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
“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
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
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
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
Where did the victims of heroin in the 1980s in Spain go? In it 1979, Novelist Juan Trejo investigates the premature death of his older sister, Nela, in 1979, not only to remember who that teenager was who, like so many others, became hooked on drugs in those years, but also to question the shared … Read more
The Kesäkirja movie starring Glenn Close, based on Tove Jansson’s book, will be released in Finland in January. Glenn Close shot the movie Kesäkirja in Finland last year. AOP Last summer, a film was filmed in Finland with a Hollywood ensemble. Now the film company SF Studios announces that Tove Jansson’s based on the work … Read more
THE CHRONICLE OF ERIC NEUHOFF – There is everything in this 700-page novel. A love story, the portrait of a continent with its metropolises and its countryside, a reflection on algorithms and an immense nostalgia. Alert all patrols. The romance is back. Hallelujah! Well-being is full of them by the ton. It almost makes you … Read more
Night Spectator – on Diary of a Blackmailer de Philippe Vasset By Fabrice Gabriel Without seeming to, Philippe Vasset is one of the most exciting writers of today, who experiments from book to book with original forms to question the contemporary world and invent a kind of ironic and virtuoso virtual realism. His Diary of … Read more
Patio Flamenco’s programme will be opened today at 10pm by Fraskito, Francisco Rodríguez Fernández, with Tierra y sangre. The musician told La Tribuna de Albacete about the unique features of this recital. Patio Flamenco opens today… That is a source of pride for me, I am very happy. For me, Albacete is a very good … Read more