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Annual UNEAC
Prize for Pablo Milanés
March
16.07
TROVA
singer Pablo Milanés has been awarded the 2006
Annual Prize by the Association of Writers and
Artists of Cuba (UNEAC), highlighting his
artistic contribution of a lifetime to that
fertile field of Cuban culture.
After UNEAC president and poet
Carlos Martí presented the award to the author
of anthological Latin America songs, Harold
Gramatges, who heads up the association,
recalled that on this occasion the prize was
shared with another eminent Bayamó resident,
Salvador Alarcón...
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Fina García Marruz wins Ibero-American
Pablo Neruda Prize
March
15.07
SANTIAGO DE CHILE.—The prestigious Ibero-American
Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize has been awarded this year to the Cuban poet and
essayist Fina García Marruz, Culture Minister Paulina Urrutia announced this
Wednesday, having first informed the winner personally by phone, PL reports.
• 10TH FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL IN CUBA
From Microcosmos to Paris, je t’aime
March
15.07
CHRISTOPHE Barratier has become an international
director since his debut film, Les Choristes,
which he premiered in Havana just three weeks after
its first showing in Paris.
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Fernando Pérez premieres his Madrigal
March
15.07
FERNANDO Pérez is a director who is always full
of surprises. He takes on great risks and acquits
himself well. At the moment, he is premiering in
Havana Madrigal, a film "diametrically
opposed to Suite Habana" that, against the
odds of many opinions, was a total success.
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16th International Book Fair, Cuba 2007 ends
in Santiago
March
12.07
SANTIAGO DE
CUBA.—With the conviction of having hosted the end of one of the most
significant cultural events in our country in recent years, the people of
Santiago bade farewell yesterday to the 16th International Book Fair Cuba 2007,
which has covered 40 localities of the island in more than one month.
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An original and sensitive film
with Julie Depardieu
March
8.07
“It’s because of
Voltaire”. “It’s Rousseau’s fault”. Immortalized by Victor Hugo in his novel
Les Miserables, the refrain from the tune sung by Gavroche (1) beneath a
shower of bullets on the barricades of Saint-Denis Street during the Parisian
insurrection of 1832, is known throughout the entire world.
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New Spring for the patriarch
March
6.07
VERY much the Nobel laureate, with the applause and veneration
that accompanies that immense merit, I saw Gabriel García Márquez take refuge in
a room of the Casa del Caribe in Santiago de Cuba, his face deathly pale after
having witnessed the sacrifice of a four-legged animal to an African deity.
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García Márquez celebrates his
“140 years of solitude”
March
6.07
MEXICO
(EFE).—The Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez is to celebrate the 40th
anniversary of the publication of his most outstanding novel One Hundred Years
of Solitude (1967) and the 25th of his Nobel Literature Prize (1982) this year.
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Al Gore
documentary wins an Oscar
February 27,
2007
LOS ANGELES.— An
Inconvenient Truth, a documentary by ex-U.S. Vice
President Al Gore, won an Oscar for the best documentary last Sunday night in an
edition in which Latin American cinema had its moment of glory with three
statuettes for the Spanish-Mexican film El laberinto del fauno by
Guillermo del Toro (Best Photography, Best Makeup and Best Artistic Direction).
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February 23,
2007
AFTER a
triumphant rebirth of old trova and traditional son, the Buena
Vista Social Club is celebrating its 10th anniversary. The phenomenon rocked the
music world and displaced the most advanced singers and musical groups of pop,
rock, and other musical innovations from the hit parade.
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16TH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR CUBA 2007
Book fiesta continues
in 39 other cities
February 22,
2007
MORE than
600,000 people visited the opening venue of the Book Fair, the San Carlos de La
Cabaña Fortress and avid readers acquired 1,493,000 copies of the 3,000 titles
placed at their disposition this year.
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Silvio Rodríguez greeted
in Peru by cheers for Cuba
February 21,
2007
LIMA, Feb 20 (PL).—Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez today
affirmed that he was happy and moved to be back to Peru after a 21-year absence
which, for him, was too long.
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Laurence Olivier Prize
for Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta
February 20,
2007
HAVANA, February 19 (PL).—The outstanding Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta has been
awarded the Laurence Olivier Prize for the best show presented on London stages
during 2006, its representative Heriberto Cabezas informed Prensa Latina.
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First miniature art
festival in Cuba
February 15,
2007
WHICH art form is not developed in Cuba? Deep in the heart of the Caribbean
island are artists representing all manifestations imaginable and they
proliferate. Painting, sculpture, music, dance, and literature are perhaps the
most classic and widespread, but there are also expressions that are not always
so widely circulated.
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16TH
INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
A cultural whirlwind
February 9,
2007
IT’S not just
by chance that Argentina is guest of honor at this year’s Fair, commented poet
César López, National Literature Prize winner, to whom – together with historian
Eduardo Torres Cuevas – this year’s book fiesta is also dedicated.
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110 YEARS OF FILM
IN CUBA
An adventure with no going
back
February 8,
2007
IT was just a little more than a year after “the seventh art” had
conquered Paris, thanks to the ingenious invention of the Lumière brothers, that
the first film exhibition took place in Cuba.
• JOSEFINA
MENDEZ
Superb dignity, exceptional style, impressive technique
February 1,
2007
TO see Josefina Méndez dance has been a privilege. At this moment, just after
her death, some of the qualities that choreographers, critics and the public
have applauded in her: her "superb dignity" on stage, her extremely personal
style, her powerful technique, should be remembered.
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2007 Casa Prizes presented
February 1,
2007
FIVE writers from Argentina, Cuba, Uruguay and Brazil have triumphed in the 2007
Casa de las Américas Prizes in which 493 books competed in the categories of
novel, essay, theater, testimony and Brazilian literature.
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4,400 educationalists from 30 countries in Pedagogy 2007
January 29,
2007
THE 2007 International Pedagogy Congress begins today and continues up until
February 2 with the participation of 4,400-plus foreign specialists from some 30
countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Northern America and 1,300
Cuban educationalists, in the capital venue of the Karl Marx Theater.
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Cuba in Canada: mission
possible
January 25,
2007
WHEN Alina Orraca heard seven choirs at the University of
Lethbridge singing, with such grace and style, a version of “El bodeguero” by
Richard Egües, she was certain that her many intense days on Canadian soil had
not been in vain.
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Danny Rivera finances book on the Five
January 25,
2007
“HERE
is Nos une Cuba (Cuba Unites Us) by young writer Reynier Carvajal, a book
of life, of the soul, with a poetic thread and letters exchanged with the five
Cuban heroes cruelly imprisoned in the United States,” affirmed the great Puerto
Rican singer Danny Rivera, thanks to whom the book has been published.
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INTERVIEW WITH
THE AUTHOR OF SEÑORA DEL DESTINO
Secrets of a successful
soap opera
January 19,
2007
AN autobiographical novel, as he himself admits, with which he pays tribute to
his mother María do Carmo Ferreira da Silva – the same name as the protagonist
in the central plot – the dramatist who was born on June 7, 1944 in Carpina,
Pernambuco, also extols the lives of the thousands of emigrants from the
impoverished northeastern region of Brazil in a era that was open to the
military coup of 1964.
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Memorial to Hemingway in Cuba, despite
the U.S. government
January 8,
2007
THE fact that
Cuba has to date invested more than $200,000 to restore the Havana house where
the U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway lived, while the United States has refused to
support the works, was highlighted by various international news agencies that
covered the appearance of Manuel Palacios, president of the National Cultural
Heritage Council (CNPC) attached to the Ministry of Culture, at the celebrated
farm where the author of The Old Man and the Sea lived in San Francisco
de Paula.
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2006 – A culturally impassioned year
January 5,
2007
IT is
almost obligatory. When a year ends one reflects back on it. It is fair to say
that that 2006 has offered many satisfactions in the cultural sphere.
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28th
Festival of New Latin American Cinema
Argentina and Brazil with 10
Corals each: the most prizes
December
15, 2006
IT was somewhat
expected, but not to such an extent, that the Coral prizes this year would be
shared among various films. There hasn’t been that great movie that grabs
immediate attention. The jury members appreciated certain interesting aspects of
each of the films in competition. And so 32 of them received prizes.
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28th Havana Film Festival
A new generation begins
winning awards
December
15, 2006
SOME
20 international and Cuban organizations have awarded their prizes, parallel to
the official competition, demonstrating that a new generation of filmmakers is
taking over the big screen and its awards, and at the same time, that Argentine,
Brazilian and Cuban filmmaking remains a powerful force on the continent.
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Oliver Stone
fined for filming in Cuba
December
13, 2006
THE U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has just fined
well-known filmmaker Oliver Stone for violating the laws of what they
euphemistically refer to as an embargo, actually nothing more than a barbaric,
brutal, systematic blockade, universally recognized as such and condemned by an
overwhelming majority in the United Nations.
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Hugo de Soto’s art in
Havana
December
8, 2006
THE
first exhibition of the works of Hugo de Soto (1928) in his native Cuba brings
together recent and other works from the City Museum collection. According to
City Historian Eusebio Leal, at the inauguration of this diverse display, “there
is no better place than this cloister of San Francisco, the birthplace of
important things for Cuba, and which is now a temple to art and high culture.”
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English for a year
and intra-history
December
8, 2006
Whoever believes
that historial themes contained within the world of fictional literature are the
exclusive territory of men, will find a categorical denial of that notion in the
work of Marta Rojas (Santiago de Cuba, 1931).
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