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

Biography [ edit ]

Manuel Rivas Barros 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 Pais , 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 [ edit ]

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 Jose 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 [ edit ]

Poems

• Libro de Entroido (1979)
• Balada nas praias do Oeste (1985)
• Mohicania (1987)
• Ningun cisne (1989)
• O pobo da noite (1996)
• Do desconecido ao desconecido. Obra poetica (1980-2003) (2003)
• El pueblo de la noche y mohicania revisitada . (2004)
• A desaparicion da neve . (2009)
• A boca da terra . (2015)

Novels

• Todo ben (1985)
• Un millon de vacas (1989), premio da Critica
• Os comedores de patacas (1991)
• En salvaxe compana (1994)
• ¿Que me quieres, amor? (1996)
• Bala perdida (1997)
• O lapis do carpinteiro (1998) (" The Carpenter's Pencil " (2003))
• Ela, maldita alma (1999)
• A man dos painos (2000)
• Galicia, Galicia (2001)
• As chamadas perdidas (2002)
• Contos de Nadal (2004)
• Os libros arden mal (2006) (" Books Burn Badly " (2010))
• Todo e silencio (2010) (" All is Silence " (2013))
• As voces baixas (2012) (" The Low Voices " (2017))

Essays

• "El bonsai atlantico" (1994)
• "El periodismo es un cuento" (1997)
• "Toxos e flores" (1999)
• "Galicia, Galicia" (2001)

Awards [ edit ]

• Galician Critics Prize
• Spanish National Narrative Prize
• Spanish Critic Prize
• Prize of the Belgian section of Amnesty International
• Torrente Ballester Prize
• Arcebispo Xoan de San Clemente e o da Critica Prize
• ONCE Prize - Galicia and Solidarity
• Xarmenta 2007

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Manuel Rivas bio and articles at El Pais
• Manuel Rivas interview Radio y Television Espanola 10 February 2010, 55 min (Spanish)
• Artigo provocado pola catastrofe do Prestige
• A commentary on the anthology of poems A desaparicion da neve (Alfaguara, 12 Sept 2009) in French and Spanish
• O mais estrano, blog