Antom Garcia Rodrigues will present this Friday the 25th at Pobra do Brollón Affective spaces of Galicia in current Lisbon, edited by Laiovento. He will be accompanied by local poet Noa Moreira at the presentation. The presentation will be at 8:30 p.m. at the Casa da Cultura ‘Olga Novo’.
Through historical and literary sources, the book investigates the imprint of centuries of Galician emigration in the Portuguese capital. A memory that was made invisible for a long time but that remains in the neighborhoods, in names, in culinary traditions, festivals and in multiple areas of current Lisbon life.
The essay explores these marks of Galician memory in Lisbon while seeking to understand the circumstances that led so many people from Galicia to emigrate to the Portuguese capital.
Antom G. Rodrigues (Chantada, 1987) holds a degree in Galician Language and Literature and in Modern Languages and Literatures, with a specialization in Portuguese Language and Lusophone Literatures from the University of Santiago de Compostela. He teaches in secondary education and in official language schools, having previously worked as a lecturer in Galician at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
