Alberto Manzano is a poet, translator, essayist, biographer, editor, journalist, music producer, and adapter of songs into Spanish. He has published a number of reference works on Leonard Cohen and has edited albums about the singer. He has translated more than a hundred books of song lyrics by singers like Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Suzanne Vega, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Nick Cave, Laurie Anderson, John Lennon, and David Bowie, and the poetic works of Walt Whitman, Rimbaud, Rumi, Basho, Cavafy, D.H. Lawrence and Bukowski.
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