Children's Literature in Chile, South America

When Storytelling Matters

A few years ago children in a poor settlement in Chile started reading books for fun. Today they tell their own stories in a unique magazine for children made by children and I have come to make a documentary about these children and the impact of literature... full story


By ANNA WEITZ
from Malmo, SWEDEN

Tongues in Spain

Spanish speakers fight to save their language as regions have their say

Since Franco's death in 1975, a process of 'linguistic normalisation' has taken place in autonomous regions that have their own languages. The Basque, Catalan and Galician tongues, repressed by Franco after the end of the civil war in 1939, have been promoted with millions in public funds, in the hope that more people will speak them... full story


By GRAHAM KEELEY
Story from The Observer