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 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. Provided by Wikipedia