Manu Leguineche recibe la medalla de la orden del mérito constitucional

Manuel Leguineche Bollar, better known as Manu Leguineche, (28 September 1941 – 22 January 2014) was a Spanish correspondent, journalist and writer. He was born in Arratzu, Biscay. He was one of the contributors of ''

Doblón ''Doblón'' was a Spanish language weekly news and business magazine which was in circulation between 1974 and 1976. Its subtitle was semanario de economía e información general (weekly economic and general information magazine). It was one of ...

'' magazine from 1974 to 1976. He founded the Spanish news agencies Colpisa and

Fax Press Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer o ...

. 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 The Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award ( es, Premio de Periodismo Cirilo Rodríguez) is an award given annually by the Segovia Press Association (APS), in collaboration with the (FAPE). It "is destined to publicly recognize the best work of a cor ...

in 1984. He died on 22 January 2014 in Madrid from an illness.

Selected works

* ''The forgotten men'' (1981) (with

Jesús Torbado Jesús Torbado (4 January 1943 – 22 August 2018) was a Spanish writer, journalist and traveler. He was born in León and studied journalism in Madrid. He won the 1965 Premio Alfaguara for his novel ''Las corrupciones''. In 1976, he won the Premi ...

). 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)

References

External links

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