Ánxel Fole
(Ánxel Fole Sánchez; Lugo, 1903-1986) Spanish narrator and playwright in Galician language.Belonging, along with Álvaro Cunqueiro and Rafael Dieste, to a generation of Galician writers trained before the Civil War, Fole chose not to go into exile after the war and was subjected to a total internal ostracism.
Ánxel Fole
He began studies of philosophy and letters and law in Valladolid and Madrid, but abandoned both careers.He began to publish in the Lugo newspaper La Provincia (1927) and later collaborated in El Pueblo Gallego, in which his first article in Galician (1934) would appear and began his journalistic series Andar y ver .During the Second Republic he intervened in politics; He was vice president of the Lugo Grouping of the Republican Party and later militated in the Galician Party.At the same time he directed the literary page of Guión, wrote in Resol and founded Yunque, magazines that disappeared at the beginning of the Civil War (1936-1939).
In 1943 he signed in El Progreso with the pseudonym Neumandro, which he has used ever since.He collaborated in La Hoja del Monday in Lugo, in La Noche in Santiago de Compostela (La Coruña) and in El Faro de Vigo (Vigo, Pontevedra).From time to time he published articles in the Galician magazines Grial, Vida Gallega, Chau and Teima .He was a member of the Royal Galician Academy.
Although he also cultivated the theater ( Pauto do demo , 'Pacto con el diablo', from 1955), most of Ánxel Fole's work is made up of stories and novels short: A lus del candil ('In the light of the candil', 1953), Contos da néboa (1975), Stories that ninguem cre (1985) and Rough Earth .Starting from the oral traditions of rural Galicia, he created environments of magic, mystery and supernatural events, with the typical imagery of his land.
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