The Academy of Sweden sweeps everyone away once again, awarding the 2020 Nobel Prize for Literature to an American poetess, professor at Yale, little known internationally: Louise Glück, born in New York in 1943 into a family of Jewish immigrants Hungarians, raised on Long Island. It is not the America of Don DeLillo or Cormac … Read more
Now the important thing not to lose your head, to speak little and clear, to identify simple rules and to enforce them; and above all to avoid the war of all against all, government and Regions, majority and opposition, Pd and 5 Stars. – In the most serious moments of our history, the moral strength … Read more
Farewell to Quino (Joaqun Salvador Lavado Tejn), the father of Mafalda he was 88 years old. All good people in the country and in the world will mourn him, his editor tweeted, Daniel Divinsky. The son of Spanish emigrants, Joaquin Salvador Lavado, this is the designer’s real name, was born in Mendoza on July 17, … Read more
American writer and author of the novel “Forrest Gump” Winston Groom has died at the age of 77, said the mayor of Fairhope, Alabama, Karin Wilson. Mr. Groom lived in this city. The cause of death was not specified. “It is with great sadness that I report the news of the death of our dear … Read more
She left on the day of the awarding of the Compasso d’oro, which she had won in 1979 for the sofa Strips, designed in 1968 for Arflex and exhibited in the permanent collection of the Milan Triennale. With Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, married Boeri (born in Milan on 19 June 1924), universally known as Cini … Read more
We came out of the storm several. Worse or better? I would say: we have not gone back. In our own way, we have moved on. The pandemic has forced us to find within ourselves – in our cities, in our families, in our heads, in our hearts – resources we didn’t know we had. … Read more