Carlos Fuentes, Mexico s Universal Man of Letters, Dies at 83
2012-05-16T08:43:43Z

When a few years ago, Mario Vargas Llosa challenged a group of fellow authors each to choose a Latin American dictator to write about ... a universal man who knew many literatures in many languages, and lived his life committed to the great ...

Carlos Fuentes, dead at 83
2012-05-15T20:33:34Z

The son of a diplomat, Fuentes moved around a lot as a child, shuttling between different languages and locations ... Terra Nostra in 1975 a broad-stroke work on Spanish and Latin American history his popularity surged and the Mexican ...

A Conversation With Author Carlos Fuentes
2012-05-18T22:03:04Z

He told her that even though he was fluent in English, French, and Italian, he could only write fiction in his mother ... I felt it was simply a natural thing to do in my case in Latin America, and that I was doing it not so much as a writer ...

As Zuckerberg is lauded, these 28-year-olds deserve more accolades
2012-05-24T06:39:42Z

He s one of the youngest billionaires in the world. Yes, he is a genius, a computer prodigy. He can read and write French, Hebrew, Latin and ancient Greek. Facebook was a simple, and brilliant, idea. It has evolved into a kind of scary ...

Writing ability declines but still crucial for success
2012-05-18T20:30:01Z

Jenni Garrison, director of communications for Gunster, said lawyers who may be able to write legal ... the decline of Latin, which wasn't so much declining as being transformed into French, Spanish, Italian and other Romance languages.

Google Translate for Android v2.4 update brings new UI and more text to speech languages
2012-05-31T08:18:46Z

The app lets you translate text between more than 64 languages ... non-Latin script languages in Latin characters to read it phonetically and Star your favorite translations for offline access. You can use the handwriting button at the bottom to write ...

Presidents and Nobel winners honour Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes
2012-05-17T16:13:30Z

I felt that it was crying out to me: Write about me! Why is no one writing about me ... saying that he had learned from him that Latin American literature is the opposite of local literature, and that the Latin American writer opens himself ...

Fascination for Latin and literature inspire salutatorian
2012-05-24T15:58:02Z

She became an exceptional student in classics and mastered Latin ... read texts in other languages. An education with a strong humanities component is very important," Butterworth said. For her senior thesis, Butterworth chose to write on the Roman ...