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Ángel Parra: 'experiencing exile is painful - they push you towards an abyss'
Based in Paris for the past 35 years, the 64 year old musician son of folklore icon Violeta Parra on Chilean Septembers, exiles and his dead mother's legacy
Lindsey Davis: 'my writing is not the ghastly modern personal therapy type'
The award-winning British historical and comedy detective novelist, 58, on 'being like most English people' and her original brand of writing
brunch, united kingdom, italy, books, western eu, europe, literature
Georges Marion: France as the centre of the world
The French journalist and long time foreign correspondent of the daily 'Le Monde', 64, evokes the subjectivity and relativity of the job, insisting on the importance of an identifiable Europe
brunch, european democracy, berlin, european media, journalism, western eu, paris
Keren Ann: ‘You take something from everything’
The French singer of Dutch origin, 33, was born in Caesarea, Israel. She lived in the Netherlands until the age of 11 and sings in English. Now, she moves between Iceland, France and New York
brunch, america, leonid kuchma, israel, music, paris, france
Ferdinando Riccardi: 'the meaning of Europe is reconciliation'
Over the last 50 years, the 77-year-old has witnessed the initial stages of the evolution of a Union undergoing total transformation. Editor and columnist for daily bulletin Agence Europe, the EU's press agency, this Italian in love with Brussels is still an unwavering federalist
brunch, european media, italy, belgium, brussels, western eu
Brian Aldiss: 'I told Kubrick it was impossible he make a film of my story'
The British science fiction author, 82, on working with Hollywood greats, being caned for 'telling stories' at school and Europe being a 'wonderful idea'
brunch, oxford, mustafa kemal atatürk, steven spielberg, stanley kubrick, united kingdom, cinema
Enki Bilal: 'My cartoons evoke a past out of step with reality'
The Czech-Bosnian cartoonist, 55, weaves between cartoons, cinema and geopolitics, taking his readers on a trip into a futuristic universe where political commitment is key
brunch, enki bilal, comics, science fiction, paris, france, europe
György Dragomán: 'one can really see how a dictatorship functions through the eyes of a child'
The Transylvania-born Hungarian author, 34, uses an unconventional narrator to express the horrors of a totalitarian system
brunch, dictature, romania, warschau, nicolae ceausescu, communism, hungary
Eduardo Dávila Miura: 'a bullfighter never thinks about his own death'
He was one of the best Spanish bullfighters, until he ended his career in autumn 2006. The 33-year-old talks about the loneliness of the arena and bullfighting as an art form
Gediminas Urbonas: 'There were no real Communist ideas in occupied Lithuania'
The former Soviet soldier, 40, has spent half his life sculpting in Lithuania’s evolving public spaces, prodding the West into understanding what the face of Communism once looked like, and fighting privatisation
brunch, vilnius, lithuania, sculpture, central and eastern europe
Jani Virk: 'Making folklore of Balkan culture led us into a terrible war'
The 45–year-old writer and TV journalist from Ljubliana has lived and worked in Düsseldorf, Chicago and London, and published widely
brunch, labour, balkans, slovenia, communism, london, journalism
Nuruddin Farah: 'Even hunchbacks learn to live with their discomfort'
The Somali writer, 62, is an important figure in African literature. A committed defender of women’s rights, he chronicles Somalia’s trip to chaos and back
Yuri Khashchevatsky: 'Being Belarusian is fashionable these days'
Visionary film director Yuri Khashchevatsky, 60, is a principal figure of Belarusian dissent. He criticises ineffective opposition, and talks up the new role the Internet plays in the resistance
brunch, belarus, georgia, director, north korea, minsk, yury khashchavatski
Pie Tshibanda: ‘crazy black man in a white man’s country’
The Congolese writer and storyteller, 55, in exile in Belgium, feels that Europeans 'don’t want to take a long hard look at themselves'
Simon Wheatley – ‘Photography helps me be a simpler person’
Life through the lens: the Magnum photographer, 37, on snapping European youngsters, the decline of local communities and fearing Islam
brunch, netherlands, simon wheatley, photography, youth, integration, islam
Sandra Camps: Barcelona's journalist as Africa's social worker
Her reports on dwarfism and the mass tide of immigrants to the Canaries are gracing German screens - the Catalan journalist gives a voice to those without
brunch, germany, nigeria, discrimination, human rights, violence, third world
Hasso Krull, voice of a new Estonia
As Estonia prepares to celebrate independence from the USSR, poet and intellectual Hasso Krull explains why Russian will never be an official language
brunch, estonia, nationalism, languages, russian federation, european union, tallin
Edouard François: urban chameleon
The Parisian architect mixes architecture with ecology: a fashionable fifty-year-old with a diverse background and designer of the offbeat Tower Flower in Paris
brunch, green cities, architecture, environment, brain drain, society, western eu
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