Learn about McNally Jackson activities this March 2016

The February issue is now available with exciting news about America Reads Spanish!

New York, NY, February 23, 2016 – Why are so many diverse books banned? The 2016 celebration of Banned Books Week will examine this important question as part of its thematic focus on diversity, the event's national coalition announced today. Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read, will run from September 25?October 1, 2016, and will be observed in thousands of libraries, schools, bookstores and other community settings across the nation and the world.

People arrived in the thousands at the Castello Sforzesco, in Milan, to bid a last farewell to writer and philosopher Umberto Eco, despite the fact that the vast majority of them could not even enter the courtyard where the ceremony was held

Valencia Publishing House Media Vaca has landed first prize, in the nonfiction category, at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, which is the leading world fair in its class.

The 100,000-euro award, sponsored by Espasa and Ámbito Cultural de El Corte Inglés, has gone to a psychological thriller about a substitute teacher, El confidencial (The Confidential). Series-mania has arrived in the book world, and is threatening to stay.

In the Cuervo Room of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) took place today the official launch of a book collecting the events celebrated during 2015 to celebrate the Homenaje Universal al Idioma Español (Universal Tribute to the Spanish Language sponsored by Fundación Independiente (Independent Foundation) with the goal of honoring the language shared by five hundred million Spanish speakers.

With this purchase, Prisa Educación is strengthening and improving its presence in the Spanish language educational market. The purchase price is 60 billion Colombian pesos (16.8 million euros).

Rosario Ferré, a formidable figure in Puerto Rican letters who wrote novels in both Spanish and English, and who was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1995 for the family epic “A House on the Lagoon,” which she translated herself from the original Spanish, died on Thursday at her home in San Juan, P.R. She was 77.
By Bruce Weber Feb. 21, 2016

The top nonfiction title in January in Spain was new to the list. The Killing of Atocha recounts the massacre that occurred in the Spanish city of Atocha in 1977, as the country was making the transition to democracy following the 1975 death of Gen. Francisco Franco. Paris-Austerlitz was the top-selling new title on the Spanish fiction list at the end of last month, having debuted at #2. The novel is by the bestselling Spanish author Rafael Chirbes, who died in August 2015.