EMILIO MARTÍNEZ

(1878 - 1955)
Born in Pola de Laviana, he was brother Graciano Martínez´s brother. At the age of 20, he sailed to America and was in the Habana, where he became Alfonso Camín´s friend. In Cuba, where held different jobs, he begins to publish his first poems, activity which he would never give up. He returned to Spain in 1930, although he would travel to America on several more occasions, he settled down in Laviana after his wife´s death in 1948. He has left behind some books of poems —Nubes y Rocío, 1912; Sol de Ocaso, 1928,...- and his poems appear in porfolios and magazines, while his unpublished work is abundent. During the last years of his life in his home town, the Town hall named him Official chronicler of Laviana as recognition of his career. In 1985 his book was published posthumously Laviana, hombres, paisajes y letras, in which he describes some biographical profilesde of the outstanding personalities from this municipality.