Orsola Casagrande is a Havana-based journalist and film-maker. As a journalist, she worked for 25 years for the Italian daily newspaper
il manifesto, and is currently co-editor of the web magazine Global Rights.
She writes in Italian, English, Spanish and Turkish and also speaks Basque and Catalan. She writes regularly on Spanish, Catalan and Basque politics and culture, and has covered Turkey and Kurdistan as a special correspondent.
Casagrande is the editor of
The Book of Venice, an anthology of contemporary city stories.
At Lit Hub she tagged eight books "on the enchanting, hopelessly beautiful splendor and history of Venice," including:
Ernest Hemingway, Across the Rivers and into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway often visited Venice, and the city features in one of his lesser-known novels Across the Rivers and into the Trees, first published in 1950. I discovered and read this book while living in Havana, Cuba; Hemingway’s former house there, now a beautiful museum, was one of my favourite places to go when I needed a space of my own. One Sunday morning I went to the museum with my friend, Cuban intellectual Félix Julio Alfonso López, who told me about Across the Rivers and into the Trees. In this book, the city is the setting for Hemingway as he explores some of his classic themes: a soldier’s recovery from war and the function of love in the bloody 20th century.
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the other entries on the list.
--Marshal Zeringue
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