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Nélida Piñon, Brenda Lozano y Ángeles González-Sinde participan en el Hay Festival Querétaro (del 7 al 10 de septiembre de 2017). El Festival acoge, asimismo, la proyección del documental 'La cláusula Balcells', realizado por Pau Subirós y Neus Ballús.

*Nélida Piñon en conversación con Mónica Maristáin / 16:30 - 17:30. Viernes, 08 de Septiembre 2017. Teatro de la República.

*Bogotá39 2017 III. Carlos Manuel...

La niebla y la doncella, third film adaptation of Lorenzo Silva’s books, reaches the big screen.

The movie –released in Spain the 1st September-  is directed by Andrés Koppel, screenwriter of the films Intacto, Noche de Reyes o Un día sin fin, and features Quim Gutiérrez, Aura Garrido, Roberto Álamo and Mirian Álvarez.

Previous film adaptations of Lorenzo Silva’s works include La flaqueza del bolchevique (The...

Arturo Fontaine will be one of the Guest Authors at the International LiteraturFestival Berlin this September, where he will discuss his novel La Vida Doble. The author has been invited to the festival section, “Literatures of the World” , along with other international writers such as Edna O’Brien, Arundhati Roy, Donna Leon or/and Salman Rushdie.

Set in the darkest years of the Pinochet dictatorship, La Vida Doble ...

Miquel de Palol, author of the Jardí dels set crepuscles trilogy, will be attending Montreal's Festival International de la Littérature this September, where he will discuss his literary Works.

Born in Barcelona in 1953, the prolific Miquel de Palol has written more than 60 books. His distopic novel El jardí dels set crepuscles (Garden of the Seven Twilights) won numerous prizes, including the Spanish National...

Los que aman, odian (Where There's Love, There's Hate), the film adaptation of the novel with the same tittle by Adolfo Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo has been shot in Argentina during 2016-2017, under the direction of Alejandro Maci, and with a cast that includes actors such as Guillermo Francella and Luisana Lopilato.

The movie, coproduced with Patagonik, which will be released in September 2017 has been filmed,...

Arturo Fontaine Talavera (Santiago de Chile, 1952) tomó posesión el pasado 7 de agosto de su plaza como miembro de número de la Academia Chilena de la Lengua con un discurso titulado El lenguaje del enamoramiento en Pardo Bazán. La bienvenida fue a cargo de Adriana Valdés, vicedirectora de la institución.  El escritor ocupará el sillón número 7, vacante desde el fallecimiento de la poeta Rosa Cruchaga.

Arturo...

El próximo 3 de agosto se estrena en Brasil la película O filme da minha vida, la adaptación cinematográfica de la novela de Antonio Skármeta Un padre de película.

O filme da minha vida ha sido dirigida por el director-actor brasileño Selton Mello, y protagonizada por el actor francés Vincent Cassel, en una producción de Bananeira Films.

La novela –que ha sido traducida al alemán, francés, inglés, italiano y...

The novel that terrified tens of thousands of readers is brought to the big screen by Jaume Balagueró, and back in bookstores stronger than ever. (see trailer below)

Salomón Rulfo, an unemployed literature teacher and poet traumatized by a painful episode in his life, suffers the same disturbing and horrifying nightmare night after night, in which a woman is brutally murdered after a strange ritual. When the same...

"His voice describes, like no other, the upheaval in Paraguay, that land which, in his books, sought a synthesis - painful, perhaps impossible - between the Guaraní and Spanish cultures.” Eduardo Galeano

"Roa Bastos has a special talent for revealing to us, in a flash, the Latin-American cultural abyss.” Carlos Fuentes

Augusto Roa Bastos (Asunción, Paraguay, 13 June 1917 - Asunción, Paraguay, 26 April 2005) is...

"A dose of this Guatemalan elixir every now and then is excellent for so many things..." (Paul Valéry)

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Ángel Asturias (Ciudad de Guatemala, October 19, 1899 - Madrid, June 9, 1974) is the most universal Guatemalan writer. He studied law in his native city before moving to Paris to dedícate his time to anthropological research. His work, a precursor of the so-called...