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‘Libros a la calle’ turns 20

The Madrid Association of Editors (Asociación de Editores de Madrid, AEM), with the sponsorship of the Community of Madrid, the Consortium of Transportation, and CEDRO, have recently pushed forward the twentieth edition of ‘Libros a la calle’ (‘Books to the Street’), .....

The publishing house EDAF will issue in October the complete works of Miguel Hernández.

The publishing house EDAF will issue in October the complete works of the poet Miguel Hernández, a collection that has been revised and expanded with over 3,000 modifications and about thirty previously unpublished texts,.....

Spanish only foreign language choice in SL schools, but ... lo están haciendo bien

A national report claims that Iowa is lagging behind much of the U.S. in foreign language instruction for K-12 students, but local school leaders say they are simply concentrating on multiple levels of Spanish teaching.

These are the must-read history books reccomended by ABC Cultural

Professionals of ABC Cultural and its collaborators have made a list of history books in alphabetical order (from Z to A) to enjoy this summer. See here the complete list of reccomended titles by the critics.

20 Minutes Recommends twelve books for this summer reading

See here the full list of novels reccomended by 20 Minutes: historical, romantic, black novels. and more. Titles like "The Rites of Water" by Eva García Sáenz de Urturi or "I am not a monster" by Carme Chaparro awarded with the Premio Primavera de Novela 2017.

Santa Clara County library district offering eBooks in Spanish

The district has hundreds of titles in its virtual library that cardholders can access via Odilo, an eBook distribution service. Odilo is based in Spain and distributes more than 100,000 titles of digital literature to libraries in a variety of languages, primarily Spanish.

Spanish artist Gabriel H. Walta wins an “Oscar of comics” for ‘The Vision.

Once more the Marvel universe exudes Spanish ink. Gabriel H. Walta, one of the latest Spanish comics artists to cross over to the American publishing world, has already won his first Will Eisner Comic Industry Award

The culture Trip Presents 7 Books to Read Before a Trip to Valencia, Spain

Valencia has a proud literary tradition, as you might guess from the huge number of bookshops in the city. As well as being the home of numerous prolific Spanish writers and poets over the centuries, ........
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Roberto Bolaño’s letters in the BNE

The BNE acquires manuscripts pieces by Roberto Bolaño. The National Library of Spain has acquired an important epistolary consisting of 44 original letters, 18 postcards and 3 handwritten autograph pieces by Roberto Bolaño.

The golden century of Spanish comics

The creative explosion of the graphic novel conquers spaces previously closed to the comic. Mallorcan bookseller Leonardo Sainz’s daughter collects comics of Tintin. When the bookseller edited a magazine, We are the dead, his daughter Ana succumbed to an aesthetic that she did not understand: the underground.

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