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Spain Culture Round Up - Thur Jun 1 2006
By h.b. - Jun 1, 2006 - 8:16 AM
Paul Auster, the winner of this year's Prince of Astrurias prize for letters - Photo EFE

Paul Auster wins this year's Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters
The United States writer,
Paul Auster, has been named the winner of this year’s Prince of Asturias Award for Letters. He was named as the winner today with the jury applauding his ‘exploration of new realms of reality’. Most famous for the ‘New York Trilogy’, Auster is currently in Portugal and said he was ‘happy but shocked’ by the award. The other nominated writers this year were
Philip Roth and
Amos Oz.
Norma Jean Mortenson, better known as
Marilyn Monroe, would have been 80 today, had it not been for an overdose of barbiturates which ended her life when she was 36. Now a new exhibition in Barcelona shows some of her clothes and possessions dating from that time at the start of the 60’s. The exhibition is linked to a new book on Marilyn, ‘Marilyn Intima’ written by Spanish journalist
Victor Fernández, and with a prologue from Paul Preston, and has some 200 items. It takes the visitor from the first ever photo of the actress to a picture of her tombstone. The show runs until September 3 in the Palau Robert in Barcelona.
Rock in Rio will be held in Madrid next year. It’s the European version of the large festival and moves to Madrid after two years in Lisbon. It will be held in the Parque de Valdebebas in Madrid and in nearby Arganda del Rey.
The festival will be made up of five days of concerts, and it seems final details are now being fixed with Madrid Ayuntamiento.
The Albéniz Foundation has opened a virtual school for teachers. It can be found at www.magistermusicae.com and has been put online after five years of development.
President of the Foundation,
Paloma O’Shea, said the objective of the page, which is subscription based, is to give master classes for music education. The site has 3,000 hours of classes at different levels.
Guns and Roses and
Ben Harper head the bill of the Bilbao live festival which runs on the 13th, 14th and 15th of this month. Also on the bill are
Placebo, The Cult and The Pretenders, with Ojos de Brujo and The Cardigans.
Details from Bilbaolive.com
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