February 4, 2012
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Unfinished Thoughts
February 4, 2012
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Unfinished Thoughts
December 29, 2011
'Unfinished Thoughts' has been selected to screen at the 2012 Melbourne Queer Film Festival! Congratulations to all involved.
Bluebird Productions
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Review - Goodreads
A Hatful of Cherries
(Read from December 08 to 19, 2011)
I have just finished ‘A Hatful of Cherries’ and loved it. Each story drew me in and I felt a connection to the characters. I felt so sad for Basilio and his wife. Really loved the ‘Ghosts on The Beach’ too. ‘Silvia’ was such a measured story, belying the strangeness of the two men sharing a mistress. Calvino's endings are really great, because he makes them astonishing, even when they are about ordinary happenings. The story about quitting smoking was painful to read, but gripping. I felt his frustration...and I have never smoked! The ‘Detour’ story has a film in it I am sure!
I also liked the way Calvino moved from stories set in Spain, to those set in Australia. It provided a rhythm that was punctuated every now and then...like jazz! I could not read more than two stories at one time, because I liked how they stayed with me for awhile.
Kathryn Briblecombe-Fox
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September 16, 2011
“I was honoured for people to come and listen to stories from another world,” said Félix.
Congratulations to Félix Calvino on the recent launch of the third edition of A Hatful of Cherries.
This wonderful collection of short stories chronicles life growing up in the villages of northern Spain, and later adjusting to a new life in Australia.
The latest edition of A Hatful of Cherries was launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival as part of the launch of the 2011 Press On series published by Arcadia, an imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Félix joined a panel of six writers from the Press On series who presented their work, reading key passages to a rapt audience.“I was honoured for people to come and listen to stories from another world,” said Félix.
Félix is currently completing an MPhil in Creative Writing with the School of EMSAH, researching time and space in two 20th Century novellas: Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. He is also hard at work on a short novel that explores the lives of migrant men.
“The migrant experience is well documented in Australia, but the plight of single men has been largely ignored,” said Félix.
“Though a majority attain financial security, these men often fail to ‘adjust’ since they have been deprived of their language, culture, and history; material riches and relative comfort do not free them from a life of social and spiritual misery.”
Félix hopes to publish his novel early next year.View more on Félix Calvino’s website
http://ahatfulofcherries.blogspot.com/.
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June 3, 2011
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Review - Goodreads
June 3, 2011
A Hatful of Cherries
I like the title I think it fit very well with the collection. As a collection I thought it was cohesive and well thought through. The stories were nice, definitely some were very savorable. Perhaps each story needs to be rated individually though as a few of them I did not particularly enjoy. I do think they portrayed that essence of memory. That feeling of remembering an event in miniature. Perhaps my brain was a little to "attack kamikaze style" for this set though. If I were to re read them I would have preferred a lazy day at the beach or in the tub. I was reading them so crazily that I would get to the end of some of them (two pages) and go what? Wait what happened? Then I would have to re read it, and would almost harbour some kind of resentment to the piece or author for experience and anxiety of my own rushed ways. Unfair I know, and I took that into account when I rated it.
Cassandra Silva
Unfinished Thoughts
May 19, 2011
2011 South Australian Screen Awards
One of the highlights of the evening was the awarding of BEST PERFORMANCE to Adelaide actress Chantal Contouri for her role in the delicately sublime film, Unfinished Thoughts, based on the Spanish short story by Felix Calvino. …
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