Puerto Rican singer Lalo Rodríguez has been found dead in his residential complex in the municipality of Carolina, Puerto Rico. The authorities have announced in a statement that the body did not show signs of violence, but that it will be the autopsy that will determine the cause of death. Rodríguez was the first Latino … Read more
Annie Ernaux has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. When that happens, the work of the author in question multiplies and is everywhere. To the point of sickness. And also, why not say it, the Nobel already brings, at this point, seeing how the matter works, the odd prejudice. But despite the Nobel, and not … Read more
The arrival in the world of the writer Jose Saramago was marked by two facts, as curious as significant, that he himself narrates in his autobiography: “My parents were called Jose de Sousa and Maria da Piedade. José de Sousa would also have been my name if the civil registry official, on his own initiative, … Read more
LISBON (EFE).— His ability to make reality understandable, with imagination and irony, made him one of the great contemporary authors and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. Currently, José Saramago returns to his childhood through the children reading his work on the centenary of his birth. Born in Azinhaga, in the heart of Portugal … Read more
South African author Damon Galgut, during the photocall for shortlisted authors for the 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction at the Southbank Centre, London on October 31, 2021. TOLGA AKMEN / AFP South African author Damon Galgut won the Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary prize, on Wednesday 3 November for The Promisea book about the … Read more
Annie Ernaux, one of the major figures of the contemporary literary scene, received the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, October 6. The 82-year-old writer is rewarded for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she discovers the roots, the distances and the collective constraints of personal memory”explained the Nobel jury. The novelist is the … Read more
By rewarding Annie Ernaux, the Nobel committee celebrates a long-term autobiographical work but also an author who claims to be on the left and who is… By rewarding Annie Ernaux, the Nobel committee celebrates a long-term autobiographical work but also an author who claims to be left-wing and who has become a reference for feminists. … Read more
(By Emilia Racciatti) Mircea Cartarescu, the most renowned Romanian writer of today who has been a favorite for the Nobel Prize for Literature for years and recently won the 2022 FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages for “his imaginative and overflowing prose”, has for these days two of his books reprinted in our country … Read more
“Are you Elisenda Roca?», asks a middle-aged woman very moved by the fortuitous meeting in the middle of the morning, near Plaça Espanya. The renowned Catalan writer, theater director and journalist is pleasantly surprised that a Majorcan woman remembers her for her program Cifras y Letras de Ella, 25 years after her. But the new … Read more
Julio Ramón Ribeyro was a prominent member of the Generation of 50, he explored the story in depth but also delved into the rehearsal or the theater. (Andean) Peru It is a land of innumerable riches of all kinds. But one in which it stands out worldwide is the literature. In addition to Mario Vargas … Read more