Literary awards, an strategy in Carlos Casares output

Abstract

In this paper, which goes along the lines of the research network LIJMI, the main action strategies Carlos Casares Mouriño employed to enter and establish in Galician literary system are described.
Regarding this, literary awards as canonizing elements will be mainly focused on. The author from Ourense wrote not only Galician works for potential children and young adult readers, but he also wrote works for adults, translated universal canonical works, edited biographies of Galician language and culture classical authors, and collaborated daily in several Galician newspapers. To go on with and in the light of identity, intertextuality and humour, two prizewinning and pioneering works by Carlos Casares are analyzed, independently but highlighting the similarities and differences between them.
These are A galiña azul (1968) and As laranxas máis laranxas de todas as laranxas (1973). To finish with, itis concluded that both works enabled Carlos Casares to enter and establish himself in Galician Children and Young Adults' Literary system, and to become a classic in it. Common identity style characteristics to all Casares output are commented, and the bibliography employed is exposed.