Eduardo Moreiras

EDUARDO MOREIRAS / O Camiñante na procura dos cumes

• Birth: Quiroga, 1914
• Death: Vigo, 1991
• Outstanding works:

–Primaveira no Lor (1974)
–Os nobres carreiros (1970)
–Follas de vagar (1972)
–Fogo solto (1976)
–O libro dos mortos (1979)

• Profession: Writer, public worker of telecomunication techincal body
• Member of the Royal Academy of Galician, 1978

Eduardo Moreiras was born In this house and lived his first years. Later, his family moved to Vigo when he was still a child.

He returned often to Quiroga to pass time in this house, to walk following mountains paths and along the banks of the Sil, Lor and Soldón rivers..

“Miña terra fermosa
Anda entre ríos deitada”

The writer perceives the spiritual beauty of the mountain landscape as pilgrimage to his personal cradle. He collected these impressions in poems and stories of Primaveira no Lor, Os nobres carreiros, Follas de vagar ou Fogo solto, which form an extraordinary song to Quiroga lands.

“Pola tarde vou cercando quediño, moi a modo, o xigante que vixía a morte e resurrección do río: a montaña que chaman Auga Levada, onde o sol se pon. O ceo, sen unha nube, relumea con palpitacións de rula. De pé, sobor dun penedo que xorde coma unha torre do flanco da montaña, vexo o Lor en Augasmestas, nun arco perfecto, derramarse no Sil”

(Primaveira no Lor, 1974)