Alfonso / Review / Armanno

December 31, 2014

Alfonso is a gentle yet searching exploration of a Spanish migrant's feelings and experiences in the country Australia used to be more than forty years ago. Felix Calvino infuses the stuff of everyday life with tenderness and magic. He recovers a lost time and sensibility. The past shimmers back to life.

- Venero Armanno


Le Simplegadi

December 4, 2014



by Eleonora  Goi 

This essay aims to analyze A Hatful of Cherries, a collection of short stories by the Spanish-Australian author Félix Calvino. By taking into consideration both his biographical experience and the main themes highlighted in his stories, travel, memory and migration above all, I will investigate how Calvino creatively tries to make two different world communicate, intersect and connect, thus establishing a dialogue between the Spain of his childhood and modern day Australia.


Alfonso

December 28, 2013



Dear Friends,
My novella, Alfonso, has been released.
All good wishes for 2014
Félix

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Abstract
Alfonso is a short novel set in Sydney between 1962 and 1971. The protagonist is a man from the northwest of Spain who migrates to Australia to escape poverty. When he arrives in Australia he confronts language problems, homesickness and isolation. He works as a carpenter and eventually buys an old house in Surry Hills, unaware of the cost and commitment associated with old houses and feuding neighbours. When the house is finished he meets a woman and they fall in love, but the woman leaves for England. The story then traces his search for love and in the process he finds a way to belong in his new country. More than a love story, this is a novella about the migrant experience in which all that is known is forfeited in the search for material security.






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November 11, 2013

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Harvard Library

November 5, 2013
Robert A. Magowan Fund for English Literature


Authors:
Calviño, Félix.
Title:
A hatful of cherries : stories / by Félix Calviño.
Published:
North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, 2007. (2010 printing)
Description:
199 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
cover and spine subtitle as "short stories by Félix Calviño".
Subject:
Short stories, Australian.
ISBN:
9781740971676 (pbk.) | 1740971671 (pbk.)
HOLLIS number:
012565477      MARC      HOLLIS Classic
Link to this record:
http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|012565477


Library Shop (State Library of Queensland)

October 30, 2013

http://www.shop.slq.qld.gov.au/books-all/Fiction/hatful-of-cherries

Felix Calvino’s heartfelt collection of sixteen short stories captures snapshots of other people’s lives, switching between time and place as they unfold in contemporary Australia and on the other side of the world in Galicia, Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.

Sombre, yet powerful, Calvino’s gentle tone narrates poignant tales contemplating themes of love, loss, life moving ever-forward and those it leaves behind.

ISBN: 9781740971676
Author: Calvino, Felix
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200

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WHISPERS


June 25, 2013

On Saturday, July 13 join critically acclaimed author, Patrick Holland (Riding the Trains in Japan: Travels in the Sacred and Supermodern East, The Darkest Little Room, The Source of the Sound), alongside author Mary-Lou Stephens (Sex, Drugs & Meditation), Felix Calvino (A Hatful of Cherries), poet Vanessa Page and award-winning short fiction writer, Megan McGrath, as they share their stories of being On the Road.

Venue
The Library Café, State Library of Queensland, South Brisbane
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http://www.qwc.asn.au/courses-and-events/events/
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