Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
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Wenceslao Fernández Flórez | |
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Born | Wenceslao Fernández Flórez 1885 A Coruña, Spain |
Died | 29 April 1964 Madrid, Spain | (aged 78–79)
Seat S of the Real Academia Española | |
In office 14 May 1945 – 29 April 1964 | |
Preceded by | José Alemany y Bolufer |
Succeeded by | Julián 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ "Wenceslao Fernández Flórez - letra S". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 May 2023.
External links
[edit]- Works by Wenceslao Fernández-Flórez at Faded Page (Canada)