According to the criteria of Know more In October last year, the Swedish Academy caught the world’s cultural press off guard. It was rumored that the 2021 Nobel Prize it could fall on an African writer, and the great favorite was the Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong’o, a fierce narrator who denounced the disasters caused by … Read more
In December, the new edition of the acclaimed novel by Nobel Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah arrived in the country, traces the adolescence of a young man sold by his father in the tumultuous Tanzania of the early twentieth century. At the age of 12, Yusuf involuntarily leaves the paradise of his childhood. His father, in … Read more
Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah received Monday the most prestigious literary prizes for his stories on immigration and colonization, at a ceremony in the UK where the Zanzibar-born novelist has lived in exile for over half a century. In London, Abdulrazak Gurnah received his medal and diploma at noon from the hands of theAmbassador … Read more
More than 50 years after the award, the Swedish Academy had declassified the minutes that summarize the deliberation of the jury that crowned the poet in 1971. More than 50 years after Nobel Prize in Literature for Pablo Neruda In 1971, the Swedish Academy declassified the minutes that summarize part of the deliberation of the … Read more
Chloe Ardelia Wofford, better known by her pseudonym, Toni Morrison, was a prominent American novelist of African American descent. His work reveals with clear fidelity and perfect lyrics, the slavery, discrimination, affliction and helplessness that the African-American race has suffered in the United States. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 and the Nobel Prize … Read more
December 31, 2021 Today at 07:22 In “Paradise”, by Abdulrazak Gurnah, we follow Yusuf, sold to a wealthy Arab merchant, at the age of twelve. A novel that seduces us with its Homeric, epic, simple and captivating power. In the late 1990s, two of eleven novels byAbdulrazak Gurnah appeared by courageous French publishers (Le Serpent … Read more
The year 2021 was marked by a singular and very distinguished presence of young Moroccan writers in the literary field on an Arab scale, able to win, with brio, a multitude of literary prizes awarded each year in several countries. Whether it is literature, criticism, or research in social sciences, Moroccans have made a place … Read more
Celebrations after the presidential election in Chile (REUTERS / Ivan Alvarado) Last Sunday, in an election considered historic, the candidate of the left Gabriel boric, emerged from the student riots of a decade ago, was elected president for the next term in the trans-Andean country. After the outbreak of October 2019 and the beginning of … Read more
Among the fiction titles promised for 2022, there will be good news for the lovers of a cult writer like the American Stephen Dixon, the writer who died in 2019 of whom the Eterna Cadence label will release in the second half of the year «Gould», a novel hitherto unpublished in Spanish with a translation … Read more
The litfest will be a 10-day extravaganza with an eclectic lineup of speakers and authors Returning with a field event in January next year, the Jaipur Literature Festival is slated to take place between January 28 and February 1, 2022, on the field in Jaipur and through February 6 online, making it does a 10-day … Read more