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Manuel Rivas


Spain (b.1957)

Manuel is a Galician writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some 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 contemporary Galician literature. 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 El Lapiz del Carpintero.
 

 
Novels
   The Carpenter's Pencil (2001)
   In the Wilderness (2003)
   Books Burn Badly (2010)
   All is Silence (2013)
   The Low Voices (2016)
   The Last Days of Terranova (2022)
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Collections
   Butterfly's Tongue (2000)
   Vermeer's Milkmaid (2001)
   The Disappearance of Snow (poems) (2012)
   From Unknown to Unknown (poems) (2017)
   The Mouth of the Earth (poems) (2019)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Potato Eaters (2016)
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Books containing stories by Manuel Rivas
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Great Spanish Stories (2024)
(Parallel Texts)
edited by
Margaret Jull Costa

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