Asturleonese is a romance language known by many glossonyms like Leonese, Asturian or Mirandese. Phylogenetically, the Asturleonese language forms part of the West Iberian branch, and developed from Vulgar Latin in the Kingdom of León. The Asturleonese group is subdivided into three linguistic variants that form the vertical Asturleonese region, from Asturias, through León, to the north of Portugal and Extremadura. The Cantabrian Montañes in the East and Extremaduran in the South are the variants that contain linguistic signs of transition with the domain of Castilian.
The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana or Academy of the Asturian Language (ALLA) is an Official Institution of the Government of the Principality of Asturias that promotes and regulates the Asturian language, a language of the Spanish autonomous community of Asturias. Among its principal objectives are investigating and normalizing the Asturian Language, developing a dictionary, promoting its use and education and awarding literary prizes. It has 21 full members, 19 foreign members and 15 honorary members, and its current president is Ana María Cano González.
Leonese is a set of vernacular Romance dialects currently spoken in northern and western portions of the historical region of León in Spain and a few adjoining areas in Portugal. In this narrow sense, Leonese is distinct from the dialects grouped under Asturian, although there is no clear linguistic division. In the past, it was spoken in a wider area, including most of the historical region. The current number of Leonese speakers is estimated at 20,000 to 50,000. The westernmost fringes of the provinces of León and Zamora are in the territory of the Galician language, although there is dialectal continuity between the linguistic areas.
Fele Martínez is a Goya Award-winning Spanish actor.
Julio Salinas Fernández is a Spanish retired footballer who played during the 1980s and 1990s.
Asturian is a West Iberian Romance language spoken in Principality of Asturias, Spain. Asturian is part of a wider linguistic group, the Astur-Leonese languages. The number of speakers is estimated at 100,000 (native) and 450,000. There are three main variants in the Astur-Leonese language family: Western, Central, and Eastern. For historical and demographic reasons, the standard is based on Central Asturian. Asturian has a distinct grammar, dictionary, and orthography. Regulated by the Academy of the Asturian Language, although it is not an official language of Spain it is protected under the Statute of Autonomy and is an elective language in schools.
Adolfo Camilo Díaz López is a Spanish writer in asturian language. He is specially known as a playwright and author of short novels. He had achieved some of the most important prizes of the Asturian literature, as the Xosefa Xovellanos of novel or the short novel prize of the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana.
Xuan Bello Fernán is a poet and one of the best-known contemporary Asturian writers.
Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent living in the United States since 1991.
Galician-Asturian or Eonavian is a set of Romance dialects or falas whose linguistic dominion extends into the zone of Asturias between the Eo River and Navia River. The dialects have been variously classified as the northeastern varieties of Galician, as a linguistic group of its own, or as a Galician dialect of transition to the Astur-Leonese group.
Xaviel Vilareyo y Villamil (1967–2015) was an Asturian writer born in Mieres in the Province of Asturias, Spain in 1967. He belongs to the Asturian literary group of the 1990s.
Pablo Antón Marín Estrada is a Spanish writer in Asturian.
Rafael Azcona Fernández was an awarded Spanish screenwriter and novelist who has worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement award in 1998.
Martí de Riquer i Morera, 8th Count of Casa Dávalos was a Spanish–Catalan literary historian and Romance philologist, a recognised international authority in the field. His writing career lasted from 1934 to 2004. He was also a nobleman and Grandee of Spain.
Justo Jorge Padrón is a Spanish poet, essayist, and translator. His work has been described as confirming "[t]he strength of modern Canarian poetry"
Aurelio González Ovies is a Spanish writer and poet from Asturias. He has a Ph.D in Classical Philology and he is a Professor of Latin Philology at the University of Oviedo. In words of the writer Victor Alperi:
Josefina Aldecoa, originally known as Josefa Rodríguez Álvarez, was a Spanish writer and teacher who was born in León. She was married to the writer Ignacio Aldecoa, whose surname she adopted after his death for her own literary career. Josefina Aldecoa was the founder and Principal of Colegio Estilo from 1959 until her death in 2011. She died on 16 March 2011 in Cantabria, due to respiratory problems, aged 85.
Asturian literature is the writings in the Asturian language of the northwest Iberian Peninsula. The earliest documents date back to the 10th century, but the peak period of literary output was in the 18th century, with a late 20th century revival.
Javier Tomeo was a Spanish (Aragonese) essayist, dramatist, and novelist.
Joan Francesc Mira i Casterà is a Valencian writer, anthropologist and sociologist. He is an honorary member of the Associació d'Escriptors en Llengua Catalana and President of Acció Cultural del País Valencià. In politics he is a supporter and has been a candidate of Valencian Nationalist Bloc in 2000 and 2003.
