Yolanda Castaño, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Yolanda Castaño

Spanish artist

Date of Birth: 19-Apr-1977

Place of Birth: Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain

Profession: writer, poet, painter, literary critic

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Yolanda Castaño Pereira (Santiago de Compostela, 1977) is a Galician painter, literacy critic and poet. Since 1990, she has lived in Corunna, where she studied Spanish Philology at the University of A Coruña. She translated her poems to Spanish and has been the General Secretary at the Association of Galician-language Writers (Spanish: Asociación de Escritores en Lengua Gallega / Galician: Asociación de Escritores en Lingua Galega) and at Letras de Cal.
She has also collaborated in several publications, such as Festa da palabra silenciada, Dorna, O Correo Galego (El Correo Gallego), A nosa terra and El Mundo. Pereira is co-director of journal Valdeleite (together with Olga Novo) and works for the TV programme Cifras e Letras (TVG version of Countdown).