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Luciana Sousa
Luciana Sousa (born 1986) is an Argentine writer. Her debut novel was called ''Luro'' ( Editorial Funesiana, 2016). In 2017, at the Hay Festival she was named as one of the best Latin American writers under 39 as part of the Bogota39 project on the basis of that novel. The other 38 included Samanta Schweblin, the Brazilians Mariana Torres and Gabriela Jauregui, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia, Mónica Ojeda from Ecuador and fellow Argentines María José Caro and Lola Copacabana Inés Gallo de Urioste (born Buenos Aires, 1980), better known by her pseudonym Lola Copacabana or Lolita Copacabana, is an Argentine writer, translator and editor. Life She was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. She became known through her blog '' .... References Argentine writers 1986 births Living people {{argentina-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine
Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Argentine. Argentina is a multiethnic society, home to people of various ethnic, racial, religious, denomination, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Argentines do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Argentina. Aside from the indigenous population, nearly all Argentines or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries. Among countries in the world that have received the most immigrants in modern history, Argentina, with 6.6 million, ranks second to the United States (27 million), and ahead of other immigrant destinations such as Canada, Brazil and Australia. Ethnic groups Overvi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Editorial Funesiana
An editorial, or leading article (UK) or leader (UK), is an article or any other written document, often unsigned, written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a newspaper or magazine, that expresses the publication's opinion about a particular topic or issue. Australian and major United States newspapers, such as ''The New York Times'' and ''The Boston Globe'', often classify editorials under the heading "opinion". Examples Illustrated editorials may appear in the form of editorial cartoons. Typically, a newspaper's editorial board evaluates which issues are important for their readership to know the newspaper's opinion on. Editorials are typically published on a dedicated page, called the editorial page, which often features letters to the editor from members of the public; the page opposite this page is called the op-ed page and frequently contains opinion pieces (hence the name think pieces) by writers not directly affiliated with the publication. However, a ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hay Festival
The Hay Festival of Literature & Arts, better known as the Hay Festival (), is an annual literature festival held in Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales, for 10 days from May to June. Devised by Norman, Rhoda and Peter Florence in 1988, the festival was described by Bill Clinton in 2001 as "The Woodstock of the mind". Tony Benn said: "In my mind it's replaced Christmas". It has become a prominent festival in British culture, and sessions at the festival have been recorded for television and radio programmes such as ''The Readers' and Writers' Roadshow'' and '' The One Show''. All the BBC's national radio channels apart from BBC Radio 1 have been involved in broadcasting from the festival, and Sky Arts showed highlights of the festival from 2010 until 2013, handing over the main coverage to the BBC for the 2014 event. History The festival was founded in 1988 by Peter Florence and his parents Rhoda and Norman. Hay-on-Wye was already well known for its many bookshops before the festival ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin America
Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geography, and as such it includes countries in both North and South America. Most countries south of the United States tend to be included: Mexico and the countries of Central America, South America and the Caribbean. Commonly, it refers to Hispanic America plus Brazil. Related terms are the narrower Hispanic America, which exclusively refers to Spanish-speaking nations, and the broader Ibero-America, which includes all Iberic countries in the Americas and occasionally European countries like Spain, Portugal and Andorra. Despite being in the same geographical region, English- and Dutch language, Dutch-speaking countries and territories are excluded (Suriname, Guyana, the Falkland Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Belize, etc.), and French- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is an Argentine author currently based in Berlin, Germany. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as ''The New Yorker'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Granta'','' The Drawbridge'', ''Harper’s Magazine'' and '' McSweeney’s''. She has won numerous awards around the world and her books have been translated into more than forty languages and adapted for film. Life and career In 2002, Schweblin published her first book ''El núcleo del Disturbio'' (The Nucleus of Disturbances), which won an award from Argentina's National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008, she won the '' Casa de las Americas'' award for her short-story collection '' Mouthful of Birds''. Her third collection of short-stories, ''Siete casas vacías'' (Seven Empty Houses) was published in 2015. Her first novel ''Distancia de Rescate'', literally “Rescue distance”, but translated into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariana Torres (writer)
Mariana Torres (born 1981) is a Brazilian writer and film director. Life Torres was born in 1981. She studied creative writing in Madrid, film in Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid, and chemistry in Autonomous University of Madrid. Her first book, a short story collection titled ''El cuerpo secreto'', was published in 2015, and her work has been anthologized in many publications. She is a founder member of ''Escuela de Escritores'', a creative writing institute. She is also a part of Connecting European Literary Artists, which was created to bring together young writers and translators in a variety of European languages and is run by the Dutch institution Wintertuin. She directed the short film ''Rascacielos'', which has been exhibited in 40 film festivals, winning prizes in the US, Italy, Australia, UK and Slovenia. In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America. The other 38 included Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Jauregui
Gabriela Jauregui (born 1979) is a Mexican writer, poet and critic. Life Jauregui was born in 1979 and raised in Mexico City. She obtained an MFA from UC Riverside, an MA from UC Irvine and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. She has published extensively in both English and Spanish, including the poetry collection ''Controlled Decay'' (2008) and the short story collection ''La memoria de las cosas'' (2015). She was also one of the coauthors of ''Taller de taquimecanografía'' (2012). She is the cofounder of the independent publisher ''sur+''. In 2017, she was included in the Bogota39 list of the promising young writers in Latin America. The other 38 included Samanta Schweblin, María José Caro from Peru, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia and Lola Copacabana Inés Gallo de Urioste (born Buenos Aires, 1980), better known by her pseudonym Lola Copacabana or Lolita Copacabana, is an Argentine writer, translator and editor. Life She was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliana Colanzi
Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer. Life Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Cambridge. She obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where she now teaches. She is the author of three collections of short stories: ''Vacaciones permanentes'' (2010), ''La ola'' (2014), and ''Nuestro mundo muerto'' (2016), the last of which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira. In 2017, Colanzi was named one of the best young writers in Latin America as part of Bogotá39 Bogotá39 was a collaborative project between the Hay Festival and Bogotá: UNESCO World Book Capital City 2007 in order to identify 39 of the most promising Latin American writers under the age of 39. The judges for the contest were three Colombia .... Works Short story collections * ''Vacaciones permanentes'' (2010) * ''Nuestro mundo muerto'' (201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mónica Ojeda
Mónica Ojeda Franco (born 17 May 1988) is an Ecuadorian writer. A native of Guayaquil, she obtained her bachelor's degree from the Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil, followed by a master's degree from the Universidad Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona. She is currently working on her doctorate in Madrid. Ojeda has published in several genres, including poetry, novels, and short stories. In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogotá39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America. The other 38 included Samanta Schweblin, the Brazilian Mariana Torres (writer), Mariana Torres and the Mexican Gabriela Jauregui, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia and Argentinians María José Caro and Lola Copacabana. In January 2018, she published the novel ''Jawbone'', which tells the story of two teenage girls obsessed with horror stories and creepypastas, one of whom is kidnapped by her literature teacher. The book was described as "one of the novels of the season" by the Spanish newspaper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María José Caro
María José Caro (born Lima, 1985) is a Peruvian writer. Life Caro was born in Lima in 1985. She has a master's degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has published three books, including two short story collections - ''¿Qué tengo de malo? (What is wrong with me?)'' (2017), ''La primaria'' (Elementary School) (2012) - and a novel ''Perro de negros (Black Dogs)'' (2016). In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogotá39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America Latin America is the cultural region of the Americas where Romance languages are predominantly spoken, primarily Spanish language, Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Latin America is defined according to cultural identity, not geogr .... The other 38 included Samanta Schweblin & Lola Copacabana from Argentina, the Mexican Gabriela Jauregui, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia. References 1985 births Living people Peruvian writers Peruvian women writers Complutense University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
