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ﾃ］gela Becerra
ﾃ］gela Becerra Acevedo (July 17, 1957) is a Colombian writer. She has won several awards such as the Premio Fernando Lara de Novela in 2019 (Fernando Lara Novel Award), the Planeta-Casa de Amﾃｩrica Award ( Premio Planeta - Casa de Amﾃｩrica) in 2009, the Azorﾃｭn Prize (Premio Azorﾃｭn) in 2005 and four Chicago Latin Literary Awards, as well as the Premio Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de Amﾃｩrica de Narrativa. Her works have been translated into 23 languages and published in more than 50 countries. She is one of the most widely read Spanish-speaking authors, the most read Colombian writer after Gabriel Garcﾃｭa Mﾃ｡rquez, and considered the creator of the Magical Idealism. First steps, life and years as a publicist Born in the Colombian city of Cali, she is the daughter of Marco Tulio Becerra and Cilia Acevedo, the fifth of seven children -5 women and 2 men. She read her first book when she was only 6, Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie, determining her fascination for literature. A c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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1957 Births
Events January * January 1 窶 The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 窶 Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 窶 South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricket), dismissed for having handled the ball, in Test cricket. * January 9 窶 British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 窶 Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 窶 The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 窶 Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 窶 The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of ''Macbeth'', is released in Japan. * January 20 ** Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula (captured from Egypt on October 29, 1956). * January 26 窶 The Ibirapuera Planetarium (the first in the Southern Hemisphere) is inaugurated in the city of Sﾃ｣o Paulo, Brazil. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Espectador
''El Espectador'' () is a nationally circulated Colombian newspaper founded by Fidel Cano Gutiﾃｩrrez in 1887 in Medellﾃｭn and published since 1915 in Bogotﾃ｡. It was initially published twice a week, 500 issues each, but some years later became a daily paper. As the oldest newspaper in Colombia still in circulation'', El Espectador'' is considered a newspaper of record for Colombia and a home for prominent writers, including the 1982 Nobel Prize Laurete Gabriel Garcﾃｭa Mﾃ｡rquez. It is a member of the Inter American Press Association and the Asociaciﾃｳn de Diarios Colombianos (ANDIARIOS). It defined itself as a "political, literary, news, and industrial newspaper". In 2001, during a financial crisis, It transitioned into a weekly release, but reverted to a daily release on May 11, 2008, a comeback which had long been rumoured. With this change, it now utilized a by tabloid format. From 1997 to 2011 its main shareholder was Julio Mario Santo Domingo. Since 2001, the paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Mundo Noticias
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsabﾃｩ Espinal
Betsabﾃｩ Espinal (1896 窶 16 November 1932), also erroneously known as Betsabﾃｩ Espinosa or Espinoza, was a Colombian labor rights activist and leader of a 1920 workers' strike against a fabric factory in Bello, Colombia. Although not the first strike in Colombian history, it was the first strike led by women. The strike was considered to have made a significant impact on the rights of female workers thereafter. There are few details about her life before and after the strike. A school in Barranquilla, Colombia was named after her called I.E.D. Betsabﾃｩ Espinosa. 1920 strike The 1920 Bello strike was the first strike in Colombia with the official label of ''huelga'' ("strike", as opposed to the word ''paro'' used in previous strikes). Prior to the strike, female laborers as young as eight years old worked at the factory, a typical work day was over 12 hours, and the women were forced to work barefoot. With Espinal as the leader, over 400 weavers stopped working. The strike lasted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Psychological Novel
In literature, psychological fiction (also psychological realism) is a narrative genre that emphasizes interior characterization and motivation to explore the spiritual, emotional, and mental lives of its characters. The mode of narration examines the reasons for the behaviours of the character, which propel the plot and explain the story. Psychological realism is achieved with deep explorations and explanations of the mental states of the character's inner person, usually through narrative modes such as stream of consciousness and flashbacks. Early examples Yingying's Biography by Yuan Zhen, written in 9th-century Tang China, is a pioneering work of psychological fiction in the form of a short story ( ''chuanqi''). ''The Tale of Genji'' by Lady Murasaki, written in 11th-century Japan, was and is considered by many, including Jorge Luis Borges, as the first full-length psychological novel. French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Fﾃｩlix Guattari, in ''A Thousand Plateaus'', eva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
