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Collective residencies / Olot

HUMANITIES II

From Monday, 24 October 2016 to Monday, 21 November 2016

Faber hosted a group of professionals coming from several countries who worked on projects related to various fields of letters: fiction, translation, literary essays, journalism, dramaturgy

Residents

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What residents are saying about us

Writer

ANDREW DOWLING

Andrew Dowling at Faber Amongst the many changes experienced in contemporary British academia, one is the top down pressure to publish. And to publish. The act of writing and creation often becomes a burden, as something we have to do because we are ...

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Actor, director and dramaturg

ROY HOROVITZ

Roy Horovitz at Faber OMG!!! Where do I begin? How to summarize the last ten days, which I spent here, at the Faber residency in Olot, surrounded by all this beauty? I came here from Israel. My very first visit to Catalonia (not Spain, Catalonya!, ...

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Dramaturg

LLÀTZER GARCIA

I’m back in Barcelona I’m back in Barcelona. I’m back to writing (or at least trying to) at my desk. It’s a flat with very little natural light. I miss room 115 of the Hotel Riu Fluvià. And the strolls through Olot or ...

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Writer

DAVID MANDERSON

Refreshing, invigorating, renewing I came to Faber Residency at the end of a long term of marking and assessing at the University of the West of Scotland, where I work during the day, and an almost two-year period of writing a second novel, which ...

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Journalist and translator

VALÈRIA GAILLARD

Proust and the Dreyfus Affair Almost a hundred pages. This was the number of pages that Marcel Proust dedicated to the Dreyfus affair near the end of the first part of The Guermantes Way. The writer makes use of a series of characters in the ...

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