By The Firelight

Queridos,en el suplemento Artes y Letras del Heraldo de Aragón dirigido por Antón Castro, se incluye una reseña realizada por José Domingo Dueñas de Azul ruso de Patricia Esteban Erlés:"Con Azul ruso Patricia Esteban Erlés da un nuevo paso adelante como narradora de emapaque, nos descubre nuevas facetas de su mundo rico en matices, sobrecogedor y reconf […]

Queridos,el suplemento Artes y Letras del Heraldo de Aragón dirigido por Antón Castro, dedica sus páginas centrales al microrrelato y toma como protagonistas los libros de nuestra editorial: Cazadores de letras, de Ana María Shua, Soplando vidrio, de Fernando Valls o la antología Por favor, sea breve 2, edición a cargo de Clara Obligado. El reportaje, firmad […]

Roman Kacew perteneció a la estirpe de escritores aventureros. Hijo de una familia judía, huyó de Polonia siendo un adolescente y se instaló en Francia donde acabó siendo miembro de las fuerzas libres que lucharon contra Vichy, diplomático (cónsul en Los Ángeles entre otros puestos) y, sobre todo, uno de los grandes escritores de la posguerra bajo el nombre […]

A raft of independent publishers working in languages including Arabic, Japanese, Russian and Bengali have made the 15-strong longlist for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, worth £10,000.Titles from Maia, Comma Press, Bitter Lemon and Atlantic have been nominated alongside Harvill Secker and Chatto, among others. The prize, in association with Champagne […]

    The Confessions of Noa Weber, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu and published by Melville House Press won the Best Translated Book Award, and Elena Fanailova’s The Russian Version, translated from the Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Stephanie Sandler and published by Ugly Duckling Press won the Best Translated Poetry award. See Three Percent for a […]

So now that the Best Translated Book Awards are over, I can fully concentrate on the next event—one for Macedonio Fernandez’s The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) that is taking place tonight at the Americas Society tonight at 7pm. Our cheeky title for this event comes from Macedonio himself, who, within one of the fifty-some odd prologues to […]

Virginia Woolf's house, Gertrude Stein's flat – feminist pilgrimages are a great way to connect with history. So when Vera Groskop said girls were boring, her mother decided it was time for her first tripDespite my best efforts, my three-year-old daughter Vera hasn't exactly been celebrating her girlhood of late. In fact, influenced by her six […]

An exiled authority on Hispanic culture, he homed in on identityDavid Vilaseca, who has died aged 46, after being run over by a skip lorry as he rode his bicycle near his home at London Bridge, was a professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, who specialised in Hispanic studies and critical theory. He wrote two major books and a string of brilliant a […]

Danny Huston stars in another intelligent film transposing Tolstoy to LA. By Peter BradshawBritish-born director Bernard Rose, known as a horror specialist for his 1992 shocker Candyman, is showing some stunning form with his modern adaptations of Tolstoy. After a conventional account of Anna Karenina, Rose brought off a brilliant version of The Death Of Iva […]

This week's podcast meets The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo AKA Swedish actor Noomi Rapace, talks LA and Tolstoy with Danny Huston, and reviews Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Paul Greengrass's Green Zone.The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Swedish author Stieg Larsson's literary sensation about a crack computer hacker who teams up with a […]

Book looks back at life and death of Nusch Éluard, French model and artist painted by Picasso and photographed by Man RayShe was the quiet woman of Surrealist Paris and an enigmatic muse that inspired some of the greatest art of the 1930s and 40s.But Nusch Éluard, a beautiful model who sat for Picasso and posed for Man Ray, has been largely overlooked by his […]