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Margaret Atwood recommends Jorge Carrion
Jorge Carrion // Margaret Atwood recommends Jorge Carrion's Bookshops (“Librerías”) in an interview with Megha Majumdar (New York): “A lot of people will be interested in the famous bookshops of the world: Jorge Carrión has gone and visited them all. We can't travel right now, but we [...]
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In Memoriam: Luis Sepúlveda
Luis Sepúlveda * 4 October 1949 - † 16 April 2020 WE ARE MOURNING OUR FRIEND AND AUTHOR LUIS SEPÚLVEDA. On 16th April, Luis Sepúlveda passed away in Asturias at the age of 70, having fought the coronavirus for over six weeks and having even defeated it. But some of [...]
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Casino da Póvoa do Correntes d’Escritas Literary Prize 2020
Pepetela // Pepetela wins the Casino da Póvoa do Correntes d’Escritas Literary Prize 2020 with his novel His Excellency, R.I.P. (“Sua Excelência, de Corpo Presente”). The prize consists of 20.000,00 €. > publico.pt
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Tira preselected for the Platino Awards
Boris Quercia // The TV series Tira, based on the novel Santiago Quiñones, Cop (“Santiago Quiñones, tira”) by Boris Quercia is among the 20 pre-selected series for the Platino Awards with nominations in five categories. The Platino is an important movie award for film projects from [...]
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Oblivion adapted by Oscar winning Fernando Trueba
Héctor Abad Faciolince // The bestselling novel and memoir Oblivion / Forgotten We'll Be (“El olvido que seremos”) by the Colombian author Héctor Abad has been adapted as a feature film by Oscar winning film director Fernando Trueba (“Belle Epoque”), starring Javier Cámara (“Talk to Her”). [...]
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Interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books
Bachtyar Ali // In an interview in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Behrouz Boochani appoints Bachtyar Ali as his favorite Kurdish writer next to the poet Sherko Bekas. Boochani is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights defender, writer and film producer who was held in the Australian-run Manus [...]
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Next Decade: Six names to mark the coming years
Gonçalo M. Tavares // The prestigious Portuguese weekly magazine Expresso has chosen six names to mark the coming years, in Portugal and abroad. A work to read in the special edition dedicated to the next decade. Leaders and references in culture, the fight for the environment, [...]
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Writers to Watch Spring 2020 @ Publishers Weekly
Marcial Gala // We're happy to share that The Black Cathedral by our Cuban author Marcial Gala, just published in a beautiful edition at FSG, was included in Publishers Weekly’s "Writers to Watch Spring 2020". > publishersweekly.com Farrar, Straus and Giroux acquired world English rights to [...]
