tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668Sat, 19 Oct 2024 21:44:59 +0000Roberto BolañoCarlos FuentesMario Vargas LlosaJosé SaramagoGabriel García MárquezIsabel AllendeArturo Pérez-ReverteJunot DíazAlberto ManguelTomás Eloy MartínezDaniel AlarcónJavier MaríasJúlio CortázarLaura EsquivelBernardo AtxagaAlberto FuguetLeonardo PaduraMayra MonteroAntónio Lobo AntunesFederico García LorcaJavier CercasPedro AlmodóvarAntonio Muñoz MolinaJorge Luis BorgesAlejandro Gonzalez IñarrituCarlos Ruiz ZafónCarmen LaforetCésar AiraJavier SierraJorge VolpiLaura RestrepoAriel DorfmanGuillermo ArriagaGuillermo del ToroJuan GoytisoloSantiago RoncaglioloEloy UrrozEnrique Vila-MatasFernando PessoaAlfonso CuarónAlfredo Bryce EcheniqueElena PoniatowskaJuan RulfoManoel de OliveiraManuel Vázquez MontalbánMario MendozaPaco I. Taibo IIRoberto ArltSantiago GamboaAlbert Sánchez PiñolAntonio SkármetaCarmen BoullosaCésar VallejoEdgardo CozarinskyEça de QueirósFernando MeirellesJosé Luís PeixotoJuan GelmanMario BenedettiMiguel DelibesPedro Juan GutiérrezSubcomandante MarcosZoé ValdésAlan PaulsAlmudena GrandesAlonso CuetoAntonio BanderasAntonio GamonedaCristina GarcíaCristóbal ValderramaDavid ToscanaEdmundo Paz SoldánEduardo GaleanoEduardo LagoFernando VallejoFrida KahloHoracio Castellanos MoyaIldefonso FalconesJosé Carlos SomozaJosé Eduardo AgualusaJosé Rodrigues dos SantosJuan Carlos OnettiLuis SepulvedaManuel Mujica LainezMarie AranaMiguel Angel AsturiasRoque DaltonSilvina OcampoAbelardo CastilloAdolfo Bioy CasaresAgustín Díaz YanesAgustín Fernández MalloAlberto LaisecaAlberto SchommerAlejandro DolinaAlejandro ZambraAlexis Dos SantosAlvaro MutisAndrés BaizAndrés NeumanAwardsCarlos Maria DomínguezCarlos NavarreteChico BuarqueClaudia PiñeiroDaniel ChavarríaDaniel BurmanDaniel SadaDiego LermanEdgar BorgesEdgar BrauEdith GrossmanEduardo BertiEduardo HalfonEduardo MendozaElmer MendozaEna Lucía PortelaEnrique MetinidesErnesto CardenalFederico Guzmán RubioFelipe JuaristiFelisberto HernándezFernando del PasoFrancisco CasavellaGabriela MistralGastón BirabenGonzalo Márquez CristoGuatemalaGuillermo Cabrera InfanteGuillermo SaccomannoHernán VanoliHilda HidalgoHéctor Aguilar CamínIgnacio OrtizIgnacio PadillaIgnácio de Loyola BrandãoJesús DíazJorge EdwardsJorge SemprúnJoseba SarrionandiaJosé Lezama LimaJosé PadilhaJoão Guimarães RosaJuan Carlos RulfoJuan Eslava GalánJuan Gabriel VásquezJuan Gabriel Vásquez; ColombiaJuan José MillasJuan José SaerJuan Manuel de PradaJuan MarséJuan VilloroJuan de RecacoecheaJulia NavarroJulián AyestaKarla SuárezKirmen UribeLuis LeanteLuis Sttau MonteiroLuís de CamõesMacedonio FernandezMachado de AssisManuel PuigManuel RivasManuel VicentMarcelo CohenMariano AzuelaMario BellatínMartin SolaresMartín EspadaMartín SolaresMateo GilMiguel A. BretosMiguel de UnamunoMiren Agur MeabeMoacyr ScliarMovie ReviewsMário de Sá-CarneiroMónica LavínNatasha WimmerNorberto FuentesOctavio PazOlavo BilacOsvaldo SorianoPablo RamosPablo de SantisPaco Ignacio Taibo IIPaula RêgoPaulo LinsQuim MonzóRaul NuñezRicardo DarínRikardo ArregiRodrigo GarciaRodrigo MorenoRuben GallegoSan SalvadorSantiago Vaquera-VásquezSérgio MachadoTeolinda GersãoTomás SegoviaWilliam OspinaÁlvaro MutisÁngeles MastrettaReviews and news about spanish and portuguese writing authors, ibero-american cinema and arts <p></p> Comments, ideas, reviews or whatever to: d.caraccioli @ yahoo.co.ukhttp://splalit.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)Blogger1088125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-175758825954660634Wed, 23 Jan 2013 14:06:00 +00002013-01-23T06:06:21.135-08:00In "A Jangada de Pedra" (The Stone Raft) the Portuguese writer José Saramago imagines Iberia literally breaking off from the rest of Europe.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2013/01/jose-saramago-stone-raft.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-2770356337051531900Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:24:00 +00002013-01-02T01:24:10.123-08:00Santiago Gamboa's "Plegarias nocturnas" has Colombia and its political and social reality in the center of the plot.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2013/01/santiago-gamboa-plegarias-nocturnas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-4618089813700965823Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:53:00 +00002012-10-10T05:53:57.342-07:00Random House reported Wednesday that Ildefonso Falcones will publish a new historical novel during the first quarter of 2013, the novel his to be published in Castilian by Grijalbo and Catalan by Rosa dels Vents.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/new-ildefonso-falcones-novel.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-9125227749115565641Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:27:00 +00002012-10-09T03:27:10.926-07:00More than eleven thousand photographs remained stored in the family closet of Manuel Ramos, one of the pioneers of Mexican photojournalism. It took almost half a century for the Ramos files to be brought to light. Part of this files, that show the advancement of the Mexican Revolution, the centenary celebrations of Independence, the Cristero War and the modern architecture of the city, will be http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/early-mexican-photojournalism-in-mexico.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-4483724823839513971Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:40:00 +00002012-10-09T02:40:43.378-07:00Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira talks about the creation of his work, "Gourd," that bursts from a wall in MOCA's newly completed uptown home. Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/interview-with-brazilian-artist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-5372548605815342621Tue, 09 Oct 2012 08:36:00 +00002012-10-09T01:36:30.607-07:00Chilean novelist Isabel Allende receives the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award from Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/isabel-allende-receives-denmarks-top.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-3427290483532209102Mon, 08 Oct 2012 17:17:00 +00002012-10-08T10:17:37.344-07:00Repression, discipline and religion are the cornerstones of "Las poseídas", the audacious new novel from Betina Gonzalez.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/interrupted-innocence.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-9035068891984851313Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:28:00 +00002012-10-08T07:28:08.563-07:00When acclaimed writers, poets and journalists from Latin America, the Caribbean and Spain get together for a literary festival, says Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres, the conversation is not necessarily about particular books or essays.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/festival-de-la-palabra-literary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-3421572632318850942Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:02:00 +00002012-10-08T07:02:11.674-07:00The novel "Dias de Lava" (Days of Lava) by Mexican writer Daniel Krauze was honored in the inaugural edition of the Nuevas Letras Prize, awarded by the Planeta publishing corporation and the Sanborns Group.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/mexican-novelist-daniel-krauze-wins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-5321992755692534181Mon, 08 Oct 2012 10:10:00 +00002012-10-08T03:10:58.825-07:00The Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros died Saturday at age 69. Cisneros, also a journalist, screenwriter and professor, was awarded the Pablo Neruda Poetry Ibero-American&nbsp; award in 2010.He was one of the most important Latin American poets, and received, in 1968, with his poem 'Canto ceremonial contra un oso hormiguero' the Casa de Las Americas prize, which catapulted him to international http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/peruvian-poet-antonio-cisneros-died.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-7625891050435841759Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:18:00 +00002012-10-01T06:18:29.587-07:00Mexican writer Guillermo Fadanelli won last Thursday the Premio Grijalbo de Novela 2012 for his novel "Las mujeres muertas" (The dead women).Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/10/premio-grijalbo-de-novela-2012.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-4485628781262179671Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:24:00 +00002012-09-28T06:24:14.430-07:00The provocative Colombian writer Fernando Vallejo ensures that overpopulation is the great tragedy of humanity and that politics is a gangster system...Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/09/sex-is-dirty-and-innocent-reproduction.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-4478518392503793404Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:22:00 +00002012-09-28T02:22:48.429-07:00Director Walter Salles talks to Margaret Pomeranz about jazz, bebop and On the Road, his new movie inspired by the life of writer Jack Kerouac.Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/09/on-road.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-8429242334658406594Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:38:00 +00002012-09-28T01:38:01.934-07:00The geek hero who gave us The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao returns with a new collection of linked stories, This Is How You Lose Her. Read Morehttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/09/junot-diaz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-7237436318955270132Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:03:00 +00002012-08-06T06:03:15.548-07:00Jeff Vandermeer reviews Carlos Fuentes lastest novel "Vlad".When Carlos Fuentes died in May at age 83, he left behind an impressive legacy and an eclectic body of work. Novels like the sprawling, Joycean "Terra Nostra" placed him at the center of the Latin American Boom of the 1970s, alongside such greats as Cortázar and García Márquez. But later books were often just as ambitious, returning to http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/carlos-fuentes-vlad_6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-2883630300256329108Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:02:00 +00002012-08-06T06:02:15.058-07:00An interview with Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez, winner of the Premio Iberoamericano de Letras "José Donoso" in 2011, and the Alfaguara Prize in 1998, where he talks about his career and projects.La escritura para mí es como una fuerza vital que me abre una perspectiva de trabajo todos los días. Tengo entusiasmo por la escritura y, por tanto, entusiasmo por la vida, de manera que diría que me http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/nicaraguan-writer-sergio-ramirez-turns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-6340006977234210337Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:48:00 +00002012-08-06T05:48:48.303-07:00Yvonne Zipp reviews Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Prisoner of Heaven""The Prisoner of Heaven" is Zafon's third novel set around Sempere &amp; Sons bookstore and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a fabled repository in Barcelona where people are allowed to choose one volume in their lifetime. Oh, you could digitize all those rare editions, but where's the drama in that? Zafon claims you don't have to http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/carlos-ruiz-zafon-prisoner-of-heaven.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-2707737558324470463Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:01:00 +00002012-08-06T01:01:08.858-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 21 false false false PT X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/chavela-vargas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-8100220843943092414Fri, 03 Aug 2012 17:41:00 +00002012-08-03T10:41:30.003-07:00Mario López-Goicoechea writes about Cuban author Virgilio PiñeraVirgilio Domingo Piñera Llera was born in Cárdenas, western Cuba, on 4 August 1912 – 100 years ago tomorrow. Nothing in his normal upbringing (his father worked as a public servant and his mother was a teacher) could predict that he would one day become one of Cuban literature's trailblazers. But from an early age, Piñera was an avidhttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-hundred-years-of-virgilio-pinera.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-2974423026576134713Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:48:00 +00002012-08-03T08:48:59.059-07:00With the luxuriant prose that marks his style, Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa displays here a nostalgic reflection of the supposed global loss of a "high culture" for minorities.http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-past-was-better.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-4270139092122989382Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:31:00 +00002012-08-03T06:31:50.955-07:00There are two basic ways to find time to read (and this, of course, applies to all other activities). On the one hand, you can assign a fixed period of time to read this, such as a half hour just before bedtime. But if you really do not think you cannot do that, you can try to steal time from other activities.1.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Think of all those little things that don't really give you http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/time-to-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-8787509259051807887Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:51:00 +00002012-08-03T03:51:28.139-07:00"Olha que coisa mais linda/ Mais cheia de graça/ É ela menina/ Que vem e que passa". It was a club in Rio de Janeiro, in August 2, 1962, that these words were first heard. It's been 50 years and "the meeting between the beauty of music and the beauty of the muse" made the Girl from Ipanema known for several generations all over the world. A song that, for lack of birds, only started in the secondhttp://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/girl-from-ipanema-is-50-years-old.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-7033625531735992251Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:17:00 +00002012-08-03T03:17:04.704-07:00Jose Saramago Foundation announced the death of the water dog Camões, which inspired the writer to imagine the faithful ally of the potter protagonist of his novel "The Cave".http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/camoes-dog-that-inspired-jose-saramago.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-8000850572689275478Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:12:00 +00002012-08-03T03:12:15.987-07:00Peruvian writer Jaime Bayly concludes his popular trilogy "Morirás mañana" (You will die tomorrow) with "Escupirán sobre mi tumba" (They will spit on my grave), a novel full of irony and grotesque characters who find death at the hands of the infamous murderer/writer Javier Garces.http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/jaime-bayly-concludes-his-trilogy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19805668.post-10425945199379715Wed, 01 Aug 2012 12:50:00 +00002012-08-01T05:50:42.847-07:00Stephen Akey writes about the poetry of Antonio MachadoBig themes: God, belief, love, death, solitude, time, Spain. But Machado wrote about small things as well, and my favorite poem of his concerns something of monumental, so to speak, insignificance: the common housefly. Despite its tightly rhymed octosyllabics and half-lines, the tone of "Las moscas" is relaxed and conversational; Machado http://splalit.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-poetry-of-antonio-machado.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0