Events at the Shop
Manuel Rivas - World Literature Weekend 2011
Saturday 18 June 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 universal resonance that has led to him being recognised as one of Europe’s leading contemporary writers. The central event in his latest novel Books Burn Badly, his most substantial work to date, is the burning of books by Falangists at A Coruña docks in the opening months of the Spanish Civil War. His event for World Literature Weekend was typically flamboyant and absorbing.
Discussion between author and translator – part I
Listen now (25:10) | Download (MP3, 30.2MB)
Discussion between author and translator – part II
Listen now (21:39) | Download (MP3, 26MB)
Audience questions part I
Listen now (18:04) | Download (MP3, 21.7MB)
Audience questions part II
Listen now (15:41) | Download (MP3, 18.8MB)
A reading from the poetry anthology ‘The disappearance of the snow’
Listen now (27:15) | Download (MP3, 32.7MB)
Further Reading
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