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 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 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 ('There's a Drawn Line'), 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 (1977). Author's edition. Camín del cumal fonderu ('Going to the Deeper Peak') (1978). Author's edition. Vívese d'oyíes: Poemes bilingües ('Living by Hearsay: Bilingual Poems') (1979). Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana Congoxa que ye amor ('This Anguish is Love') (1982). Author's edition. Destruición del poeta ('Destruction of the Poet') (1984). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana Hai una llinia trazada (short stories) (1987). Academia de la Llingua Asturiana Poesía 1976-1996 ('Poetry 1976-1996', selected works) (1996). Trabe Orbayos ('Drizzles') (2002). Trabe El libro de las visitas ('The Visitor's Book', in Spanish language) (2003). Trabe Lo que dice la caracola ('What the conch says', in Spanish)(2007) Lulu.com 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 (2008). ISBN 978-1-4092-0593-7 Balada del balagar (2011) Lulu.com (Astur language) Poemes. Las arrogancias del barro (2015) in Spanish , lulu.com
References
External links El sombreru de Virxilio. Biography, bibliography and two poems of Manuel Asur (in Asturian language)