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Mariana Torres (writer)
Mariana Torres (born 1981) is a Brazilian writer and film director. Life Torres was born in 1981. She studied creative writing in Madrid, film in Escuela de Cinematografía y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid, and chemistry in Autonomous University of Madrid. Her first book, a short story collection titled ''El cuerpo secreto'', was published in 2015, and her work has been anthologized in a number of publications. She is a founder member of ''Escuela de Escritores'', a creative writing institute. She is also a part of Connecting European Literary Artists, which was created with the intention of bringing together young writers and translators in a variety of European languages and is run by the Dutch institution Wintertuin. She directed the short film ''Rascacielos'', which has been exhibited in 40 film festivals, winning prizes in the USA, Italy, Australia, UK and Slovenia. In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazilians
Brazilians ( pt, Brasileiros, ) are the citizens of Brazil. A Brazilian can also be a person born abroad to a Brazilian parent or legal guardian as well as a person who acquired Brazilian citizenship. Brazil is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many ethnic origins, and there is no correlation between one's stock and their Brazilian identity. Being Brazilian is a civic phenomenon, rather than an ethnic one. As a result, the degree to which Brazilian citizens identify with their ancestral roots varies significantly depending on the individual, the region of the country, and the specific ethnic origins in question. Most often, however, the idea of ethnicity as it is understood in the anglophone world is not popular in the country. In the period after the colonization of the Brazilian territory by Portugal, during much of the 16th century, the word "Brazilian" was given to the Portuguese merchants of Brazilwood, designating exclusively the name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Creative Writing
Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics. Due to the looseness of the definition, it is possible for writing such as feature stories to be considered creative writing, even though they fall under journalism, because the content of features is specifically focused on narrative and character development. Both fictional and non-fictional works fall into this category, including such forms as novels, biographies, short stories, and poems. In the academic setting, creative writing is typically separated into fiction and poetry classes, with a focus on writing in an original style, as opposed to imitating pre-existing genres such as crime or horror. Writing for the screen and stage—screenwriting and playwriting—are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-large ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Autonomous University Of Madrid
The Autonomous University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; UAM), commonly known as simply la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 alongside the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Barcelona. UAM is widely respected as one of the most prestigious universities in Europe. According to the highly regarded QS World University Rankings 2022, UAM is ranked as the top university in Spain. The campus of the university spans a rural tract of , mostly around metropolitan Madrid. Founded in 1968, its main campus, Cantoblanco, is located near the cities of Alcobendas, San Sebastián de los Reyes and Tres Cantos. UAM's Cantoblanco Campus holds most of the university's facilities. It is located north of Madrid and has an extension of over . Of these, nearly are urbanised and about a third of them garden areas. UAM offers 94 doctorate programs in all of the universities studies. It also offers 88 master's deg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is an Argentine Spanish-language author currently living in Berlin. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as ''The New Yorker'', ''Granta'','' The Drawbridge'', '' Harper’s Magazine'' and ''McSweeney’s''. Life and career She has won numerous prestigious awards around the world and her books have been translated into more than thirty languages and adapted for film. In 2002, Schweblin published her first book ''El núcleo del Disturbio'' (The Nucleus of Disturbances), which won an award from Argentina's National Endowment for the Arts. In 2008, she won the '' Casa de las Americas'' award for her short story collection '' Mouthful of Birds''. Her third collection of short-stories, ''Siete casas vacías'' (Seven Empty Houses) was published in 2015. Her first novel ''Distancia de Rescate'', literally “Rescue distance”, but translated into E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Jauregui
Gabriela Jauregui (born 1979) is a Mexican writer, poet and critic. Life Jauregui was born in 1979 and raised in Mexico City. She obtained an MFA from UC Riverside, an MA from UC Irvine and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. She has published extensively in both English and Spanish, including the poetry collection ''Controlled Decay'' (2008) and the short story collection ''La memoria de las cosas'' (2015). She was also one of the coauthors of ''Taller de taquimecanografía'' (2012). She is the cofounder of the independent publisher ''sur+''. In 2017, she was included in the Bogota39 list of the promising young writers in Latin America. The other 38 included Samanta Schweblin, María José Caro from Peru, Liliana Colanzi Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer. Life Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Camb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liliana Colanzi
Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer. Life Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Cambridge. She obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ..., where she now teaches. She is the author of three collections of short stories: ''Vacaciones permanentes'' (2010), ''La ola'' (2014), and ''Nuestro mundo muerto'' (2016), the last of which has been translated into English by Jessica Sequeira. In 2017, Colanzi was named as one of the Bogota39, a selection of the best young writers in Latin America. References Bolivian short story writers Bolivian women short story writers 21st-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María José Caro
María José Caro (born Lima, 1985) is a Peruvian writer. Life Caro was born in Lima in 1985. She has a master's degree from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has published three books, including two short story collections - ''¿Qué tengo de malo? (What is wrong with me?)'' (2017), ''La primaria'' (Elementary School) (2012) - and a novel ''Perro de negros (Black Dogs)'' (2016). In 2017, she was named as one of the Bogotá39, a list of the best young writers in Latin America. The other 38 included Samanta Schweblin & Lola Copacabana from Argentina, the Brazilian Gabriela Jauregui, Liliana Colanzi Liliana Colanzi Serrate (born 1981) is a Bolivian writer. Life Colanzi was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, in 1981, and studied at the Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (UPSA) and the University of Cambridge. She obtained a doctorate in ... from Bolivia. References 1985 births Living people Peruvian writers Peruvian women writers Complutense Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lola Copacabana
Inés Gallo de Urioste (born Buenos Aires, 1980), better known by her pseudonym Lola Copacabana or Lolita Copacabana, is an Argentine writer, translator and editor. Life She was born in Buenos Aires in 1980. She became known through her blog ''JustLola'', which began in 2003 and was written in a format similar to a traditional newspaper: small paragraphs that narrated different aspects of her life, from her fascination with Simone de Beauvoir to her personal relationships. The publisher Sudamericana proposed to publish these as a book, which appeared under the title ''Buena leche'' (Good milk: diaries of a (not so) formal young woman). The stories were written while she was between the ages of 19 and 23. In addition to continuing her blog for ten years, she anthologized and translated into River Plate Spanish the volume ''Alt-lit: literatura norteamericana actual'', working in collaboration with Hernán Vanoli. This 2014 volume explored the concept of alternative literature, esp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
