Uxío Novoneyra, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Galician poet, writer, and journalist
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About Uxío Novoneyra
- Eugenio Novo Neira known as Uxío Novoneyra (Parada de Moreda, Courel, 19 January 1930 – Santiago de Compostela, 30 October 1999) was a Galician poet, journalist and writer of children's literature from Galicia, Spain.
- He was born into a farming family.
- He started writing poems when he was at high school in Lugo.
- He went on to study Philosophy and Literature in Madrid.
- In 1951, he began publishing in Galician language.
- In 1962, he began working in TV and radio in Madrid.
- In 1973, he married Elva Rey and they had three children.
- In 1983 he moved to Santiago de Compostela where he worked for the Association of Writers in the Galician Language until he died in 1999.
- In his works, he expresses his nationalist and Marxist views through intricate poetic patterns.
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