After 15 years, Keith Michael Fiels steps down from the Association. He sat down with American Libraries Editor and Publisher Laurie Borman on July 27 to talk about his future plans, how he got into librarianship, and how he would like to be remembered.
July's issue (2017) is now available with exciting news about America Reads Spanish!
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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 29 of 2017 (week ending 7/23/2017).
A first-of-its-kind national survey sought to examine the state of foreign language education in primary and secondary schools, but found a striking "lack of knowledge about foreign language teaching and learning."
On July 12, 2017, the jury of the Cervantes Chico Award 2017 met and agreed to give its XXI edition prize to Gonzalo Moure "for the extraordinary literary quality of the whole of his work and for his broad and brilliant professional career" as well as "his varied creative capacity in the theme of his writings and his important work to promote reading, which makes possible a strong connection and closeness with younger readers.
“An unquestionably important cluster of the book sector (49.5% of Spain’s publishing turnover, 85% of which in the Catalan capital), Barcelona has never been able to consolidate a professional marketplace for international rights trading.
Legislation sponsored by Senator Patrick J. Diegnan Jr. to establish a grant program for school districts and charter schools to develop dual language immersion programs was approved by the State Senate during a recent legislative session.
Coming in September, the Spanish iteration of the Hay Festival at Segovia will feature internationally recognized authors and a focus on current events.
Let’s learn Spanish with Don Quixote. Didactic and cultural, eminently practical and original, this book allows us to work on the Spanish language and to discover/learn about the universal works of Cervantes. In full color. “In a village of La Mancha…” In this way, Cervantes greets us.
Focusing on debut Latin American talent, Victor Hurtado’s agency’s rights sales are moving new voices from the Spanish-language markets into the world arena ahead of Frankfurt Book Fair.
