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ARCE News Bulletin, November 2016

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Young Spanish-Language Authors on Offer from Casanovas & Lynch

Literary agency Casanovas & Lynch specializes in works by younger, critically acclaimed writers writing in Spanish, from across Latin America and Spain.

Editorial Astiberri Presents Lamia, by Rayco Pulido.

In Lamia, Laia works for the most popular post-war radio programme in Barcelona, ‘Elena Bosch’s Surgery’, answering letters about themes that are too risqué for the rigid conservative values of the broadcaster.

The XXII Salón del Manga de Barcelona is the largest in its trajectory

The chairman of FICOMIC and the Gremio de Editores de Cataluña, Patrici Tixis, emphasized such growth and explained that the Salón goes beyond manga, as it showcases a significant representation of Japanese culture.

Josep Franco, Rubén Luzón and Joan García del Muro, winners of the Premis Octubre

“The philosopher Joan García del Muro (Lleida, 1961) has won the Octubre Prize for non-fiction with Soldats del no-res (Soldiers of Nowhere), a book that analyzes what is going through the heads of the young Europeans who join the Islamic State.

Josep Maria Esquirol wins the National Award for the Best Essay

Editorial Acantilado is thrilled to announce that Josep Maria Esquirol has just been awarded with this year’s National Award for Best Essay for Intimate Resistance. Essay on a Proximity of Philosophy.

As California Debates Prop 58, Multilingual Education Thrives in San Francisco

San Francisco -- Should California embrace multilingualism as a goal for its children — or recommit itself to an English-only policy that goes back almost two decades? That is the question at the heart of Proposition 58, called the “Multilingual Education Act” by supporters, which goes to the voters on Nov. 8

Jaume Clotet wins the Luján Award for the Historical Novel for El càtar proscrit (The Forbidden Cathar)

“The journalist and writer Jaume Clotet has won the 20th Nèstor Luján Award for the Historical Novel with El càtar proscrit (The Forbidden Cathar), which follows its protagonist Jaspert de Barberà, a Western Cathar, during the period in which the Aragonese throne turned its attention south to the Mediterranean.

Get to know this week's List for the week 42 ending on October 23rd, 2016

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 42 of 2016 (week ending 10/23/2016

With its issue 30, Texturas celebrates the first decade of its life

In this issue we have, among other people, Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras, Antonio Basanta, Ricardo Nudelman, Margarita Valencia, Juan Domingo Argüelles, Xabier P Docampo, Julieta Lionetti, and Bernat Ruiz Domènech.

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