literature
On the night of 9-10 August 2020, thousands of Belarusians took to the streets of Minsk and other cities protesting against the announced results of the presidential election. In their opinion, Alexander Lukashenko's victory had been rigged. For many weeks, the peaceful Belarusian protest movement was covered by all the world's media; since then, the situation has changed dramatically. Sasha Filipenko, a Belarusian journalist, writer, literary prize winner and political activist living in exile, spoke to Euronews about four years of resistance, the fears and hopes of Belarusian society and lif...
Euronews (English)
J.K. Rowling has revealed in a new book of essays that her loved ones had tried to persuade her to keep her views on transgender women to herself. The Harry Potter author has contributed to an essay collection, "The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht", and in an extract published in The Times said that “people around me, including some I love, were begging me not to speak.” “So I watched from the sidelines as women with everything to lose rallied, in Scotland and across the UK, to defend their rights. My guilt that I wasn’t standing with them was with me daily, like a chronic pain.” Rowling has caused...
Euronews (English)
The headquarters of the Cervantes Institute, a global non-profit promoting the Spanish language and culture named after the "Don Quixote" writer, has been housed in the Caryatid Building since 2006. It was originally constructed in the early years of the 20th century as the grand bank for Banco Español del Río de la Plata on the historic Alcalá street in central Madrid. Today, the original bank vault has been renamed the “Caja de las Letras” and it contains countless treasures, more literary than literal. Rediscovered Caravaggio masterpiece goes on show in Madrid's Prado museumIs it happening ...
Euronews (English)
The Gabriel García Library is no ordinary library. From the outside it looks like a huge, white stack of books and that is precisely the idea at the self-styled ‘Cathedral of books.’ Inside, the red spruce finish throughout gives it a clean, airy, feel which helps make it seem like a pleasant place to enjoy books. On the fourth floor, a huge window opens to reveal a large wall of vegetation outside. One woman is sprawled in a hammock enjoying a book, while a child is lolling in a big round straw seat, engrossed in a picture book. It more resembles a beach scene in a holiday resort, than a libr...
Euronews (English)
Digital illustration by Giovana Fleck, for Global Voices. When was the first time you interacted with different cultures beyond your geographical location? My first time was when, as a child, I was introduced to Peter and Jane through the Ladybird books. This transitioned to the Goosebumps and Sweet Valley High series, meeting the likes of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield as they navigated the dynamics of teenage life in the US. Later, in school, Chinua Achebe would broaden my view of Africa with things falling apart for Okonkwo in Igboland, and acquaint me with the existence of pidgin. I have ...
Global Voices
Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary award. "I'm really surprised," she said as she collected the prize on Tuesday evening in London, adding that she had not even prepared a speech. The 57-year-old from East Berlin won the award for her novel "Kairos," which tells the love story between a student and an older author in 1980s East Germany. Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann will split the £50,000 ($63,600) prize. She is widely recognized as one of the most important stars of German literature, and has ...
DPA International
Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary award. "I'm really surprised," she said as she collected the prize on Tuesday evening in London, adding that she had not even prepared a speech. The 57-year-old from East Berlin won the award for her novel "Kairos," which tells the love story between a student and an older author in 1980s East Germany. Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann will split the £50,000 ($63,600) prize. She is widely recognized as one of the most important stars of German literature, and has ...
DPA Breaking News
Jenny Erpenbeck has become the first German author to win the International Booker Prize, a prestigious British literary award. "I'm really surprised," she said as she collected the prize on Tuesday evening in London, adding that she had not even prepared a speech. The 57-year-old from East Berlin won the award for her novel "Kairos," which tells the love story between a student and an older author in 1980s East Germany. Erpenbeck and her translator Michael Hofmann will split the £50,000 ($63,600) prize. She is widely recognized as one of the most important stars of German literature, and has ...
DPA
The winner of the international Booker prize is 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Epenbeck is the first German writer to win the award. A tumultuous love story told to the backdrop of 1986 Berlin, it's about a young woman that meets an older, married man on a bus. They begin an intense and passionate affair - until she sleeps with someone else for a night, resulting in emotional fissures that echo the collapse of East Germany. Erpenbeck described it as: ‘A private story of a big love and its decay, but it’s also a story of the dissolution of a whole politi...
Euronews (English)
Go into any bookshop and you’ll see a smorgasbord of design styles. There will be the big, bold, blocky text covers; the abstract image covers; the hand-drawn lettering in twee frame covers; the photograph covers. All of these are trying to communicate something to you. It’s the publishers' first opportunity to impress upon readers information about genre, themes, similar books, and even the reader’s own age and gender. A good cover can help a book reach its intended audience, while a bad cover might be the reason a new author never gets the opportunity to publish a follow-up. Cannes Film Fest...
Euronews (English)
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら