標題: José Soto Chica and Anders Rydell win the 13th Hislibris Awards [打印本頁] 作者: karimamarika654 時間: 2024-3-9 11:52 標題: José Soto Chica and Anders Rydell win the 13th Hislibris Awards The greatest expert on Late Antiquity that we have in Spain and the author of Book Thieves. The Nazi looting of European libraries and the fight to recover the literary heritage won awards during the XI Hislibris Historical Literature Meetings, the popular and prestigious community of specialized readers. November 2, 2023 Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on WhatsApp Share on Pinterest Share on Email hislibris awards From left to right: Fernando Quesada Sanz, professor of Archeology at the Autonomous University of Madrid and XIII honorary Hislibris Awards; José Soto Chica, historian and novelist, award for best Spanish author; and Alberto Pérez, editor of Desperta Ferro Ediciones, who collected the award for best non-fiction work on behalf of Anders Rydell. Soto Chica, award for best Spanish author José Soto Chica won the award for his novel Bajo el fuego y la sal (Edhasa). He has a doctorate in Medieval History from the University of Granada, a contract professor and researcher at the Center for Byzantine Studies of Granada.
He is the author of more than fifty articles and book chapters in specialized works and has published six history books, among which Empires and Barbarians stand out. War in the Dark Ages , The Visigoths. Children of a Furious God and The Eagle and the Ravens. The fall of the Roman Empire . Soto Chica has just published Leovigildo. King of the BTC Users Number Data Hispanics , a monumental biography of the warlord turned statesman, capable of unifying a land mired in violence and chaos but unable to govern his family. The great specialist in Late Antiquity shows us a time, the 6th century, crossed by conspiracies, betrayals and murders. A kind of Visigothic game of thrones. Book Thieves, award for best non-fiction work During the event, Alberto Pérez, editor of Desperta Ferro Ediciones, collected the award for best non-fiction work on behalf of the Swede Anders Rydell for his Book Thieves. The Nazi looting of European libraries and the fight to recover the literary heritage .
The shelves of Jews, communists, liberal politicians, LGBT rights activists, Catholics, Freemasons and anyone on the long list of enemies of the regime were plundered and the works they contained were wielded as intellectual weapons against their owners. A systematic looting of public and private libraries and bookstores that, throughout occupied Europe, was carried out by German troops in ruthless competition between the different organizations of the Reich, and that is finally documented thanks to the detailed investigation by Anders Rydell, who has already won the Foundation Bengt Janson's Memorial Fund Prize Sweden and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize in non-fiction. Anders Rydell is a renowned Swedish journalist, editor and non-fiction author. Former head of culture at a major Swedish media group, he has published several books in his career as an author, including Book Thieves , which along with the acclaimed The Looters examines cultural plunder during the Second World War.
