Manuel Rivas
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Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Spain on 24 October 1957)[1] is a Galician writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspapers like El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El País, 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 Qué me quieres, amor? (1996), a series of sixteen short stories, was adapted by director José Luis Cuerda for his film A lingua das bolboretas ("Butterfly"). O lápis do carpinteiro ("The Carpenter's Pencil") 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)
- 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 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
