Manuel Asur
Manuel Asur 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. His book, Cancios y poemes pa un riscar meant the beginning in 1977 of the rebirth 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, consisting of short stories that he says to consider "almost monologues". He's a current contributor to La Nueva España 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. Author's edition.
- Camín del cumal fonderu . Author's edition.
- Vívese d'oyíes: Poemes bilingües . Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana
- Congoxa que ye amor . Author's edition.
- Destruición del poeta . Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
- Hai una llinia trazada . Academia de la Llingua Asturiana
- Poesía 1976-1996 . Trabe
- Orbayos . Trabe
- El libro de las visitas . Trabe
- Lo que dice la caracola Lulu.com
- El solitario de Avilés—Vida y obra del filósofo Estanislao Sánchez Calvo. ISBN 978-1-4092-0593-7
- Balada del balagar Lulu.com Poemes.
- Las arrogancias del barro in Spanish, lulu.com