Books Burn Badly published in English

Manuel Rivas’ latest novel, Books Burn Badly (Os libros arden mal), is published in a magnificent hardback edition on 18 February by Random House. This is Manuel Rivas’ sixth publication in English. Harvill Secker (previously Harvill Press) has published three novels and two books with short stories, while Small Stations Press brought out a selection of his poetry in March 2009. The author and his translator, Jonathan Dunne, are in London to promote the book between 25 and 27 February, including an event at one of London’s most emblematic bookshops, Foyles.

The cover is the work of Michael Salu.

A full list of Galician books published in English can be found here.

Manuel Rivas’ poetry in English

Small Stations Press has just brought out an anthology of eighty poems by Manuel Rivas, From Unknown to Unknown, selected and translated into English by Jonathan Dunne (who translates his prose for Harvill Secker in London and Overlook Press in New York).

The anthology has an introduction by John Burnside, the talented and prolific Scottish writer, which is available to read on the publisher’s website.

Small Stations Press, which publishes in both English and Bulgarian, plans a Bulgarian edition of Rivas’ best-selling novel The Carpenter’s Pencil for autumn 2009.