(Vigo, 1963)
Fran Alonso (Vigo, 1963), a writer, editor and journalist, is the
Subdirector of the Edición Xeral in Xerais, a publishing house where he has
been working since 1992, mainly carrying out duties related to literary
edition, and the vice-president of the Galician Association of Editors. He was
a contributor for Diario 16 de Galicia, La Voz de Galicia and the El País
supplement «Luces», and he now collaborates with the
weekly newspaper A Nosa Terra. As a writer, he has published more than 17 works
and has won several literary awards. Among his narrative works, the following
can be highlighted: Tráiler
(1991), Cemiterio de elefantes
(1994), Silencio (1995), O brillo dos elefantes
(1999), Males de cabeza (2001) and Cartas de amor (2006). As a poet, he has published Persianas, pedramol e outros nervios (1992), Tortillas para os obreiros (1996), Cidades (1997), Subversións
(2001) and Balada solitaria (2004). He has also published the illustrated albums A casa da duna [The House of the Duna] (2002) and A araña e mais eu, translated to english by Kalandraka as The spider and me.
- The spider and me
- More information about Fran Alonso
- Books by Fran Alonso
- Love Letters (Cartas de amor)
- The house in the dunes (A casa da duna)
- Other languages
Texts by Fran Alonso:
Autobiography
The brightness of elephants
Poems from Persianas, pedramol e outros nervios
Poems from Tortillas para os obreiros
The Land of the Sea