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Culture news

Can we see the real Michel Houellebecq from his essays and interviews?

'Interventions' has just been published in English.

4 April 2022

Culture news

Euroviews. Culture 2021 Year in Review: Writer and poet Tom Chivers

A lover of buried stories, writer Tom Chivers unearths his own for Euronews Culture. It's time to get your hands dirty.

31 December 2021

Italy

Italian coastal town faces backlash for 'sexist' bronze statue

The statue was unveiled during a ceremony attended by the former prime minister Giuseppe Conte in Sapri, in the southern Campania region.

28 September 2021

Art

Dante's Divine Comedy revived in 3D video 700 years after poet's death

Engravings by Gustav Dorè illıustrating Dante's Divine Comedy have been digitized in high resolution and enlarged for a truly atmospheric effect inside the Basilica of Santa Croce

15 September 2021

Denmark

Ukrainian poet's statue vandalised before Denmark-Russia match

The Ukrainian embassy in Denmark published a photo of the monument to Taras Shevchenko, which had been painted in the colours of Russia.

22 June 2021

France

Poet's suicide letter sold at auction

A suicide letter written by the French poet Charles Baudelaire has been sold at auction for 234,000 euros

5 November 2018

Russia

Poet Yevtushenko dies

Tributes are pouring in for the Russian poet who strove to liberate artistic expression from the shackles Soviet politics

1 April 2017