Manuel Leguineche

Spanish journalist
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroSpanish journalist
PlacesSpain
wasJournalist Writer
Work fieldJournalism Literature
Gender
Male
Birth28 September 1941, Zabala, Spain
Death22 January 2014Madrid, Spain (aged 72 years)
Star signLibra
Education
University of Madrid
Awards
Premio Nacional de Periodismo1979
Lan Onari2010
Ortega y Gasset Awards1991
prix Espasa de Ensayo1996
Order of Constitutional Merit2007
prix Euskadi - Littérature en espagnol2008
Cirilo Rodríguez Award1984
The details

Biography

Manu Leguineche receiving the Order of Constitutional Merit (2007)

Manuel Leguineche Bollar, better known as Manu Leguineche, (1941 – 22 January 2014) was a Spanish correspondent, journalist and writer. He was born in Arratzu, Biscay. He founded the Spanish news agencies Colpisa and Fax Press. He divorced from Rosa María Mateo.

He was the inaugural winner of the Cirilo Rodríguez Journalism Award in 1984.

He died on 22 January 2014 in Madrid from an illness.

Selected works

  • The forgotten men (1981) (with Jesús Torbado). Published originally in Spanish as Los topos, 1977)
  • Los años de la infamia: crónica de la II Guerra Mundial (1995)
  • Adiós, Hong-Kong (1996)
  • Annual, 1921 (1997)
  • Apocalipsis Mao: una visión de la nueva China (1999)
  • La felicidad de la tierra (1999)
  • Recordad Pearl Harbor (2001)
  • Gibraltar (2002)
  • Madre Volga (2003)
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