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The Committed and Diverse Literature of Manuel Rivas Deserves the National Literature Award

The Committed and Diverse Literature of Manuel Rivas Deserves the National Literature Award

The Galician narrator and poet is awarded for "combining emotional strength and formal beauty" with an "extraordinary narrative quality"

Miguel Lorenci

Madrid

Martes, 29 de octubre 2024, 14:15

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Manuel Rivas is the new recipient of the Spanish National Literature Award. He received it this Tuesday for "the extraordinary narrative quality" of a work that "combines emotional strength and formal beauty," according to the decision of this award granted by the Ministry of Culture and endowed with 50,000 euros. The jury states that "with a powerful and unique voice, he creates literature and, with it, once again places Galician writing in the Olympus of National Letters."

The decision praised "the solidity of a versatile and coherent career built with sensitivity and the defense of historical memory, social responsibility, and the Galician language." "Few authors in the Spanish literary scene, starting from a firm commitment to their language, have managed to achieve such worldwide recognition," adds the jury.

His work "accompanies his activism, with a pen that, without indoctrination, stirs consciences, induces reflection, and stimulates thought towards the defense of linguistic and cultural plurality and towards gender equality," said the act.

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Narrator, poet, and essayist, occasionally playwright, Manuel Rivas (A Coruña, 1957), is a member of the Royal Galician Academy. As a narrator, his notable works include his short story collections 'A Million Cows' (1989), Spanish Critics Award, 'In Wild Company' (1993), Galicia Critics Award, 'What Do You Want from Me, Love?' (1995), Torrente Ballester Award and National Narrative Award, 'The Carpenter's Pencil' (1998), Spanish Critics Award, 'Books Burn Badly' (2006), Spanish Critics Award and Galicia Critics Award, and 'The Last Day of Terranova' (2015).

In the field of poetry, he has written works such as 'Ballad on the Western Beaches' (1985), 'Mohicania' (1986), 'No Swan' (1989), Leliadoura Award, 'Costa da Morte Blues' (1995), 'The Village of the Night' (1996), or 'The Disappearance of Snow' (2009), the latter published simultaneously in all the co-official languages of the Spanish state. Much of this production is collected in the volume 'From the Known to the Unknown. Poetic Work (1980-2003)' (2003). The latest poetry collection released is 'The Mouth of the Earth' (2015).

His work in Galician media and throughout the rest of the Spanish state stands out, encompassing both the direction of publications (such as the magazine 'Luzes') and column writing in newspapers like El País or La Voz de Galicia.

The jury highlights his "defense of historical memory, social responsibility, and the Galician language"

Translated into different languages, he has received numerous awards for his career in both journalism and literature, and some of his best-known works have been adapted into films.

Rivas takes over from Cristina Fernández Cubas, winner of the previous edition, and joins a long list of awardees, including Luis Landero, Rosa Montero, José María Merino Sánchez, Luis Mateo Díez, Francisca Aguirre, or Bernardo Atxaga, among others.

The award distinguishes the entirety of the literary work, in any of the Spanish languages, of a Spanish author, whose work is considered an integral part of the current Spanish literature ensemble.

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