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Manuel Rivas Barrós (born 24 October 1957 in A Coruña, Spain)^[1] is aSpanish writer, poet and journalist.

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 includingTelevision de Galicia,El Ideal Gallego,La Voz de Galicia,El País, and was the sub-editor ofDiario 16 inGalicia. He was a founding member ofGreenpeace Spain and played an important role during the 2002Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast.

As of 2017, Rivas has published 9 anthologies of poetry, 14 novels and several literature essays. He is considered a revolutionary in contemporaryGalician literature. His 1996 book¿Que me queres, amor?, a series of sixteen short stories, was adapted by directorJosé Luis Cuerda for his filmLa lengua de las mariposas. His 1998 novelO 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 asO lapis do carpinteiro.

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)

• Galician Critics Prize
• Spanish National Narrative Prize
• Spanish Critic Prize
• Prize of the Belgian section ofAmnesty International
• Torrente Ballester Prize
• Arcebispo Xoán de San Clemente e o da Crítica Prize
• ONCE Prize - Galicia and Solidarity
• Xarmenta 2007

• Manuel Rivas bio and articles atEl País
• 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 poemsA desaparición da neve (Alfaguara, 12 Sept 2009) in French and Spanish
• O máis estraño, blog

• 1957 births
• Living people
• Spanish male writers
• Writers from Galicia (Spain)
• People associated with Greenpeace
• Diario 16 people
• El País columnists

• Articles with Spanish-language sources (es)
• CS1 Spanish-language sources (es)
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• BLP articles lacking sources from April 2013
• All BLP articles lacking sources
• Use dmy dates from March 2024