Morocco:
Tangier to celebrate Paul Bowles' Centennial
http://www.moroccoboard.com/news/4869-morocco-tangiers-to-celebrate-paul-bowles-centennial-
20 October 2010
JAMAL AMIAR
Born in New York in 1910, Paul Bowles would have turned 100 years old
this week. He passed away in Tangiers in Novembrer 1999 after a life
dedicated to writing novels and short-stories, to arts and music.
With William Burroughs and the former American School director Joseph
McPhillips, Paul Bowles and his wife Jane were emblematic figures of
the beat generation in Morocco and the founders of a strong center of
American culture outside the US.
At the kasbah museum, the American Légation museum, the spanish
Cervantes Institute and at the French consulate over the week-end of
Octover 27-31, many events are planned.
Bernardo Bertolucci's The Sheltering Sky will be shown at the
Cinémathèque Rif, pictures of the French artist Daniel Aron will be
shown to the public for the first time, and colloquia on his writings
and the translated versions of his works are organized at the
university and at Tangier's King Fahd Institute.
Aspects of Jane and Paul's life while in Malaga will be dispalyed at
the Cervantes Institute and the Am School of Tangier is proposing
pictures and recordings of "Paul Bowles and the American School of
Tangier". The Kasbah Museum will feature pictures of Bowles in
Tangier and paintings of Mohamed Mrabet, a Moroccan artist and
story-teller first translated by Paul Bowles.
Lisbon last week-end and Boston this month at theCollege of Fine Arts
held celebrations on the occasion of the writer's Centennial. Malaga
last April, Seville in November 2009 and Cologne last March have
organized similar events.
Not to miss : an excellent website dedicated to the writer :
www.paulbowles.org with biography, texts and great pics.
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