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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 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.
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
“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.
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