EVISSA PRIZES OF THE AMIC-FICTION COMPETITION

08/06/2022

Alexia Alfallo Alvarez de Toledo, of the Master's College of Ibiza, has been the winner of the award for the best story of Ibiza in the fourteenth edition of the AMIC-Ficcions. Participation of Fictions 2022 This latest edition of the literary contest for young people “AMIC-Ficcions, “The adventure of creating stories” closed with a record participation. until 4493 students from among 14 y 18 years and 184 different educational centers participated with their stories. specific, there has been 463 participants from the Balearic Islands, 204 of which are from Eivissa, a not inconsiderable figure. In total they presented.... Read More

THE BROKEN LIGHT THEATER, IN POLLENCIA

03/06/2022

El sábado 4 the play “Broken Light” arrives in Pollença in June. It is a production of Iguana Teatre, company that produces and distributes shows from 1985. The work is based on the book “Republican Women. Memory of the Civil War in Mallorca ”, by the writer Margalida Capellà. Plot "Llum trencada" recovers the stories of some of the women who suffered terrible repression, humiliation and revenge after the coup of the 18 de julio de 1936 because of his political ideas and his ideology. this crackdown, as hard as the one that the male members could suffer... Read More

JOHN MAYORGA, PRINCESS OF ASTURIAS OF LETTERS AWARD

03/06/2022

The Princess of Asturias Foundation announced last 1 June that the winner of the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature 2022 is the playwright Juan Mayorga. According to the jury led by the president of the RAE, Santiago Munoz, the writer from Madrid has been chosen "for the enormous quality, critical depth and intellectual commitment of his work: action, emotion, poetry and thought.” to their 57 years, Mayorga has behind him more than 50 plays that have made him become the Spanish author with the greatest international projection. Therefore, the playwright has been obtaining a multitude of... Read More

JOSE SARAMAGO, ANTONI MARIA ALCOVER I SUREDA

01/06/2022

On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, The Can Ventosa Library pays homage this June to José Saramago, writer month. Biography and literary career The renowned writer José Saramago was born into a rural Portuguese family on 16 de noviembre de 1922, although he emigrates to the capital, Lisboa, en 1934. Then, twelve years old, dropped out of school and did vocational training in mechanics. It is remarkable that he completed his education completely self-taught. his first work, the widow (land of sin), was published in 1947, when he was still working as a Social Security official. No... Read More

BOOK VILLAGE IN MANACOR

30/05/2022

the days 11 y 12 the first “Vila del Llibre” will be held in Manacor in June. So, the city will become a literary cultural capital during those days. Antoni Gomila has been in charge of preparing the cultural program, which has more than seventy activities for all audiences. The presentation of the program took place this Tuesday in Plaça de les Verdures, in the presence of the mayor of the city, the vice-president and councilor for Culture and the director of Vila del Llibre. The importance of the female figure in the Vila del Llibre Este.. Read More

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