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FOCUS writers : 'The Constitution in Verse': Brussels 'city poets' slam EU

'The Constitution in Verse': Brussels 'city poets' slam EU

'So the European Union doesn’t have a political constitution? Let’s at least give it a poetic one!' 50 authors have spent months putting the finishing touches to new articles in the form of alternative and critical citizens’ verse. Close-up on an initiative from Brussels which began in January 2008

by Pierre-Anthony Canovas @ // 10/08/09

writers, european institutions, politics, culture, art, constitution, european constitution

INTERVIEW writers : Gonçalo M. Tavares: 'I hate the idea that everything you do is new'

Gonçalo M. Tavares: 'I hate the idea that everything you do is new'

The Luanda-born epistemology professor at Lisbon University, 38, talks his award-winning novel 'Jerusalem', and why it took him so long to get published already

by Kristina Bozic @ // 20/03/09 - 3 Comment - 1 vote

writers, josé saramago, angola, gonçalo m. tavares, brunch, portugal, bertolt brecht

REVIEW writers : Obituary: alphabets, butterflies and Inger Christensen

Obituary: alphabets, butterflies and Inger Christensen

Why learn Welsh? They all speak English anyway. Why learn unpronounceable Flemish, impossible Finnish, self-assertive Catalan or miniscule Danish? But when the Danish experimental poet died on 2 January 2009 in Copenhagen,  a loser language lost its most beautiful voice

by Lassë Jensen @ // 02/02/09 - 8 Comment

writers, erasmus, literature, obituary, catalan, denmark, flemish

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Culture : books and rock'n roll

  UKRAINE NEW ROCK'N ROLL LITERATURE (© Babel Reporter) A new wave of blogs, books and trendy bookshops is sweeping Ukraine, making writing the new playground of the country’s twenty-something’s. Why, how and since when writing in Ukrainian became a way of resisting the hegemony of the country’s ...

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