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Kiko Amat
Kiko Amat (born 1971) is a Spanish journalist and novelist who also works as a DJ. Biography Kiko Amat left school at 17 and lived in London for five years. He writes periodically on his website ''Bendito Atraso'' and, with his brother Uri Amat, edits the fanzine ''La Escuela Moderna'', in addition to DJing with the collective Hungry Beat. He writes critical articles for various media outlets, such as the newspaper ''La Vanguardia'' and its supplement ''Cultura/S'', and the magazines ''GO'' (until 2005) and ''Rockdelux''. Literary career In 2003 he published his first novel with Anagrama, ''El día que me vaya no se lo diré a nadie'', which he defined as "a love story, but somewhat atypical." It narrates the encounters and disagreements of a young overimaginative man with Octavia, the girl who gives voice to the underground. In general it was well received by critics. Among his main influences, the author cited Anglo-Saxon underground authors such as Colin MacInnes and Richard B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sant Boi De Llobregat
Sant Boi de Llobregat () is a city in the Province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, located on the banks of the Llobregat river. In 2019 it had 83,605 inhabitants. The city is divided into six neighborhoods (named ''barris'' in Catalan): Ciutat Cooperativa-Molí Nou, Marianao-Can Paulet, Barri Centre, Vinyets-Molí Vell, Camps Blancs-Canons-Orioles, and Casablanca. It is bordered on the north by the towns of Santa Coloma de Cervelló and Sant Joan Despí and the village of Sant Climent de Llobregat; on the east by the town of Cornellà de Llobregat; on the west by Viladecans; and on the south by El Prat de Llobregat and the Mediterranean Sea (via a narrow southward salient). Economy Although the main business activity is trading, which is centered around the service sector, Sant Boi is also known for industrial activities, especially metallurgy. Agriculturally, its mild climate and fertile waterlogged lands, located at the mouth of the Llobregat river, produce a wide variety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Fernández Mallo
Agustín Fernández Mallo (A Coruña, 1967) is a physicist and Spanish writer. He lives in Palma de Mallorca. He is a member of the so-called Nocilla Generation. Although he works as a physicist, he also collaborates with cultural magazines such as ''Lateral'', ''Contrastes'', ''La Bolsa de Pipas'', ''La fábrica'' and ''Anónima''. Works Poetry * ''Yo siempre regreso a los pezones y al punto 7 del Tractatus'' (''I Always Return To Nipples And Point 7 of the Tractatus''), 2001 * ''Creta, lateral travelling'', 2004 * ''Joan Fontaine Odisea (mi deconstrucción)'' (''Joan Fontaine Odyssey (My Deconstruction)''), 2005 * ''Carne de Píxel'' (''Pixel Meat''), 2008 Fiction * ''The Things We've Seen'', 2021 * ''El hacedor (de Borges) Remake'' (''The Maker (of Borges) Remake'') (Unpublished) * '' The Nocilla Trilogy''Mallo A., (2019), transl. by T. Bunstead, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ** ''Nocilla Dream'', 2006 ** ''Nocilla Experience'', 2008 ** ''Nocilla Lab'', 2009 * ''Limb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Baix Llobregat
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Related categories * :Year of birth missing (living people) / :Year of birth unknown * :Date of birth missing (living people) / :Date of birth unknown * :Place of birth missing (living people) / :Place of birth unknown * :Year of death missing / :Year of death unknown * :Date of death missing / :Date of death unknown * :Place of death missing / :Place of death unknown * :Missing middle or first names See also * :Dead people * :Template:L, which generates this category or death years, and birth year and sort keys. : {{DEFAULTSORT:Living people 21st-century people People by status ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novelists From Catalonia
A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to support themselves in this way or write as an avocation An avocation is an activity that someone engages in as a hobby outside their main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that they made their livings, but for whom their activities outside their workplaces .... Most novelists struggle to have their debut novel published, but once published they often continue to be published, although very few become literary celebrities, thus gaining prestige or a considerable income from their work. Description Novelists come from a variety of backgrounds and social classes, and frequently this shapes the content of their works. Audience reception, Public reception of a novelist's work, the literary crit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Journalists From Catalonia
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism. Roles Journalists can be broadcast, print, advertising, and public relations personnel, and, depending on the form of journalism, the term ''journalist'' may also include various categories of individuals as per the roles they play in the process. This includes reporters, correspondents, citizen journalists, editors, editorial-writers, columnists, and visual journalists, such as photojournalists (journalists who use the medium of photography). A reporter is a type of journalist who researches, writes and reports on information in order to present using sources. This may entail conducting interviews, information-gathering and/or writing articles. Reporters may split their time between working in a newsroom, or from home, and going ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Spanish Novelists
The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 (Roman numerals, I) through AD 100 (Roman numerals, C) according to the Julian calendar. It is often written as the or to distinguish it from the 1st century BC (or BCE) which preceded it. The 1st century is considered part of the Classical era, epoch, or History by period, historical period. The 1st century also saw the Christianity in the 1st century, appearance of Christianity. During this period, Europe, North Africa and the Near East fell under increasing domination by the Roman Empire, which continued expanding, most notably conquering Britain under the emperor Claudius (AD 43). The reforms introduced by Augustus during his long reign stabilized the empire after the turmoil of the previous century's civil wars. Later in the century the Julio-Claudian dynasty, which had been founded by Augustus, came to an end with the suicide of Nero in AD 68. There followed the famous Year of Four Emperors, a brief period of civil war and inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Births
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner (short Story Collection)
''The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner'' is a short story collection by English author Alan Sillitoe. Stories *"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner": :A teenager from Nottingham is convicted for burgling a bakery and sent to Borstal, where he finds solace in long-distance running. *"Uncle Ernest": :Ernest Brown the upholsterer is lonely and suffering from shell-shock. He feels guilty for surviving the trenches of World War I. His wife has left him, and he has lost touch with his family. One morning two young girls sit at his table in a cafe, disrupting his routine of introspection. He speaks to them and buys them cakes. In the weeks that follow, he regularly meets them and buys them food and gifts; they give him a reason to live. The police then tell him not to go near them again, and he turns to drink. :Sillitoe based the title character on a relative of his, Uncle Edgar, also an upholsterer warned away by police from two young girls he had befriended.page 90-95, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes Cebrián
Mercedes Cebrián (born 29 May 1971) is a Spanish writer and translator. Biography Mercedes Cebrián holds a licentiate in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, a master's degree in Hispanic Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, and one in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She was a literary creation scholar at the Residencia de Estudiantes of Madrid from 2002 to 2004 and of Ledig House (Hudson, New York), the , the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), the Valparaíso Foundation (Spain), and the Santa Maddalena Foundation (Italy). She has written for various media outlets, such as the ''La Vanguardia'' supplement ''Culturas'', ''Babelia'' and ''El Viajero'' of ''El País'', and her texts have appeared in the literary magazines ''Turia'', ', ''Gatopardo'', ''Revista de Occidente'', and ''Letras Libres'', as well as Columbia University's ''Circumference''. She has been a columnist for the newspaper '' Público''. Ceb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-austerity Movement In Spain
The anti-austerity movement in Spain, also referred to as the 15-M Movement (Spanish: ''Movimiento 15-M''), and the Indignados Movement, was a series of protests, demonstrations, and occupations against austerity policies in Spain that began around the local and regional elections of 2011 and 2012. First starting on 15 May 2011, many of the subsequent demonstrations spread through various social networks such as Real Democracy NOW ( es, link=no, Democracia Real YA) and Youth Without a Future ( es, link=no, Juventud Sin Futuro). Spanish media related the movement to the 2008–14 Spanish financial crisis, the Arab Spring, as well as demonstrations in North Africa, Iran, Greece, Portugal, and Iceland. The movement was also compared to Stéphane Hessel's political manifesto '' Time for Outrage!,'' which was seen to empower Spanish youth who were not in school, training, or employment. Protestors rallied against high unemployment rates, welfare cuts, politicians, and the two-part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diagonal (newspaper)
''Diagonal'' was a Spanish biweekly alternative newspaper, covering breaking news, culture, political analysis from a grassroots approach. It presents itself as a communication tool for the left-leaning social movements, and as a "critical and independent media, without directors or bosses, resting on the base of thousands of subscribers". In 2017 it was renamed El Salto after its merge with 20 other media, such as Pikara Magazine or El Salmón Contracorriente. History Diagonal can be traced back to 2003, when the grassroots collective editing the monthly newspaper "Molotov" decides to cease publication and start a broader newspaper. This initiative was joined by a wide spectrum of journalists and activists that formed the first promoter group. After two promotional issues, Diagonal started on March 3, 2005, date since it has continued being published regularly. Diagonal is considered one of the emerging newspapers in Spain which challenges the traditional newspapers represente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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