Galician Literature Day celebrates language, land, and identity in northwestern Spain
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Juan Manuel Montoro
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Summary
An article about Galician Literature Day (May 17) and the role of Galician language and literature in shaping regional identity. It features an award-winning Galician writer who explains how Galician identity and literature are deeply connected to the land, and how celebrating writers who create in Galician reaffirms a rich, complex collective identity in this autonomous region of Spain with approximately 3 million speakers.
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In a community where culture has always been an act of resistance, remembering and creation, celebrating those who write – and sing – in Galician reaffirms a rich, complex and constantly changing collective identity
Galician literature not only narrates, but constructs identity. It is a form of belonging, projecting oneself and inhabiting the world
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