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María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar

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The Writer in Residence for 2007-2008 was the widely-acclaimed Galician poet María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar. Her published poetry works include: O estadio do espello (1998), (Nós, as inadaptadas) (2002), Non queres que o poema te coñeza (2004), and Os hemisferios (2006). 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) and As terceiras mulleres (2005). The Centre for Galician Studies in Wales holds copies of most of the above works. María do Cebreiro Rábade Villar's stay in North Wales started on Saturday the 23rd of February and ended on Saturday the 22nd of March, and helped the author work on a variety of projects (both creative and research-oriented) while providing her with the opportunity to establish contact with cultural communities and individuals in both Wales and the UK. The events in which she participated included dialogues with poet Menna Elfyn in Bangor and Aberystwyth, a round table in Bangor considering the peculiar dynamics of combining academic and creative approaches to literature, a public lecture at the University of Liverpool, and a plenary paper at the Bangor/Liverpool international conference "Coming out of the Nation".

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María do Cebreiro 's stay in Bangor was an extremely fruitful one and one that will have many echoes! Among these, a literary dialogue between Maria do Cebreiro and Welsh poet Menna Elfyn will be published shortly in Poetry Wales (Seren) and a translation into English of "Os hemisferios" by the poet herself and the Centre's director, Helena Miguelez-Carballeira, is currently being prepared.

Watch this space for news on how these plans develop and other future ones!

In the meantime, here is a selection of examples of María do Cebreiro 's work during her stay in Bangor: