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Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

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Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
Born
Wenceslao Fernández Flórez

1885
A Coruña, Spain
Died29 April 1964(1964-04-29) (aged 78–79)
Madrid, Spain
Seat S of the Real Academia Española
In office
14 May 1945 – 29 April 1964
Preceded byJosé Alemany y Bolufer [es]
Succeeded byJulián Marías

Wenceslao Fernández Flórez (1885 in A Coruña, Galicia – 29 April 1964 in Madrid) was a popular Galician journalist and novelist of the early 20th century. Throughout his career, he retained an intense fondness for the land of his birth.

Early life and career

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His father died when he was fifteen years old, forcing Wenceslao to abandon his education and dedicate himself to journalism. His first job was with A Coruña's La Mañana, and he went on to write for El Heraldo de Galicia, Diario de A Coruña and Tierra Gallega. At the age of eighteen he was given a senior position at Diario Ferrolano. He later returned to A Coruña to work at El Noroeste.

He kept close friendship with Galician nationalism leaders and other intellectuals. Among his friends were Manuel María Puga y Parga aka "Picadillo", Carré brothers, Tettamanci, Manuel Casas, Angel Castillo and others. All of them were older than him, but who really makes a huge impression in his way of thinking was Castelao, which was one of the most frequently illustrators for his works.

Fernández Flórez was elected to seat S of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 14 May 1945.[1]

Work in Madrid and novels

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In 1914 Flórez moved to Madrid, where he worked at El Imparcial and Diario ABC, where he started the parliamentary column Acotaciones de un oyente. He had begun writing novels - La tristeza de la paz (1910), La procesión de los días (1915) and Luz de luna (1915), and Volvoreta (1917).

In translation

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  • The Seven Pillars; translated by Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell, London, Macmillan and co., ltd., (1934), 288 p.
  • Seduced. In: Sáenz, Paz, ed. (1988). Narratives from the Silver Age. Translated by Hughes, Victoria; Richmond, Carolyn. Madrid: Iberia. ISBN 84-87093-04-3.

Works

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  • The sadness of Peace (1910)
  • The procession of Days (1914)
  • Moonlighting (1915)
  • Dimensioning of a listener (Parliamentary Chronicles, 1916)
  • Volvoreta (1917), adapted into a film by José Antonio Nieves Conde in 1976
  • The Devil's Eye (1918)
  • Entered a Thief (1922)
  • Vulgar tragedies of life (1922), an anthology of short stories
  • Bluebeard's Secret (1923)
  • Visions of neurasthenia (1924)
  • Women's Footsteps (1924)
  • The seven columns (1926)
  • Immoral Story (1927)
  • The man who wanted to kill (1929), adapted for the screen by Rafael Gil in 1942 with Antonio Casal ( The man who wanted to kill and again by Rafael Gil in 1970 with Tony Leblanc ( The* man who wanted to kill )
  • Artificial Ghosts (1930), an anthology of short stories
  • Those who did not go to war (1930)
  • The evil Carabel (1931), adapted into a film by Edgar Neville in 1935, by Fernando Fernan Gomez in 1956 and Rafael Baledón in 1962
  • The man who bought a car (1932)
  • Knight Adventures Rogelio Amaral (1933)
  • An island in the Red Sea (1938)
  • The novel number 13 (1941)
  • The Living Forest (1943), adapted into a film by Joseph Neches in 1945, by José Luis Cuerda in 1987 written by Rafael Azcona and Angel de la Cruz and Manolo Gomez in 2001
  • The bull, the bullfighter and the Cat (1946)
  • Pelegrin system (1949)
  • Fireworks (1954)
  • Goalkeeper in goal (1957)

References

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