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.
After the gigantic fire that ravaged two years ago the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris and moved the whole world, the reconstruction work might be […]
The oldest geographical representation of a territory in Europe has just been identified in France. Engraved on a stone slab, this map is dated to the […]
The Louvre has put its entire art collection, which includes more than 480,000 works of art, available online for anyone to look through at any time […]
In April 2019 the famous Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, France, went up in flames. The iconic building suffered extensive damage, with the wooden spire collapsing […]
Airbus has launched an “Advanced Superconducting and Cryogenic Experimental powertraiN Demonstrator” (ASCEND) to explore the impact of superconducting materials and cryogenic temperatures on the performance of […]
I was lucky enough to spend half of my Erasmus year in the town of Aix-en-Provence in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d’Azur region of idyllic southern France. As you’d […]
A unique museum has just opened in Cannes. Six sculptures by artist Jason deCaires Taylor make up France’s first underwater eco-museum in the Mediterranean. Submerged between […]
France has announced the easing of travel restrictions for the following seven non-EU countries; Australia, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. […]
On the south-eastern edge of Paris next to the 1950s Olympiad towers is La Petite Fabrique (the Little Factory), an experimental and innovative eco-build. With the construction […]
Lyon has long been a popular tourist destination; a vibrant city with beautiful streets and elegant French squares, bustling restaurants with delicious food and drink and […]
Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, has given the go-ahead for a €250m makeover scheme to transform the French capital’s most famous avenue, the Champs Elysées, into […]
Overseas destinations are closing to tourism because of the pandemic. Traveling to Martinique will be prohibited from 2 February 2021 except for reasons deemed ‘imperative’ such […]