The 2017 Lazarillo Awards, organized by the OEPLI, have just been announced. The winning works have been Bienvenida Lupe, by Eva Palomar, in the category of Illustrated Album, and in the category of Literary Creation this year there has been an ex aequo prize:
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 44 of 2017 (week ending 11/05/2017)
The professional program at this year’s Guadalajara International Book Fair focuses on children’s books and the fair stages its first special focus on graphic novels and comics.
Sales are increasing exponentially in this emerging market. Most of the IPG-distributed publishers who make use of this channel are located in Spain or South America and publish only in Spanish, but other IPG publishers who publish primarily in English have found that Spanish-language editions of their books can sell well.
The bosque pedagógico (“pedagogical forest”) to which José Antonio Marina alludes in the title of his last book, could very well be one of those “gardens” people enter only to find themselves unable to escape. Hence the second part of the title:
To reclaim the space of the bookstore as a physical place of cultural promotion that, in addition to promoting reading, generates closeness and relationships,
On November 30, all of Spain will celebrate once again Bookstore Day. All those bookstores affiliated with CEGAL (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Trade Unions and Associations) will remain open until 10:00 pm, will give a 5% discount on all purchases, and will also offer numerous activities to readers: ......
Our culture's brightest thinkers will gather in downtown Miami for the book fair that started them all. Since 1984, locals and visitors from the world over have known: November is all about books in South Florida.
The best books to give in Christmas 2017 and Three Kings Day 2018. For Christmas 2017 and Three Kings (Epiphany) Day of 2018 we cannot think of a better gift than a book. With the end of the year come the recapitulations and the looks back. On this occasion, we review some titles to which we predict a long life in bookstores, shelves and in our memory.
The mission of #Undocupoets is to promote the work of undocumented poets and raise consciousness about the structural barriers that they face in the literary community. We believe in supporting all poets, regardless of immigration status.
