Manuel Rivas
Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain)[1] is a Galician writer, poet and journalist.
Biography
Manuel Rivas Barrós 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 País, 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
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 José 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
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" (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" (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 2007
References
- ^ Rivas, Manuel (in Spanish) escritores.org, 27 November 2013
- ^ "La entrevista - Manuel Rivas". Radio y Televisión Española (in Spanish). 10 February 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
External links
- Manuel Rivas bio and articles at El Pais
- Manuel Rivas interview Radio y Televisión Española 10 February 2010, 55 min (Spanish)
- Artigo provocado pola catástrofe do Prestige
- A commentary on the anthology of poems A desaparición da neve (Alfaguara, 12 Sept 2009) in French and Spanish
- O máis estraño, blog
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- 1986: Fernando Fernán Gómez[1]
- 1987: Rafael Azcona[1]
- 1988: Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Antonio Giménez-Rico
- 1989: Fernando Trueba, Manuel Matji, and Menno Meyjes
- 1990: Carlos Saura and Rafael Azcona
- 1991: Juan Potau and Gonzalo Torrente Malvido
- 1992: Francisco Prada, Antonio Larreta, Pedro Olea, and Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- 1993: José Luis García Sánchez and Rafael Azcona
- 1994: Imanol Uribe
- 1995: Montxo Armendáriz and José Ángel Mañas
- 1996: Pilar Miró and Rafael Pérez Sierra
- 1997: Bigas Luna and Cuca Canals
- 1998: Luis Marías
- 1999: Rafael Azcona, Manuel Rivas, and José Luis Cuerda
- 2000: Fernando Fernán Gómez
- 2001: Jorge Juan Martínez, Juan Carlos Molinero, Clara Pérez Escrivá, and Lola Salvador Maldonado
- 2002: Adolfo Aristarain and Kathy Saavedra
- 2003: Isabel Coixet
- 2004: José Rivera
- 2005: Marcelo Piñeyro and Mateo Gil
- 2006: Lluís Arcarazo
- 2007: Félix Viscarret
- 2008: Rafael Azcona and José Luis Cuerda
- 2009: Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Daniel Monzón
- 2010: Agustí Villaronga
- 2011: Ángel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras, Paco Roca, and Rosanna Cecchini
- 2012: Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallón, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull, and Neil Landau
- 2013: Alejandro Hernández and Mariano Barroso
- 2014: Javier Fesser, Claro García, and Cristóbal Ruiz
- 2015: Fernando León de Aranoa
- 2016: Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos
- 2017: Isabel Coixet
- 2018: Álvaro Brechner
- 2019: Benito Zambrano, Daniel Remón, and Pablo Remón
- 2020: David Pérez Sañudo and Marina Parés Pulido
- 2021: Daniel Monzón and Jorge Guerricaechevarría
- 2022: Fran Araújo, Isa Campo, and Isaki Lacuesta
- 2023: Pablo Berger