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Penguin Random House Executive Markus Dohle: “We have become the World's leading Latin American publishing group”

With a vast array of publishing houses under its umbrella, Penguin Random House sells two million books every day around the globe from reputable imprints such as Santillana-Alfaguara, Plaza y Janes, Grijalbo, Random House, Lumen, Aguilar, among others.

New York City recognizes librarian Roxana Benavides with prestigious award for her outstanding work as public servant.

New York City’s fund grants Sloan Public Service Award to renowned Sunset Park Library associate, this honor is considered as “Nobel Prize of city government”.

Controversy over Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s personal files being sold to University of Texas.

Personal file belonging to the Colombian author have been sold to the University for 2.2 million dollars, the files will be kept at Austin’s Campus.

Spanish-language spelling bees taking off in the U.S.

How do you spell success? At the mini-national spelling bee in Foxboro, Massachusetts, students spelled it en Español.

Get to know this week's 20 best-selling titles in Spanish in the US according to Nielsen for week 18

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 17 of 2015 (week ending 5/3/2015).

Reporting from the Bogota Book Fair

Macondo, that mythical place created by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and to which all of Latin America can claim as its own, was the invitado de honor at this year’s FilBo or the 28th International Bogota Book Fair. Adan Griego, Curator for Latin American, Mexican American & Iberian Collections at Stanford University's Green Library reports after his recent attendance at the show.

“Spanglish”-speaking Don Quixote.

Author of “Quixote. The Novel and the World” to launch graphic novel version in “Spanglish”.

Literary event at Instituto Cervantes New York on May 7 at 7 pm.

Sergio Ramirez: Journey to the Heart of Literature

StarWalk Kids Media Introduces Bilingual (Spanish-English) eBook Collection

The inaugural bundle of 92 eBooks will feature 44 paired English/Spanish editions plus 4 bilingual titles

First edition of Garcia Marquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” stolen from the Colombian International Book Fair.

The book was part of a first 8,000-copies run 48 years ago by Editorial Sudamericana.

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