Mauricio Ruiz is a writer and journalist who has lived in the US, Belgium, Mexico and Norway. His work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Catapult, The Common, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, JMWW, River Teeth, Literal Magazine, among others. He's been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and Myriad Editions Competition in the UK, as well as the Fish Short Story Prize in Ireland. He has received fellowships from OMI writers (NY), Société des auteurs (Belgium), Jakob Sande (Norway), Can Serrat (Spain), and the Three Seas' Council (Rhodes). His second book, Silencios al sur, was published in early 2017, and his work has partially been translated into Dutch and French. Mauricio Ruiz can be followed on Twitter and Instagram.
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Norway and Germany announced a plan to build a wide-reaching hydrogen pipeline between the two countries by 2030. Initially, the corridor will transport blue hydrogen produced […]
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The Zimbabwean novelist, playwright, filmmaker and activist Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) has been named as the eighth writer to contribute to the Future Library. […]
The Norwegian government created a new law that forces influencers to disclose whether they retouch the photos posted on their social networks. The idea is that, […]
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) has launched the first of six ships within its highly anticipated next class of vessels, Prima Class, the Brand’s first new class of ships […]
Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta has revealed plans to renew the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo. The new museum will be in line with Thor Heyerdahl’s adventurous spirit […]
Since September 2019, polar explorers Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby have been living in a small trapper’s cabin on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, […]
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Norwegian Air has made the decision to discontinue its long-haul flights because of the severe impact the pandemic has had on commercial air travel. Since the […]
Back in 2014, the Oslo design company Neue won the competition to redesign the Norwegian passports in a stylish and modern way. Now, after six years of development, […]