Manuel Asur

Manuel Asur (Manuel Asur GONZÁLEZ GARCÍA) (Güeria Carrocera, San Martín del Rey Aurelio, Asturias, 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 degree in Philosophy. 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 newfangled and risked than anything written before in this language. Most of their works talk about the socio-political facts of the moment. Some of their poems became very popular in Asturias in the 1970s since the group Nuberu used them as lyrics for their songs. He wrote also a narrative book in 1987, Hai una llinia trazada ('There's a Drawn Line'), with short stories that he say to consider "almost monologues". He's a current articulist of La Nueva España publications and works in the Consejería de Medio Rural y Pesca del Principado de Asturias.

Books published

 * Cancios y poemes pa un riscar (1977). Author's edition. ISBN 84-400-3593-4
 * Camín del cumal fonderu ('Going to the Deeper Peak') (1978). Author's edition. ISBN 84-500-2951-1
 * Vívese d'oyíes: Poemes bilingües ('Living by Hearsay: Bilingual Poems') (1979). Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84-600-1484-3
 * Congoxa que ye amor ('This Anguish is Love') (1982). Author's edition. ISBN 84-300-7245-4
 * Destruición del poeta ('Destruction of the Poet') (1984). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84-600-3778-9
 * Hai una llinia trazada (short stories) (1987). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84-600-5309-1
 * Poesía 1976-1996 ('Poetry 1976-1996', selected works) (1996). Trabe ISBN 84-8053-068-5
 * Orbayos ('Drizzles') (2002). Trabe ISBN 84-8053-217-3
 * El libro de las visitas ('The Visitor's Book', in Spanish language) (2003). Trabe ISBN 84-8053-252-1
 * Lo que dice la caracola ('What the conch says', in Spanish)(2007) Lulu.com ISBN 978-1-84753-676-1
 * 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 language)(2008). I.S.B.N: 978-1-4092-0593-7
 * Balada del balagar (2011) Lulu.com ISBN 978-1-4709-3513-9 (Astur language) Poemes.
 * Las arrogancias del barro (2015) in Spanish ISBN 9781326271565, lulu.com