MANUEL LLANO

Commemorating the poet from Cantabria from the Center for Montañeses Studies in the 80 Anniversary of his death

(1 January 1938 – 1 January 2018)

Set of commemorative events to be held throughout the year 2018

in coordination with collaborating institutions and organizations.

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On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the death of the writer Manuel Llano on 1 January 2018, The Center for Montañeses Studies has generated this page, in which a succinct biography of the poet from Cantabria is projected, as well as the main publications that appeared about him and his work, Their works will be hung and information will be given on the activities that will be held on the occasion of said anniversary..
Manuel Llano is the author, despite his early death, of a literary work in which the song of the traditions of inland Cantabria is combined, folklore and ethnographic research, the journalistic report, the literary review and the society chronicle. A work in which two characteristics stand out: the richness of language of exalted lyrical prose, inter alia, by Miguel de Unamuno, who prologued his children's altarpiece, and by Gerardo Diego, who put the epilogue to Green earth pain and he dedicated his last lesson as a professor to the life and work of the Cabuérnigo writer; with the presence of helpless characters, victims of others, sick, elderly or disabled.
Don Miguel de Unamuno wrote about the author and his work in the prologue to children's altarpiece: “José María de Cossío… made me read Branaflor y La Braña and I was, not enamored, but caught by that work. And then from the author, upon meeting him and upon improving my gaze with Llano's gaze. It had been a long time since I had received such a deep and profound impression from a young man.. Young?, no; it would be better to say of a child, whatever your age. A more than mature child by life experience.”… and later “in the work as in the spirit of Llano I breathed still centuries of an ancient childhood, antique girl. From a mountain childhood, mythical and tragic, kneaded with mountain entrails”.

SEMBLANCE

Manuel Llano Merino was born in the Cabuérnigo town of Sopeña on 23 January 1898, son of a peasant couple, His childhood passed between Carmona and Sopeña where he became fond of reading in his godmother Teresa's library., sister of the writer Delfín Fernández González. There he shared attendance at school with the job of sarruján or shepherd's assistant and helping his blind father as a guide., illness that forced the family to move to Santander where Llano will spend most of his life..
In Santander he enrolled in Teaching and Nautical studies., but family financial difficulties prevented him from completing these studies., despite which, in 1918 He was hired as a municipal school teacher in Helguera de Reocín, where he spent two years.
In 1920 His first collaborations appear in The Montañés Diary, and from the following year they began to do it regularly in the newspaper The Cantabrian People, where three years later he was a proofreader and editor, but the newspaper disappeared in 1927 to merge with The Watchtower and give birth to a new diary, The Voice of Cantabria. At the end of the same year he began to collaborate in The Region, in which he will become editor-in-chief at 1928. This same year he won the mountain folklore contest convened by the literature section of the Ateneo de Santander, with a work titled “ Tablanca ”, which he published in Bulletin of the Menéndez Pelayo Library in 1929 with the title of “Popular Myths and Legends collected from oral tradition”.

He presided over the Ateneo Popular de Santander for a time and was a regular at the gatherings at the Menéndez Pelayo Library and the Ateneo de Santander., where he makes friends with Miguel Artigas, Victor de la Serna, Elías Ortiz de la Torre, José María Quintanilla, Luis de Escalante or José María de Cossío who introduces him to Miguel de Unamuno.
In 1929 publica The Sun of the Dead, which contains a series of stories that had previously appeared in The Region, a book of which two editions were made the same year. In 1931, publica Branaflor, with a prologue by Artigas and in the Bulletin of the Menéndez Pelayo Library «The Anjanas».
Since September 1929 collaborate in The Voice of Cantabria and in 1931 goes to The Cantabrian, where he also works as a proofreader. In 1932 appears Peasants in the City, prologue by Víctor de la Serna, and in 1934 two new works of his appear, Rabel y La Braña. The following year his friend and teacher Miguel de Unamuno prefaced a new book, Children's Altarpiece.
During the Civil War, its traditional themes lost space in favor of more social issues., that are incorporated into a new book Fitter, published in 1937 and write Green earth pain, which would be published posthumously by the magazine Proel. After the fall of Santander, the new regime founded the newspaper Alert to which Llano joins as a corrector.
Manuel Llano died in the early hours of New Year's Day in 1938 of a heart attack, three weeks before turning forty years old, and in full creative maturity.

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The sarruján of Carmona. Notes on the life and work of Manuel Llano, by Celia Valbuena (1969)

Unamuno's annotations in the works of Manuel Llano, by Celia Valbuena (1971)

Suplemento a la bibliografía de Manuel Llano, by Celia Valbuena (1975)

Articles in the mountain press I (1922-1929), By Ignacio Aguilera (1972)

Articles in the mountain press II (1930-1933), by Ignacio Aguilera (1972)

Articles in the mountain press III (1934-1937), by Ignacio Aguilera (1972)

Manuel Llano Merino, prose poet (23-January-1898 / 1-January-1938). XXVI Exhibition Tribute to Montañese Artists 1998

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With our special recognition to the sensitive chronicler of the first voyages of the Center for Montañeses Studies. Texts published in the newspaper The Cantabrian:

The Study Center will go to the village, The Cantabrian, 21 January 1934

Antique Museum, The Cantabrian, 19 of August of 1934

The knowledge of the people, The Cantabrian, 18 November 1934

A sonata of history, The Cantabrian, 17 February 1935

In his pioneering work on the life and work of Manuel Llano, Professor Celia Valbuena wrote: «… Already at this stage of his life, the young man from Cabuérniga shows a predisposition for literature and founds in the School

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