Manuel Leguineche Explained

Manuel Leguineche Bollar, better known as Manu Leguineche, (28 September 1941 – 22 January 2014) was a Spanish correspondent, journalist and writer. He was born in Arratzu, Biscay. He was one of the contributors of Doblón magazine from 1974 to 1976.^[1] 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.^[2]

He died on 22 January 2014 in Madrid from an illness.^[3]

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)

External links

• Manuel Leguineche's personal page (in Spanish)
• Biography of Manuel Leguineche (in Spanish)
• Works of Manuel Leguineche

Notes and References

1. Jaume Guillamet Lloveras. Lucía García-Carretero. José María Sanmartí Roset. José Reig Cruañes. Información, política y partidos durante la Transición española. Análisis de las revistas de información. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico. 2018. 24. 2 . 1343. 10.5209/ESMP.62220. Spanish. 10230/43979. free.
2. News: Manuel Leguineche, premio de periodismo Cirilo Rodríguez . El País. Madrid . Spanish . 24 October 1984. 6 February 2020.
3. News: Fallece el periodista Manu Leguineche . es . Raúl . Conde . 22 January 2014 . 3 October 2019 . El Mundo. Unidad Editorial Información General S.L.U. . Madrid.