The best published books in the year prior to the call will be awarded in the following genres: Art Books, Bibliophile Books, Facsimile Books, Children and Young Adult Books and General and Popular Works.

Applications to apply for World Book Capital 2025 must be sent through the official website and addressed to the office of the secretary at UNESCO in English or French. The deadline is Sunday, April 16th, 2023.

Vicente Pina, owner of Códex bookstore: “It is not so important to recommend a title, but to create readers.”

The United States Census Bureau has released data referring to the year 2022, from which it can be seen that one in five Americans is of Hispanic origin, which establishes that around 63 million Hispanics live in the United States of America

Spanish predated English in arriving in what is now the United States. For 400 years, the two languages have co-existed; today’s immigrants continue to bring variation.

The director of the Instituto Cervantes, Luis García Montero, collected the 'Montale Fuori di Casa Award' in Venice (Italy), which in its European section distinguishes the poet as "the most popular and significant voice in the current Spanish literary world,” according to Cervantes.

Children’s books by the writer Roald Dahl, author of the emblematic 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'Matilda', have modified some paragraphs "for the enjoyment of all kids"..

The essayist Elvira Roca Barea, with her work 'Las brujas y el inquisitor,’ has won the Premio Primavera 2023 Award on its twenty-seventh edition, as announced at a press conference held this Friday in Madrid.

While handing out the Librería Cultural 2022 award, the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, assured that "for the City Council, bookstores are a fundamental pillar of the cultural fabric."

The winning works of this edition are ‘Vengo de ese miedo,’ by Miguel Ángel Oeste, published by Tusquets Editores, and ‘Aioua’ by Roser Cabré-Verdiell, published by Editorial Males Herbes.