Manuel Rico is a writer a writer committed to his time whom the Vallecas Todo Cultura Foundation with the support of the readers of the Vallecas Villa and Puente de Vallecas districts have decided to make the poet honored in the st edition of an event that goes beyond the borders of both districts to become a regional and furthermore national event. Born in graduated in journalism former bank employee he published his first book of poems in and his literary work consists of more than twenty titles of poetry essays and narratives. He holds the Hispano-American Poetry Prizes Juan Ramón Jiménez and the International Miguel Hernández Prizes and the Narrative Andalusian Novel Prizes Villa de Madrid and Logroño Novel Prizes for A Strange Traveler . Poetry critic in Babelia and in various periodical magazines he is an active collaborator of Vallecas Calle del Libro.
Through his initiative poets such as Paca Aguirre José Manuel Caballero Bonald Ana Rossetti Elvira Daudet Angelina Gatell Carlos Álvarez and Ángeles Mora have visited and taken part in the event of which poets such as Paca Aguirre José UAE Phone Number Manuel Caballero Bonald Ana Rossetti Elvira Daudet Angelina Gatell Carlos Álvarez and Ángeles Mora have been central protagonists in different editions . Since May he has presided over the Collegiate Association of Writers of Spain. A few months ago he returned to bookstores in a new edition with a prologue by José María Merino one of his novels according to him "most beloved" The Slow Goodbye of the Trams Huso which appeared in its first edition in . The past year he published Writer in Waiting Punto de Vista his diaries from the s.
With Fanny Rubio at the Alberti bookstore Next October at : p.m. the new edition of Vallecas Calle del Libro will open and present the anthology edited for the occasion Tiempo saved from time El Sastre de Apollinaire at the Lope de Vega Cultural Center in the Vallecano neighborhood of Entrevías. Below we reproduce the interview conducted by Vallecas Todo Cultura. An interview in which he talks about literature and talks about his ties deep and long over time with his neighborhoods his bookstores his culture. In Vallecas he lived at the end of his childhood. Born in Madrid what is your connection to Vallecas? My father had with a friend a small carpentry workshop on Puerto de Arlabán street and I accompanied him when I was nine or ten years old frequently.