Blood Wedding at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia
An Interpretation that Lorca Would Have Loved
An Interpretation that Lorca Would Have Loved
La original puesta en escena de Bodas de sangre en el Teatro Wilma de Filadelfia, dirigida por el húngaro Csaba Horváth, se desmarca de los arquetipos tradicionales españoles.
For the first time in the sixty-five-year history of the festival, a Latin American actor wins the prestigious Donostia Award. In addition to this recognition, several initiatives were created to emphasize Latin America's contribution to world cinema.
Por primera vez en los sesenta y cinco años de historia del festival, un actor latinoamericano gana el prestigioso Premio Donostia. Además de este reconocimiento, se crearon varias iniciativas para enfatizar la contribución de Latinoamérica al cine mundial.
One of the most intriguing mysteries of Latin American culture is what happened to the Maya civilization. How come after over 3,000 years of history, from about 2, 500 BC to 950 AD, most of the glorious Maya centers in Mesoamerica were abandoned? Before the arrival of the Europeans in the 1500’s magnificent cities like Tikal in Guatemala and Copán in Honduras had all but disappeared; left uninhabited, they were covered by thick jungle growth, hidden throughout the mountains and the lowlands.
Uno de los enigmas de la cultura prehispánica en Centroamérica tiene que ver con lo que sucedió con la civilización maya. ¿Cómo es que tras más de 3.000 años de historia —desde el 2500 a. C. hasta el 950 d. C.— la mayoría de los centros mayas en la región abandonados?
Fernando Aramburu is a poet, essayist and novelist born in 1959 in San Sebastian, Spain. To date he has published more than twenty works and has received several important prizes, including the Prize of the Royal Academy and the Mario Vargas Llosa NH Prize in 2008 for his collection of short stories, Los peces de la amargura (The Fish of Bitterness). But his biggest critical and editorial success has been due to his latest novel, Patria (Home Country), chosen as the book of the year by ABC Cultural, now on its ninth printing with over 100,000 copies sold.