Manuel Rivas
Encyclopedia
Manuel Rivas is a Galician
writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspaper
s 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 O Lápis do Carpinteiro.
Rivas's book Que me quieres, 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 Lápis 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.
Galician people
The Galicians are an ethnic group, a nationality whose historical homeland is Galicia in north-western Spain. Most Galicians are bilingual, speaking both their historic language, Galician, and Castilian Spanish.-Political and administrative divisions:...
writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s like El Ideal Gallego
El Ideal Gallego
El Ideal Gallego is a Galician newspaper from A Coruña. Founded in A Coruña on 1 April 1917 by José Toubes Pego. In 1999, El Ideal Gallego acquired El Diario de Ferrol becoming its editor and moving their headquarters to the City Port and Naval Station of Ferrol, which like A Coruña, also lies in...
, La Voz de Galicia
La Voz de Galicia
La Voz de Galicia is a Spanish daily newspaper owned by the Corporación Voz de Galicia. La Voz is the most sold newspaper in Galicia and the sixth of Spain...
, El Pais, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16
Diario 16
Diario 16 was one of the most widely-circulated newspapers in Spain. According to the 1981 General Media Study , it had about 100 thousand readers. It often criticized President George W...
in Galicia. Rivas has written well known poems, novels, articles and literature essays.
Rivas is considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature
Galician literature
Galician language literature is the literature written in Galician. The earliest works in Galician language are from the early 13th-century trovadorismo tradition...
. He was a founding member of Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...
Spain, and played an important role during the Prestige oil spill
Prestige oil spill
The Prestige oil spill was an oil spill off the coast of Galicia caused by the sinking of an oil tanker in 2002. The spill polluted thousands of kilometers of coastline and more than one thousand beaches on the Spanish, French and Portuguese coast, as well as causing great harm to the local fishing...
near the Galician coast.
Some of his work has been adapted to cinema, such as A lingua das bolboretas and O Lápis do Carpinteiro.
Rivas's book Que me quieres, amor? (1996), a series of 16 short stories, was adapted by director Jose Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda
José Luis Cuerda is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.He has produced three films of Alejandro Amenábar .-Filmography as Film Director:* 1982 - Pares y nones...
for his film, La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly). O Lápis 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.
Awards
- Galician Critics Prize
- Spanish National Narrative Prize
- Spanish Critic Prize
- Prize of the Belgian section of Amnesty InternationalAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
- Torrente Ballester Prize
- Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente e o da Crítica Prize
- ONCEONCEONCE , or Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles , is a Spanish foundation founded on December 13, 1938 to raise funds to provide services for the blind and people with serious visual impairment....
Prize - Galicia and Solidarity - Xarmenta 2007