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Cervantes in Miami - Centro Cultural Español

The Spanish Cultural Center in Miami (CCEMiami) on the occasion of the international day of the book presents "Cervantes in Miami" on April 22 and 23, 2017. Including an action workshop, awards ceremony in collaboration with Miami Dade County Public Schools, Literary gathering and music concert; among others.

Students put Spanish skills — and diplomacy — to the test at Model United Nations

Organizers of the Minnesota event say it is the only one of its kind in the country. Even if the students spoke Spanish at home, the conference gave them a chance to use their language in a new setting.

Number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions in U.S. increases, reflects growing student enrollment

The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and Excelencia in Education (Excelencia) have announced the 2015-16 academic year saw continued and concentrated growth in the number of Latinos attending college. As a result, there is an increase in the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the United States.

Roberto Aliaga, Fátima Embark Ali and María Mercedes Murillo García, winners of the SM 2017 Awards

How to Fix a Wet Book by Roberto Aliaga Sánchez (Ciudad Real, 1976), and Always Will Be December, by Fatima Embark Ali (Gran Canaria, 1985) and María Mercedes Murillo García (Barcelona, 1989), are works awarded in the 39th Edition of the SM Awards The Steam Boat and Wide Angle, convened annually by the SM Foundation.

Editorial Lumen Presents "Colección Particular" (A particular collection) by Juan Marsé

“His closest friends–among them, Carlos Barral and Jaime Gil de Biedma–and anyone who has ever shared dinner or drinks with the author, knows that Juan Marsé (Barcelona, 1933) is a great storyteller, broken in perhaps by his childhood postwar years as .....

ARCE News Bulletin, April 2017

The Association of Publishers of Cultural Magazines of Spain (ARCE) was established in 1983 through the initiative of the editors of cultural magazines themselves, in order to band the necessary resources and instruments for the promotion of these cultural projects and in view of the need to define common actions for the publishers and the public to which these publications are directed.

Amazon publishes a list detailing the best-selling ebooks of the last five years

Juan Gómez Jurado was the best-selling author for this lustrum, while La última cripta (The Last Crypt) by Fernando Gamboa was the book with the most sales, although it did not top the best-selling list in any of those years. Kindle, a division of Amazon, has just celebrated its fifth-year anniversary of operations in Spain, .......

Instituto Cervantes Upcoming Events

"Los Garbo contra Hitler" - El Estornudo de la Mariposa, with José Cora & Agustín de Gracia. Free Admission, April 18th. at 7 pm. Library Jorge Luis Borges, the most outstanding collections of the library are in the areas of Spanish as foreign language.

Rueben Martinez, winner of the Innovator's Award at the L.A. Times Book Prizes

From those humble roots, the barbershop-cum-bookstore Libreria Martinez Books and Art Gallery became one of the largest purveyors of Spanish-language books in the country, as well as a center for literacy advocacy whose influence continues to ripple nationwide.

Get to know this week's List for the week 14 ending on April 9th., 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 14 of 2017 (week ending 4/09/2017)

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