Anna Lauwaert is a Belgian writer, painter, political activist, interested in the history of religions and living in Ticino, the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. Her original profession is physiotherapist. She has lived in Africa (the former Belgian Congo, now Zaire), in India and Pakistan. She writes books, essays, short stories, in French and Italian, even in English, but mostly in Italian these days, though she is more multilingual than that. She is a lively, well-read, open-minded, individualist and kind woman, much liked by her friends and all those that have the luck to meet her ~ if they are not idiots. As you may know, there are a lot of these around... Which triggers a lot of her writings as a journalist. More about her on her own website.


Her unique talent and the independence of her mind, based on a very solid education, makes for the most unusual literature. You must discover her writings. I offer you an opportunity today. I am very pleased that Anna agreed to have her latest short story published online by me. As it is in Italian, I have decided not to publish it on this site here, but on my Luxemburgish website, my home country being a place where Italian is widely understood (Italians have formed the largest part of our immigrant population in former times, only more recently exceeded by the Portuguese, and through the European institutions and other international settlements there are another lot of Italian speaking people there), and generally Luxemburgers are as familiar with Romance languages as with Germanic ones, after all Luxemburgish is a language sitting on the fence between the two groups. And Anna being Belgian, she is sort of a cousin of us. I think this story will ring a bell there. Now then:

And to stay with Italian culture, Italian born New Zealand sculptor Oronzo Renna has added today his latest works to his online exhibition in my Fine Arts section.