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Queridos enemigos: The True History of Anglo-Argentine Relations

Queridos enemigos: The True History of Anglo-Argentine Relations

Jess Cotton speaks to historian Ema Cibotti about her book, Queridos enemigos (Dear Enemies), which analyses more than 200 years of tempestuous, vacillating relations between Argentina and the UK.

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BA Book Lovers’ Creative Writing Contest  – The Finalists!

BA Book Lovers’ Creative Writing Contest – The Finalists!

After some serious deliberation, our judges have picked the five finalists in our first ever creative writing contest. Now you can decide who takes first prize at the BA Book Lovers’ Night on 13th April.

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Focus On: English in Action

Focus On: English in Action

English in Action is a recently established program that teaches English to children who don’t necessarily fit a ‘one size fits all’ criteria of in-school learning. Alex Glynn meets program coordinator Susan Hillyard, to find out exactly what it is about their methodology that is making the program so successful.

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Introducing Palabras Errantes: Poet Profiles

Introducing Palabras Errantes: Poet Profiles

As part of the Indy’s month-long celebration of Argentine literature, Robin Minchom looks at the work of Palabras Errantes – a literary project that is working with previously untranslated Argentine poets.

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Poet Profile: Mercedes Araujo

Poet Profile: Mercedes Araujo

For the first profile in our month-long collaboration with Palabras Errantes, Robin Minchom speaks to Argentine poet Mercedes Araujo.

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Leopoldo Marechal: A Tale of Relegation and Rediscovery

Leopoldo Marechal: A Tale of Relegation and Rediscovery

The Beyond Borges series continues with Leopoldo Marechal: a poet and novelist purposefully overlooked by his contemporaries but later acknowledged as one of Argentina’s most important authors.

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On Now: ¡Basta Ya De Prosa! Exhibition

On Now: ¡Basta Ya De Prosa! Exhibition

Jess Cotton checks out a multi-media exhibition celebrating the 25th anniversary of Diario de Poesía, one of Argentina’s most prestigious literary reviews.

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BA Book Lovers’ Creative Writing Contest!

BA Book Lovers’ Creative Writing Contest!

The Argentina Independent would like to invite talented writers in Buenos Aires to submit short stories, excerpts and poems in English, for the first BA Book Lovers’ Creative Writing Contest

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Silvina Ocampo: Writing the Feminine into the Fantastic

Silvina Ocampo: Writing the Feminine into the Fantastic

Kate Bowen continues the Beyond Borges series with a look at one of Argentina’s lesser-known but most imaginative authors of fantastic fiction.

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Book Review: Mujeres Argentinas

Book Review: Mujeres Argentinas

For this year’s International Women’s Day, Alex Glynn looks at ‘Mujeres Argentinas’, a book that is the result of a collaboration between Argentine and foreign women, profiling ‘lives, portraits and moments’ of 17 women.

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