Suffering from two cancers, the singer suffers martyrdom. In La Tribune Dimanche, she addresses a letter to the head of state. A plea to stop the suffering of “French people who are very sick and have no hope of getting better”. “Her life has become so painful that we sometimes wonder if it would not … Read more
NieuwsuurZog fever The Romancycle The Toothless Time from AFTh. van der Heijden has been around for forty years and has been expanded this weekend with a thirteenth part: Zogkoorts. Released by his own foundation, his publisher Querido is not involved. The first book of the cycle would come first Scissors expanded into a triptych with … Read more
The French Literary Prize Goncourt was awarded on Tuesday in Paris to writer Jean-Baptiste Andrea for his novel “Veiller sur elle”, published by the “Leconoclast” publishing house, which is a love story in the time of fascism. Announcement The 52-year-old novelist won the award in the fourteenth session, which reflects disagreements within the literary award’s … Read more
Grand Admiral Thrawn is one of my absolute favorite characters in Star Wars. Now the fact is that the original Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn (Heir to the Empire, The Dark Side of the Force and The Last Command) is legends, but he created another trilogy (Thrawn, Thrawn Alliances, Thrawn Betrayal), which canon is, the … Read more
Tove Ditlevsen led a challenging life. Now a biography worth reading has been published about the Danish author, who was discovered late in this country. Die Autorin Tove Ditlevsen 1959 Photo: imago If you could take a look from above at the entire life of Tove Ditlevsen (1917-1976), at all the roles she held, everything … Read more
The war in Ukraine has now been going on for over a year and a half, more than 18 months – and an imminent end seems more unlikely than ever. The new book “On Wars and How to End Them – Ten Theses” by the Freiburg historian Jörn Leonhard is arousing curiosity in this situation … Read more
By Le Figaro with AFP Published 3 hours ago, Updated 14 minutes ago Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin in May 2022. JOHN MACDOUGALL / AFP The signal sent “is not very happy”, we regret at the Élysée, while the sites of Turin, Genoa, Trieste, Rotterdam and Washington are also condemned. Berlin cited … Read more
Foss, 64, is one of his country’s most prominent playwrights, having written about 40 plays as well as novels, short stories, children’s books, poetry and essays. Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary of the Academy, announced the award on Thursday in Stockholm. Malm said that he phoned Foss to inform him of the award and that the … Read more
The 64-year-old Norwegian playwright and writer Jon Fosse became the latest laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. He was honored for his innovative prose and poetry, with which he expressed the unspeakable, said Mats Malm, the awarding secretary of the Swedish Academy. He emphasized that the author has established himself on a … Read more
Morelia, Michoacán.-José Manuel Rincón, actor who gained wide popularity for “Monarca”, the series produced by Salma Hayek for Netflix, arrived in the Michoacán capital for the II Morelia International Book and Reading Fair. The reason was his participation in “I read… therefore I exist”, the program of the National Institute of Fine Arts and Literature … Read more