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Mexico's Jose Emilio Pacheco wins Cervantes Prize
Buenos Aires :: Argentina | 7 days ago
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Veteran Mexican poet and novelist Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award for writing in Spanish. Eric Siblin's acclaimed The Cello Suites and Globe writer Ian Brown's memoir of life with a disabled son are...
Tags: José Emilio Pacheco, Jose Emilio Pacheco, cervantes prize, Argentina, Buenos Aires, Spanish literature, Human Interest, Josￃﾩ Emilio Pacheco, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, Miguel de Cervantes, Nicanor Parra, Literature, Social Issues, ￃﾁngeles Gonzￃﾡlez-Sinde, Naomi Klein, Jorge Luis Borges, Novel, Fiction, Emilio, Mario Vargas Llosa, Annabel Lyon, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes
Books of the decade: Your best books of 2004
London :: United Kingdom | 7 days ago
Credibility I couldn't make the highly scientific meeting that determined who of us would blog on which year, so I landed 2004. Lucky for me: it means I can rave on about David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas which came out this year and was robbed (robbed, I tell you!) of...
Tags: David Mitchell , Alan Hollinghurst, United Kingdom, London, Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, British Book Awards, The Line of Beauty, literature, Cloud Atlas, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
A question of books and borders
Havana :: Cuba | 10 days ago
Credibility Cuba is one of the most isolated and singular countries in the world; many writers there are patronised by the state. And yet the question still seems worth asking, if not about the west, then about many non-western countries. German writers in the late...
Tags: Su Tong, Cuba, man asian, Leonardo Padura, asian prize, west, Havana, Chinese literature, Fiction, Novel, Literature, Mo Yan, Leonardo Padura Fuentes, French literature
The Dieing of the art of poetry
When was the last time you read the fine mastery of poetry? The complex thoughts of constructive minds portraying endless passion to the page. Pain, joy, enlightenment, there was no better way than to finely etch those heartening words into paper, into...
Tags: Los Angeles, Literature, Poetry, Spoken word, Linguistics, Aesthetics, Genres, Human Interest, allnews, world affairs, love, UK, USA, Europe
Books of the decade: Your best books of 2003
Tehrān :: Iran | 11 days ago
Credibility In the highly scientific meeting that decided which year we'd each be tackling in our round-up of the decade's reading, I ended up with 2003 – a good one for me, as it was two years after I finished university so I was feeling rich enough to start splashing...
Tags: Margaret Atwood, Oryx, Crake, Iran, Tehrān, Oryx and Crake, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Peter Ackroyd, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, literature, Azar Nafisi
What's up with that: Family survival guide
Lawrence :: KS :: USA | 13 days ago
Credibility If you happen to have a family that isn’t 100 percent awesome all the time, here’s a handy tip: At the dinner table, stuff one of the turkey legs in your sleeve and pretend it’s your arm. Your grandfather will laugh non-stop for the next 15 minutes...So...
Tags: Lawrence, Literature, Writing, Communication design, Creative writing, Creativity, Entertainment Culture
Travelling on one leg
Berlin :: Germany | 18 days ago
Credibility She is small, featherweight even, and is the last person you would suspect to have spent a childhood herding cows...The village," she continues, referring to her place of birth, "lies in the Romanian Banat, a two-hour drive from Belgrade and Budapest.
Tags: Herta M�ller, Germany, Berlin, Danube Swabian, Herta Mￃﾼller, Hospitality Recreation, German Book Prize, S. Fischer Verlag, German studies, Oskar Pastior, Sibiu, Literature, Bucharest, Romania, Mircea Cￄﾃrtￄﾃrescu, E-book, Electronic publishing, Book, Edition, Bestseller, Publishing, Documents, Printing, Entertainment Culture
The Red Velvet Turnshoe, By Cassandra Clark
London :: United Kingdom | 19 days ago
Credibility Cassandra Clark's book is a cheat – but it cheats in the way that most authoritative historical crime fiction must. After all, any attempt to recreate the speech (and thought processes) of characters living in the 14th century has to be a conjuring trick...
Tags: Clark, Hildegard, United Kingdom, London, Verisimilitude, John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster, Fiction, Literature, Narratology
Getting satire right
La Grange :: IL :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility From Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck to Bill Maher's targets in the 2008 comedic documentary "Religulous," those on the right of the spectrum often wind up as subjects of late-night zingers and scorching sendups. They are less often the originators of those...
Tags: Kent Woodyard, Conor McCarthy, talking mirror, Kurt Luchs, humor sites, evangelical culture, La Grange, Satire, Theatre, Woodyard, The Onion, Joke, Humor, Humanities, Literature
House Lions 1.4 – Peter Myers
Takoma Park :: MD :: USA | 23 days ago
Credibility Peter Myers '13 Bio : Peter Myers was birthed by liberal parents onto the mean streets of Takoma Park, Maryland. After many years of dabbling in poetry and short stories during middle school English, he got down to business his junior year of high school...
Tags: Peter Myers, Takoma Park, Literature, Writing, Takoma Park Maryland, Communication design, Creative writing, Creativity
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