CULTURE & TRADITION

Love & Literature — Catalonia’s Unique Take on World Book Day

A rose by any other name…

Sant Jordi book stalls in Mataró, Catalonia (Photo by 1997, CC BY-SA 3.0)

World Book Day on the 23rd of April unites Spain and England in a bizarre coincidence: their greatest national literary heroes, Shakespeare and Cervantes, both died on the same day in 1616.