Chus Pato

Chus Pato at an Antwerp poetry festival, 2012

María Xesús Pato Díaz (born 29 August 1955, in Ourense, Galicia), most commonly known as Chus Pato, is a Galician writer.

She became a member of the Royal Galician Academy in 2016.

Bibliography

Galician language

• Urania. Ourense: Calpurnia (1991)
• Heloísa. A Coruña: Espiral Maior (1994)
• Fascinio. Muros: Toxosoutos (1995)
• A ponte das poldras. Santiago de Compostela: Noitarenga (1996). 2nd ed., Vigo: Galaxia (2006)
• Nínive. Vigo: Xerais (1996)
• m-Talá. Vigo: Xerais (2000)
• Charenton. Vigo: Xerais (2004)
• Hordas de escritura. Vigo: Xerais (2008)
• Secesión. Vigo: Galaxia (2009).
• Nacer é unha república de árbores. Pontevedra: Do Cumio (2010)
• Carne de Leviatán. Vigo: Galaxia (2013).
• Un libre favor. Vigo: Galaxia (2019).
• Sonora. Vigo: Xerais (2023).

English translations

• From M-Talá. Vancouver: Nomados (2002)
• Charenton. Exeter: Shearsman Books (2007)
• m-Talá. Exeter: Shearsman Books (2009)
• Hordes of Writing, Exeter: Shearsman Books (2011)
• Secession, (a dual publication with Erín Moure's Insecession), Toronto: BookThug (2014).
• Flesh of Leviatan, Omnidawn Publishing (2016).
• The Face of the Quarzes, Veliz Books (2021).

Dutch translations

• Finisterra. Uitgeverij Perdu, 2017.

Portuguese translations

• Carne de Leviatã. Lisboa: Douda Correria, 2016.
• Um fémur de voz corre a galope [antologia]. Porto: Officium Lectionis, 2022.

Bulgarian translations

• Leviatan i drugi istorii. Small Stations, 2016.

French translations

• Chair de Léviathan. Alger: Apic éditions, 2024.

Awards

• Premio Losada Diéguez in 1997 for Nínive.
• Spanish Critic Prize in 2009 for Hordas de escritura.
• Premio Losada Diéguez in 2009 for Hordas de escritura
• Author of the Year in 2014 from the Galician Booksellers' Association.

External links

• Page in Shearsman Books Archived 30 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
• Page in BookThug Books