Little by little the sink fills up… Filling the Sink is a podcast in English on all things Catalan. Every week the Catalan News team explores a different aspect of Catalonia, from news and politics, to society and culture. Whether you live in Catalonia and need some of the current issues explained, or you’re simply curious about what makes this place tick. Either way, Filling the Sink has got you covered. Don’t worry if you don’t know much about this corner of land nestled between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean. As they say in Catalonia, ”de mica en mica, s‘omple la pica” - little by little, the sink fills up. Filling the Sink is a podcast from Catalan News.
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Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Orwell, the Civil War and more – homage to writers who made Catalonia home
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Saturday Jan 21, 2023
George Orwell, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel García Márquez. Just some of the 20th Century's greatest writers who for a time called Catalonia home. Tadhg Prendiville from Barcelona Literary Tours takes Cillian Shields on a trip around the city. Cristina Tomàs White joins Lorcan Doherty to discuss the international poets, novelists and journalists who came to Catalonia – some during the Civil War, some fleeing dictatorships in South America, and others, simply for the adventure. This week's Catalan phrase is 'estar escrit'. Literally 'to be written', it means something is decided, set in stone. The following is a list of writers – and one influential literary agent – mentioned in the podcast.
George Orwell
Pablo Neruda
Isabel Allende
John Dos Passos
Simone Weil
Muriel Rukeyser
Colm Tóibín
Louis MacNeice
Langston Hughes
Ernest Hemingway
Martha Gellhorn
Roberto Bolaño
Gabriel García Márquez
Carmen Balcells
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Mario Vargas Llosa
Truman Capote
Eduardo Galeano
Cristina Peri Rossi
Cristina Rivera Garza
Mathias Énard
Denise Duncan
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