Manuel Rivas Biography

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Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Galicia, in 1957) is a Spanish writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Galician and Spanish newspapers like El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El Pais, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16 in Galicia. Rivas has written well known poems, novels, articles and literature essays.

Rivas is considered a revolutionary in contemporany Galician literature, being critical of his land and culture. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, and played an important role during the Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast.
Some of his work has been adapted to cinema, such as A lingua das bolboretas and O lapis do carpinteiro.

Rivas's book ¿Qué me queres, amor? (1996), a series of 16 short stories, was adapted by director Jose Luis Cuerda for his film, La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly). O lapis do carpinteiro, or The Carpenter's Pencil in English, has been published in nine countries and is the most widely translated work in the history of Galician literature.

Bibliography

Poems

• Libro de Entroido (1979)
  
• Balada nas praias do Oeste (1985)
  
• Mohicania (1987)
  
• Ningún cisne (1989)
  
• O pobo da noite (1996)
  

Novels

• Todo ben (1985)
  
• Un millón de vacas (1989), premio da Crítica;
  
• Os comedores de patacas (1991)
  
• En salvaxe compaña (1994)
  
• ¿Qué me queres, amor? (1996)
  
• Bala perdida (1997)
  
• O lapis do carpinteiro (1998)
  
• 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)
  

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 og the Belgian section of Amnesty International
  
• Torrente Ballester Prize
  
• Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente e o da Crítica Prize
  
• ONCE Prize - Galicia and Solidarity
  

External links

• Artigo provocado pola catástrofe do Prestige
  

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