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                <language>en</language><item><title>Literature | 2011 - the year of the translator (The Observer, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1311381-2011-year-translator</link><description><![CDATA[With the worldwide success of Stieg Larsson and Haruki Murakami, translation has not enjoyed such a boom for over a generation. But will it ever attain to that Holy Grail, of perfect fidelity to the original? (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Babel-books-A.jpg" length="32530" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:00:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>History | Sixty-Eight Publishers - books of dissent (Lidové noviny , Prague)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/1321271-sixty-eight-publishers-books-dissent</link><description><![CDATA[They published Václav Havel and all those Czechoslovak writers banned by the communist regime. Forty years ago, Zdena and Josef Škvorecký created in Toronto one of the most important publishing houses of the Eastern European resistance. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/68publishers-A-b.jpg" length="74930" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:00:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Music | Eurozone crisis too red hot for Metallica</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1261761-eurozone-crisis-too-red-hot-metallica</link><description><![CDATA[The  world of rock is indifferent to the Eurozone&#039;s torments. According to the  Wall Street Journal, US heavy rock band Metallica, whose hits [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:59:36 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Brussels subsidises cut-price Kafka</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/1136241-brussels-subsidises-cut-price-kafka</link><description><![CDATA[Along with Goethe, he is part of the literary canon taught in all secondary schools in the German-speaking countries. But today, Franz Kafka is a [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:16:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Television | Romanians suspect Eurovision for oil fix</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/655841-romanians-suspect-eurovision-oil-fix</link><description><![CDATA[The next Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Baku, home to the Azerbaijani duo of Ell/Nikki  who won the final round of the [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 14:58:31 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Television | Eurovision - tomorrow&#039;s Europe (The Wall Street Journal Europe, Brussels)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/651711-eurovision-tomorrows-europe</link><description><![CDATA[Often considered too low-brow, the Eurovision song contest, which unfurls this Saturday 14 May, is increasingly appreciated by European academy, who glean in its antics the emergence of a &quot;New Europe&quot;. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/eurovision-jedward_2.jpg" length="34895" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 17:06:30 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Litterature | Paolo Rumiz, soul without frontiers (Le Figaro, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/614571-paolo-rumiz-soul-without-frontiers</link><description><![CDATA[Traveller, writer and journalist. Italian, Balkan and a little bit Slavic too. Paolo Rumiz is all these things at the same time, this man who has passed through the upheavals of Europe and got it all down in books of highly personal tales. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/paolo-rumiz.jpg" length="28411" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:34:14 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Debate | Leviathan is here, in Brussels (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/570181-leviathan-here-brussels</link><description><![CDATA[Brussels is the lair of a bureaucratic monster, writes the German essayist Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It’s up to the Europeans themselves now to take up their pitchforks. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/berlaymont-curve.jpg" length="44508" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:39:51 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Spain | King of flamenco dies</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/428621-king-flamenco-dies</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;Farewell to the poet of flamenco,&quot; headlines ABC. In the wake of the death of acclaimed singer, &nbsp;Enrique Morente, the daily laments the loss of [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/14122010-ABC-100.jpg" length="15171" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:00:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Has America discovered Europe? (The New York Times, New York)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/422291-has-america-discovered-europe</link><description><![CDATA[With the help of independent publishing houses and with the input from the Old World’s cultural institutes and agencies, European literature is finally making inroads in the United States, a country which traditionally shies away from books in translation. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/melville-house-publishing.jpg" length="107032" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:35:38 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the week | How I survived the Irish boom (The Times, London)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/402361-how-i-survived-irish-boom</link><description><![CDATA[Irish author Julian Gough got through the Celtic Tiger years on little more than love and fresh air. Now resident in Berlin, here’s his tale of staying sceptical (and broke) as the rest of the country went mad (and bust) on property fever. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/ireland-gough.jpg" length="30742" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 13:32:28 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Houellebecq king of French letters</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/380461-houellebecq-king-french-letters</link><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;The vengeance of a pain in the arse,&rdquo; headlines Lib&eacute;ration. On 8 November, France&#039;s most famous living author, Michel Houellebecq, won the Prix Goncourt. Over [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/09112010-Liberation-100.jpg" length="11756" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 13:57:57 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Sweden | Millenium&#039;s distorting mirror (Fokus, Stockholm)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/288201-milleniums-distorting-mirror</link><description><![CDATA[Does Sweden&#039;s celebrated social-democratic model still exist or has the Millenium saga, which depicts a society sunk in corruption and violence, killed it off? Stieg Larsson&#039;s English biographer puts the question to two other masters of the new wave in Northern noir. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/millenium.jpg" length="35713" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:56:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Portugal | Saramago remembered, but President forgets</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/277561-saramago-remembered-president-forgets</link><description><![CDATA[According to P&uacute;blico, &quot;There are no words, Jos&eacute; Saramago took them all with him.&quot; Reporting on ceremonies to honour Portugal&#039;s Nobel prize winning novelist who [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/21062010-Publico.jpg" length="11430" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:57:52 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Denmark | Artistic asylum for Zimbabwean writer</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief/274561-artistic-asylum-zimbabwean-writer</link><description><![CDATA[Tendai Frank Tagarira arrived in &Aring;rhus on 15 June, reports the Danish daily Jyllands-Posten. Fleeing death threats after his autobiography Trying to Make Sense of [&hellip;] (News in brief)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/brief/Tendai_Frank_Tagarira_0.jpeg" length="16339" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:18:53 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Enter the Euronovel (El País, Madrid)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/266541-enter-euronovel</link><description><![CDATA[Is it possible to write a novel combining the literary atmospheres of several European nations? That is what the young and gifted Argentine Patricio Pron does in El comienzo de la primavera, according to his Spanish counterpart Félix de Azúa. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/krauze-bath.jpg" length="40917" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:50:06 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Music | Eurovision, better than an EU directive (Irish Independent, Dublin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/261341-eurovision-better-eu-directive</link><description><![CDATA[The Eurovision Song Contest is not just a festival of tackiness, cheese and camp, argues Irish author Martina Devlin. It’s also a chance to have a look at the countries with whom we now have inextricable links. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/eurovision-lithuania.jpg" length="28276" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 12:39:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Culture | Europe's mainstream is just a trickle (Rue89, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/238481-europe-s-mainstream-just-trickle</link><description><![CDATA[Having lagged behind an American cultural superpower for decades, the European mainstream now faces competition from the cultural products of China, India, and Brazil. A book published in France warns that Europe has been increasingly marginalized in the soft war to capture the popular imagination. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/mainstream.jpg" length="133057" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:15:56 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>France | Paris book fair's identity crisis</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/217881-paris-book-fair-s-identity-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[On the eve of the opening of the 30th Salon du livre (26&ndash;31 March), Lib&eacute;ration has opened up its pages for 41 French novelists and [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/liberation_1.jpg" length="29038" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:48:54 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Hoax Shakespeare is for real, says expert</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/210791-hoax-shakespeare-real-says-expert</link><description><![CDATA[A little known 18th century play is a lost Shakespeare, the Daily Telegraph reveals. According to experts, &ldquo;Double Falsehood&rdquo;, penned in 1727 by Lewis Theobald, [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/Daily-Telegraph-16032010.jpg" length="37196" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:28:03 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the week | Florence Aubenas, undercover on the crisis (Le Monde, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/199781-florence-aubenas-undercover-crisis</link><description><![CDATA[Journalist and former hostage in Iraq, Florence Aubenas spent six months immersed in the world of precarious employment. She wrote about her experiences in a book which reveals a little known aspect of the reality of life in Europe. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Florence-Aubenas.jpg" length="104843" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:14:26 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>European of the Week | Helene Hegemann, the art of cut and paste (Berliner Zeitung, Berlin)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/188711-helene-hegemann-art-cut-and-paste</link><description><![CDATA[She’s the new star of the German literary scene. At 17, Helene Hegemann has already beguiled the critics with a novel about disoriented and unrestrained youth. The only problem is she lifted whole passages off the web. But she admits it – and ushers in a new take on plagiarism and “authenticity”, writes the Berliner Zeitung. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Helene-Hagemann.JPG" length="99887" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:29:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Max Havelaar, more than fair trade (Trouw, Amsterdam)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/161251-max-havelaar-more-fair-trade</link><description><![CDATA[Published in 1859, the book that gave its name to the fair trade movement remains a classic work of fiction. Notwithstanding, or perhaps, because of its avant-garde style and continued attempts to wrong-foot the reader, Max Havelaar&#039;s portrayal of colonial oppression in Indonesia still has lessons for modern readers. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/Max-Havelaar-460.jpg" length="170101" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:49:49 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Catholic Church | Vatican says Marx is good dope</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/122161-vatican-says-marx-good-dope</link><description><![CDATA[Karl Marx, who coined the phrase &ldquo;Religion is the opium of the people&rdquo;, may well be spinning in his grave at Highgate cemetery, London, with [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/times-091022.jpg" length="6418" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:54:25 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Saramago toughs it out with God squad</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/122111-saramago-toughs-it-out-god-squad</link><description><![CDATA[Author Jos&eacute; Saramago is in trouble again. His latest book, Cain, has sparked a string of denunciations, with one MEP even demanding that the Nobel [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/diario-de-noticias-221009.jpg" length="41388" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:39:58 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Czech Republic | Kundera spy row reignites</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/121801-kundera-spy-row-reignites</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;The document implicating Kundera is not a fake,&ldquo; reveals Lidov&eacute; Noviny. Over a year ago, a historian sifting through the archives of the &nbsp;Czechoslovak secret [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/lidove-noviny-211009.JPG" length="44472" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:28:33 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Literature | Nobel prize for dissidence (Presseurop, )</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/113511-nobel-prize-dissidence</link><description><![CDATA[On 8 October, the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Herta Müller, a Romanian born German writer whose novels focus on the dark days of modern European history. The press in Germany and Romania welcomes the recognition of a writer who has done much to elucidate contemporary conflicts. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/herta-muller-certificate.jpg" length="32296" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:19:11 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Rehabilitation | St Peter shortly to admit Oscar Wilde...</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/57511-st-peter-shortly-admit-oscar-wilde</link><description><![CDATA[As The Times ironically observes, &quot;in life, he was about as likely a Catholic hero as Pontius Pilate,&quot; but now &quot;Oscar Wilde has been claimed [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:59:01 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Music | Madonna non grata in Warsaw</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/55121-madonna-non-grata-warsaw</link><description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s &ldquo;Mary vs. Madonna. Pop icon vs. Icon.&rdquo; The Handelsblatt reports on the protests staged by hardcore Polish Catholics against the American singer&rsquo;s upcoming concert [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:39:29 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Obituary | All doors open now for Dutch poet</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/53291-all-doors-open-now-dutch-poet</link><description><![CDATA[The entire Dutch press is paying homage to &ldquo;Homo Ludens&rdquo; (&ldquo;the playing man&rdquo;), as Dutch poet Simon Vinkenoog nicknamed himself. Vinkenoog, who passed away on [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/de-volkskrant-130709_0.jpg" length="11369" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:40:17 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Cultural diversity | Fake Oddity&#039;s Bosphorus bop (Cafebabel.com, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/46401-fake-odditys-bosphorus-bop</link><description><![CDATA[The Lyon-based group talk about taking part in France’s Turkish Season of Culture, beginning July 2009 and the virtues of mixing things up culturally. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/fake-oddity.jpg" length="20796" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:18:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Publishing | Library books for keeps</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/34751-library-books-keeps</link><description><![CDATA[Spain&#039;s National Library&nbsp;has launched a customised service in collaboration with the online-publishing website Bubok. According to the daily ABC, users of the service will be [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:25:00 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Culture | Something that rhymes with Lisbon... (Evenimentul zilei, Bucharest)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/29231-something-rhymes-lisbon</link><description><![CDATA[While Europe’s leaders are having trouble selling an EU constitution to an increasingly wary population, an artists’ collective has decided to rewrite the document in sometimes surreal verse, writes Traian Danciu. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/constitution-poeme_11.jpg" length="64663" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:54:19 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Netherlands | Anne Frank diaries returned</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/26101-anne-frank-diaries-returned</link><description><![CDATA[Anne Frank would have been eighty today. For the occasion, her celebrated house / museum in the centre of Amsterdam has recovered an &quot;absolute gem&quot; [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:36:08 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Language | Ost in translation (Libération, Paris)</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/18351-ost-translation</link><description><![CDATA[In &quot;Translate&quot; his latest essay, Belgian philosopher and jurist François Ost, sings the praises of multilingualism, the one alternative to the hegemony of global English. (Article)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/article/tour-de-babel-brueguel2-160x150_8.jpg" length="72662" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:56:22 +0100</pubDate></item>
<item><title>Music | Czechs mourn &quot;bad boy&quot; of pop</title><link>http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/news-brief-cover/14311-czechs-mourn-bad-boy-pop</link><description><![CDATA[His soft virile voice had been &ldquo;driving women of all ages mad&rdquo; since the 60&rsquo;s. Singer Waldemar Matu&scaron;ka death May 30th in Florida at the [&hellip;] (News in brief : cover)]]></description><enclosure url="http://www.presseurop.eu/files/images/briefcover/dnes-1-04-09-cover.jpg" length="11695" type="image/jpeg" /><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:13:47 +0100</pubDate></item>
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