London Spanish Film Festival – Interview with Joana Granero

Posted by Jonny hough
On May 10, 2014

By Bess Twiston-Davies Joana Granero Sánchez’s favourite cinema is the Ciné Lumière in South Kensington, London. She loves the “wide open entrance” and the broad sweep of the stairway up to the screening room. And she’s persuaded some of Spain’s biggest film stars and directors to march up its white-grey stairs – Marisa Paredes, […]

Entrevista con el Señor Federico Trillo-Figueroa, el embajador de España en el Reino Unido

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 23, 2014

By Bess Twiston-Davies Señor Trillo, muchas gracias por habernos concedido esta entrevista. ¿Cuáles son sus prioridades como embajador de España en el Reino Unido? El Gobierno del Presidente Rajoy [elegido por mayoría absoluta en las últimas elecciones] ha querido implementar un nuevo modelo de misión diplomática en el Reino Unido. Es un modelo nuevo, tanto […]

Paco de Lucia: The Death of a Musical Wizard

Posted by Jonny hough
On February 26, 2014

World music is in mourning following the unexpected death , aged 66, on a Mexican beach, of Paco de Lucia, one of the greatest guitarist of modern times, a truly musical wizard. Born Francisco Sanchez Gomez, to a Portuguese mother and an Andalucian father, de Lucia (a name he adopted professionally) spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood […]

The Spanish Notebooks

Posted by Jonny hough
On January 16, 2014

By Albertina Torres In 2005, having lived in London for ten years, Albertina Torres moved with her husband, British-Canadian film maker and artist Zev Robinson, back to the small village in rural Valencia where she was born. Three years later, while walking through some nearby vineyards, Robinson came to the realization that many people would […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On December 18, 2013

The much-loved children’s classic has been translated into Spanish for the first time, bringing Edith Nesbit’s story to a wider audience. We’ll be covering this in the magazine but in the meantime listen to translator and La Revista contributor Nuria Reina Bachot speaking on Spanish radio about why she was inspired to work on ‘Los Chicos del Ferrocarril’: […]

La turolense Pilar Sánchez, Lady Brennan, recibe la Cruz de Oficial de la Orden Isabel la Católica

Posted by Jonny hough
On November 8, 2013

Teruel puede presumir de que tiene una embajada permanente en el mismo corazón del Reino Unido. Nadie que conozca a Pilar Sánchez Moya ignora que “Teruel existe”, y es que esta turolense, profesora universitaria afincada en Inglaterra desde hace cincuenta años, lleva muy a gala su infancia y sus raíces en esta recóndita provincia española. […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 17, 2013

By Lourdes Gómez Fernando Gutiérrez has returned to his roots in West London. He has anchored his award-winning graphic design studio in the Bayswater area where he was born in 1963. As a child of Asturian and Galician immigrants he grew up in both cultures, moving from an English school in the daytime to a […]

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London Spanish Film Festival – Interview with Joana Granero

Entrevista con el Señor Federico Trillo-Figueroa, el embajador de España en el Reino Unido

Paco de Lucia: The Death of a Musical Wizard

The Spanish Notebooks

The Railway Children: new Spanish translation

La turolense Pilar Sánchez, Lady Brennan, recibe la Cruz de Oficial de la Orden Isabel la Católica

Interview with Fernando Gutiérrez

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