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The letter Ñ, the identity of Spanish the world over

The character has its origins in the Middle Ages, and is the only one to have been created in Spain. Despite this, it was omitted from the Spanish Royal Academy dictionary until 1803.

Reviews of the week from Babelia. The masterful stories of Alice Munro and other books of the week.

Babelia is the cultural magazine of "El País", a Spanish-language daily newspaper based in Madrid (Spain) and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. Critics from ‘Babelia’ review works by the Canadian Nobel laureate and the new books by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Robert Jones Jr. and Laura Cukierman.

Portuguese Ana Luísa Amaral wins the Reina Sofía Prize for Ibero-American Poetry

The author, who has achieved the most important award of the genre among those given in Spain, and endowed with 42,000 euros, considers that "the standards must be widened, but without destroying it."

Bologna Announces the Winner of its 2021 Ragazzi Awards, A Spanish Poetry Anthology Takes the Top Honor

Ediciones Ekaré editor Adolfo Córdova wins, with Juan Palomino’s illustrations. And the jury provides four special mentions, as well.

10 Fiction Books In Spanish That Constantly Top Amazons’s Best-Seller List

It’s no secret Amazon has a big collection of books in Spanish. After all, you can find nearly anything you could need or want on the website, making it an important resource for anyone who wants to read more in Spanish.

LIBER returns in person next October in Madrid.

The graphic image of this edition is the work of the Valencian illustrator Irene Blasco.

The magazine "LENGUA" makes its debut

The digital magazine is the new cultural product of Penguin Libros, LENGUA, the new cultural magazine of Penguin Libros was created with the intention of uniting readers from Spain and all of the Americas on common ground.

Observatorio Instituto Cervantes Symposium 2021: Hispanism and Spanish in the U.S. over the Last 30 Years

The Cervantes Institute at Harvard University organizes its sixth annual symposium, this year virtually and with the general subject: “Hispanism and Spanish in the U.S. over the Last 30 Years,” in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Instituto Cervantes.

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) signs agreement with Amazon Publishing to make their ebooks available to U.S. libraries

This marks the first time that ebooks from Amazon Publishing have been made available to libraries. Like our previous publisher arrangements, this agreement furthers our mission to expand equitable access to ebooks and audiobooks while protecting library patron privacy.

Todoliteratura interviews Miguel Rubio

"Suave como la lluvia" is the fifth novel by writer Miguel Rubio, a domestic noir that leaves readers shocked both by what the author narrates and by the way he does it, in the purest style of the American crime novel. The narrator-main character describes some really horrifying facts.

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