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...Edith Grossman leaves a legacy — in her books, in her influence on students, peers and readers — to answer that question....
...He recounts how panellist Nina Garcia would ask contestants about their designs: “But who’s this girl, where is she going?”...
...After a long spell with the great Edith Grossman, then Natasha Wimmer (the translator of Roberto Bolaño), Vargas Llosa has turned to the American novelist Adrian Nathan West to translate Harsh Times....
...On a chill, rain-swept evening last month in central London, Edna O’Brien stepped delicately on to a stage in the Royal Institute of British Architects....
...by Edith Grossman, Seven Stories Press, RRP£20/$26.95, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...As Edith Grossman, translator of Cervantes, told one interviewer: “You have to hear the original voice in a profound way, and then find the voice in English that best reflects that original....
...Yvonne Venegas’s book “San Pedro Garza Garcia” is published in September by RM Editorial; editorialrm.com....
...Edna Jaime, head of think-tank México Evalúa, told CNN that the Mexican government “still hasn’t found the strategy” to mitigate the upsurge of violence....
...In the early 1940s, Edith Heath converted a treadle sewing machine into an improvised potter’s wheel, and started throwing simple streamlined bowls that retained a handmade unpredictability....
...There are the poets José Bergamín (quietly fulminating against both the Falangists’ savage assassination of Federico García Lorca and against intellectual purity) and José Moreno Villa (making up with bitterness...
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...The Little Red Chairs, by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£18.99 Inspired by Radovan Karadzic’s disguise while on the run, The Little Red Chairs starts with the arrival of a bearded stranger, “Dr Vladimir Dragan...
...(Financial Times) Corzine charged in connection with misuse of customer funds: “A US regulator has filed civil charges against Jon Corzine, former chief executive of MF Global, and Edith O’Brien, its former...
...roots were showing ever more clearly through Edna’s mauve hair rinse....
...Country Girl , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£20 The Irish author of The Country Girls looks back on a spectacular life, from her childhood in Tuamgraney, County Clare; her turbulent marriage to Ernest Gébler...
...Saints and Sinners , by Edna O’Brien, Faber, RRP£7.99 It’s been more than 50 years since O’Brien published her debut novel, The Country Girls....
...Edith Garcia, an American sculptor and installation artist, had heard about Scanner’s previous projects and recently invited him to create a sound environment for her loft apartment and studio space in Minneapolis...
...Hate: A Romance, by Tristan Garcia, translated by Marion Duvert and Lorin Stein, Faber, RRP£12.99, 320 pages Garcia was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore for this novel, a powerful debut charting the...
...squealed poet Edna St Vincent Millay when she arrived to find Harold Acton, Cecil Beaton and Maugham’s lover and housekeeper Gerald Haxton on the terrace....
...She gave me a boîte de musique that was her father’s and it played Edith Piaf’s “La Vie en Rose”. I was so moved by it. What is the best piece of advice a parent gave you?...
...ME MORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES by Gabriel Garcia Marquez translated by Edith Grossman Jonathan Cape £10, 128 pages Things fall apart as you get older. Late in life the Irish poet W.B....
...26• Pirated copies of Gabriel Garçia Marquez’s novella Memories of My Melancholy Whores flooded his native Colombia before its official publication this year....
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