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.
by Jess Cotton, 06 April 2012.
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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by The Argentina Independent, 06 April 2012.
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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by Alex Glynn, 05 April 2012.
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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by Robin Minchom, 02 April 2012.
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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by Robin Minchom, 02 April 2012.
For the first profile in our month-long collaboration with Palabras Errantes, Robin Minchom speaks to Argentine poet Mercedes Araujo.
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by Kate Bowen, 29 March 2012.
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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by Jess Cotton, 20 March 2012.
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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by The Argentina Independent, 20 March 2012.
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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by Kate Bowen, 15 March 2012.
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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by Alex Glynn, 08 March 2012.
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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This week we revisit Sanra Ritten's piece from 2008 which is the ultimate guide to 'naughty' Argentine slang and expressions.