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- Writer Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín, 1938
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Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín (Ourense, 7 August 1938) is a Galician writer and poet widely considered the highest representative of contemporary Galician literature. He obtained his Doctorate in philology, sttudying philosophy at the University of Santiago de Compostela and Romanic philology at the University of Madrid.
He taught literature at the Instituto Santa Irene in Vigo. He also wrote for the daily newspaper Faro de Vigo and directed the quarterly political criticism magazine A Trabe Ouro. Ferrín was a member of the Real Academia Galega (Galician Royal Academy). He was the president of that Academy. And he was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Vigo.
He was proposed for the Nobel Prize in literature by the Galician Writers Association in 1999. He was awarded with the Galician Critics Prize, Spanish Critics Prize and National Critics Prize.
Ferrín was a political activist, supporting political and social initiatives as Redes Escarlata. He was a member of the nationalist literary group Brais Pinto.
He was a founding member of Unión do Povo Galego (Union of the Galician People) and centered in a marxist independentist ideology. He was also member of Frente Popular Galega (Popular Galician Front) and founder of Galiza Ceibe.