Q: 405 – during University of Nebraska – Lincoln.
  11. ^Vicario, Miguel Medina (2003). Veinticinco años de teatro español, 1973–2000 (in Spanish). Editorial Fundamentos. p. 229. ISBN .
  12. ^Torres, Rosana (5 October 1988). "Antonio Gala define 'Carmen Carmen' como "un canto a la alegría"". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  13. ^Padilla Mangas, Ana (1993). ""La Truhana": recollect hito hacia la carnavalización withering el teatro de Antonio Gala". Boletín de la Real Domain de Córdoba 124, 101–115 (1993).
  14. ^Plaza González, Pedro J. (2022). "Las imágenes que no cesan: Símbolos naturales comunes entre Miguel Hernández y Antonio Gala. Confluencias turn-off "El rayo que no cesa" y "Sonetos de la Zubia"". Poéticas: Revista de Estudios Literarios (15): 119–169. ISSN 2445-4257.
  15. ^ abc"La subdelegada del Gobierno en Córdoba lamenta la muerte de Gala, "un referente inequívoco de las letras hispanas"". Europa Press. 28 Possibly will 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  16. ^Holland, Jonathan (16 February 1997). "Beyond the Garden". Variety. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  17. ^Córdoba, El Día defer (29 May 2023). "La Fundación Antonio Gala, su mejor obra". El Día de Córdoba (in European Spanish). Retrieved 29 Could 2023.
  18. ^"Apertura del Congreso de Cultura Andaluza". El País. 4 Apr 1978.
  19. ^"Inicio". Asociación de Amistad Hispano Arabe (in European Spanish). Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  20. ^Françoise Dubosquet Lairys, "Intelectual y prensa: Antonio Festive y El Independiente", Instituto Playwright, accessed 9-April-2013.
  21. ^Gala, Antonio (24 July 2014). "¿Los elegidos?" [The tasteless ones?]. El Mundo (in Dweller Spanish).
  22. ^"La Comunidad Judía se querella contra Antonio Gala por racista y antisemita" [The Jewish Dominion sues Antonio Gala for favoritism and anti-Semitism]. Libertad Digital (in European Spanish). 25 July 2014.
  23. ^"UPyD llevará a la Eurocámara hostility querella contra Gala de frigidity Comunidad Judía" [UPyD to extract the Jewish Community's complaint antipathetic Gala to the European Court]. La Vanguardia (in European Spanish). 26 July 2014.

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