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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Dutch airport Schiphol is trialling the use of airside self-driving buses in tests due to continue to the end of April. More sustainable ground operation The […]
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Yacht supplier Sialia Yachts and Dutch naval architecture studio Vripack have joined forces to create what is considered to be Sialia Yachts’ most advanced model, the […]
The Netherland is planning on opening a National Slavery Museum in 2030, to “tell the whole story” of its colonial past and its repercussions. The plan […]
After going back and forth for over a year with its “Experimental Regulation” of limiting the number of flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, the Dutch government […]
Snow, icy runways and frozen planes have led to over one hundred delays and dozens of cancellations at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport. “We expect a disrupted flight […]
Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport served 61.7 million air passengers across more than 441,000 flights, an increase of 18% over 2022, according to preliminary figures released by the […]
The Netherlands, like every country in the world, has its own Christmas traditions. Some are similar if not identical to those of other countries. Some are […]
Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) has marked its millionth reserved security time slot with a special giveaway to a surprised passenger. Having launched free reserved security slots […]
On 28 October, the city of Amsterdam started using a new software to netter anonymise people on street scenes even better. While people’s faces were already […]
After more than a year of legal battles between the Dutch government and airlines over the plan of capping daily flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, infrastructure […]
A Dutch tourist campaign has proven successful – in keeping tourists away. The “stay away” message was launched by Amsterdam earlier this year and targeted at […]