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Valencia Negra
The Festival de Género Negro de Valencia, known as Valencia Negra or VLC Negra, is an annual literary festival in Valencia, Spain. It is one of several festivals in the first week of May, which are known as "Semana Negra," or "black weeks," due to their celebration of thematically "dark" genres like crime fiction and detective stories. This festival was founded in 2013 by Valencian writers Jordi Llobregat, Marina López Martínez (Marina Lomar), Santiago Álvarez, and Bernardo Carrión. The festival was initially conceived as an event open to all and hosts a wide range of activities and competitions, including award shows, artist meetings, musical performances, and film viewings. Since its inception, Valencia Negra has gone international by agreeing to collaborate with the French festival '' Toulouse Polard du Sud''. Awards Several literary award competitions are held during the festival. * Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma Literary Career Award - VLC Negra * Best VLC Negra Novel (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Festival
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and fostering a love of literature and writing. Writers' conferences are sometimes designed to provide an intellectual and academic focus for groups of writers without the involvement of the general public. There are many literary festivals held around the world. Notable literary festivals include: Africa * Port Harcourt Book Festival, October 20–25 * Chinua Achebe Literary Festival, November 16 Asia Asia-Pacific * Ubud Writers and Readers Festival (UWRF), held annually at Ubud, Bali in Indonesia (www.ubudwritersfestival.com) * Gateway Litfest, February/ March * Delhi Poetry Festival, Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dolores Redondo
Dolores Redondo Meira (born 1 February 1969) is a Spanish writer of noir novels, author of the ''Baztán Trilogy'', and winner of the 2016 Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize. Biography Dolores Redondo began studying for her law degree at the University of Deusto, though she did not complete it. She studied gastronomy in San Sebastián, worked in several restaurants, and had her own before devoting herself professionally to literature. She has lived in the ''comarca'' of in Cintruénigo since 2006. Redondo began writing literature with Short story, short stories and Children's literature, children's stories. In 2009 she published her first novel, ''Los privilegios del ángel'', and in January 2013 she published ''El guardián invisible'', the first volume of the ''Baztán Trilogy'' (). The second part, titled ''Legado en los huesos'', followed in November of that year, and it finished in November 2014 with ''Ofrenda a la tormenta''. The trilogy has gone on to sell more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandrone Dazieri
Sandrone Dazieri (born 4 November 1964) is a popular Italian crime writer. His most famous work is the Gorilla series, an episode of which was also dramatized as a television film. Biography He was born in Cremona in 1964. He graduated at San Pellegrino Terme hotel-management school and worked as a cook for ten years, all around Italy. After having moved to Milan he started working in a number of jobs, from seller to porter, and played a very active role in the movement of Milan social centers. In 1992 he got closer to publishing working as a proofreader for Telepress editorial service, and after five years he was appointed general manager of Milan branch. He also worked as a freelance journalist and collaborated with Manifesto as an expert of counterculture and genre fiction. In 1999 he achieved his first popular success with the thriller ''Attenti al gorilla (Watch Out For The Gorilla)'', the first in a best-seller series, where the main character is a sort of doppelgänger of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Carlos Ruiz Zafón (; 25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel ''La sombra del viento'' ('' The Shadow of the Wind''). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics. Biography Ruiz Zafón was born in Barcelona. His grandparents had worked in a factory and his father sold insurance. Ruiz Zafón began his working life in advertising. In the 1990s he moved to Los Angeles where he worked briefly in screen writing. He was fluent in English. Ruiz Zafón died of colorectal cancer in Los Angeles on 19 June 2020. Literary career Ruiz Zafón's first novel, ''El príncipe de la niebla'' 1993 ('' The Prince of Mist'', published in English in 2010), earned the Edebé literary prize for young adult fiction. He was also the author of three additional young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Checa Oviedo
Edith Salud Checa Oviedo (Seville, Spain, November 24, 1957December 29, 2017) was a Spanish journalist, writer, poet, and radio host. Biography Checa had a degree in Information Science, and a Diploma of Advanced Studies in Literature and Media from the Complutense University of Madrid. In addition to her published poems and novels, Checa had over twenty years of experience as a radio host and radio drama director. She was the director and announcer of the following radio programs with the National University of Distance Education (UNED) from 1989 to 2005, broadcast on Radio 3 of RNE: ''Rincón literario: tus poemas por las ondas'' and ''Informativo Universitario.'' Following that, Checa was a presenter and writer of the following UNED educational television programs on La 2 on TVE and on TVE Internacional: ''Literary Rincón'' and ''Yesterday and Today in Poetry''. Checa was also an instructor of creative writing, scriptwriting, and communication courses. She collaborated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Salem
Carlos Salem Sola (born 1959 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian writer. He has lived in Spain since 1988, where he has worked for publications such as '' El Faro de Ceuta '', '' El Telegrama '' or '' El Faro de Melilla''. Works Novels * ''Camino de ida'' (2007, Salto de Página) * ''Matar y guardar la ropa'' (2008, Salto de Página) * ''Pero sigo siendo el rey'' (2009, Salto de Página) * ''Cracovia sin ti'' (2010, Imagine Ediciones) * ''Un jamón calibre 45'' (2011, RBA) * ''El huevo izquierdo del talento (una novela de cerveza-ficción)'' (2013, ediciones Escalera) * ''La maldición del tigre blanco'' (2013, Edebé) * ''Muerto el perro'' (2014, Navona) Tales * ''Yo también puedo escribir una jodida historia de amor'' (2008, ediciones Escalera) * ''Yo lloré con Terminator 2 (relatos de cerveza-ficción)'' (2009, ediciones Escalera) Poetry * ''Si dios me pide un bloody mary'' (2008, ed. Ya lo dijo Casimiro Parker) * ''Orgía de andar por casa'' (2009, Albatros) * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosa Montero
Rosa Montero Gayo (; born 3 January 1951) is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction. Early life and education The daughter of a bullfighter and a housewife, Montero was born in Cuatro Caminos, a district of Madrid. The contraction of tuberculosis forced her to remain at home between the ages of five and nine, and she began reading and writing extensively during that time. She then entered the Beatriz Galindo Institute of Madrid, and at 17, she began her university studies in Madrid University's School of Philosophy and Arts (''Facultad de Filosofía y Letras''). The following year, she was admitted into the School of Journalism. During her university years, she participated in independent theatre groups. Writing career After school, she began working as a journalist, and in 1976, she began working at ''El País''. In 1977, she began publishing interviews in the Sunday edition of the paper, and the following year, she won the "Manuel del Arco" prize for her wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
