Xosé Luís Méndez Ferrín

He also writes for the daily newspaper Faro de Vigo and directs the quarterly political critic magazine A Trabe Ouro.

Ferrín is a member of the Real Academia Galega (Galician Royal Academy).

He was the president of that Academy from January 2010 until February 2013, when he resigned, accused of hiring relatives [1].

He was a founding member of Unión do Povo Galego (Union of the Galician People) and centered in a marxist independentist ideology.

As a poet he became notorious with his first work Voce na néboa (Voice in the fog) 1957.