#56 A Quaker in the Spanish Civil War

REVIEW: Live Souls: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain

by Serge Alternês and Alec Wainman

Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2015

$24.95 / 978-1-55380-437-6

Reviewed by Larry Hannant

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Live Souls: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain contains the stunning documentary record of 1,650 photos taken over three years in Spain by Alec Wainman, an Okanagan-raised Oxford University student with the British Medical Unit.

Lost for forty years in a publisher’s suitcase in London, the photos have been gathered and presented by Wainman’s son, Serge Alternês. The original Canadian version has led to republication in Spanish.

Also see: http://bcbooklook.com/2015/11/02/the-english-suitcase/

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No special insight is needed to observe that the estimated 40,000 internationals who threw themselves into the fight to salvage democracy in Spain in 1936-9 were a mixed assemblage. Hard men whose communist flint had been sharpened by their time in Dachau fought in common cause with humanitarians for whom politics were dirt in a wound urgently needing to be cleaned and bound. Masters in the art of political intrigue mingled with some of the most creative poets, novelists, photographers and filmmakers of the era.

Along that political and artistic spectrum, Alec Wainman undoubtedly angled toward the aesthetic side. A photo of him in a Barcelona streetcar in 1937 gives us a dreamy, tender face, eyes framed by the glasses of an intellectual. Aged just twenty-three in August 1936, he volunteered for the British Medical Unit (BMU) in the first rush of international enthusiasm to aid the elected Republican government that was being attacked by fascist General Francisco Franco’s professional forces.

Wainman considered himself to be an apolitical Quaker, a pacifist informed by a Christian upbringing but not necessarily a Christian. Born in Britain, he and his family emigrated to British Columbia in 1920, and Wainman grew up on a ranch near Vernon. In 1928 his family returned to England, where he studied languages at Oxford University.

In his trek to Spain, Wainman took with him more than his youthful dedication to halting fascism and his fluency in languages. He also carried his Leitz Leica camera and a talent for seeking out the humanity in a country gripped in the vice of a modern war pitting Spaniard against Spaniard. He found and captured that compassion in a collection of 1650 photos taken over three years in Spain.

The subject of his photos — 210 of which are reproduced in Live Souls — is less the war than Spaniards in the war. We see no combat images as such, nothing of the sensational ilk that were smeared over the front pages of newspapers at the time.

What we observe — especially in those photos dating from the heady days of social upheaval in 1936 — is a remarkable portrait of working Spaniards reveling in the optimism unleashed by the new environment of the civil war. The photos affirm, among other facts, how completely the Republican army was a people’s army. The connection between civilians and militia is seamless. Soldiers are not professionals, they’re workers in uniform. Indeed their uniforms — like their weapons — are often contrived, thrown together from whatever was to hand.

Along with images of Spaniards enthusiastically raising clenched fists and rifles, Wainman inserts subtle references to overlooked impacts of war. One is an affectionate portrait of a Spanish family at the seaside town of Tossa de Mar in March 1937. Mother, four adult daughters and their toddlers on the terrace of a home devoid of men, all of whom are at the front.

Wainman’s photographic evidence at times demands that we rethink certain romantic conceits of the civil war. Four photos from 1938, for instance, show well-heeled people — including a boy of 10 or 12 — standing before tables at the Barcelona Book Fair. The scores of books in front of them, from which they’re reading reverently, are not the works of Karl Marx. They’re studying The Bible. In Barcelona! Anarchists envisioned it to be the heartland of their toilers’ revolution. Yet in this last bastion of the republic, Barcelona — like much of Spain — held firm to a regressive conservatism. The photos are a telling challenge to the anarchist notion that a “communist bourgeoisie” handed the fascists a victory in the civil war. Franco didn’t need help from any imagined communist bourgeoisie, he had a fully-fledged Spanish bourgeoisie — plus the considerable weight of the German and Italian militaries.

Although it is brief, Wainman’s writing from the time is also present in Live Souls. Like the photos, his diaries are insightful. For example his account of the May Days in Barcelona, May 3-8, 1937, is a frank but wry record of the clash between anarchist forces and the Republican government, a civil war within a civil war. A sympathizer of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC), integrated into the Republican coalition, Wainman saw the anarchist revolt as a blow to a government already severely challenged by the fascist military assault on it. But the days of fratricidal fighting had its lighter moments. He pointed out, for instance, that each afternoon both sides observed an unofficial ceasefire so Barcelona residents could shop for dinner.

After his time in Spain, where he served for a year as press officer for the last Republican government, Wainman continued his anti-fascist work in the British military during World War Two. In 1947 he returned to British Columbia, where he had a 30-year academic career at the University of British Columbia. After a long struggle with dementia, he died in 1989.

By mischance, Wainman’s photos languished for 40 years, apparently lost after they were sent in 1975 to London for a publication project that failed. Only later did Wainman’s son, Serge Alternês, embark on a quest to learn their fate. His dedication led to the rediscovery of the photos in a forgotten suitcase of a retired publisher in London.

One disappointment is that for no announced reason, Alternês does not acknowledge himself to be Wainman’s son. So Live Souls contains none of what a reader would suspect to be a fascinating story of a family in which the memory of a seminal moment in a man’s life slowly fades, then is recovered in a physical form.

In addition to the English edition, Ronsdale Press has also published Live Souls in Spanish. It’s an ambitious undertaking for the Vancouver publisher, which has produced a stunning collection of photos on glossy paper in a format that presents the memorable photos at their best.

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Larry Hannant is a history professor and an award-winning book author and website creator. He is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria. He is the author of The Infernal Machine: Investigating the Loyalty of Canada’s Citizens (1995) and the editor of The Politics of Passion: Norman Bethune’s Writing and Art (1998), which won the Robert S. Kenny Prize in Left/Labour Studies in 1999, and Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist (2011). Hannant researched and co-wrote a feature-length documentary film on the Doukhobors, The Spirit Wrestlers, which was broadcast on History Television in 2002. He is the director of “Explosion on the Kettle Valley Line: The Death of Peter Verigin” and “Death of a Diplomat: Herbert Norman and the Cold War,” two sections of the award-winning Great Unsolved Mysteries in Canadian History website. In addition to non-fiction books, he has published magazine and newspaper articles, as well as poetry and short stories.

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OTHER PRESS COVERAGE ON LIVE SOULS, 2015-2016

Press on English and Catalan ‘LIVE SOULS’ as of December, 2016

International Media (Canada, France, USA, UK, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Vatican) (33 articles)

December 2, 2016

Canadian Literary Weekly Magazine and web publication BC BOOKLOOK by Alan Twigg publishing THE ORMSBY REVIEW (A journal of serious non-fiction about British Columbia edited by Richard Mackie) Book Review of LIVE SOULS made by Professor Larry Hannant. http://bcbooklook.com/2016/11/24/ronsdale-wins-two-prizes-at-2016-ippy-awards/

November 27, 2016

Canadian Regional Latin American Cultural Review EL CENCERRO, Author interview by Fabricio Tocco Chiodini http://elcencerro.ca/entrevista-serge-alternes-autor-live-souls/

November 24, 2016

Canadian Literary Weekly Magazine and web publication BC BOOKLOOK by Alan Twigg announcing the IPPY Independent Publisher Awards selected LIVE SOULS for a Bronze Medal for European regional history one of two prizes for the publisher Ronsdale Press.



September 12, 2016

French National daily LE PARISIEN announcing the book presentation of LIVE SOULS: Fotos inèdites de la Guerra Civil at Cervantes Institute Toulouse September 15th and a meeting with Serge Alternês http://toulouse.aujourdhui.fr/etudiant/sortie/presentation-d-un-livre-de-photos-inedites.html

September 12, 2016

French Regional digital cultural daily Ô TOULOUSE (CULTURE 31) announcing the book presentation of LIVE SOULS: Fotos inèdites de la Guerra Civil at Cervantes Institute Toulouse September 15th and a meeting with Serge Alternês

http://otoulouse.net/sources/culture31/presentation-du-livre-live-souls/

September 12, 2016

French Regional digital cultural daily RAMDAM announcing the book presentation of LIVE SOULS: Fotos inèdites de la Guerra Civil at Cervantes Institute Toulouse September 15th and a meeting with Serge Alternês

http://www.ramdam.com/Presentation-d-un-livre-de-photos-inedites-sur-la-Guerre-d-Espagne

September 12, 2016

French Regional digital cultural daily MAPADO announcing the book presentation of LIVE SOULS: Fotos inèdites de la Guerra Civil at Cervantes Institute Toulouse September 15th and a meeting with Serge Alternês

https://www.mapado.com/toulouse/presentation-dun-livre-de-photos-inedites-live-souls

September 11, 2016

French Regional daily LA DEPECHE DU MIDI erroneously announcing a LIVE SOULS Photographic Exhibition at Cervantes Institute Toulouse (later retracted announcing September 15th English and Catalan book presentations of LIVE SOULS) http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2016/09/09/2415293-a-cervantes-un-regard-inedit-sur-la-guerre-d-espagne.html

September 8, 2016

International Portuguese anarchist blog in Portuguese ABORDAXE COMUNICACIÓN ANARQUISTA with an article based on the September 3rd ERNEST ALÓS article in EL PÉRIODICO

https://abordaxe.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/o-curioso-caso-do-miliciano-comunista-alemam-da-guerra-espanhola-adorado-durante-decadas-como-cura-beato-martir/#more-24050

September 8, 2016

International Chilean digital media in Spanish SOCIAL MEDIA CHILE with an article based on the September 3rd ERNEST ALÓS article in EL PÉRIODICO

La foto del mártir beatificado por Juan Pablo II que en realidad era de un miliciano comunista

September 7, 2016

International Argentine digital media in Spanish DIARIOPARANA with an article based on the September 3rd ERNEST ALÓS article in EL PÉRIODICO

http://diarioparana.com/la-foto-del-martir-beatificado-por-juan-pablo-ii-que-en-realidad-era-de-un-miliciano-comunista.html

September 7, 2016

International Chilean digital blog in Spanish SMART with an article based on the September 3rd ERNEST ALÓS article in EL PÉRIODICO

http://blog.smart.cl/la-foto-del-martir-beatificado-por-juan-pablo-ii-que-en-realidad-era-de-un-miliciano-comunista/

September 7, 2016

International Mexican digital media in Spanish MAGMEDIA and GAREY with articles based on the September HIPERTEXTUAL

http://mx.magmedia.club/content/la-foto-del-martir-beatificado-por-juan-pablo-ii-que-en-realidad-era-de-un-miliciano-comunista-6257283/



September 7, 2016

International media blog INFOVATICANA, republishing the September 3rd ERNEST ALÓS article in EL PÉRIODICO



September 3, 2016

International media blog ARCHY WORLD NEWS with an incomplete English translation (done by machine) of the September 3rd ERNEST ALÓS article in EL PERIODICO



Catalan Publication of ‘LIVE SOULS: Fotos Inèdites de la Guerra Civil’ at the Setmana del Llibre Català, Barcelona Sept. 8, 2016

July 15, 2016

North American Cultural Weekly Newspaper and Web publication THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT Author interview by DOUG SARTI on LIVE SOULS and for the 80th Commemoration of the start of the Spanish Civil War http://www.straight.com/arts/737846/vancouver-connections-spanish-civil-war-abound-live-souls

July 15, 2016

National Canadian Syndicated Newspaper and Web publication THE VANCOUVER SUN Author interview by JOHN MACKIE on LIVE SOULS and for the 80th Commemoration of the start of the Spanish Civil War http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/this-week-in-history-1936-the-spanish-civil-war-begins

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/071516+Spanish_Civil_War_2+228717918+Spanish_Civil_War_2/12062203/story.html

http://www.canada.com/news/local+news/this+week+history+1936+spanish+civil+begins/12062200/story.html

http://www.leaderpost.com/touch/news/local+news/this+week+history+1936+spanish+civil+begins/12062200/story.html

http://www.theprovince.com/news/local+news/this+week+history+1936+spanish+civil+begins/12062200/story.html

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/This+Week+History+1936+Spanish+Civil+begins/12062200/story.html

July 15, 2016

North American Cultural Daily Web publication THE TYEE Book Review by PROFESSOR JON BEASLEY-MURRAY of LIVE SOULS: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain, under the title:

“As Europe Roils, New Glimpses of Fighting Fascists 80 Years Ago ‘Live Souls’ links BC to Spanish Civil War with rare photos, vibrant memoir.”

http://thetyee.ca/Culture/2016/07/15/New-Glimpses-of-Fighting-Fascists/

July 8, 2016

Weekly Regional Canadian Weekly Newspaper and web journal THE DELTA OPTIMIST http://www.delta-optimist.com/book-preserves-memories-1.2297399

June 30, 2016

Canadian ROUNDHOUSE RADIO Interview by Minelle Mahtani with Serge Alternês about his book LIVE SOULS and for the 80th Commemoration of the start of the Spanish Civil War http://cirh.streamon.fm/listen-pl-3600

June 16, 2016

Canadian Literary Weekly Magazine and web publication BC BOOKLOOK by Alan Twigg announcing the IPPY Independent Publisher Awards selected LIVE SOULS for a Bronze Medal for European regional history, the 80th commemoration of the start of the Spanish Civil War, and upcoming Catalan version of LIVE SOULS http://bcbooklook.com/2016/06/13/spanish-civil-war-80-year-commemoration/

April 2016 IBMT International Brigade Memorial Trust Newsletter, London UK, Issue 42 / 2-2016, Page 19, LIVE SOULS Book Review by SONIA BOUÉ http://www.international-brigades.org.uk/sites/default/files/IBMT2-16Web.pdf

March 16, 2016

American monthly newsletter THE VOLUNTEER founded by the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade by JON BEASLEY-MURRAY http://www.albavolunteer.org/2016/03/book-review-live-souls/ https://posthegemony.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/live-souls-review-republished/

March 9, 2016

Canadian Literary Weekly Magazine and web publication BC BOOKLOOK by Alan Twigg announcing the Entry #175 for Alec Wainman on the Literary Map of British Columbia LOCATION: Wainman Cove, west side of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada, and a Book Review of LIVE SOULS http://bcbooklook.com/2016/03/09/176-alec-wainman/

January 16, 2016 Video Interview

LIVE SOULS, Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain, Una conversación con Serge Alternês, GRADO CERO, Mexico,

Made during the FIL Guadalajara International Book Fair in December 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayCb9Glo5DI

November 2, 2016

Canadian Literary Weekly Magazine and web publication BC BOOKLOOK by Alan Twigg

Book Review of LIVE SOULS http://bcbooklook.com/2015/11/02/the-english-suitcase/

Original English Publication of ‘LIVE SOULS: Citizens and Volunteers of Civil War Spain’, Vancouver BC, Canada, Nov. 2015

Spanish Press Media / Articles (54 articles in 12 weeks)

December 2, 2016 onwards Article by ERNEST ALÒS in National EL CONFIDENTIAL on selected 103 books of the year for Christmas 2016. LIVE SOULS appears prominently in second History books section, which is reproduced in many regional media.

– EL CONFIDENTIAL (national daily): http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/libros-recomendados-5629841

-Spanish regional daily Diario Córdoba on December 4th

http://www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/cultura/130-libros-recomendados-por-generos-navidad-2016_1103438.html

-Spanish regional daily Diario de Léon on December 2nd

http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/cultura/130-libros-recomendados-por-generos-navidad-2016_1119503.html

-Spanish regional daily El Periódico Extremadura on December 2nd

http://www.elperiodicoextremadura.com/noticias/cultura/130-libros-recomendados-por-generos-navidad-2016_981746.html

-Spanish regional daily El Correo de Burgos on December 2nd

http://www.elcorreodeburgos.com/noticias/cultura/130-libros-recomendados-por-generos-navidad-2016_141155.html

-Spanish regional daily El Diario de Soria on December 2nd

http://www.diariodesoria.es/noticias/cultura/130-libros-recomendados-por-generos-navidad-2016_77407.html

December 2, 2016

National blog of the Museum Museu Memorial de l’Exili – MUME announcing a presentation at the Memorial Democratic de Catalunya of LIVE SOULS on December 15, in the presence of its Director, Plácid Garcia-Planas and the Publisher, Comanegra, Joan Sala https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=233200563775473&id=100012565929973

October, 2016 National monthly History & Cultural Magazine L’AVENÇ, October 2016 Issue, Book Review Showcase, Page 70 (See attached article and translation)

October 3, 2016

Traditional Spanish weekly TRADICIONVIVA.ES by VALENTINA ORTE:



September 2016

The Spanish history blog NOVÉLAME BIOGRAFÍAS NOVELADES:



September 2016

The Spanish history blog ALETEIA.ORG by the Franciscan Brothers:

http://aleteianoticias.blogspot.co.at/2016/09/martir-de-la-guerra-civil-o-miliciano.html

September 21, 2016

Digital Version of articles in the Catalan Daily ARA by SÍLVIA MARIMON based on an author interview on September 13, 2016, which was republished in their 5 regional dailies: http://www.ara.cat/cultura/inedites-Guerra-Civil-pacifista-angles_0_1654634555.html

September 14, 2016 ERNEST ALÓS’ EL PERIODICO National list of 90 recommended autumn 2016 books, highlighting LIVE SOULS in Non-Fiction http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/libros-novedades-otono-5344809

September 10, 2016 onwards Press articles published based on the interview of September 9th author interview with JOSE OLIVA of the EFE PRESS AGENCY (fourth largest in the world), which is reproduced in many media.

– EFE PRESS AGENCY: http://www.efe.com/efe/espana/cultura/publican-210-fotos-ineditas-de-la-guerra-hechas-por-un-conductor-ambulancia/10005-3036301

– La Vanguardia (a leading Spanish national daily):

http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20160910/41219339067/publican-210-fotos-ineditas-de-la-guerra-hechas-por-conductor-de-ambulancia.html

– Eldiario.es (Spanish national daily):

http://www.eldiario.es/cultura/Publican-ineditas-Guerra-conductor-ambulancia_0_557494383.html

– Eldia.es (Spanish national audiovisual media group, digital media):

http://eldia.es/cultura/2016-09-10/5-Publican-fotos-ineditas-Guerra-hechas-conductor-ambulancia.htm

– Teinternesa.es (Spanish national digital media):

http://www.teinteresa.es/cultura/bellas-artes/Publican-ineditas-Guerra-conductor-ambulancia_0_1648035254.html

– El Confidencial (Spanish national daily):

http://www.elconfidencial.com/ultima-hora-en-vivo/2016-09-10/publican-210-fotos-ineditas-de-la-guerra-hechas-por-conductor-de-ambulancia_1010108/

– Diari de Girona (regional daily):

http://www.diaridegirona.cat/cultura/2016/09/12/llibre-recull-210-fotos-guerra/803693.html

– Regió 7 (regional daily):

http://www.regio7.cat/gent/2016/09/11/publiquen-210-fotos-inedites-guerra/378406.html

– Diario de Navarra (regional daily): http://www.diariodenavarra.es/noticias/cultura_ocio/cultura/2016/09/10/publican_210_fotos_ineditas_guerra_civil_hechas_por_conductor_ambulancia_484222_1034.html

– El Diario de Léon (regional daily):

http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/cultura/imagenes-guerra-ambulancia_1098108.html

– El Socialista Digital (Spanish National Political Digital Media):

http://www.elsocialistadigital.es/sociedad/item/12066-publican-210-fotos-ineditas-de-la-guerra-hechas-por-conductor-de-ambulancia.html

– El Economista (Spanish national Economic daily):

http://www.eleconomista.es/espana/noticias/7816612/09/16/Publican-210-fotos-ineditas-de-la-Guerra-hechas-por-conductor-de-ambulancia.html

– El EcoDiario.es (Spanish national Economic daily):

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/espana/noticias/7816612/09/16/Publican-210-fotos-ineditas-de-la-Guerra-hechas-por-conductor-de-ambulancia.html

– elmercuriodigital.es (Spanish national digital media daily):

http://www.elmercuriodigital.net/2016/09/publican-210-fotografias-ineditas-de-la.html

And many more … Thanks to EFE’s articles appear in almost every newspaper in Spain, so it is the same item in many different newspapers. This is an excellent way of media coverage in Spain and in the Hispanic world.

September 8, 2016

Spanish digital media HIPERTEXTUAL.COM by César Noragueda

https://hipertextual.com/2016/09/hans-gutmann-juan-guzman-sacerdote-miliciano

-Spanish mobile phone news digital media 3G Móvil Actualidad Moviles:



September 7, 2016

Regional Bisbal de Falset Digital Media això-va-passar.eu http://www.això-va-passar.eu/news/live-souls-otra-mirada-a-nuestra-guerra/

September 7, 2016

La Setmana recorda la Guerra Civil

-Catalan digital daily about culture NÛVOL

http://www.nuvol.com/noticies/la-setmana-recorda-la-guerra-civil/

September 6, 2016

Spanish digital media ALETEIA.ORG

¿Mártir de la guerra civil o miliciano comunista?

September 6, 2016

Catalan Press Agency CATzona



September 6, 2016

Spanish Press Agency EL CONFIDENCIAL

http://www.elconfidencial.com/ultima-hora-en-vivo/2016-09-10/sabado-10-de-septiembre-de-2016-07-00-gmt_1010051/

September 6, 2016

Spanish Press Agency ELDIA.ES

http://eldia.es/agencias/8855812-EFE-NACIONAL-PREVISIONES-AVANCE-Sabado-septiembre

September 5, 2016

Spanish national daily EL RAZÓN by Víctor Fernández http://www.larazon.es/local/cataluna/una-mirada-inedita-sobre-la-guerra-civil-MD13454989#.Ttt1DYu4OHopFMB

September 4, 2016

Spanish national daily EL NACIONAL.CAT by Gustau Nerín http://www.elnacional.cat/es/cultura-ideas-artes/alec-wainman-live-souls_108586_102.html# http://www.elnacional.cat/ca/cultura-idees-arts/live-souls-alec-wainman_108586_102.html

September 4, 2016

Spanish Blog LIMPIA POR DENTRO by Santiago Mata:



September 3, 2016 onwards

Press articles published based on the initial article by ERNEST ALÒS in EL CONFIDENTIAL which was followed up by an author interview of September 9th, which is reproduced in many media.

– EL CONFIDENTIAL (national daily): http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/fotografias-ineditas-guerra-civil-alec-wainman-5352127 http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/fotografia-sacerdote-guerra-civil-wainman-guzman-5352007

-Verdecoloresperanza Spanish digital blog on September 12th

https://verdecoloresperanza.blogspot.co.at/2016/09/ni-cura-ni-martir-de-la-guerra-civil.html

– Le Que Se Oculta digital media daily:

http://www.loqueseoculta.informe25.com/2016/09/espana-ni-cura-ni-martir-de-la-guerra.html

-Spanish Blog Religión en Libertad on September 7th

http://www.religionenlibertad.com/famosa-foto-cura-miliciano-51793.htm

-Spanish Blog Foro Amistad Corazon Amarillo on September 6th

http://foroamistadcorazon.gratisforos.es/t1928-ni-cura-ni-martir-de-la-guerra-civil-era-un-miliciano-comunista

-Spanish digital daily h2opositivo.com on September 6th



-Spanish Movimiento Político de Resistencia Blog:

https://movimientopoliticoderesistencia.blogspot.co.at/2016/09/el-unico-comunista-que-subio-los.html

-Spanish Blog Foro por la Memoria on September 5th



-Spanish regional daily Diario Córdoba on September 3rd

http://www.diariocordoba.com/noticias/cultura/no-era-martir-era-miliciano_1074663.html

September 3, 2016

La Setmana del Llibre en Català: la fiesta de la palabra escrita, Libros para la ‘rentrée de Pere Guixà

– LA VANGUARDIA (a leading Spanish national daily):

http://www.lavanguardia.com/cultura/20160902/4170329254/setmana-llibre-catala-refugiados-guerra.html

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