Manuel Rivas
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Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Galicia, in 1957) is a Spanish writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Galician and 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, being critical of his land and culture. 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 lapis do carpinteiro.
Rivas's book ¿Qué me queres, 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 lapis 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.
[edit] 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 queres, amor? (1996)
- Bala perdida (1997)
- O lapis do carpinteiro (1998)
- 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)
Essays
- El bonsái atlántico (1994)
- El periodismo es un cuento (1997)
- Toxos e flores (1999)
- Galicia, Galicia (2001)
[edit] 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
