Manuel Rivas - World Literature Weekend 2011
Poet, novelist, short story writer and journalist Manuel Rivas was born in A Coruña in 1957 and writes in Galician, finally one of Spain’s five official languages. His work is deeply embedded in the landscape, folklore and history of Galicia, but has a...
London Review Bookshop Podcast
June 18, 20111h 48m
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Show Notes
Writing in El Pa’s, Jordi Gracia described Os libros arden mal as 'a novel that could have been history or biography, but is instead a work of literature written by an author at the height of his powers'. Manuel Rivas read from his work and talked with Jonathan Dunne, who has translated several of his books into English.
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