Bøger af Antonio Skármeta

The best-selling novel, and recent Academy Award nominated motion picture, tells a tender story of friendship between a simple fisherman turned mailman and legendary poet Pablo Neruda. Through this original and seductive plot, acclaimed Chilean author Antonio Skarmeta gives an intense portrait of the convulsive decade of the '70's in Chile, as well as a captivating love story and a poetic recreation of Pable Neruda's life.

Itself written as a novelization of a 1983 film (script by the same author), this novel is the basis of the film Il Postino (The Postman), and of an opera of the same name.

It was an immense honor to musically collaborate with the eminent Chilean writer, and National Literature Prize winner, Antonio Skármeta. Beautiful and thoughtful lyrics from Antonio serve as the inspiration for the accompanying music that I wrote. This book presents our musical scores with art from superb Chilean and American artists. Deepest thanks and gratitude to artists Elby Huerta, Nora Preperski-Skármeta, Amelia C. Joynes, Brian Jacobs, and Clarissa Jakobsons. Additionally, I am very grateful to Mayita Westcott for translating the words of Antonio Skármeta into English. Incredible musicians have performed these pieces: the amazing tenor Ricardo Tamura and the accomplished pianist Lucy Arner (piano). This set of songs can be heard on Pandora Radio, YouTube.com, and Spotify. The link to the album on Spotify is: https: //open.spotify.com/album/45jMdmkpzRXGcWBdeOyFQ0?si=iyTpxg9TSLKFLVLoIZY7sg

This book constitutes papers presented during the workshop session titled ¿CyberSec4Europe - Research to Innovation: Common Research Framework on Security and Privacy¿ during the Privacy Symposium hosted by Università Cä Foscari in Venice, Italy, in April 2022. The 11 peer-reviewed selected papers present findings, conclusions, research, and recommendations in various security-related areas, from highly technical ones (e.g., software and network security) to law and human-centric ones (e.g., governance and cybersecurity awareness).

"The best stories by the author of the unforgettable novel The Postman. Each of the stories in this book is an extraordinary piece of literature. Love, youth, desire, and freedom, along with versatile prose, sensitivity, and a subtle irony that sometimes morphs into dark humor, confirm Antonio Skâarmeta's position as one of the greatest storytellers in contemporary literature. Juan Villoro has selected and written a prologue for the best stories by Skâarmeta, originally published in five books that influenced an entire generation of writers and brought about a renewal of Latin American prose"--

On 11 September 1973 General Augusto Pinochet led a military coup against the elected government of Salvador Allende, bombing La Moneda, the presidential seat in Chile's capital Santiago where the President died resisting the attack.The National Football Stadium became a torture centre, where supporters of Allende's Popular Unity government were rounded up, tortured, and - like the popular singer Victor Jara - brutally killed. Chile's Nobel-prize winning poet Pablo Neruda also died in mysterious circumstances immediately following the coup.Thousands of Chileans disappeared, now known to have been murdered, and many others went into exile, including the writer Antonio Skármeta, who was completing his first novel I Dreamt the Snow was Burning, set in the weeks just before the coup, where football, Neruda's poetry, the growing tensions of the period clash around the inhabitants of a cheap Santiago boarding house, from petty crooks to fervent supporters of Popular Unity. Into their midst comes a football-mad country boy longing only to be a massive star - and of course to score with the girls."Skármeta strikes a brilliant balance between realistic portrayals of daily life and stream-of-consciousness scenes… His ability to amplify emotional undercurrents and capture the raw poetry of everyday language is impressive. Journalist Malcolm Coad deserves praise for the lucidity and electrical vibrancy of his translation." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

"Los mejores cuentos del autor del inolvidable El cartero de Neruda reunidos en un volumen. Skármeta es, además de novelista admirado por millones de lectores en todo el mundo, un maestro reconocido de la ficción breve. Este libro recoge, por primera vez en un volumen, los mejores cuentos escritos por el autor chileno y publicados hasta ahora en libros independientes: El entusiasmo, Desnudo en el tejado, Tiro libre, Novios y solitarios y Libertad de movimiento. Sus relatos han sido siempre celebrados por la crítica y los lectores y considerados muestras de la renovación de la prosa latinoamericana. El amor, el deseo, la libertad, son temas fundamentales en su narrativa que destaca por su intensidad, la prosa versátil y bella, la sensibilidad y la sutil ironía que en ocasiones deriva hacia el humor negro. Con prólogo del escritor mexicano Juan Villoro.ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONThe best short stories by the author of the unforgettable El cartero de Neruda / The Postman (Il Postino) gathered in one volume. Skármeta, in addition to being a novelist admired by millions of readers around the world, is a master of short fiction. This book collects, for the first time in a single book, the best stories written by the Chilean author and previously published in separate books: El entusiasmo / Enthusiasm, Desnudo en el tejado / Nude on the Roof, Tiro libre / Free Throw, Novios y solitarios / Couples and Singles, and Libertad de movimiento / Freedom to Move. His stories have always been admired by critics and readers, and are considered examples of a renewal in Latin American prose. Such themes like love, desire, and freedom are essential in his narrative that stands out for its intensity, its versatile and beautiful prose, its sensitivity, and subtle irony that sometimes slips into dark humor. Prologue by Mexican author Juan Villoro.

"A jewel of a story."-The New Yorker