Ricardo Flores Peres

Who was Ricardo Flores Peres?

Ricardo Flores Peres, was a defender of the Galician independentist movement, in 1920s and '30s by a means of the Pondal Nationalist Society, and its periodical, A Fouce.

Ricardo was born in Sada, Galicia, in 1903. During his childhood, he worked the land, while he studied, with difficulty because his family was poor. In Ferrol, during the period of military service, she knows theater staging of the pieces from Brotherhood of the Language, and he comes into contact with Galician-Portuguese language restoring activities. His intellectual and literary background is mainly an autodidactic background. In this period, in Ferrol, he makes a political commitment with the Galician independence cause, and he never will give this idea up, throughout his long life.