Fifty Books of Galician Literature Are Published in English

The list of books of Galician literature published in English has reached fifty titles for the first time. 2013 has already seen two titles published in English: Rosalía de Castro’s Galician Songs (in Erín Moure’s translation) and Suso de Toro’s The Hunting Shadow (in Antonio de Toro and David Clark’s translation). A couple of other titles are projected for the coming months.

The bumper year regarding books of Galician literature published in English was 2010, which saw seven titles, including the first volume of Jonathan Dunne’s Anthology of Galician Literature and Antonio de Toro’s anthology Breogán’s Lighthouse.

The most successful author of Galician literature published in English is Manuel Rivas, seven of whose titles have appeared, five in Jonathan Dunne’s translation, one in a translation by Margaret Jull Costa and Jonathan Dunne and one in Lorna Shaugnessy’s translation. His eighth title, All Is Silence, is due out in May.

The first book of Galician literature published in English was Rosalía de Castro’s Poems, which was produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid in 1964. There have been a total of twenty-four poetry collections, thirteen novels, eight books of short stories and five mixed-genre anthologies.