Manu Leguineche receiving the Order of Constitutional Merit (2007)

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)

References

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


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