More Than a Literary Movement: Susana Sanches Arins and Valentim Fagim on Reintegrationist Galician
Susana Sanches Arins, left, and Valentim Fagim
WWB s March issue features writing from Galicia, an autonomous region of northwestern Spain that borders Portugal. Though the Galician language shares a common root with modern Portuguese, Galicia s position within Spain has led to a divergence between the two languages: today, Galician is generally written using Spanish orthography and is not officially recognized as a variant of Portuguese. The Reintegrationist movement, however, seeks to change this state of affairs by promoting a vision of the Galician language that is more closely tied to Portuguese. Today on WWB Daily, we speak with two Galician literary figures actively working to further Reintegrationist Galician: Susana Sanches Arins, a writer and WWB contributor, and Valentim Fagim, codirector of Através Editora, a publishing house that provides a space for Reintegration