Xohana Torres
SPANISH POET (1931-2017)
Xohana Torres Fernández (22 November 1929 – 12 September 2017) was a Spanish writer, poet, playwright, and member of the Royal Galician Academy whose best known works included the novel, Adiós, María (1971), which won the Galician literary prize from the Galician Center of Buenos Aires, and Estación ao mar (1980). Torres was part of a generation of writers who championed Galician language and literature during the Francoist era at a time when regional languages were routinely suppressed.