Antonio Noriega Vareal was born in 1869 in the Galician town of Mondoñedo and studied at a seminary. Despite having faced his life towards a religious vocation, Noriega ended up practicing as a teacher, a profession that led him to live in various places within his native Galicia.
Noriega took an active part in the agrarian struggle composing several poems about it and writing in favor of the cause in newspapers, which at one time brought him direct consequences in the personal and professional sphere.
His friendship with him too writer and gallego Otero Pedrayo It led him to learn about Portuguese literature, which was a great influence and source of inspiration for him at that stage of his life.
His best known work is "Do ermo", which in its first publications had the title of mountains and in which we can find poems from two different aspects such as costumbrismo, focused on the life of the village and its agricultural workers and poetry about nature, in which displays a more cultured vocabulary.
Finally, Antonio Noriega Varela died in 1947 in Nursery, place where he spent the last stage of his life.
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