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Rendición / Surrender 2017 Alfaguara Novel Prize Winner

The Alfaguara Novel Prize has celebrated its 20th edition, and is renowned as a model for literary prizes awarded to a previously unpublished work written in Spanish.The jury has recognized “a Kafkaesque, Orwellian storyabout authority and collective manipulation, a parable of our societies that are exposed to the sight and judgment of all.

Dual immersion kids put on show

Joyful shouts and chatter in English and Spanish filled the halls of Jackson Hole High School last week for an annual celebration of the dual immersion program.Dual immersion — meaning equal numbers of native Spanish speakers and English speakers share a classroom and....

Juan Goytisolo left Carmen Balcells a manuscript to be published after his death

Sources at the literary agency confirm that the content of the manuscript is unknown and that they shall wait for “the reading the will and testament” before making any decisions. Juan Goytisolo will keep on publishing after death.

Write with Rosa Montero, a love song to the writer’s notebook

The writer presents her latest creation: a kind of writing manual illustrated by the artist Paula Bonet. Rosa Montero’s latest is not a book, although it is published by a publishing house. It’s a “space for writing,” or more concretely and less pompously, a notebook.

Let's Talk about "El color del silencio" a novel by Elia Barceló (Roca Editorial)

A famous painter who distanced herself from her family decides later on in life to investigate the death of her sister, which took place forty years ago.

Get to know this week's List for the week 22 ending on June 4th, 2017

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 22 of 2017 (week ending 6/4/2017).

Juan Goytisolo dies, the dissident writer

Juan Goytisolo has been one of most contemporary writers with a traditional narrative writing style, one of the most critical and a great dialogist between the European and Islamic cultures.  He was brother to poet José Agustín Goytisolo (1928-1999) and to writer and professor Luís Goytisolo (1935).

CEGAL presents LIBRIRED at the Madrid Book Fair

Under the title "LIBRIRED, the tool of analysis and knowledge of the book market in Spain", the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL), organizes on Thursday June 8 a presentation of LIBRIRED.

The great Spanish language trade shows gather in the Retiro, Madrid.

More than just the sale of books, our objective is to create readers that will develop into a population of critical thinkers to help with the maturity and development of our country,” remarked Carlos Alvariño Ordoñez, Director of the Book Fair in Peru, in a convention organized by Acción Cultural Española (Spanish Cultural Action).

"Borges Esencial" published by , the 23 academies of the Spanish language

To observe the 30th anniversary of the death of Argentine author, Jorge Luís Borges, the 23 academies of the Spanish language have published a commemorative edition of his work which is already in circulation in Spain and will be available shortly in Latin America.

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