María do Cebreiro was born on 5th of July 1976 in Santiago de Compostela (Galicia - Spain). She is a widely-acclaimed Galician-language poet and critical theorist. Her published poetic works include: O estadio do espello [The Mirror Stage] (1998), (Nós, as inadaptadas)[Us, the Maladapted]
(2002), Non queres que o poema te coñeza [You don’t want the poem to know you] (2004) which won the Caixanova Prize, Os hemisferios [Hemispheres] (2006), Cuarto de outono [Autumn Room] (2008) and Non son de aquí [I am not from Here] (2008). She has also collated a series of poetry anthologies: A poesía é o gran milagre do mundo (2001), a sample of contemporary Galician poetry translated into English, and Damas Negras (2002), a collection of song lyrics by Afro-American women. As an academic she has published As antoloxías de poesía en Galicia e Cataluña: representación poética e ficción lóxica (2004), As terceiras mulleres (2005), and a variety of articles where new theoretical perspectives for contemporary Galician studies are explored (see for instance her English-language article Spectres of the Nation: Forms of Resistance to Literary Nationalism included in the Bulletin of Hispanic Studies (2009) or her study of Galician author-translations included in Galicia 21: Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies (www.galicia21journal.org). Her book Non son de aquí has been translated into English by Helena Miguélez-Carballeira and published by Shearsman Books (2010).
This biography was put together by Helena Miguélez-Carballeira mls201@bangor.ac.uk
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