For Manuel Rivas, words are the most sensitive of creatures. In the same way that frogs or glow-worms are the first to manifest signs of pollution in the natural environment, words suffer as a result of corruption in the socio-political sphere. In his work as journalist, writer of fiction, poetry or essays, he is consistent in his role as custodian of all sensitive creatures; his writings document historical damage and alert us to potential future harm to our natural, linguistic and political eco-systems.

"Rivas is, without doubt, the most important figure (and the best known) in contemporary Galician literature [...]. His fictions bear the tone of an oral tale."--Alberto Manguel

"Manuel Rivas is an important storyteller because he is sensitive and has an incredible ear, which, in his fiction, is allied to great integrity."--John Berger

"Rivas is an indisputable classic" --The Scotsman

"An author who knows how to introduce poetry, not only in his phrasing, but also in his way of seeing the world." -- Raphaëlle Rérolle, Le Monde

Formato	Tapa suave
Número de Páginas	94
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Shearsman Books
Fecha de Publicación	2019-03-11
Dimensiones	9.0" x 6.0" x 0.23" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	No

Shaughnessy, Lorna

Lorna Shaughnessy was born in Belfast and lives in County Galway, Ireland. She lectures in the Department of Spanish, NUI Galway. She has published two collections of her own poems, Torching the Brown River and Witness Trees (Salmon Poetry) as well as two translations of contemporary Mexican poets: Mother Tongue: Selected Poems by Pura López Colomé and If We Have Lost Our Oldest Tales by María Baranda, both with Arden House. Her translation of Manuel Rivas's collection The Disappearance of Snow (Shearsman Books) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize in 2013. Read 'The Homecoming' and listen to Lorna read 'The Enigmatic Order', both from the shortlisted collection, on our website.

Rivas, Manuel

Manuel Rivas was born in Coruña, Galicia, in 1957. He graduated in Media Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid and then worked as a journalist in the press, radio and television. As an author, he is best known for his seven novels and six collections of short stories. Several volumes have been published in English: The Carpenter's Pencil (2001, novel), In the Wilderness (2003, novel), Books Burn Badly (2010, novel), Vermeer's Milkmaid (2002, stories), Butterfly's Tongue (2000, stories). He is also a highly-regarded poet and essayist. All of his literary work is written in Galician. An edition of Rivas' poetry in Jonathan Dunne's English translation, From Unknown to Unknown (2009), brought together eighty of his poems, drawn from the collected edition published in Galician as Do descoñecido ao descoñecido in 2003, and Shearsman Books published Lorna Shaughnessy's translation of his The Disappearance of Snow in 2012. Some of his work has been filmed in Spain: La lengua de las mariposas (Butterfly's Tongue), based on 3 interwoven stories contained in his collection Que me queres, amor? (Vermeer's Milkmaid in the English language edition), directed by José Luis Cuerda, and El lápiz del carpintero (The Carpenter's Pencil), directed by Antón Reixa.