Pablo Neruda
Turkey marks 58th death anniversary of Nazım Hikmet
Turkey on June 3 marked the 58th death anniversary of legendary Turkish poet Nazım Hikmet.
Hikmet was born in 1902 to an elite family in Thessaloniki, an Ottoman Empire territory in present-day Greece. He grew up in Anatolia, the Turkish heartland.
Sexy Amber Heard strips for GQ Australia (photo)
She’s the stunning actress seen sizzling on the cover of the current issue of GQ Australia.
And Amber Heard proved she’s equally as seductive inside the publication.
For her shoot with the famed men’s magazine, the Texas-born beauty, 31, stripped down to skimpy black lingerie, showing off her flawless physique.
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Pablo Neruda did not Die of Cancer but may have been Poisoned
The Chilean poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971 did not die of cancer. This was announced by Judge Mario Carossa after meeting with an international group of experts who analyzed the poet's remnants. They were exhumed in April 2013 and buried again in April 2016.
Free Zone Kicks Off Across Serbia
More than 50 feature and documentary films will be shown at this year's Free Zone film festival, which runs from November 10 to 15 in Belgrade, Nis and Novi Sad.
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Chile reburies Nobel-winning poet Pablo Neruda
Chile reburied Nobel prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda's remains Tuesday after exhuming them to determine whether he was assassinated by late dictator Augusto Pinochet's regime -- a mystery that still lingers.
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National Archeology Museum’s summer cultural fiesta
The National Archaeological Museum’s Festival runs through to July 30 with free concerts, theater, dance performances and film screenings. Favorite artists will entertain the audience with Myronas Stratis, Isaiah Matiaba, and Nikos Portokaloglou, while several music ensembles of the Municipality of Athens collaborate with prominent artists and they promise unique musical theme nights.
Sorrow over composer Vasilis Dimitriou’s death (videos)
Greek composer Vasilis Dimitriou died at the age of 70 leaving behind him a wide range of soundtracks. His work has been interpreted by Greece’s greatest singers such as George Dalaras, marinella, Haris Alexiou, Dimitra Galani, Sophia Bellou, Manolis Mitsias, Stratos Dionysiou, Eleni Vitali, Aphrodite Manou and many more.
Turkey’s ‘ostinato’ song
A few months ago, this column described Turkey as a piano partition composed by Philip Glass: âIt finds beauty in itself by repeating itself.â Turkeyâs song is repetitive, or ostinato, like in many childrenâs songs. But itâs hardly entertaining.
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Unpublished Pablo Neruda poems discovered among manuscripts
Twenty previously unknown poems by Chile's Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda have been discovered among sheaves of manuscripts in boxes and will be published this year.
Chilean mezzo-soprano to interpret Theodorakis works
A rising international opera star will be interpreting two landmark works by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis in Athens on Thursday, March 27.