Claudio Rodriguez Fer

Claudio Rodriguez Fer

Claudio Rodríguez Fer (Lugo, Galicia, 1956). Galician writer. Claudio Rodriguez Fer is author of numerous literary works (poetry, narrative, theatre and essay) in Galician language and of works of modern literary studies in Spanish language. It exercised as Visiting Professor at the City University of New York, at the University of Southern Brittany and at the Université Haute Bretagne at Rennes, where he was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa. He is Director of the Chair José Ángel Valente of Poetry and Aesthetic at Universidade of Santiago de Compostela, where also he directs the Moenia magazine. With Carmen Blanco he coordinates the intercultural and libertarian magazine Unión Libre. Cadernos de vida e culturas. He has published, spoken, and read his work in numerous parts of Europe, America and Africa.

Claudio Rodríguez Fer published his collected poems in Amores e clamores and his narrative in Contos e descontos .

He grouped his poetry in thematic cycles: the erotic, in Vulva (1990), which includes Poemas de amor sen morte, Tigres de ternura, Historia da lúa, A boca violeta and Cebra ; film, in Cinepoemas ; historical themes, in the Memory Trilogy, comprising Lugo Blues, A loita continúa, and Ámote vermella ; and the nomadic poems, which to date include Extrema Europa, A unha muller desconocida, Viaxes a ti and Unha tempada no paraíso, this last volume with an in-depth commentary by Olga Novo.

His critical work includes Poesía galega, Arte Literaria, A literatura galega durante a guerra civil, Acometida atlántica, Guía de investigación literaria and numerous books and editions on the narrator Ánxel Fole and the poet José Ángel Valente, along with other Galician (Castelao, Dieste, Carballo, Ángel Johan, Cunqueiro) and non-Galician (Dostoevsky, Machado, Borges, Neruda, Cernuda) writers.

Translated to English in "Beyond and other poems", by Diana Conchado, Kathleen N. March, Julian Palley and Jonathan Dunne, Birmingham-Oxford, Galician Review, 3-4, 1999–2000, 105-132; in Entre duas augas, by Kathleen N. March, Santiago de Compostela, Amaranta Press, 2003, 13-23; in Contemporary Galician Poets (“An Old Man and a Boy (Revolutionary Project on Lugo Wall)” and “From Trace of Woman”), by Jonathan Dunne, A Poetry Review Supplement, Xunta de Galicia, 2010, 52-55, and in Tender Tigers, by Kathleen N. March, Noia, Editorial Toxosoutos, 2012.

In prose: An Anthology of Galician Short Stories. Así vai o conto, by Kathleen March, Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter, Edwin Mellen Press, 1991, 144-149,