Felix Calvino's Blog, page 11
February 7, 2014
Book Launch
February 8, 2014
Dear Friends,
David Malouf to launch AlfonsoThursday, February 20 at 6:00pm
http://avidreader.com.au/index.php?option=com_registrationpro&view=event&did=329&Itemid=136&shw_attendees=0
I look forward to seeing you there.My best wishes,
Félix
Dear Friends,
David Malouf to launch AlfonsoThursday, February 20 at 6:00pm
http://avidreader.com.au/index.php?option=com_registrationpro&view=event&did=329&Itemid=136&shw_attendees=0
I look forward to seeing you there.My best wishes,
Félix
January 30, 2014
Alfonso / Review / Armanno
December 31, 2014
Alfonso is a gentle yet searching exploration of a Spanish migrant's feelings and experiences in the country Australia used to be more than forty years ago. Felix Calvino infuses the stuff of everyday life with tenderness and magic. He recovers a lost time and sensibility. The past shimmers back to life.
- Venero Armanno
Alfonso is a gentle yet searching exploration of a Spanish migrant's feelings and experiences in the country Australia used to be more than forty years ago. Felix Calvino infuses the stuff of everyday life with tenderness and magic. He recovers a lost time and sensibility. The past shimmers back to life.
- Venero Armanno
Alfonso / Review
December 31, 2014
Alfonso is a gentle yet searching exploration of a Spanish migrant's feelings and experiences in the country Australia used to be more than forty years ago. Felix Calvino infuses the stuff of everyday life with tenderness and magic. He recovers a lost time and sensibility. The past shimmers back to life.
- Venero Armanno
Alfonso is a gentle yet searching exploration of a Spanish migrant's feelings and experiences in the country Australia used to be more than forty years ago. Felix Calvino infuses the stuff of everyday life with tenderness and magic. He recovers a lost time and sensibility. The past shimmers back to life.
- Venero Armanno
January 3, 2014
Le Simplegadi
December 4, 2014
A Hatful of Cherries: presente e passato nella scrittura migrante di Félix Calvino
by Eleonora Goi
This essay aims to analyze A Hatful of Cherries, a collection of short stories by the Spanish-Australian author Félix Calvino. By taking into consideration both his biographical experience and the main themes highlighted in his stories, travel, memory and migration above all, I will investigate how Calvino creatively tries to make two different world communicate, intersect and connect, thus establishing a dialogue between the Spain of his childhood and modern day Australia.
PDF
http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/?p=844
A Hatful of Cherries: presente e passato nella scrittura migrante di Félix Calvino
by Eleonora Goi
This essay aims to analyze A Hatful of Cherries, a collection of short stories by the Spanish-Australian author Félix Calvino. By taking into consideration both his biographical experience and the main themes highlighted in his stories, travel, memory and migration above all, I will investigate how Calvino creatively tries to make two different world communicate, intersect and connect, thus establishing a dialogue between the Spain of his childhood and modern day Australia.
http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi/?p=844
December 27, 2013
Alfonso
December 28, 2013
Dear Friends,My novella, Alfonso, has been released.http://www.scholarly.info/book/376/All good wishes for 2014Félix
__________AbstractAlfonso is a short novel set in Sydney between 1962 and 1971. The protagonist is a man from the northwest of Spain who migrates to Australia to escape poverty. When he arrives in Australia he confronts language problems, homesickness and isolation. He works as a carpenter and eventually buys an old house in Surry Hills, unaware of the cost and commitment associated with old houses and feuding neighbours. When the house is finished he meets a woman and they fall in love, but the woman leaves for England. The story then traces his search for love and in the process he finds a way to belong in his new country. More than a love story, this is a novella about the migrant experience in which all that is known is forfeited in the search for material security.
Dear Friends,My novella, Alfonso, has been released.http://www.scholarly.info/book/376/All good wishes for 2014Félix
__________AbstractAlfonso is a short novel set in Sydney between 1962 and 1971. The protagonist is a man from the northwest of Spain who migrates to Australia to escape poverty. When he arrives in Australia he confronts language problems, homesickness and isolation. He works as a carpenter and eventually buys an old house in Surry Hills, unaware of the cost and commitment associated with old houses and feuding neighbours. When the house is finished he meets a woman and they fall in love, but the woman leaves for England. The story then traces his search for love and in the process he finds a way to belong in his new country. More than a love story, this is a novella about the migrant experience in which all that is known is forfeited in the search for material security.
November 10, 2013
November 5, 2013
Harvard Library
November 5, 2013
Authors: Title: A hatful of cherries : stories / by Félix Calviño. Published: North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2007. (2010 printing) Description: 199 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: cover and spine subtitle as "short stories by Félix Calviño". Subject: ISBN: 9781740971676 (pbk.) | 1740971671 (pbk.) HOLLIS number: 012565477 MARC HOLLIS Classic Link to this record: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|012565477
Authors: Title: A hatful of cherries : stories / by Félix Calviño. Published: North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2007. (2010 printing) Description: 199 p. ; 18 cm. Notes: cover and spine subtitle as "short stories by Félix Calviño". Subject: ISBN: 9781740971676 (pbk.) | 1740971671 (pbk.) HOLLIS number: 012565477 MARC HOLLIS Classic Link to this record: http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|012565477
October 30, 2013
Library Shop (State Library of Queensland)
October 30, 2013
http://www.shop.slq.qld.gov.au/books-all/Fiction/hatful-of-cherries
Felix Calvino’s heartfelt collection of sixteen short stories captures snapshots of other people’s lives, switching between time and place as they unfold in contemporary Australia and on the other side of the world in Galicia, Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Sombre, yet powerful, Calvino’s gentle tone narrates poignant tales contemplating themes of love, loss, life moving ever-forward and those it leaves behind.
ISBN: 9781740971676
Author: Calvino, Felix
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Email to a friend
http://www.shop.slq.qld.gov.au/books-all/Fiction/hatful-of-cherries
Felix Calvino’s heartfelt collection of sixteen short stories captures snapshots of other people’s lives, switching between time and place as they unfold in contemporary Australia and on the other side of the world in Galicia, Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
Sombre, yet powerful, Calvino’s gentle tone narrates poignant tales contemplating themes of love, loss, life moving ever-forward and those it leaves behind.
ISBN: 9781740971676
Author: Calvino, Felix
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
Email to a friend
June 24, 2013
WHISPERS
June 25, 2013
On Saturday, July 13 join critically acclaimed author, Patrick Holland (Riding the Trains in Japan: Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East, The Darkest Little Room, The Source of the Sound), alongside author Mary-Lou Stephens (Sex, Drugs & Meditation), Felix Calvino (A Hatful of Cherries), poet Vanessa Page and award-winning short fiction writer, Megan McGrath, as they share their stories of being On the Road.
VenueThe Library Café, State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane
http://www.qwc.asn.au/courses-and-events/events/
May 21, 2013
Bumf
May 22, 2013
Dear Friends:
An extract from Alfonso, my forthcoming novella …
http://www.bumf.com.au/
Best wishes,
Félix
