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Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
Manuel Rivas
bio and articles at
Manuel Rivas interview
Radio y Televisión Española 10 February 2010, 55 min (Spanish)
Artigo provocado pola catástrofe do Prestige
(Alfaguara, 12 Sept 2009) in French and Spanish
O máis estraño, blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivas, Manuel 1957 births Living people Spanish male writers Writers from Galicia (Spain) People associated with Greenpeace Diario 16 people El País columnists
Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
Biography
Manuel Rivas Barrós began his writing career at the age of 15. He has written articles and literary essays for Spanish newspapers and television stations including ''Television de Galicia
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication Media (communication), medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of Transmission (telecommunications), television tra ...
'', ''El Ideal Gallego
''El Ideal Gallego'' is a Galician newspaper from A Coruña, Spain.
History and profile
''El Ideal Gallego'' was first published in A Coruña
A Coruña (; es, La Coruña ; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality ...
'', ''La Voz de Galicia
''La Voz de Galicia'' ( en, The Voice of Galicia) is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. ''La Voz'' is highest circulation newspaper in Galicia and the eighth-highest circulation general-interest daily newspaper ...
'', '' El País'', and was the sub-editor of ''Diario 16
''Diario 16'' (Spanish for "Daily 16" or "Newspaper 16") was a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Madrid, Spain, between 1976 and 2001. The ''16'' of the title refers to the sixteen founders of Grupo 16, publishers of the weekly news m ...
'' in Galicia.
He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, and played an important role during the 2002 Prestige oil spill
The ''Prestige'' oil spill occurred off the coast of Galicia, Spain in November 2002, caused by the sinking of the 26-year-old, structurally deficient oil tanker , carrying 77,000 tonnes of heavy fuel oil. During a storm, it burst a tank on 13 ...
near the Galician coast.
Work
As of 2017, Rivas has published 9 anthologies of poetry, 14 novels and several literature essays. He is considered a revolutionary in contemporaryGalician literature
Galician-language literature is the literature written in Galician. The earliest works in Galician language are from the early 13th-century ''trovadorismo'' tradition. In the Middle Ages, ''Galego-português'' (Galician-Portuguese) was a language ...
. His 1996 book ''¿Que me queres, amor?'', a series of sixteen short stories, was adapted by director José Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda Martínez (18 February 19474 February 2020) was a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Albacete and died on 4 February 2020 at the age of 72 in Madrid from an embolism.
He won four Goya Awards: in 1 ...
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
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 lapis do carpinteiro'' (1998) ("''The Carpenter's Pencil
''The Carpenter's Pencil'' (''O lapis do carpinteiro'' in Galician) is a book written by the Galician author Manuel Rivas. The story revolves around a young couple, Daniel Da Barca and Marisa Mallo. Their happiness is destroyed when Galicia ...
''" (2003))
*''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) ("''All is Silence
All or ALL may refer to:
Language
* All, an indefinite pronoun in English
* All, one of the English determiners
* Allar language (ISO 639-3 code)
* Allative case (abbreviated ALL)
Music
* All (band), an American punk rock band
* ''All'' (All al ...
''" (2013))
*''As voces baixas'' (2012) ("'' The Low Voices''" (2017))
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 2007References
External links
Manuel Rivas
bio and articles at
El Pais
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Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American p ...
Manuel Rivas interview
Radio y Televisión Española 10 February 2010, 55 min (Spanish)
Artigo provocado pola catástrofe do Prestige
(Alfaguara, 12 Sept 2009) in French and Spanish
O máis estraño, blog
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivas, Manuel 1957 births Living people Spanish male writers Writers from Galicia (Spain) People associated with Greenpeace Diario 16 people El País columnists