Hoy tengo el placer de darles la bienvenida a The New York Times en Español, una página diseñada para que la disfruten desde sus computadoras y teléfonos móviles. Aquí encontrarán una selección de lo mejor del New York Times traducido al español y también artículos originales.
History repeats itself every day, or rather every time, in many homes at bedtime: children ask their parents to read them a story, the same story that they have been reading to them all week, the same story that they have heard more than twenty times and that the little ones already know by heart. That is what they like –the fact that they can repeat every line of dialog, even anticipate it.
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 1 of 2016 (week ending 01/10/2015).
The jury of the Biennial Mario Vargas Llosa Prize has gone through the 255 works sent by publishing houses, agents and writers, and now the list has been reduced to only 11 books. The final decision for this second edition of the $100,000 award, which aspires to become a landmark prize in Spanish literature, will be announced in April.
The annual competition judged almost a thousand works published in Spanish by over 120 publishers from across 16 countries. The prize seeks to help distinguished works find as many homes, schools, libraries and other spaces as possible so that young readers can encounter books of great quality.
“The Spanish publishing sector registered a total of 73,144 titles in 2015 according to data collected by the ISBN Agency, representing a slight increase (1%) compared to 2014 (72,416 titles). However, it must be taken into account that these figures don’t include titles registered by self-publishers. During 2015 the percentage of titles published in digital format was 26% of all publishing output, representing another 1% increase on the previous year (19,376), showing that publishers are still supporting the format.
February 2nd, 2016
“In Ni una sola voz en el cielo (Not a Single Voice in the Sky), the author, who was born in Tres Arroyos, presents different Latin American perspectives on drug trafficking.The Argentine writer Ariel Urquiza today won the Casa de las Américas prize for literature with his unpublished book Ni una sola voz en el cielo (Not a Single Voice in the Sky), which explores drug-related issues in Latin America.
Spanish Publishers and Books & Books invitation to Identidad Compartida, by Rafael Baralt Lovera
EdCentral article on how education policy is getting even less attention than usual this election season.
Education policy is getting even less attention than usual this election season. Other than some token nods to early education investments and doing something (usually vaguely-described) about student loan debt, 2016 looks to be a dormant year for education politics.
It is like an episode of the «Cuéntame» series dedicated to blue-collar neighborhoods and to a very particular urban tribe. Because «Heavy 1986» (ed. Sapristi, 17,90 euros) is a comic book by Miguel B. Núñez that tells the story of a group of kids like so many others in those years, with the same worries, the same family troubles, and with the threat of the militia hanging over them like the sword of Damocles… but all inhabited by a single passion: hard rock.
