This house was the home of this poet.
"Ana de Valle , born as Anita Casilda Arias Iglesias , ( Avilés , August 3 , 1900 - Neupré , January 21 , 1984 ) was a Spanish poet .
His father, Francisco Arias, a native of Torbeo , was a sharpener and laborer, and his mother, María Iglesias, from Sabugo , was a teacher by profession. He had two brothers, Celestino and Nieves. On July 6, 1921, he married Eladio García Valle, a bookbinder by profession, from whom he adopted the surname Valle to sign his poetic creations. Together with him he ran a bookbinding workshop in Avilés.
In 1934, he joined the General Union of Workers (UGT) and, the following year, the Socialist Group of Avilés. She actively participated in the life of the Association, where she held the Women's Secretariat and chaired the Socialist Women's Group, highlighting her activity in favor of the emancipation of women.
In October 1937, close to the Francoist troops entering the city of Avilés , De Valle fled the city with his parents and three daughters, Ana María, Margarita and Rosario, in the direction of Barcelona , while her husband was fighting in the Republican side . In the Catalan capital, a bombardment on the city wounded his father, while they were queuing to collect food. De Valle accompanied him to the hospital where he finally passed away. Upon returning to the family home, he found it empty since his mother and daughters fled to France before the approach of Franco's troops . He crossed the border into an exile that lasted thirteen years. Resided inNarbonne and later in Gierp, where he began to work in a sewing workshop. Years later, he was reunited with his daughters, two of them had been taken in by a French couple and the other by a Belgian family.
In 1952, she returned to Avilés where she reunited with her husband, after fourteen years apart. Thirty years later, and for health reasons, she returned to Belgium in April 1982, where her daughters resided. He died in January 1984 in the town of Neupré, in Liège ( Belgium ). On April 22, 1984, the ashes of Ana del Valle were deposited in a cemetery in the Avilés cemetery with her husband, Eladio Valle.
As a poet, he published his first poems in the newspaper La Voz de Avilés in 1924, later collaborating in different cultural magazines, such as in the magazine El Bollo , and publications until in 1932 he published his first collection of poems Pájaro Azul . 4
When he returned to Avilés in the 1950s , he resumed his literary activity. In 1953, the second stage of collaborations began in the cultural magazine El Bollo . In the sixties he published the Flying Leaves under the pseudonym María de la Estrella . In 1963, he won the El Caballo Rojo sonnet contest with "Sándalo".
Obra
1932 – Pájaro azul
1972 – Tallos nuevos
1974 – Tránsito a la alegría. ISBN 9788440070777.
1976 – Al ritmo de las horas. ISBN 978-84-400-1268-5.
1978 – Escorzos. ISBN 978-84-400-4967-4.
1980 – La otra serenidad. ISBN 978-84-300-2543-5.
Acknowledgments
In 1980, the Avilés City Council created the Ana de Valle Poetry contest , the last edition of which dates from 2010. Since April 1984, a commemorative plaque on the facade of the building recalls that de Valle lived in a house located at number 9 of the Plaza de Álvarez Acebal, the poet's last residence in the city, where the bookbinding workshop was also located.
In 2000, coinciding with the centenary of her birth, Ana de Valle was published . Poetic anthology. Al Hilo de una vida , the work of Eugenio Bueno. The writer and researcher José Manuel Feito published in 2008 the book Spirituality in the life and work of Ana de Valle, work in which the biography and writings of the Avilesina author are analyzed.
In 2014, the city council organized, on the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of her death, a wreath and a poetry reading next to the writer's grave in the La Carriona cemetery . December
The city of Avilés has a street named after the poet."
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