The best books to give in Christmas 2017 and Three Kings Day 2018. For Christmas 2017 and Three Kings (Epiphany) Day of 2018 we cannot think of a better gift than a book. With the end of the year come the recapitulations and the looks back. On this occasion, we review some titles to which we predict a long life in bookstores, shelves and in our memory.
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Salvador Peña Martín and Malika Embarek have been awarded this Thursday with the National Translation Awards 2017. Peña Martín has been recognized for the Best Translation of 2017, for the work Thousand and One Nights, while Embarek has received it for the Work of a Translator, who values all her career.
The poet and playwright Federico García Lorca is, after Cervantes, the most commanding figure in Spain’s literature. He died young, executed at 38 by nationalist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
Beginning February 1, 2018, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (PRHGE) will be distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Random House (PRH), through its Westminster, Maryland facility. As a result, the company will leave Perseus Distribution / Two Rivers Distribution ........
The books are coming. And the readers and writers will follow, as they do by the hundreds of thousands every year for the Miami Book Fair International, an eight-day literary party in November. The Fair, will open Sunday November 13 with the popular Evenings With… series, featuring six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS), present the free weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US market for week 43 of 2017 (week ending 10/29/2017)
Also winning an award is “El viaje” (The journey) by Italian author Francesca Sanna, for best translated work. The awards have been given by nearly one hundred bookstores that belong to the Kirico Club of the Spanish Confederation of Booksellers (Cegal), a project aimed at encouraging reading among children and young adults.
Author, María Dueñas, accompained by hispanist James D. Fernández will discuss her latest novel: The Vineyard. The work touches on glories and mishaps, silver mine, family secrets, vineyards, wineries and a quaint town whose gory days have passed away.
Madrid, October 27 (EFE) .- Patricia Esteban Erlés from Zaragoza has won the IV Dos Passos Prize to the first novel with her work "Las madres negras", an award worth 12,000 euros. A total of 630 originals from Spain and Latin America have been submitted to this fourth edition of the award......
