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The cookbook becomes an orphan

Simone Ortega, the author who popularised culinary writing in Spain, has passed away at 89 years of age. She sold three and a half million copies of her book, 1080 Kitchen Recipes.

What Granada did for poetry in the summer of 1924

Juan Ramón Jiménez’s visit with the García Lorca family made a difference in the life and work of two of the most important Spanish writers of the 20th century, and a new book reconstructs that meeting.

Sonoma County libraries expand Spanish-language book collection

Sonoma County’s Spanish-language book collection is growing larger thanks to a new Español e-reading room program launched at regional libraries, and addition of books collected at the Feria Internacional del Libro in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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This Week Bestsellers Books in Spanish - Amazon

Amazon bookstore. These are the Amazon top ten titles. The list is updated hourly

This Week Bestsellers Books in Spanish - Barnes & Noble

Get to know the best selling books in Spanish through the Barnes & Noble bookstore.

Inés Garlard, Paloma González Rubio, and David Álvarez, winners of the Edelvives Literary Awards

Editorial house Edelvives awarded prizes to authors Garlard and González Rubio for their respective works Lilo and João, and gave the International Illustration Prize to Mexican illustrator Álvarez.

Hispanic American writers sign a letter “against literary sexism”

The appeal, in which authors, translators, editors, journalists, and literary agents are participating, arises from a response to the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize awards in Guadalajara, Mexico.

An initiative by Santillana is awarded with a digital innovation prize

The award-winning platform allows students to work with videos, documents, images, and interactive lessons or exercises. The Santillana Projects platform, which Neoris has developed for Santillana, has received a prize at the Hoy Communications Awards.

Interview with editor and writer Miguel Ángel de Rus: “We want to offer readers books that can change their lives”

As the next Valladolid Book Festival approaches, beginning May 31, we interview editor and writer Miguel Ángel de Rus, head of M.A.R. Editor. He currently hosts and directs the Sixth Continent programme on Spanish National Radio.

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