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Best Translation Award Japan
José Luís Peixoto // The novel "Galveias" by José Luís Peixoto has won the The Best Translation Award in Japan. > besttranslationaward.com/
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HBO announces QualityLand series
Marc-Uwe Kling // HBO announces QualityLand series. It will be a co-production between HBOand Lionsgate. Mike Judge, screenwriter, producer, and actor, will co-write and executive produce the pilot with Josh Lieb ("Silicon Valley", "The Tonight Show", "The Daily Show"). > hollywoodreporter.com
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Finalist of the Jean Monnet Prize
Gonçalo M. Tavares // Gonçalo M. Tavares is finalist of the Jean Monnet Prize for the best European book published in France with his novel A Girl is Lost in Her Century Looking for Her Father (“Uma menina está perdida no seu século à procura do [...]
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The Invisibles enters list of the Crime Leaderboard
Lucía Puenzo // The Invisibles ("Los invisibles") by Lucía Puenzo enters the February list of the Crime Leaderboard (KrimiBestenliste), a joint project of the FAZ and Deutschlandradio Kultur, as number three. Every month, a list of ten crime novels is compiled by a jury of 19 critics [...]
Casa de las Américas Prize 2019
Adriana Lisboa // With her volume of poetry Small Music (“Uma pequena música”) the Brazilian writer Adriana Lisboa is second in the category “Poetry” of the prestigious Premio Literario Casa de las Américas 2019, one of the most important Latin American literary awards. > escambray.cu/ [...]
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In Memoriam: Edgar Hilsenrath
Edgar Hilsenrath * 2 April 1926 - † 30 December 2018 WE ARE MOURNING THE DEATH OF OUR AUTHOR EDGAR HILSENRATH, WHO PASSED AWAY ON 30TH DECEMBER 2018. Edgar Hilsenrath was a survivor of the Jewish holocaust and one of the most important contemporary writers in German language. His [...]
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Netflix production A Twelve-Year Night
Mauricio Rosencof // Based on a true story, the Netflix production A Twelve-Year Night (“La noche de 12 años”), tells how in 1973 Uruguay’s government turned into a military dictatorship and how three men, including the future president José Mújica, were hold in captivity for 12 [...]
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Morosoli de Oro Prize
Mario Delgado Aparaín // Mario Delgado Aparaín has received the Morosoli de Oro Prize in its 24th edition, one of the most important cultural awards in Uruguay which is awarded by the Lolita Rubial Foundation in Minas. Among the former laureates are Mario Benedetti (2006) and [...]
