In 1970, the founder of Lumen Publishing, Esther Tusquets, published for the first time in Spain, (It had already been published in Argentina for 7 years) Quino’s best creation, Mafalda.

The Catalonian writer revealed some of his literary key elements in interviews with the press. “I became a writer because I have a mental problem with the reality that surrounds me, my country, my city, my lifetime . . .

“La claridad” (Clarity), the awarded collection is a set of 6 tales of terror built around women who drift into tragic lives.

Jaime Bayly (Lima, 1965) had not written short stories before. He had thrown his obsessions and poisons into novels; in more than fifteen stories were he had assembled his excesses as a free-spirited young man in Lima,

The Launguage Map has become a pan-hispanic reference project with 12 common titles to 21 countries who share a common language. • From its inception in 2015, the project from Alfaguara and Literatura Random House has published 124 titles.

Author of works such as, 'Últimas tardes con Teresa' (Last Afternoons with Teresa) and 'Ronda del Guinardó' (Round of Guinardo), this Catalonian author won the prestigious award, Premio Cervantes in 2008.

A new study of the book market in Spain shows consumers are reading more during the pandemic lockdown, buying more books online, and still prefer print over digital.

Calliope Quinn, who just graduated from Patrick Henry Elementary School in Long Beach, won first place for the third to fifth grade level in the statewide California Association of Bilingual Educators (CABE) writing contest with a poem in Spanish and English titled “Un Día (Someday).”

Just before the world changed, about five months ago on February 18th, we wrote in this space about two initiatives that made sense for all publishers to employ to raise revenues and profits.

This award is one of the most important accolades in Spain, which is why it has such a high endowment, being second only to the Nobel Prize for Literature.