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The Wylie Agency boosts its presence in the Spanish-language market

Agent Cristóbal Pera added five new authors to the American agency’s growing Spanish-language catalogue. In the last six months, The Wylie Agency signed up prominent journalists Josep Massot from Spain, Mexico’s Anabel Hernández ......

Audiobooks are prepared to skyrocket in Spain in 2017

According to the Federación de Gremios de Editores, audio sales account for 0.1% of digital sales, although there are currently about 3,000 titles in circulation. However, most now agree that this number is likely to increase in 2017.

Instituto Cervantes Reading Club, March 24th

Instituto Cervantes Presents "Porque ella no lo pidió" a book by Spanish narrator and essayist Enrique Vila-Matas on Friday March 24th, 2017, from 6 to 8 pm.

Bruce Drysdale fourth-graders publish book written entirely in Spanish

Students at Bruce Drysdale Elementary have a head start on changing the world. They're already published authors. Fourth-graders in Claudia Rivera's dual language class premiered their book, "Changing the World," which students wrote entirely in Spanish and self-published.

Espido Freire wins the 2017 Azorín Prize

“Espido Freire (Bilbao, 1974) has won the 24th Azorín Prize with Llamadme Alejandra (Call me Alexandra), a novel about Alexandra Románova, the last Russian tsarina, who was suspected of being a spy and thus hated in her country.

Sol Book Box starts Spanish-language book subscription

Sol Book Box is a subscription-based service that provides culturally appropriate books and items to children in bilingual families to encourage Spanish-language literacy and cultural preservation.

Get to know this week's List for the week 10 ending on March 12th, 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 10 of 2017 (week ending 03/12/2017)

Elvira Navarro tonight at Miami's Centro Cultural Español

Presentation of her book The last days of Adelaida García Morales, in collaboration with the Miami Book Fair and Penguin Random House. This activity is part of the program Create in feminine. Admission is free.

United Way program puts new books to the hands of elementary school students

For those students whose families don’t speak English, books in Spanish are also available.

LJ World: Julia Alvarez on the immigrant experience, literature as a ‘portable homeland’ and diversity in children’s literature

Celebrated writer Julia Alvarez, author of "In the Time of the Butterflies," visited the Lied Center Sunday, March 5, 2017 as part of the Lawrence Public Library's Read Across Lawrence and NEA Big Read programming.

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