Manuel Asur

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Manuel Asur (Manuel González García) (Güeria Carrocera, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, 1947) is a Spanish essayist and poet in Astur-Leonese. He's considered the first modern poet in this language. He has a Ph.D degree in Philosophy.His book, Cancios y poemes pa un riscar ('Songs and Poems to a Dawn') meant the beginning in 1977 of the rebirth (Asturian surdimientu) of asturian literature, because he contributed with a poetry more newfangled and risked than anything written before in this language. Most of their works talk about the socio-political facts of the moment. Some of their poems became very popular in Asturias in 1970s since the group Nuberu used them as lyrics for their songs. He wrote also a narrative book in 1987, Hai una llinia trazada ('There's a Drawn Line'), with short stories that he say to consider "almost monologues". He's a current articulist of La Nueva España publications and works in the Consejería de Medio Rural y Pesca del Principado de Asturias.

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Cancios y poemes pa un riscar (1977). Author's edition. ISBN 84-400-3593-4
Camín del cumal fonderu ('Going to the Last Peak') (1978). Author's edition. ISBN 84-500-2951-1
Vívese d'oyíes: Poemes bilingües ('Living by Hearsay: Bilingual Poems') (1979). Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84-600-1484-3
Congoxa que ye amor ('This Anguish is Love') (1982). Author's edition. ISBN 84-300-7245-4
Destruición del poeta ('Destruction of the Poet') (1984). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84-600-3778-9
Hai una llinia trazada (short stories) (1987). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84-600-5309-1
Poesía 1976-1996 ('Poetry 1976-1996', selected works) (1996). Trabe ISBN 84-8053-068-5
Orbayos ('Rain Showers') (2002). Trabe ISBN 84-8053-217-3
El libro de las visitas ('The Visitor's Book', in spanish language) (2003). Trabe ISBN 84-8053-252-1