Yolanda Castaño

Yolanda Castaño Pereira (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) is a Galician painter, literary critic and poet.

Since 1990, she has lived in A Coruña, where she studied Spanish Philology and Audiovisual at the University of A Coruña.

She translated her poems to Spanish and has been the General Secretary at the Association of Galician-language Writers (Spanish: ''Asociación de Escritores en Lengua Gallega'' / Galician: ''Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega'') and at Letras de Cal. She has also collaborated in several publications, such as ''Festa da palabra silenciada'', ''Dorna'', ''O Correo Galego'' (El Correo Gallego), ''A nosa terra'' and ''El Mundo''.

Castaño is co-director of journal ''Valdeleite'' (together with Olga Novo) and works for the TV programme ''Cifras e Letras'' (TVG version of Countdown).

In 2023 she won National Poetry Award (Spain) for his book Materia. Provided by Wikipedia