Manuel Rivas, a Galician writer, poet, and journalist, was born on October 24, 1957, in A Coruña, Spain. He began his career in several Spanish newspapers, including El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El País, and Diario 16 in Galicia, where he served as a sub-editor. Rivas is a prolific writer, having penned well-known poems, novels, articles, and literature essays.
As a pioneering figure in contemporary Galician literature, Rivas is considered a revolutionary. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain and played a significant role during the Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast. Some of his work has been adapted into films, such as A lingua das bolboretas, based on his book of the same name, and O Lápis do Carpinteiro.
Rivas's book Qué me quieres, amor?, a collection of sixteen short stories, was adapted into the film A lingua das bolboretas by director José Luis Cuerda. O lápis do carpinteiro, his most widely translated work, has been published in nine countries, making it the most translated work in the history of Galician literature.
