Collection: Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas Barrós is an award-winning Galician writer, poet, screenwriter, and journalist, and considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature. He began his writing career at the age of 15, and has since published nine anthologies of poetry, fourteen novels, collected essays, and news articles. His 1998 novel O lápis do carpinteiro (The Carpenter's Pencil) has been published in nine countries and it is the most widely translated work in the history of Galician literature, and was also adapted to film. Rivas has received the Spanish Critics' Prize for Un millón de vacas, the Galician Critics' Prize for En salvaxe compaña, the National Literature Prize for Narrative for Que me queres, amor?, the Spanish Critics' Prize for O lapis de carpinteiro, and the National Critics’ Prize in Galician for Os libros arden mal, which was also named Book of the Year by booksellers in Madrid.