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Spanish financial firm La Caixa will sponsor the Royal Spanish Academy’s digital version of its iconic Spanish Dictionary.

La Caixa signs contract with RAE (Royal Spanish Academy) to contribute with close to one million Euros per year during three years.

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New Spanish Books Interview with Tony Beckwith.

We interviewed Tony Beckwith, writer and literary translator, specializing in the fields of art, poetry, and literature.

Famous Aurora, Colorado publication now includes Spanish in recreation guide for 1st time.

More than 150,000 households in Aurora will get the winter edition of the Aurora Recreation Guide this week – and for the first time, the publication includes a section in Spanish.

Alicia Gimenez Bartlett, winner of the 2015 Planeta Award.

The jury awarded the Spanish author with this year's Planeta Award for her novel: "Hombres desnudos" (Naked men).

10 novel finalists in contention for this year's 'Premio Planeta' announced.

The jury of the 2015's Planeta Novel Award has announced the 10 titles in contention to win the prestigious recognition. The winner will be announced today at 11:30 pm local time in Barcelona, Spain.

Get to know this week's list of best selling titles in Spanish for week 41 ending on October 11th, 2015.

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 41 of 2015 (week ending 10/11/2015).

Spanish Department at Amherst College (Massachusetts) hosts comic book artist Jaime Hernandez.

Amherst’s Department of Spanish welcomed famed cartoonist Jaime Hernandez to Fayerweather’s Pruyne Lecture Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 30. He sat on a panel alongside Professor of Spanish Ilan Stavans, as well as Visiting Professor of Spanish Frederick Aldama, who wrote about Hernandez in his book “Your Brain on Latino Comics.” The Spanish department hosted a small reception afterwards.

Dual-Language programs are on the rise, even for native English speakers

Dos Puentes is among dozens of public schools in New York City that have started or expanded dual-language programs in recent years.

Invitation to the Americas poetry festival of New York 2015

The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2015 is a multilingual poetry festival and writers’ conference. Coordinated by the poets/professors Carlos Aguasaco and Yrene Santos, this second edition will be dedicated to poet William Akcoo (aka William Beltrán 1973-2011).

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