Xoán Carlos Domínguez Alberte

Category: Teacher and writer
Birth Date: 24th july 1966
Birth Place: Escudeiros - Ramirás (Ourense)
E-mail: xcalberte@yahoo.es
 Curriculum:

-1985-1990: Degree in Hispanic Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela.

-1992: Degree in Galician Philology, University of Santiago de Compostela.

-1994-1998: He enjoyed a scholarship of Ramón Piñeiro Centre for Humanities Research.
-1998-1999: He worked at the Linguistic Normalization Service of the University of Vigo.

-1999-2004: He was responsible for the Programme of Sociolinguistic Dinamization of Galician areas and the Society for the Regional Development (1999-2004).

Since 2004 he has been working as a teacher of Galician Language and Literature. He also writes poetry and essays, makes translations and creates teaching materials.

 Work & Activities:

-Creations: ‘Roberto Blanco Torres e a loita pola supremacía ética’ (1999); ‘Material de outono’ (2000); ‘A natureza no reino da escuridade’ (2003) and ‘As horas luminosas’ (2005).

-Editions: ‘Mulher a facer vento’ (1998); ‘I Premio Literario Manuel Luís Acuña’ (2001); ‘Actas do I e II Congreso Manuel Luís Acuña’ (2001 and 2005); ‘Traballos da cuarta e quinta edición do Premio Literario Manuel Luís Acuña’ (2005) and ‘Son de poesía’ (2005).

-Literary translations: Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, ‘Lendas’ (1998); Esopo, ‘Fábulas’ (1999); Ovidio, ‘Arte de amar’ (2001); Czeslav Milosz (poems in ‘A rama no aire’, supplement of  Faro de Vigo -ed. Arousa-, 2005 and 2006).

 Other Interesting Aspects:

-Secretary of “I Xornadas das Letras Galegas en Lisboa” (1998).

-Coordinator of the following exhibitions: ‘Manuel Luís Acuña e o seu tempo’ (2000); ‘Os mundos de Carlos Casares’ (2002) and ‘Corenta anos de traballo por Galicia. O compromiso da diáspora galega’ (2003).

-Coordinator of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Conference on Manuel Luís Acuña (2000, 2003 and 2006).

-Coordinator of the “I - II Encontros de escritores en torno á montaña” (A Pobra de Trives, 2005 and 2006).