Xosé María Díaz Castro (19 February 1914 – 2 October 1990) was a Galician poet and translator. In 2014, Galician Literature Day was dedicated to him.Día das Letras Galegas a Díaz Castro Royal Galician Academy.
Original work Nimbos (1961) .
Translations Castro translated multiple authors' works into both Spanish and English.
Authors whose works he translated to Spanish include Verner von Heidenstam, Henrik Pontoppidan, Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Butler Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, G. K. Chesterton, Frederick Forsyth, Friedrich Schiller, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry, Alphonse de Lamartine and Paul Claudel.Requeixo, Armando; Unha aproximación a Nimbos de Xosé María Díaz Castro, Revista Galega do Ensino, nº 12, 1996, p. 101-120 (Dialnet).
Authors whose works he translated into English include Federico García Lorca and Rafael Alberti.Díaz Castro, Xosé María (Parga, Guitiriz 19-2-1914 – Lugo 2-10-1990), Enciclopedia Galega Universal.
References
Further information AAVV; Homenaxe a X. M. Díaz Castro, Xermolos, Guitiriz, 1987, 192 p., . Blanco Torrado, A.; A ascensión dun poeta, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Novacaixagalicia, Compostela, 1995, 143 p., . Requeixo, Armando;, Xosé María Díaz Castro, vida e obra, Editorial Galaxia, Vigo, 2014, 200 p., .
External links
PoetaDiazCastro.com (14 min 43 s) IES Poeta Díaz Castro. O instante eterno (9 min 52 s) (Vimeo).