In the twenty-first century Manuel Rivas becomes the most promising Galician author at the commercial level not only in Spain but worldwide. His position in the Galician literary panorama is consolidated as the result of the well merited awards received for his work, his cultural and political participation in Galicia, as well as his efforts in educating citizens abroad from countries all around the world. Through his works he has known how to take Galician culture to the world by-passing the boundaries of language/culture without forfeiting his assessment of Galicia as a culturally indigenous country that deserves a position and recognition within the Spanish literary canon. If in fact, his major works present the traditional history of life in Galicia during the Civil War; one not only encounters the intellectual figure but also the marginalised: the mother, the guerrillas or maquis, the prostitute, the poor, the defeated and the homosexuals.