Manuel Rivas
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Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain)Galician writer, poet and journalist.
Biography
Manuel Rivas Barrós began his writing career at the age of 15.Television de Galicia, El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El País, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16 in Galicia. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain and played an important role during the 2002 Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast.
Work
As of 2017, Rivas has published 9 anthologies of poetry, 14 novels and several literature essays. He is considered a revolutionary in contemporary
O lapis do carpinteiro
has been published in nine countries and is the most widely translated work in the history of Galician literature. It also was adapted to cinema as O lapis do carpinteiro.
Bibliography
Poems
- Libro de Entroido (1979)
- Balada nas praias do Oeste (1985)
- Mohicania (1987)
- Ningún cisne (1989)
- O pobo da noite (1996)
- Do descoñecido ao descoñecido. Obra poética (1980-2003) (2003)
- El pueblo de la noche y mohicania revisitada. (2004)
- A desaparición da neve. (2009)
- A boca da terra. (2015)
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 lapis do carpinteiro (1998) ("The Carpenter's Pencil" (2003))
- 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) ("All is Silence" (2013))
- As voces baixas (2012) ("The Low Voices" (2017))
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
References
- ^ Rivas, Manuel (in Spanish) escritores.org, 27 November 2013
- Radio y Televisión Española(in Spanish). 10 February 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
External links
- Manuel Rivas bio and articles at El Pais
- Manuel Rivas interview Radio y Televisión Española 10 February 2010, 55 min (Spanish)
- Artigo provocado pola catástrofe do Prestige
- A commentary on the anthology of poems A desaparición da neve (Alfaguara, 12 Sept 2009) in French and Spanish
- O máis estraño, blog
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