Part of La Española’s focus on literature from Las Islas Canarias Everything was going well until Tuesday. I met Kain on First Dates, that program for singles on Channel Four that livened up my afternoons of procrastination and laziness, and made me laugh out loud. You get to see just how many fr
Introduction by Kate Tough In this month’s La Española, we’re focusing on the high calibre literature coming out of Las Islas Canarias, an archipelago in the Atlantic, 100km off the coast of Morocco. The main economic activity is tourism but in previous centuries the Canaries were a regular sto
Trafika Europe has continued our partnership with the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL). This year, we have 13 exciting interviews with authors that were nominated for their country. In the past, the EUPL crowned a winner for each of the countries involved in a cycle (one year of the prize
Racism in Italy was discovered two years ago, when the so-called yellow-green government coalition was formed by the Lega and the Movimento 5 Stelle. At least, that’s what mainstream media has tried to convince us of: from that point onwards, all newspapers and online platforms started featuring s
At a time of increased racist attacks, bigotry and violence what a joy – and relief – to tune in to podcasts on the Writers Mosaic website from “What We Leave We Carry“. This is an oral history project, devised and led by the author and broadcaster, Colin Grant, in collaboration wi
