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...“Carmen Mola is not, like all the lies we’ve been telling, a university professor,” said Díaz on winning the prize....
...The Planeta prize (now worth €1m) was awarded not to a reclusive female academic — as Mola had been described — but to Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez and Antonio Mercero....
...Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz, Faber, RRP£10.99/Graywolf Press, RRP$16, 128 pages Finalist for the TS Eliot, Forward and National Book Award, Diaz’s second collection is rich in mythical, biblical...
...Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach, by John Eliot Gardiner, Allen Lane, RRP£30/Knopf, RRP$35 Mixing scholarliness and practical experience, one of our leading conductors...
...Fernando Pessoa; The Castafiore Emerald by Hergé; Twentieth Century Dictionary by Chambers; The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 by Elizabeth Bishop; Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino; Middlemarch by George Eliot...
...It was all about adolescents caught in the space between desire and despair: very TS Eliot both in theme and in measured, mandarin pace. But isn’t the best comedy often slow?...
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