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America Reads Spanish Newsletter is available online!

2023 October's #189 is now available with exciting news about America Reads Spanish!

Spanish is the language of almost 500 million people

The health of the Spanish language and its growth, both in Spanish-speaking countries and in other territories, are the thematic focus of the annual report “El español en el mundo 2023,”..

Interview with the Valencian writer Elena Bargues

The writer Elena Bargues is a renowned specialist in the genres of romantic and historical novels, where she has won some literary awards.

Encarnación Lemus, National History Prize of Spain 2023

Encarnación Lemus López (Villafranca de los Barros, 1960) has been awarded the National History Prize of Spain, corresponding to the year 2023, for her work “Ellas.

María Ospina Pizano, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize 2023.

Considered “a beautiful and elaborate exercise in creative writing,” the novel “Solo un poco aquí,” (Random House, 2023) by the Colombian writer María Ospina Pizano has been unanimously chosen as the winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize 2023.

Coming New Releases in November

ActualidadLitereatura presents a selection of new titles for the month of Novemver .

Bilingual Education is America’s Future

Report published by the UCLA Civil Rights Project makes the case for establishment of bilingual education as the standard of instruction

'El lápiz del Carpintero: un viaje ideológico y desesperanzado.' A novel by Manuel Rivas

'El lápiz del carpintero' (Alfaguara, 1998), is a novel by Manuel Rivas. He originally wrote it in Galician but it was quickly translated into Spanish with great success.

Close to twenty books about Chile's independence from Spain are included in La Caja de las Letras del Cervantes.

Since last Thursday, the history and culture of Chile has a place in the Caja de las Letras of the Cervantes Institute, which has received a legacy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso,..

International Meeting of Storytellers

The story will shine at the FIL in Guadalajara with the participation of authors from Argentina, Chile, the United States, Spain, and Mexico.

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