Manuel Rivas is a globally renowned author and poet who comes from the Galician region of northwest Spain. Born on the 24th October 1957 in the Spanish seaside town of La Coruña, Rivas began his writing career as a journalist for El Ideal Gallego at the young age of 15, and since then has worked for such prestigious newspapers as El País. Rivas’s father, like many other natives of Galicia, emigrated during Franco’s reign, to work as a construction worker in Venezuela, and Rivas was confronted with this reality often in his youth, as several members of his community gradually emigrated to foreign shores.
Rivas is a Galician treasure and his writings encourage many to come visit our shores. In this website we hope contextualise his most famous works to give culturally aware tourists more information and a background on Galicia's most esteemed writer.
I am Fermin C. Rivas from the Island of Mindanao, Philippines. I found your name in my search for the roots of my ancestor, Fray Vicente Rivas, 1779-1834, La Coruna, Galicia, Spain, an Augustinian priest assigned in the Municipality of Tigbauan, Iloilo, Philippines. He sired my great great great grandfather Ciriaco Capacillo Rivas, whose one of the children was Ildefonso Rivas that begot General Fermin Zulueta Rivas. I am in the seventh generation descendant.
ReplyDeleteWe are tracing our roots from the past and writing a story about him. Finding you as a Rivas that lives in La Coruna, maybe you are a part of the Rivases that is also connected to him. Just making my fingers crossed....
Hopefully we could find an answer to our quest. I would appreciate very much if you could keep in touch with me.
All the best....
I am currently a university student and I am writing my senior thesis on Manuel Rivas. However, it has been difficult finding sources on his life, and commentaries on his writing, outside of blogs. Any suggestions? They would need to be in Spanish. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I love your comment on how Rivas confronted reality in various way throughout his early life. This impacts his writing in major ways and is the bulk of my thesis. Suerte!