Loretta Schrijver’s Inspiring Outlook on Life with Metastatic Colon Cancer: No Predictions Needed

Loretta Schrijver’s Inspiring Outlook on Life with Metastatic Colon Cancer: No Predictions Needed

Loretta Schrijver says she doesn’t need predictions about how long she might live. The presenter, who announced last summer that she had metastatic colon cancer, agrees RTL Boulevard. A private journal Every day the latest news about the stars and the royals. 2024-09-29 18:26:52 #Loretta #Schrijver #sick #stay #chemo #rest #life

Translator Hans Wolf receives the German Language Culture Prize

Translator Hans Wolf receives the German Language Culture Prize

He translated, among others, Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle – in such a way that the author’s intention and the mood of the work are preserved. Hans Wolf has now been honored for this. The translator and author Hans Wolf (74) has been honored with the German Language Culture Prize for his life’s work. … Read more

Josef Škvorecký was born 100 years ago, Náchod has not forgotten him

Josef Škvorecký was born 100 years ago, Náchod has not forgotten him

“I like autumn in Náchod, but I like summer the most. We climbed the rocks and mainly went swimming at Jericho,” the then 75-year-old man of letters confided to Práv in 1999 with a slight lament that today the swimming pool in Plhová, called Jericho, has changed beyond recognition. In 1969 Škvorecký emigrated to Canada, … Read more

Virologist – Hendrik Streeck: The Corona doctor wants to be in the Bundestag – politics

Virologist – Hendrik Streeck: The Corona doctor wants to be in the Bundestag – politics

For a long time it was not known that he had a party register. “When Armin Laschet appointed me to the expert council, I told him that I was a CDU member,” he tells the German Press Agency. However, the former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia advised him not to make this public. “That was … Read more

María Velasco wins the National Prize for Dramatic Literature for a work about sexual violence against minors | Culture

María Velasco wins the National Prize for Dramatic Literature for a work about sexual violence against minors | Culture

The playwright María Velasco (Burgos, 40 years old) has been awarded this Thursday with the National Prize for Dramatic Literature corresponding to the year 2024 for her work First blood. The text, premiered in May at the Valle-Inclán theater in Madrid, directed by the author herself and produced by the National Dramatic Center (CDN), invokes … Read more

Author presents her view of things

Author presents her view of things

“At least I still have a miserable hunger for words,” admitted the writer Kathrin Schmidt during her reading in the Malchow church. However, she did not read from the novel, as announced, which she no longer wanted to publish in 2020 due to current events. For the listeners in the church, the two literary treatises … Read more

Chappell Roan, the new queer pop star who keeps his fans in check

Chappell Roan, the new queer pop star who keeps his fans in check

Crowned at the Video Music Awards on September 11 as best new artist of the year, Chappell Roan embodies a colorful, queer, uninhibited pop. Who is not afraid to upset, or to be upset. Medieval armor, a flaming set, dancers armed with swords: Chappell Roan’s performance on September 11th on the stage of the MTV … Read more

The author Susanne Falk receives the first ever “Molden Non-Fiction Scholarship for Biographical Writing”

The author Susanne Falk receives the first ever “Molden Non-Fiction Scholarship for Biographical Writing”

Vienna (OTS) – The jury’s statement (Philipp Blom; Niklas Fischer; Christian Seiler; Catrin Stövesand) states: “Susanne Falk has chosen an extremely contentious spirit, certainly not a particularly sociable contemporary, for her biography. What makes us curious about this book is the author’s approach, which, unlike her protagonist, does not polarize. She traces a person who … Read more

Rapper Kendrick Lamar to headline 2025 Super Bowl halftime show

Rapper Kendrick Lamar to headline 2025 Super Bowl halftime show

The American football championship game, the most-watched event on American television, will take place on February 9, 2025 at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The heavyweight of the hip-hop Kendrick Lamar will headline this year’s upcoming halftime show Super Bowlthe American football championship final and the most-watched event on American television, organizers announced Sunday. … Read more

Rushdie’s memoirs, the attack that left him blind, compete for literary prize

Rushdie’s memoirs, the attack that left him blind, compete for literary prize

London. Salman Rushdie’s account of the stabbing that left him blind in his right eye is among the contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction literary prize. Rushdie’s memoir “Knife: Meditations After an Attempt Murder” is among 12 books on the longlist for the £50,000 ($66,000) Baillie Gifford Prize. The 77-year-old British-American novelist recounts being … Read more