Luz Pozo Garza
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Luz Pozo Garza | |
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 Pozo Garza in 2013. | |
| Born | 21 July 1922 Ribadeo, Lugo, Spain |
| Died | 20 April 2020 (aged 97) A Coruña, Spain |
| Occupation | poet, essayist, literary critic |
| Language | Spanish |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | University of Oviedo |
| Notable awards | Castelao Medal (1995) |
| Partner |
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| Children | Gonzalo Vázquez Pozo |
Luz Pozo Garza (Ribadeo, 21 July 1922 – A Coruña , 20 April 2020),[1] was a Spanish poet and a member of the Royal Galician Academy.
She began her studies in Ribadeo with the painter and sculptor, Prieto Coussent.[2] At the age of fourteen, due to the Spanish Civil War and the persecution of her father, she moved with her family to Lugo and later to Larache (Spanish protectorate in Morocco). Back in Galicia, she settled in Viveiro. There, she carried out various musical studies that left a unique mark on her poetics. She also studied education and philology of Romanesque art.
Her first works were published in Las Riberas del Eo, Lana Noche, Poesía Española, Ínsula or Vida Gallega. Her mentor was Dionisio Gamallo Fierros.[3]
Later, after settling in Vigo, she developed a long teaching career at the Nigrán as a teacher of Spanish language and literature in Secondary education, retiring in 1987. Between 1975 and 1976, she co-directed the magazine, Nordés with Tomás Barros Pardo. She also promoted the creation of the magazine, Clave Orión.
Pozo Garza was a member of the Royal Galician Academy since 29 November 1996. Her first speech was entitled Diálogos con Rosalía.[4]
Pozo Garza was, according to Rosario Álvarez Blanco[5] an illustrious voice in poetry since the publication of her first collection of poems in Galician, El pájaro en la boca (1952), which inaugurated the Xistral collection. In her later work, Luz Pozo expressed a poetry charged with sensuality and depth, in which love, existential concern, homeland, freedom and even death intersect, composing texts of authenticity and maturity.
Legacy
In 2001, Pozo Garza was nominated as an honorary member of the Galician Language Writers Association (letter Y). Next, the "Tribute to the writer in her land" was celebrated with her in Ribadeo, with a poem that she selected from the book Vida secreta de Rosalía. That same year, Ribadeo dedicated a street to her. Likewise, there are dedicated streets in her name in the municipalities of Culleredo (in El Burgo) and in La Coruña.[6][2]
In 2018, her name was given to the Viveiro Language School and Viveiro honored her as an adoptive daughter.[7][8]
On January 18, 2020, she was named Ribadeo's "favorite daughter", at the proposal by the Councilor for Culture, Pilar Otero Cabarcos.[3][9][10]
