Distribution of Editorial Salamandra's titles through Miami, Fl-based Spanish Publishers to begin on early July of 2015.
Distribution of Editorial Salamandra's titles through Miami, Fl-based Spanish Publishers to begin on early July of 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 20 of 2015 (week ending 5/17/2015).
The 91-year-old poetess is one of the most emblematic voices in Spanish literature of the last decades.
Roxana Benavides, supervising librarian at Sunset Park Library, has been selected to receive the 2015 Sloan Public Service Award from the Fund for the City of New York. Roxana earned this tremendous honor—considered the “Nobel Prize of city government”—for her decades of service to the residents of Sunset Park. Respected by her peers and beloved by her patrons, Roxana has made an impact in the community for more than 20 years.
“The small presses that exist today are often professionally run, highly principled organizations that focus on marginalized or experimental writers. And when it comes to Latino authors, we may be entering a golden age.” Taken from Huffington Post’s blog by Daniel Cubias.
This institution, currently present in 90 cities in 43 countries, is also expanding North African venue.
The Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities has been bestowed on the Spanish philosopher Emilio Lledo. The prize honors a person, group or institution who has made an outstanding contribution to universal culture.
Professor Phillip Carter has conducted research on bilingualism and Hispanic-English dialects in the United States, particularly in Texas, North Carolina and Florida. He has recently brought extensive media attention to the Miami English dialect through national and international media, including the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald, CNN, CNN Español, MSN Latino and BBC Mundo.