Manuel Pereira Valcárcel


Category: Teacher
Birth Date: 9th December 1955
Birth Place: Ouzande, A Estrada (Pontevedra)
 Work & Activities

He participated in the following collective books: ‘Intifada’ (Araguaney Foundation, Santiago, 1989 and 2003), ‘Homenaxe a Miguel González Garcés’ (A Coruña County Council, 1991), ‘Comercial’ (Río Xuvia Publications, Neda - A Coruña, 1998), ‘Muller de doce sal. Homenaxe a Inés Canosa’ (vtp, Madrid, 2000), ‘47 poetas de hoxe cantan a Curros Enríquez’ (Xerais, Vigo, 2001), ‘O trazo aberto’ (Pontevedra County Council, 2002), ‘Narrativa Contemporánea Tabeirós-Terra de Montes’ (Fervenza Publications, A Estrada, 2005), ‘Poesía Contemporánea Tabeirós-Terra de Montes Montes’ (Fervenza Publications, A Estrada, 2005) and ‘Pontevedra Literaria’ (City Council of Pontevedra, 2007).
Together with Vicente Araguas, he coordinated the publication of ‘En tránsito. Poesía galega en Madrid’ (Ediciós do Castro, O Castro - Sada, 2001).
He also published:
Poetry:
-Poemas de cinza (Madrid, 1990).
-Todo morte (Río Xuvia Publications, Neda - A Coruña, 1998, reedited in 2006 by Ediciós do Castro, Sada - A Coruña).
-Rosa íntima (Espiral Maior, A Coruña, 2000).
-Inventario de fragmentos (Libros da Frouma - Librería Follas Novas, Santiago de Compostela, 2001). With this book, he was awarded Rosalía de Castro Prize (Galician modality) in Cordova.
-Libro das viaxes (Litoral das Rías, Pontevedra, 2003).
Prosa:
-Traxectos curtos (TresCTres, Santa Comba, 2005).
-Días do final (Galaxia, Vigo, 2007).

 Other Interesting Aspects

Regarding narrative, he was awarded Casa de Galicia Prize for ‘Día de inverno’ in 1992 and an accesit in 1999 at Modesto R. Figueiredo Contest for ‘Sobremesa’.