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 20 of 2012 (week ending 05/20/2012).
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 20 of 2012 (week ending 05/20/2012).
Real Academia Española and Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española celebrate 50 years since the first edition of Alvaro Vargas Llosa's “La Ciudad y los perros” (“Time of the Hero”) with a commemorative edition published by Alfaguara.
The movie, based on Belén Gopegui's novel, is featured this week at the Días de Cine Reading Club. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.
The Urbana school district, in Illinois, may host several temporary teachers from Spain next year reports The News-Gazzette.
The Spanish publisher of children books will receive the awards during the June 5th ceremony at the Instituto Cervantes in New York. The awards are presented by Latino Literacy Now in partnership with Las Comadres Para Las Americas and the Instituto Cervantes.
Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., top Amazon’s second annual “Most Well-Read Cities in America” list.
The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), with the support of Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (FGEE), is organizing the Spanish exhibit in the upcoming Book Expo America 2012, June 4th -7th in New York. The latest edition of the “Essential Guide to Spanish Reading” will be presented at the fair, on June 6th.
Fuentes, one of the most influential Latin American writers, died Tuesday at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 83. He was instrumental in bringing Latin American literature to an international audience, and he used his fiction to address what he saw as real-world injustices.
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 19 of 2012 (week ending 05/13/2012).
Antonio R. Flores, HACU President and CEO, will be a speaker on a plenary session on the topic “U.S. Educational Challenges in a Global Economy,” May 18th. The CNC 16th Biennial National Conference will be celebrated in Miami, May 17-18.
