“I just felt a bit annoyed, nothing too deep!” Hollie Mcnish is talking about the first time she performed in front of an audience. “It was at the Poetry Café, Covent Garden, at a night called Poetry Unplugged, hosted by Nial O’Sullivan. He was brilliant and really welcoming” The place is usually packed with funny […]
“In a place in La Mancha, whose name I don’t wish to remember, not long ago lived a gentleman…” a gentleman of revolutionary art and innovative cinema, a gentleman armed with a camera. It’s not the first time that Almodóvar has immersed us in a world that, through being so real, seems unbelievable. In […]
“To create a democracy, blood must sometimes be spilled”. These would be wise words were it not for the fact that they were pronounced by Augusto Pinochet, one of the greatest mass-murderers of the 20th century. Pinochet’s seizure of power on September 11th 1973, an earlier 9/11 which produced a similarly catastrophic scene – that […]
Canning house is the name given to one of the magnificent white buildings situated in London’s stately Belgrave Square. Behind the large windows, through which one can discern majestic ceilings with sumptuous chandeliers, the Hispanic spirit of the city lies hidden. The library, which houses one of the best collections of Spanish literature in London, […]
Isabel Allende, the world famous Chilean writer and niece of the deceased Chilean president Salvador Allende, takes it with a sense of humor and a pinch of patience that, despite being one of the main representatives of literature produced in Spanish and a key character in Spanish literary circles, in some countries she is still […]
Known for novels such as Santa Evita and The Perón Novel (La Novela de Perón) and winner of awards such as the 2003 Rodolfo Walsh Award for his career in journalism, and the 2002 Alfaguara Prize with El vuelo de la Reina (‘The Flight of the Queen’), Tomás Eloy Martínez was also one of eighteen […]
It is a cool but sunny Sunday afternoon. I can see the top of his hat from the car when I pass by the huge conservatory from where he is facing over the Blackheath Esplanade. Sydney Hulls, sports reporter for the Daily Express for 35 years, is waiting for me in his victorian flat. The […]
“Share out what we have got, not what we do not need anymore” It’s already March and New Year resolutions are already part of the past. Jingle bells and tinsel are so far away they are already buried in my memory. Belated email messages from friends that I hardly keep in touch with and who […]
