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Manuel Rivas

(A Coruña, Spain, 1957)
© Manuel Vilariño

His mother was a dairymaid and his father a bricklayer and amateur musician. His first playground, in the Monte Alto neighbourhood of A Coruña, was the San Amaro beach where he battled with the waves, and the triangle bounded by the fishermen's cemetery, the Provincial Prison and the Hércules lighthouse. His second playground, in the Castro de Elviña neighbourhood, was a chestnut forest where the children juggled with hedgehogs. With those hands... (to be continued).

Of note among his literary works, which he composes in his native Galician, are: Un millón de vacas [A Million Cows] (Spanish Critics' prize, 1990), En salvaxe compaña [In Wild Company] (Galician Critics' prize, 1994), Que me queres, amor? [Do You Love Me, Love?] (Narrativa national prize, 1996) and O lapis do carpinteiro [The Carpenter's Pencil] (Spanish Critics' prize, 1998). Other books of short stories include Ela, maldita alma (1999), A man do emigrante (2001) and As chamadas perdidas (2002). He has published two books of essays: El periodismo es un cuento [Journalism is a Story] (1997) and Mu ller no baño [Woman in the Bath] (2003). His poems are collected in the volume Do descoñecido ao descoñecido (2003), published in Castilian as El pueblo de la Noche [The Village of Night].

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