Antón Losada Diéguez

Antón Losada Diéguez
File:Antón Losada Diéguez.jpg Losada, in 1928
Born	(1884-12-22)22 December 1884 Boborás, Spain
Died	Pontevedra, Spain
Occupation	Writer and polititian
Nationality	Spanish
Ethnicity	Galician-Spanish
Genre	Journalism, essay, theatre
Spouse	Albina Espinosa Cervela Mercedes Espinosa Cervela
Children	Antón (First spouse) Miguel, Mercedes, Albina, Xaquín, Luís and Xosé Antonio. (Second spouse)

Antón Losada Diéguez (Moldes, (Boborás), Spain on December 22, 1884 - Pontevedra, Spain, on October 15, 1929) was a writer, Spanish politician, member of the Irmandades da Fala of Ourense, impulsor of the magazine Nós and correspondent of the Royal Galician Academy. He was author of half dozen books of poetry, seven books, two political writings, the incomplete work A domeadora and the speech "Ouservacións encol da prosa galega". He became a member in the Seminar of Galician Studies. He was honoured on the Day of the Galician Letters of 1985.

Biography

File:A familia de Losada Diéguez na Ramallosa en 1898, Antón é o segundo pola dereita.jpg

The family Losada Diéguez in Ramallosa in 1898, Antón is the second by the right.

First years

Antón Losada belonged to the Hidalgo family of traditional ideology and deeply catholic. He was the son of Miguel Losada y Losada (1860-1913) and Carmen Diéguez Arias y Belt (1850-1888). At age four, Antón's mother died of tuberculosis in 1888. He married in August 1883. He spent five as an intern at the Santiago Apostol School of the Society of Jesus in Pasaxe (province of Pontevedra). He studied literature at the University of Deusto, graduating in 1906. He took law course at the University of Santiago de Compostela between 1902 and 1903, where he also acted as assistant professor of Armando Cotarelo Valledor. His first writings were non published. In 1904, he went to Madrid to get a doctorate in philosophy and literature. During these years, he wrote four theatrical pieces in Spanish that were presented in several contests.

In 1907, he returned to Galicia to take part in the agricultural movement. He founded the agricultural unions in A Estrada and in other areas of Galicia. During 1910, he relocated his usual residence in Galicia where exerted of auxiliary professor of the University, appointing politically to the jaimismo and being chosen as secretary of the Traditionalistic Xunta of Santiago de Compostela.

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According to Otero Pedrayo: Lousada was young gentleman of pazo, deeply religious, very traditional, literate, carlista.

In 1911 he left Galicia again to Madrid in order to prepare for Civil service examination. In 1913 he won a place as Professor of institute with destination in Canarias, which he achieved to change by another in Toledo, and that later to Ourense. In this city he did friendship with the men of the literary movement of Vicente Risco and took his opportunity for finishing his degree in Law in Santiago, where he met Lois Porteiro. On June 25, 1915 he married Albina Espinosa Cervela, daughter of Laurentino Espinosa Valladares, with whom he had his first son, Antón. Albina died the on December 17, 1916 of typhus. Since 1916, he supported the jaimismo movement and began to praise the Catalan regionalism. On December 31, 1920, Antón married for the second time to Mercedes Espinosa Cervela (sister of his first wife), with whom he had six more children.

Entrance in the galeguist movement

1917 was to be fundamental in the political path of Losada since he became a member of the Irmandades da Fala, on October 17, he wrote to Porteiro requesting information and on October 30, he was already integrated into the Irmandade. He renewed the Irmandade of Ourense that was under the power of regionalists sectors and without almost public activity and achieved to attract Vicente Risco to it and those who took part in La Centuria, what was to be fundamental to the development of the galeguismo and that went to give origin to the Xeración Nós. Besides, during that year he traveled to Barcelona with a delegation of the Irmandades to celebrate a Galician Week and got in contact with the Lliga. When Antón went back to Ourense he was responsible for receiving Francesc Cambó, and was responsible, beside Rodrigo Sanz and Lois Porteiro for organizing the Galician autonomy candidatures in the province of Ourense for the Spanish general election, hold in 1918, in coalition with the mauristas of José Calvo Sotelo. The electoral defeat caused demoralization in the Irmandades and Losada went to concentrate his efforts in consolidating the group. In order to do so, he wrote a lot of articles inthepress, especially in El Emigrado, La Región, O Tío Marcos d'a Portela, A Nosa Terra, El Estradense and Alborada appeared his writings in Galician, without forgetting his labor as Catholic propagandist in Pontevedra acting as president of the Catholic Action and of the local Circle of Catholic Workers venues. He also tried to promote some of the first shy attempts to enter the Galician language into the liturgy. He even translated Salve Regina into that language.

In November, 1918 he chaired the I Nationalist Assembly of Lugo. Along with Risco and Arturo Noguerol, founded in 1920 the Nós magazine. He accompanied Risco in the training of the Irmandade Nazonalista Galician during 1922 and was his Propaganda Minister during a year, failing in his attempts of reunification of the galeguismo movement.

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Losada was one of the most relevant figures of the first years of Galician nationalism.

On May 12, 1924, Antón Losada became a member in the Seminar of Galician Studies with the speech "Ouservacións encol da prosa galega". Losada relied on Calvo Sotelo promises and collaborated in a first moment with the Primo de Rivera dictatorship, taking possession as a provincial deputy in Pontevedra. During that period Antón took part in the failed attempts to establish a Mancomunity of Galicia and will cause Losada's renounce at the beginning of 1925. During the rest of the dictatorship he participated on cultural activities such as founding the Choral Polifónica of Pontevedra, the Eiriña Football Club and his work in the SEG, but without forgetting the wishes of autonomy for Galicia. He was only forty five years old when he died in Pontevedra in 1929.

He was a corresponding member of the Royal Galician Academy (May 22, 1928) and was honoured on Day of the Galician Letters in 1985.

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"Conto" (Tale), Nós 5, 1921/6/24.

Work

Since his entrance in the Irmandades until his death he is known to have written a half-dozen of poems, sevem short stories, an unfinished fragment of a comedy, two articles about art and some other articles. In 1985 it was published his Obra completa (Complete works).

Some titles are:

• Simbólica e ideas filosóficas contenidas en "La vida es sueño": drama en tres jornadas y en verso de D. Pedro Calderón de la Barca, 1910.
• "Valentín Lamas Carvajal". Article published in O Tio Marcos d'a Portela nº 32 o 31/5/1918, p. 4.
• "Os camiños d'o agrarismo galego". Article published in A Nosa Terra nº 96 o 5/8/1919.
• "Conto" (Dous rapaciños rifaron...), tale published on Nós magazine n.º 5 on 24/6/1921.
• "Adiante" in A Nosa Terra nº 167, 1922/7/25.
• "Ouservacións encol da prosa galega", discurso de ingreso no SEG o 12 de maio de 1924.
• Excavaciones en Montealegre (Domayo), provincia de Pontevedra : memoria de los trabajos realizados y descubrimientos hechos por el concesionario Don Antonio Losada y Diéguez. 1927. MAN.

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"Lonxe" & "Ano novo, vida nova".

• "Inéditos do Lousada", published in Nós magazine nº 71 on November 15, 1929. Include:
  • "Lonxe", dous poemas. O primeiro asinado: Pontevedra, Nadal, 1926, p. 191.
  • "Soneto XV [sic] da Vita nuova, do Dante". From Italian «Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare...», p. 192.
  • "Un conto" (Boteime a camiñar pol-o Ceo, brincando...), p. 192.
  • "Outro conto" (Cando me erguín aquela mañán dixéronme...), p. 193
  • A domeadora, pp. 193–203. Obra teatral incompleta. Reedited in 1985 and 2005.
• "A significación profunda do galeguismo" in Pensamento galego I, C. Baliñas, 1977. ISBN 84-7337-004-X.
• Antón Losada Diéguez. Escolma edited by Filgueira Valverde. Royal Galician Academy Publications. 1985.
• Obra completa. Ed. de J. Beramendi. Texts in Galician and Spanish. Xerais, 1985. ISBN 84-7507-181-3.
• Antoloxía de Antonio Losada Diéguez (1985). Limiar de Anxo Tarrío. USC. ISBN 978-84-7191-356-2.
• Arredor do noso futuro. Campus Universitario Ourense (1997). ISBN 84-87575-55-2.
• Traduccións poéticas de Antón Losada Diéguez. Ed: Marchisio, C. Bibliófilos Gallegos, 1999, ISBN 84-605-9791-1.
• Na estrada da vida: ensaio de comedia dramática, en tres actos e un prólogo. Fervenza. 2006. ISBN 84-96368-43-2.
• Os que soñan. Fervenza Edicións. A Estrada. 2006. ISBN 84-96368-41-6.
• Virilidade : ensaio cómico, orixinal e en prosa. Fervenza. 2006. ISBN 84-96368-44-0.
• O mellor de... Antón Losada Diéguez (1884-1929), ed. de Teresa Seara, 2010, La Voz de Galicia. ISBN 978-84-9757-257-6.

Gallery

To Albina (November 25, 1912) Antonio. To Albina (November 25, 1912) Antonio.  Antón Losada Diéguez with his son Antón, c. 1918. Antón Losada Diéguez with his son Antón, c. 1918.  A list of teachers in the Pontevedra High School, year 1928-29. A list of teachers in the Pontevedra High School, year 1928-29.  Estatue in A Estrada to Losada Diéguez. Estatue in A Estrada to Losada Diéguez.

See also

• Vicente Risco
• Irmandades da Fala
• José Calvo Sotelo

Bibliography

• José Antonio Durán Iglesias (1981). "Antonio Losada Diéguez, la derecha gallega y los nacionalistas", p. 263-303 in Crónicas-3, Akal, ISBN 9788473395229.
• Xoán Carlos Garrido Couceiro (2005). "Días de Losada na Estrada", intro. in A domeadora, Fervenza, ISBN 978-84-96368-21-7.
• Henrique Monteagudo (1995). "Ideas sobre a lingua de Antón Losada Diéguez" in Antón Losada Diéguez, 10 anos dun premio. O Carballiño. ISBN 978-84-606-2400-4.
• Homenaxe a Antón Losada Diéguez: centenario 1884-1984. Concello do Carballiño, 1984. ISBN 84-505-1035-X.

External links

• RAG. Figures paid tribute to. Antón Losada Diéguez (Galician)
• Foundation Antón Losada Diéguez (Galician)
• Galician Virtual Library (Galician)
• 130 aniversario do nacemento de Antón Losada Diéguez Biblioteca Ánxel Casal, Santiago (Galician).