Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare
by Yuri Herrera, Deborah Levy, Vicente Molina Foix, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Valeria Luiselli, Hisham Matar, Rhidian Brook, Soledad Puértolas, Kamila Shamsie, Ben Okri and Nell Leyshon
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‘The lunatic, the lover, and the poet,
are of imagination all compact.’
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international authors to each write an original and previously unpublished story as their tribute to these giants of world literature.
In order to celebrate the international influence of both writers and offer us new and intriguing perspectives on them, six English-speaking authors have taken inspiration from Cervantes and his work, while six Spanish-language authors have written stories inspired by Shakespeare.
The authors are Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Vicente Molina Foix, Soledad Puértolas, Hisham Matar, Nell Leyshon, Rhidian Brook and Valeria Luiselli. An introduction by Salman Rushdie explores the liberating legacy of Cervantes and Shakespeare for contemporary fiction.
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Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare
by Daniel Hahn, Yuri Herrera, Margarita Valencia, Deborah Levy, Vicente Molina Foix, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Valeria Luiselli, Hisham Matar, Rhidian Brook, Anne McLean, Rosalind Harvey, Frank Wynne, Lisa Dillman, Christina MacSweeney, Soledad Puértolas, Kamila Shamsie, Ben Okri, Nell Leyshon, Samantha Schnee and Salman Rushdie
ISBN
9781908276780
Publisher
And Other Stories
Binding
Paperback
Publication date
April 7, 2016