“Loriga won this year’s prize for his novel, Rendición, which he entered under the pseudonym Sebastián Verón, the name of a former football player. The author Ray Loriga (Madrid, 1967) is the winner of this year’s Alfagura prize – 2017 marks the twentieth anniversary of the prize – for the novel Victoria (Victory)
“Author David Cirici (Barcelona, 1954) has made of 2017 a year of success. In December, he was announced as the winner of the Premi Sant Jordi for his novel El séptimo ángel (The Seventh Angel) (Proa, in Catalan) and this Wednesday, he has been awarded the Premio Strega....
“The Mexican has been awarded 50,000 EUR on the prize’s fifth year for his book "La vaga ambición" (Vague Ambition). Ortuño has published «El buscador de cabezas» (2006), «Recursos humanos» (2007), «Ánima» (2011), «La fila india» (2013), «Blackboy» (2014), «Méjico» (2015) y «El rastro» (2016).
Hoping to expand the community’s outreach to its Hispanic population, the 2016-17 Fort Atkinson Area Chamber of Commerce Project LEAD class will be raising funds to expand the Dwight Foster Public Library’s Spanish book collection.
MacNally Jackson Books presents 3 authors from Spain: Agustín Fernández Mallo author of "Nocilla Dream", Sebastiá Alzamora author of "Blood Crime" and Andrés Barba author of "Such small hands"".
'I will never be 20 years old', awarded as best work of Spanish authorship
Sketch artist Josep Maria Martín Saurí (Barcelona, 1949) has won the Grand Prize of the 35th Barcelona International Comic Show, held until Sunday, "for his long dedication to the world of comics."
Odilo partners with Plan Ceibal to provide education content in Uruguay. A Reach of More Than 3,000 Schools. Spain’s Odilo, a tech startup in ebooks, audio, video and other media, has been named content and technology supplier to Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal.
“This new imprint will publish original Catalan-language texts as well as translations from Spanish and other languages. In April, Ediciones B –part of the Grupo Z publishing house– will launch an imprint for their Catalan-language titles: B.cat.
Founder of the publisher Kairós and chair of the Asociación Derecho a Morir Dignamente (Right to Die Society). Salvador Pániker Alemany (Barcelona, 1927-2017), has passed from this world leaving behind him many doubts about the next.
March 30th, 2017
“Held at the Fira Barcelona-Montjuïc, it will be spread across a space of approximately 50,000 square meters, much larger than in previous years. With a budget of 782,000 EUR, 10% more than in 2016, the conference will host approximately 200 exhibitors.
