Proyectando Las Américas

Nuri, a refugee living in Spain, reflects on daily life in the refugee camp as well as the pain of war, his fears and hopes, and his desire to begin a better life for the future.

Era un pequeño con grandes sueños, ansioso por crecer, por ser grande, por ser alguien que... no pasara inadvertido. El álbum ilustrado ganador del II Premio Internacional Compostela es un microrrelato de gran valor literario, que transporta al lector al fascinante mundo de la mitología maya y la astronomía. El mexicano Felipe Ugalde nos cuenta la historia de un cocodrilo que aspira a trascender, a través del tiempo y del espacio, más allá incluso de su propia existencia en el mundo.

RESUMEN: Kleta es una bicicleta roja que recorre las calles con su dueño, un empleado municipal encargado de aspirar los tacos e insultos de los conductores. Su sueño es visitar el Zoo. Cuando por fin lo consigue, recibe allí una calurosa acogida de los animales.

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...