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At 13, he published his first Urdu story in a Pakistani daily. At the age of 14, he had to leave Pakistan for reasons related to his father’s political activity. NADEEM ASLAM – a British naturalized Pakistani writer – was born in Gujranwala in July 1966, becoming famous for his second novel: Maps for Lost Lovers (set in the middle …

Her zodiac sign is fish. She is a member of a generation of female poets and her experience of living in the US certainly has had a strong influence on her poems. In 1995 she settled in San Francisco (US), then moved to Australia, where three years later she married an Australian Urdu poet. Her fifth collection of poems was …

FAIZA KHAN 1/3 – Her father wrote several books and essays pertaining to the Pakistani poet and philosopher, Allama Iqbal. Her mother (also an artist), she gave up visual art after marriage to raise Faiza and her brothers. She is a Pakistani visual artist. Born in Abbottabad in August 1975, she is an expressionist and abstract oil painter, combining socio-political …

The travel range offered by Russia is unlimited. Leave the preconceptions behind you, giving you an unforgettable journey of art and nature, with fascinating natural and architectural spectacles. With our journey of travel, you will travel with four people who were born in this sky, discovering – together with the fruits of their creativity – cities and ancient villages. Because …

Not just Moscow With our journey of travel, you will travel with four people who were born in this sky, discovering – together with the fruits of their creativity – cities and ancient villages. Because Russia is not just Moscow and St. Petersburg. The purpose is to spread the knowledge of these artists and that other people enjoy their works. …

Serebro is one of the most popular Russian band. In October 2007 there were rumors that Olga (one of the band’s members) she was leaving the band because seemed to have problems with the singer. Since 2006, Olga is part of the female pop group Serebro, with whom she has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. She started studying …

The protagonists of her tales have a strong personality. All of them are immersed in the historical reality and the concreteness of different biographical profiles. In her works, she describes her characters through an apparently aseptic point of view, preferring to devote themselves to the description of their life. She, who has attended the Russian dissident environments and who lives …

For more than 40 years, she had been a royal presence on Moscow’s literary scene because she had a special aura from which everyone was magnetized. In the traditional metric system, she carried out a peculiar research on poetic language driven by the desire for purity expressive. Daughter of Tatar father and Italian mother, with a poetic collection of 1962, …

KONSTANTIN KOROVIN 1/3 – He was born in Moscow on a December day by a family of savvy merchants, but because of his economic collapse his father committed suicide. He had at Moscow’s Fine Arts School. Since 1900, his artistic work was also in favor of theaters. Painter, engraver and theater decorator, can be classified among the most famous Russian …

When you decide to travel, you often associate nations with a trip to the major capitals, or to some impressive places. But in Spain there is a region to discover, absolutely fascinating: the Extremadura. On this page you can find out how to visit the Spanish Extremadura in an unusual way, accompanied by the artistic creativity of someone who is …

SPANISH EXTREMADURA In Spain there is a region to discover, absolutely fascinating: the Extremadura. On this page you can find out how to visit the Spanish Extremadura in an unusual way, accompanied by the artistic creativity of someone who is born under this sky. The intellectual property of the images that appear in this blog correspond to their authors. The …

The lyrics of their songs deal with topics like sex, drugs and love, without reference to politics. Until 1996 (the year of publication of the Agila album), the group was not included in the circuit of the major media, but since then they became known to the general public. They define their music as transgressive rock. The Extremoduro are a …

His work, mainly narrative, is characterized by the mixing of various literary genres, with the use of chronicle union and essay with fiction. His works tend to be set in urban environments (at present or in a past not too far away), and have a pleasant tone. Javier Cercas Mena is a Spanish writer and essayist, born in 1962 in …

Four were the stages of his poetic works: pure, surreal, anthropocentric and old age. Because of health problems, he could not have an active part in the Spanish Civil War, but he supported the Republican cause. Vicente Aleixandre, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977, was born in Seville on April 1898, but spends his childhood in Malaga, then following the …

Paint figures closed in themselves, not portraits but symbols FRANCISCO DE ZURBARAN 1/3 – It is unknown if he has had the opportunity to see the paintings of Caravaggio, but his work presents, like that painter, a realistic use of chiaroscuro and darkness. Born in Fuente de Cantos, in Extremadura, this profoundly religious artist was able to represent the counter-reformist …