Posts Tagged ‘novel’

Refreshed feelings

Magazine -> #14 Refresh

Mr. Sharpe, what is your relationship to information nowadays? Do you feel to be in contact with the babble of the world, to “refresh” is relevant for you and for a writer in general? My relationship to information is like that of a fish to water. The very oxygen that feeds each cell of my body is tainted with information, and, to paraphrase K...

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The courage to taste

Magazine -> #18 Food for the mind

Can you give us your definition of “culture”? Culture includes all the arts, dance, music, songs, language etc. It is the stew in which we are pickled. This, marinated over time, gives each locale its different flavour. Culture is what shapes ones personality and ones interaction with the world. What part had culture in your formation? Si...

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Scritture giovani, a new generation of european writers

Magazine -> #2 Creating Opportunities

Four young writers talking about writing's timetables and scoreboards. WHEN DO YOU WRITE, IN YOUR DAILY LIFE? DO YOU CUT OUT A FIXED PERIOD OR DOES WRITING END UP MERGING WITH YOUR DAILY ACTIVITIES? Davide Longo - I'm a teacher and during the school year I write very little, a couple of novels at the most, something for the radio, I help out ...

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The way of the brush

Magazine -> #22 Kaizen

To improve one’s work by getting rid of what is unneeded through constant and repetitive exercise. This seems to be the key to a calligrapher’s success, but very often deciding what to leave is anything but easy. What has your experience as a student of calligraphy and as an artist and respectively as a writer been in this respect? Linda: As a...

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“Eppur si muove”

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

Describing Luis Sepúlveda is no easy matter. Here’s a man who in his lifetime has been a novelist, poet, playwright, both for the stage and radio; a man who was one of Salvador Allende’s personal bodyguards; a man who has been a guerrilla fighter in many conflicts in different South American countries; a man who has travelled the world as UNES...

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    Martin Luther King

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    Ai Wei Wei

Headline & Editorial

Headline & Editorial

Last Issue: #31 The Journey

Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...
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For several years, the magazine has published dialogues, opinions and points of view on themes dear to a company living in the contemporary world.  Topics have covered space, courage, dreams,...
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