Johnny Lorenz’s translation of Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Junior’s ‘Crooked Plow’ is shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize.
The author of Goodbye, Vitamin makes dinner and discusses her new novel, Real Americans.
Fighting billionaires and their proposals for coal mines may not be a typical way to spend your youth – but Murrawah Johnson comes from a long line of resistance warriors. Ms Johnson, a Wirdi woman of the Burra Gubba nation of central Queensland, has been recognised with the Goldman environmental award, a major international prize […]
Season 22 of American Idol premiered on February 18, 2024. There have been countless talented performers including Julia Gagnon, Makenna Faith Breinholt, Abi Carter, Triston Harper, and Emmy Russell. Emmy has connected with the audience with her vulnerable original songs and backstory. Who is Emmy Russell? Emmy is one of late country legend Loretta Lynn’s […]
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The International Journalism Festival, held annually in Italy, has reported an increase in online violence against journalists, stating that this situation has turned into a “major occupational hazard” worldwide. In a statement released on Sunday, April 21st, by this international center, it has been mentioned that online violence has undermined freedom of expression and weakened […]
Italians, British people and Americans accounted for the biggest migrant groups to move to Amsterdam last year, according to new research by the city’s statistics office O&S. Some 36% of Amsterdam’s population of 918,000 have roots abroad, and over half of them – 173,540 – arrived in the past 10 years. Turkey, Germany, France, India, Ukraine, Spain and Russia complete the top 10 immigrant groups, O&S said. “The results of the research reflect what is happening on the world stage,”
Havana, May 1 (Prensa Latina) The new TV program of the emblematic Cuban institution Casa de las Americas, available on the Internet, is presented as a unique opportunity to enjoy the cultural diversity of Latin America and the Caribbean. The post New Cuban program reflects Latin American cultural diversity first appeared on Prensa Latina.
For centuries, farmers used almanacs to try to understand and predict weather patterns.Now, a new crop of Latin American startups is helping do that with artificial intelligence, promising a farming revolution in agricultural giants like Brazil, the world's biggest exporter of soybeans, corn and beef.Aline Oliveira Pezente, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, was working at agriculture company Louis Dreyfus Commodities when she noticed a problem in how the...
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Leftist Latin American and Caribbean heads of state gathered in Caracas, Venezuela, condemned Israel on Wednesday for committing a "genocide" in Gaza through its self-defense operations against Hamas.
“The slow turn of the spinning wheel is what makes the thread perfect,” reads written narration from Elvira Espejo Ayca’s to a 17-minute-long video where she spins, winds and combs through cotton. “The quick spin of the spinning wheel is what makes the thread strong. Feeling things is what makes you a teacher.” The video This story Review: ‘Threads to the South’ explores Latin American identity through textile art appeared first on Washington Square News.