Peru: Arrests made in ring that sold human fat
CNN (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling fat obtained from dead humans.
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Orhan Pamuk, Ray Bradbury to lead FIL international programs
The Independent (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The 23rd edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) will welcome world-renowned writers including Orhan Pamuk, Ray Bradbury, Carlos Fuentes, and Mario Vargas Llosa for its international literary programs. Beginning this year on November 28, FIL is a nine-day gathering of authors, publishers, artists, and intellectuals from throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond.
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"25 Books Every Latina Should Read" Challenge
Literanista (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
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Quotation of the Week: Mario Vargas Llosa (trans. Natasha Wimmer)
Practicing Writing (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
The definining characteristic of the literary vocation may be that those who possess it experience the exercise of their craft as its own best reward, much superior to anything they might gain from the fruits of their labors. That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to
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When the Berlin Wall fell, life became more complex
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa notes that human nature demands two things from the world around us. One is a hero, someone we pray will solve our problems. The other is a villain, someone to blame for creating them. Without both, life lacks the clarity many crave.
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Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa headline book fair
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
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Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa headline book fair
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
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Pamuk, Fuentes and Vargas Llosa headline book fair
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa and Mexican author Carlos Fuentes will headline one of the world's largest book fairs this year.
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Museum of Innocence is out in English…
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I have read the novel, The Museum of Innocence, in Turkish last year. In strictly literary terms, this is his weakest novel. However, a very different sort of project intended here. An actual museum has been built in Istanbul and will be opened soon. This book is a novel-catalogue that actual museum and a great [...]
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Ralston Saul new president of PEN International
Quillblog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Author and big-time intellectual John Ralston Saul has just been elected president of PEN International. According to The Globe and Mail, he is the first Canadian to be elected president in the 88-year history of the organization. Saul succeeds the Czech writer Jiri Grusa, who has held the post for six years. Earlier presidents have included [...]
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Book World: Marie Arana reviews 'The Museum of Innocence,' by Orhan Pamuk
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE By Orhan Pamuk Translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely
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Was There a Carib Bartolomé de las Casas?
西儒 ─ The Western Confucian (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
"The Arawaks at first welcomed the newcomers with awe and affection, hoping for their protection from the marauding Caribs, who descended on them from the Leeward Islands to steal their women and castrate and fatten their young men for food," J.M. Cohen informs us in the introduction to his translation of Christopher Columbus I began reading on the man's day — The Four Voyages: Being...
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The Book You Have to Read: “Who Killed Palomino Molero?” by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Rap Sheet (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
(Editor’s note: This is the 67th installment of our ongoing Friday blog series highlighting great but forgotten books. Today’s selection comes from Ned Kelly Award-winning Australian author Marshall Browne. A onetime banker and former paratrooper, Browne penned three novels about a false-legged Roman detective, Inspector Anders, including Inspector Anders and the Ship of Fools [2001] and...
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Spain: novel on immigrant women wins major prize
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
Spanish writer and journalist Angeles Caso has won the country's most lucrative literary award for a novel about the ordeals of women from poor countries who emigrate in search of a better life.
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2009 Nobel Prize for Literature- Another European Surprise, Surprise
The Irascible Poet (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Herta Muller, a member of the Romania's German minority and a fine poet and writer has won the Nobel Prize. Below is a list of the last 1o winners notice a trend? 2009 - Herta Müller -Romania/Germany 2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio -France 2007 - Doris Lessing -UK 2006 - Orhan Pamuk -Turkey 2005 - Harold Pinter -UK 2004 - Elfriede Jelinek -Austria 2003 - J. M. Coetzee -South Africa...