Eight novels including two science fiction, two stories, two children’s books, poetry… Here are the brief reviews of thirteen notable works in this first week of the year 2023. NOVEL. “Loss of human warmth”, by Bergsveinn Birgisson An academic, well integrated into society and living in a stable relationship at home, wants at all costs … Read more
Cuba turns the page of its cultural itinerary in 2022, which left important achievements in the fields of literature, marked by Covid-19 and its still latent consequences for artistic creation. The XXX International Book Fair of Havana experienced the ups and downs of the pandemic when it was held from April 20 to 30, two … Read more
Literature reaped good fruits this year. October 6, The Swedish Academy announced that French writer Annie Ernaux was the winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature for “the courage and clinical sharpness with which he discovers the roots, distances and collective restrictions of personal memory”. Quite an event in French letters, which has not … Read more
He continued: “Your presence honors us. [ ] You have been the first recipient of the Nobel Prize at the Académie Française since François Mauriac, and the first foreign writer to be published while alive at the prestigious Pléiade library. He has received the greatest prizes of international Hispanic literature, the Nobel Prize of course, … Read more
Shortly after the ‘Second sex’ of Simone de Beauvoir In 1949, the Nobel laureate François Mauriac lamented: “Now we know everything about the author’s vagina and it is disgusting & rdquor ;. Beauvoir’s masterpiece, it is known, analyzed the condition of women in a society that, on the verge of entering the second half of … Read more
Jeremy Wilson’s book, Beryl: In search of Britain’s greatest athlete, Beryl Burton, was crowned the winner of the William Hill Sportsbook of the Year Award at an official ceremony today (January 1). December), at the BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London. Wilson, whose book pays tribute to the remarkable life of champion cyclist Beryl Burton, capturing her … Read more
This November 16, the literary world will celebrate the centenary of the birth of the Lusitanian Nobel Prize for Literature José Saramago. It will be a privileged opportunity to consolidate the writer’s presence in cultural and literary history in Portugal and in the rest of the world, “also to pay tribute to his figure as … Read more
The prestigious autumn literary prizes are kicking off their 2022 edition this week, with few chosen and many disappointed in this ruthless battle between novelists that is the return to school in September. We are impatiently awaiting it in the world of letters: the first selection of the Goncourt prize arrives on Tuesday. It traditionally … Read more
Juan Fernando Fonseca He was barely five years old when he stepped on stage for the first time, although his professional career did not begin until 2002, with the release of his first album. Twenty years later, the Colombian singer-songwriter presents his first book entitled Songs, Stories and 20 Years of Memories. This story, which … Read more
The practice of a clandestine abortion, the loss of her virginity, the death of her father, her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, the existence of a sister, of whom she had no knowledge, are some of the issues addressed by the most recent winner of Nobel Prize for Literature, annie ernauxwho has developed a large part of … Read more