Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Galicia in 1957) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspapers like El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El Pais, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16 in Galicia. Rivas has written well known poems, novels, articles and literature essays.

Rivas is considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, and played an important role during the Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast. Some of his work has been adapted to cinema, such as A lingua das bolboretas and O Lápis do Carpinteiro.

Rivas's book Que me quieres, amor? (1996), a series of 16 short stories, was adapted by director Jose Luis Cuerda for his film, La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly). O Lápis do Carpinteiro, or The Carpenter's Pencil in English, has been published in nine countries and is the most widely translated work in the history of Galician literature.

Bibliography

Poems

• Libro de Entroido (1979)
• Balada nas praias do Oeste (1985)
• Mohicania (1987)
• Ningún cisne (1989)
• O pobo da noite (1996)

Novels

• Todo ben (1985)
• Un millón de vacas (1989), premio da Crítica;
• Os comedores de patacas (1991)
• En salvaxe compaña (1994)
• Qué me quieres, amor? (1996)
• Bala perdida (1997)
• O lápis do carpinteiro (1998) The Carpenter's Pencil
• Ela, maldita alma (1999)
• A man dos paíños (2000)
• Galicia, Galicia (2001)
• As chamadas perdidas (2002)
• Contos de Nadal (2004)
• Os libros arden mal (2006): Books Burn Badly (2010)
• Todo é silencio (2010)

Essays

• El bonsái atlántico (1994)
• El periodismo es un cuento (1997)
• Toxos e flores (1999)
• Galicia, Galicia (2001)

Awards

• Galician Critics Prize
• Spanish National Narrative Prize
• Spanish Critic Prize
• Prize of the Belgian section of Amnesty International
• Torrente Ballester Prize
• Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente e o da Crítica Prize
• ONCE Prize - Galicia and Solidarity
• Xarmenta 2007

External links

• Artigo provocado pola catástrofe do Prestige
• A comentary on the anthology of poems A desaparición da neve (Alfaguara, 2009) in french and spanish

Persondata
Name	Rivas, Manuel
Alternative names
Short description	journalist, poet, writr
Date of birth	1957-00-00
Place of birth	A Coruña, Galicia
Date of death
Place of death