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Manuel Leguineche Bollar, better known as Manu Leguineche, (28 September 1941 – 22 January 2014) was a Spanish
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and writer. He was born in
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. He was one of the contributors of ''
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'' magazine from 1974 to 1976. He founded the Spanish news agencies Colpisa and Fax Press. He divorced from
Rosa María Mateo Rosa María Mateo Isasi (born 6 January 1942), is a Spanish journalist and renowned television news anchor during the Transition. From July 2018 to March 2021, she served as the Provisional Sole Administrator of RTVE, the national public radio ...
. He was the inaugural winner of the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award in 1984. He died on 22 January 2014 in Madrid from an illness.


Selected works

* ''The forgotten men'' (1981) (with Jesús Torbado). Published originally in Spanish as ''Los topos'', 1977) * ''Los años de la infamia: crónica de la II Guerra Mundial'' (1995) * ''Adiós, Hong-Kong'' (1996) * ''Annual, 1921'' (1997) * ''Apocalipsis Mao: una visión de la nueva China'' (1999) * ''La felicidad de la tierra'' (1999) * ''Recordad Pearl Harbor'' (2001) * ''Gibraltar'' (2002) * ''Madre Volga'' (2003)


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Manuel Leguineche's personal page
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Biography of Manuel Leguineche
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Works of Manuel Leguineche
1941 births 2014 deaths Recipients of the Order of Constitutional Merit Spanish journalists {{Spain-journalist-stub