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.
Nightjet, a train operated by Austrian railway company ÖBB, relaunched the connections from Berlin to Paris and Brussels on 11 December, almost one decade after the […]
Quite rightly, the focus in the mainstream media has been on the apparently successful moves to remove commitments to stop burning oil and gas. That this […]
The holiday season is upon us. Soon, we’ll be celebrating the most wonderful time of the year with family, friends, maybe even colleagues. Christmas tables are […]
As the current environmental permit for Brussels Airport expires in July 2024, the Belgian airport has put in an application for a new, permanent permit in […]
Having a child makes you want to protect it from everything and everyone. Most parents therefore tend to never loose sight of their children, especially when […]
Belgium’s national railway company (known as NMBS or SNCB depending on which part of the country you’re from) was paid millions for its services to Nazi […]
About sixty kilometers from Mecca, the holiest city in the Muslim world, lies Jeddah, a city bustling with life and high-rise buildings. Its old town, Al-Balad, […]
Usually, rooftop bars are something we prefer to keep for endless, hot summer nights. They’re the perfect way to escape from the hustle and bustle in […]
Just days after France’s Health and Prevention Minister Aurélien Rousseau announced a ban on smoking on all beaches, public parks, forests and areas surrounding schools, the […]
Ryanair’s legal battle royale with its Belgian-based pilots has ended with the Irish so-called budget carrier having “to align itself with the Belgian social dialogue model”, […]