Manuel Asur (Manuel Asur González García) (
Güeria Carrocera,
San Martín del Rey Aurelio,
Asturias
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, 1947) is a Spanish essayist and poet in
Asturian. He's considered to be one of the first modern poets in this language. He has a PhD in
Philosophy
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. His book, ''Cancios y poemes pa un riscar'' ('Songs and Poems to a Dawn') meant the beginning in 1977 of the rebirth (Asturian ''surdimientu'') of Asturian literature, because he contributed with a poetry more modern and daring than anything written before in this language. Most of his works talk about the socio-political facts of the moment. Some became very popular in Asturias in the 1970s since the group
Nuberu used them as lyrics for their songs.
He wrote also a book of short stories in 1987, ''Hai una llinia trazada'' ('There's a Drawn Line'), consisting of short stories that he says to consider "almost monologues".
He's a current contributor to ''
La Nueva España
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Letizia Or ...
'' publications
and works in the ''Consejería de Medio Rural y Pesca del Principado de Asturias''.
Asur has been an academician of the
Academy of the Asturian Language for many years.
Books published
*''Cancios y poemes pa un riscar'' (1977). Author's edition.
*''Camín del cumal fonderu'' ('Going to the Deeper Peak') (1978). Author's edition.
*''Vívese d'oyíes: Poemes bilingües'' ('Living by Hearsay: Bilingual Poems') (1979). Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana
*''Congoxa que ye amor'' ('This Anguish is Love') (1982). Author's edition.
*''Destruición del poeta'' ('Destruction of the Poet') (1984).
Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
*''Hai una llinia trazada'' (short stories) (1987). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
*''Poesía 1976-1996'' ('Poetry 1976-1996', selected works) (1996). Trabe
*''Orbayos'' ('Drizzles') (2002). Trabe
*''El libro de las visitas'' ('The Visitor's Book', in
Spanish language
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) (2003). Trabe
*''Lo que dice la caracola'' ('What the conch says', in Spanish)(2007) Lulu.com
*''El solitario de Avilés''—Vida y obra del filósofo Estanislao Sánchez Calvo ('The Solitary from Aviles—The Life and Work of Philosopher Estanislao Sánchez Calvo', in Spanish (2008). ISBN 978-1-4092-0593-7
*''Balada del balagar'' (2011) Lulu.com (Astur language) Poemes.
*''Las arrogancias del barro'' (2015) in Spanish , lulu.com
References
External links
El sombreru de Virxilio. Biography, bibliography and two poems of Manuel Asur(in Asturian language)
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1947 births
Living people
People from San Martín del Rey Aurelio
20th-century Spanish writers
20th-century Spanish male writers
21st-century Spanish writers
Writers from Asturias
Asturian language