A tank train has derailed and smoke is billowing from it. The deadly chemical creates a thick black cloud. While firefighters in coveralls with gas masks run around below, above, the cones of searchlights from army helicopters follow where the huge dark mass is blown by the wind. A voice from a megaphone calls for … Read more
As the measles epidemic spreads, more and more Romanians begin to feel fear in their bones! According to a study published in the weekend supplement of Nature magazine, the most panicked people are the children from Dorobanti and the MEP Rareş Bogdan, who understood that measles is caught from lipstick. “Oh, well, I can’t live … Read more
A 46-year-old Romanian suspected of driving into the police in Heerenveen in 2013 has been arrested. The Public Prosecution Service reports that the police tracked down the man through DNA research. The man is suspected of driving into two police officers during a check on an industrial estate in Heerenveen on August 3, 2013. The … Read more
A crane lifts a meter-wide piece of wall, white on one side, spray-painted with cheerful graffiti on the other, and sets it aside. People applaud. Confused police officers have flowers tucked into the holes of their green uniforms. It is November 1989, and the hero of Ian McEwan’s new novel is being pushed by a … Read more
A crane lifts a meter-wide piece of wall, white on one side, spray-painted with cheerful graffiti on the other, and sets it aside. People applaud. Confused police officers have flowers tucked into the holes of their green uniforms. It is November 1989, and the hero of Ian McEwan’s new novel is being pushed by a … Read more
French writer Dominique Barbéris won the prestigious Académie française Grand Prize for the novel this Thursday evening for a love story set in the era of colonialism. This was reported by the AFP agency. The jury chose the winner in the first round. The 65-year-old academic has been teaching literature at the Sorbonne in Paris … Read more
For Japanese writer Haruki Murakami, the conflict in the Gaza Strip proves that real and metaphorical walls continue to divide the world. Now, first of all, he wishes for peace. In the long term, however, he does not stop hoping that reading books can not only provide a person with an escape from an increasingly … Read more
At first glance, Echtzeitalter looks like a school novel, for which the thirty-one-year-old Austrian Tonio Schachinger won the prestigious German Book Prize this Monday evening. However, according to the jury, the book’s title is deceiving. In fact, it follows the long tradition of the social novel. As the DPA agency writes, the story focuses on … Read more
In times of clanking guns and political skirmishes between Russia and Europe, we need dialogue, says Russian writer Guzel Jachina. The author of the award-winning novels Zulejka opens her eyes, Children of the Volga and Train to Samarkand likes to chat with readers. She considers preserving the dialogue to be more important today than a … Read more
The 64-year-old Norwegian playwright and writer Jon Fosse became the latest laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday. He was honored for his innovative prose and poetry, with which he expressed the unspeakable, said Mats Malm, the awarding secretary of the Swedish Academy. He emphasized that the author has established himself on a … Read more