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The Norwegian author – who will receive the award from the Swedish Academy on Sunday, December 10, in Stockholm – spoke exclusively with EL PAÍS in Oslo. ‘There are people who love my writing and people who hate it’

Wenders chooses to illuminate indirectly, and to compel the viewer to concoct questions of their own.

The playwright Jeton Neziraj has a history of tackling difficult topics. His most recent play Negotiating Peace is testament to this. The play draws on two texts – To End a War, the memoir of the American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, which documents his central role in bringing together the Dayton Agreement, and The General of the Dead Army (Gjenerali i ushtrisë së vdekur), the 1963 novel of the Albanian writer Ismail Kadare – to explore the topic of peace making. It asks the question: what...

Today is the 340th day of 2023. There are 25 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHTS 2008: Amsterdam unveils plans to close brothels, sex shops, and marijuana cafés in its ancient city cen...

After the outbreak of the new Israeli war against Palestinians a number of critics discovered antisemitism in the book and denounced Shibli as a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions activist.

‘After the war, the car industry became the bearer of a new nationalism, and the car the emblem of recovery and a source of collective identification.’

Ben Williams recalls certain moments when he met writers’ ‘strangers within’ – the possessed, or “the attended”, by an attendant who never leaves.

“The first condition is silence,” says the 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, whose most recent book is “The Young Man.” “The when and where do not matter.”

“A poet who is not also a heretic,” Aldo tells me as I lean forward to catch his words, “is not a poet.” As for the miller Menocchio and for Pasolini, heresy was connatured to Federico’s persona—not a mere intellectual exercise. For Pasolini and Federico, furthermore, it was no longer only about the Catholic Church. It had to do, instead, with their inability and unwillingness to participate in the reigning ideologies of their time: petty bourgeois propriety, at first, and the hedoni...

A. E. Stallings on the poetry of the 2020 Nobel Prize–winner.