Manuel Rivas

Manuel Rivas (born in A Coruña, Spain on 24 October 1957) is a Galician writer, poet and journalist. He began his career in some Spanish newspapers like El Ideal Gallego, La Voz de Galicia, El País, and was the sub-editor of Diario 16 in Galicia. Rivas has written well known poems, novels, articles and literature essays.

Rivas is considered a revolutionary in contemporary Galician literature. He was a founding member of Greenpeace Spain, and played an important role during the Prestige oil spill near the Galician coast. Some of his work has been adapted to cinema, such as The language of the butterflies and The Pencil of the Carpenter.

Rivas's book What me you want, love? (1996), the series of sixteen short stories, was adapted by director José Luis Cuerda for his film The language of the butterflies ("Butterfly"). The pencils of the carpenter ("The Carpenter's Pencil") has been published in nine countries and is the most widely translated work in the history of English literature.