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CLOUDSTREET – Novel by Tim Winton

His writing often contains messages or themes which act as an ‘eye-opener’ to his audiences. Timothy Winton is an Australian novelist that was born in Karrinyup (Western Australia) but that he moved to the regional city of Albany at age of 12. He wrote his first novel in 1981, launching his writing career, but it wasn’t until “Cloudstreet” was published …

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POETRY LIBRARY / AUSTRALIA – Dorothy Porter

Her first collection signalled the arrival of a new voice on the Australian poetry. Her ability to convey the heat of passion is a first secret of her repertoire. Dorothy Porter reminded us that poetry could handle many, many sensations and emotions, as quiet intimacy orjealousy, seduction, wild sex and obsession, that suggest love in its various phases. Always, she …

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AUSTRALIA / INNER LANDSCAPES

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EILEEN GRAY / THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL – Cap Moderne, France

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

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UNTIL HIS LAST SPRING – Zvest Apollonio, when the colors of the Mediterranean will light

ZVEST APOLLONIO 1/3 – Zvest Apollonio 1/3 – He was convinced that the time and place of his birth, 1935, Bertocchi Koper, Istria), were not a coincidence, but are factors that had greatly affected his life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIWg3m14Tps With his mother spoke in Slovene, with his father in Italian. Bilingualism had helped him to learn with foreign languages. ZVEST APOLLONIO 2/3 …

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ZVEST APOLLONIO (1935/2009), SLOVENIAN PAINTER – When time and space affected the life

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SLOVENIAN INNER MUSICAL LANDSCAPE

The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …

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SLOVENIAN INNER LANDSCAPES

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A DIFFICULT SPRING – Romance by Boris Pahor

He was born into a Slovene minority community in Trieste. That writer, he is internationally most notable for his Holocaust experiences as described in the novel Necropolis. Boris Pahor is a prominent public figure in the Slovene minority in Italy. He was awarded order of the Legion of Honour by the French government, the Cross of Honour for Science and …

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ON THE BORDER OF THE DISTANCE – Slovenian Poems in the moonlight, in the short days of April

The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. https://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius. The drawing, depicts a man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in a circle and square. Leonardo’s image has become much more than a literal illustration of a proportional canon. …

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