COLMENAR Hanging on thin branches, thick with fine herbs, it blooms in the heart of the forest. Listen: its rumor is a broken beehive. The Mexican Rogelio Guedea, who lives in New Zealand, has today won the 62nd edition of the Adonáis Poetry Prize for his work Kora. The Sevillian María Eugenia Reyes Lindo has been second prize in the
Summary of this issue: -Editorial -The craft of writing: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón: “the only surrealist in the city” -Human Rights: 60 years old Hernando Valencia Villa “Abc of the universal declaration of human rights” Sergio Ramírez “Anthropology of memory” Héctor Abad Faciolince “A bel to die tutta una vita honora” Alonso Cueto “The writers
Tuesday / “The picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde Since its first publication in 1890, Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray , has remained the subject of critical controversy. Acclaimed by some as an instructive moral tale, it has been denounced by others for its implicit immorality. After having his portrait
Monday / “101+19=120 : poems” by Ángel González Birthday I notice it: how I am becoming less certain, confused, dissolving in the daily air, a crude shred of me, frayed and broken by the fists I understand: I have lived one more year, and that is very hard. Move your heart every day almost a hundred times
Friday / “Complete stories” by Jose Martí “On tiptoe, on tiptoe, so as not to wake Piedad, the father and mother enter the sleeping room. They come laughing, like two boys. They come hand in hand, like two boys. The father follows behind, as if he were going to trip over everything. The mother does not stumble; she because she knows
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international organization dedicated to the development of the Internet, has just released new guidelines to help web page designers and developers create more accessible sites for the elderly and people with disabilities, according to a statement from press. These are the Guidelines for the accessibility of the
“Beautiful Losers” Exhibition: Current Art and Urban Culture At the beginning of the 90s, a group of North American artists from a humble family environment, without art or design studies and with DIY (do it yourself) as a vital principle, formed one of the the brightest generations that have appeared in the United States in recent decades.
Thursday / Paul Auster “The Brooklyn Follies” “Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his eleven-promising academic career, and life
In 1945 Europe was at its lowest moments. Much of the continent was ravaged by war, mass murder, bombing, and chaos. Large areas of Eastern Europe were beginning to fall under Soviet control to exchange one despotism for another. Today, the Soviet Union no longer
Wednesday / "Women in Black" by Josefina Aldecoa Women in Black is a novel that is part of a trilogy that begins with the novel "History of a Teacher" (1.990) and ends with "The Force of Destiny" (1.997). It is a literary work that not only deals with the Civil War, the postwar period, exile,