Culture news Homage in Huesca: Spanish city pays tribute to George Orwell George Orwell never fulfilled his wish to visit Huesca when he fought in the Spanish Civil War but nearly 90-years on, his son Richard Blair has made the trip to unveil a statue in honour of his famous father. 10/06/2024
Culture news Culture Re-View: Looking back on the cultural impact of '1984' On this day 75 years ago George Orwell's dystopian classic‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ was published. Many aspects of the English writer and journalist's foreboding tale have passed into everyday language and the book's central message still bears chilling relevance. 08/06/2024
Culture news The 10 Mr. Men and Little Miss characters with the worst vibes As two more characters are added to the Mr. Men and Little Miss series, we look at which characters deserve to be thrown into space. 08/06/2024
Culture news Mysterious manuscript of Albert Camus' ‘L'Étranger’ to be auctioned The complete (and mysterious) manuscript of Albert Camus' famous novel is to be auctioned and is estimated at between €500,000 and €800,000. 05/06/2024
World News 'It's hard to fight our own dictatorship and a foreign dictatorship' Where is the "Kashcheyeva's Needle" of Lukashenko's regime? Will Europe slip into a "yard fight" with "mafiosi" in Minsk and Moscow? Writer, activist and political emigrant Sasha Filipenko tells Euronews about his hopes and fears for Belarus 01/06/2024
Culture news J.K. Rowling says loved ones begged her to keep trans views private J.K. Rowling appears in an essay collection featuring contributions from so-called 'gender critical' writers, in which she shares that her loved ones had pleaded with her to keep her polarising views on transgender women to herself. She also hits out at her hypocritical critics. 30/05/2024
Culture news Inside an old Madrid bank vault full of literary treasures In the depths of the Caryatid Building in Madrid is a vault containing some of the greatest treasures of Spanish literature. 28/05/2024
Design Spanish design duo reveal secrets of award-winning architecture If the couple's mission was to make reading relevant again then this is a total triumph. A long queue of people regularly wait to get inside the Barcelona library, in scenes more reminiscent of a concert than a reading room in a quiet area of the city. 28/05/2024
Culture news Romanian poet Ana Blandiana wins 2024 Princess of Asturias Award In selecting her as the winner the Asturias jury highlighted Ana Blandiana's "indomitable poetry" with which she has shown an "extraordinary capacity for resistance in the face of censorship." 23/05/2024
Culture news International Booker Prize 2024: 'Kairos' by Jenny Erpenbeck wins Jenny Erpenbeck is the first German writer to win the International Booker Prize. 21/05/2024
Design Judge a book by its cover: Inside the world of book design Do all book covers look the same today? Euronews Culture goes under the dust cover with those that design them. 19/05/2024
Culture news Stories of race, slavery and US Civil War earn 2024 Pulitzer Prizes Since 1917, the Pulitzer Prizes honour the best in journalism and the arts. 07/05/2024
Culture news Celebrated US novelist Paul Auster dies aged 77 The writer of "The New York Trilogy" and "Leviathan" has died from complications of lung cancer. His books have been translated into more than 40 languages and is a revered writer in France, which he considered his "second home". 01/05/2024
Culture news ICYMI: EU Police bust what’s believed to be an antique book theft ring In a coordinated operation, law enforcement arrested a group of Georgian nationals suspected of running a criminal operation stealing antique and rare books from European libraries. 30/04/2024
Culture news Why is France's National Library putting four books in quarantine? Four books have been quarantined in the National Library of France. Here’s why. Warning: Spoilers for the book and film 'The Name of the Rose'. 29/04/2024
Culture news Jane Austen’s House needs your help transcribing her brother’s memoir Could Jane Austen’s brother Francis shed some new light on the beloved author’s life? The Jane Austen’s House museum hopes so – but first it needs help deciphering his handwriting. 26/04/2024
Culture news Rebel Wilson memoir censored in the UK - but mentions Royal orgies Rebel Wilson's book, published in its entirety in the US, has been censored in the UK, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, due to a chapter on Sacha Baron Cohen. 25/04/2024
Culture news PEN America cancels 2024 awards as authors withdraw over Gaza stance PEN America cancelled next week’s awards ceremony after dozens of authors dropped out in protest of the literary organisation’s response to the war in Gaza. 23/04/2024
Culture news Pulitzer-winner David Mamet blasts Hollywood's diversity efforts During the L.A. Times Festival of Books, David Mamet spoke out against the initiatives in Hollywood to create diversity, equity, and inclusion - referred to as DEI. 23/04/2024
Culture news UNESCO World Book Day: The books that made us For UNESCO World Book Day, the Euronews Culture team shares the books that made them - as well as their reading recommendations. 23/04/2024