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Evelio Rosero
The Columbian writer Evelio Rosero has just won the prestigious Independent Prize for Foreign Fiction. He talks to Harriett Gilbert about his novel The Armies - a moving and unflinching portrayal of his country in conflict.

Cannes
The first few festival films have been unspooling at the Cannes Film Festival in France. One of the many anticipated films screening out of competition is "No One Knows About the Persian Cats" co-written by recently freed American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi. We hear about that and "Bright Star" the new release from Jane Campion who won at Cannes 16 years ago for "The Piano".

Bollywood in Madrid
The dance company Bailamos Bollywoood, is making a name for itself in Madrid, with a new production entitled "India, a Musical Journey".
The heroine of the piece is half Indian, half Spanish and she goes on a journey to discover her roots, which takes the audience through seven regions of India, explaining the different Indian cultures through movement and music.
The Strand's Ashish Sharma reports from Madrid.......
http://www.bailamosbollywood.net/

John Boyne
He wrote 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' in just a few days and it became a best-seller across the world, and a Hollywood Film. Now John Boyne has written a new fictionalised account of the end of the Romanovs in revolutionary Russia. Did the last Tsar's daughter Anastasia survive bloody assasination and if so where did she live out the rest of her life?
The House of Special Purpose is John Boyne's answer.