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LORCA IN CAN VENTOSA

The Municipal Library of Can Ventosa has organized a poetic and musical recital to commemorate the 125 anniversary of the birth of Federico García Lorca with Antonio Fernández on guitar and the voices of Julio Herranz and Milagros Pierna.

GABRIEL ALOMAR, writer month

During the month of August, GABRIEL ALOMAR (Palma, 1873 - Cairo, 1941) is the writer of the month in the Municipal Library of Can Ventosa, in Ibiza. He studied high school in Àvila and at the Instituto Balear. El 1888 moved to Barcelona to study law, that he abandoned for those of Philosophy and Letters. He was a professor at the Instituto Balear where he had as students the great poet Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel and the writer Llorenç Villalonga to whom years later he prefaced his work Mort de dama.

WHAT IS THE ‘BOOKTUBE’ PHENOMENON??

They've been with us for almost a decade now and it's been a while since booktubers got rid of the tag of a passing phenomenon.. These creators of specialized reading content have become literary references for their thousands of followers, who converse with them about the works they read, together sometimes. Despite the fact that YouTube is the preferred platform for these channels, Instagram is also part of this trend with book photography accounts. All these aspects mean that BookTube has ended up becoming something similar to virtual book clubs.... Read More

TWO ACCOUNTS OF ISOLATED EDITIONS ARE IN AN AUSTRIAN ANTHOLOGY OF TEXTS ABOUT THE BALEARIC

The stories 'The language of the waves’ and 'Like crazy', from the book of Edicions Isollades 'Vintidotze‘ have been selected by the Austrian publisher Wieser to appear in the publication 'Balearen'. This volume is part of the collection 'Europa Erlesen‘ ('select Europe', in Spanish), that disseminates the culture of different European regions to the German-speaking public through texts by prominent authors. So, 'The whale‘ is the book dedicated to customs, Traditions and reality of the Balearic archipelago. The book includes the two stories by Mayol together with productions by other great authors such as the philosophers Miguel de.... Read More

DISCOVERING MAJORCA: 4 LITERARY ROUTES AROUND THE ISLAND

A couple of weeks ago we talked about the ‘Walking on Words’ initiative. This project consists of literary routes through Mallorca created by the Mallorca Literària Foundation to find out information about the island related to writers and literary works. In today's article we will propose four more routes to learn more literary curiosities about Mallorca this summer Tramuntana literary landscapes This route takes us through one of the most outstanding landscapes of the island: the Tramuntana mountains. The tour takes us through those places in the mountains that stand out for their literary representation: from Pollença and Formentor to.... Read More