Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain)^[1] is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.

Biography

Manuel Rivas Barrós began his writing career at the age of 15.^[2] He has written articles and literary essays for Spanish newspapers and television stations including 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 Galician literature. His 1996 book ¿Que me queres, amor?, a series of sixteen short stories, was adapted by director José Luis Cuerda for his film A lingua das bolboretas La lengua de las mariposas ("Butterfly"). His 1998 novel 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

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

This page was last edited on 21 March 2024, at 10:08