LéaLA, the Spanish-language Book Fair of Los Angeles, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center for its fourth time from May 15-17, 2015. The public program is aimed at the public looking to celebrate “Latino heritage, as well as to meaningful literary and cultural traditions in the Spanish language.” (From an article by Publishing Perspectives).
Spanish and Portuguese-language specialists, the Mertin LIterary Agency, took home “International Literary Agent of the Year” prize at the London Book Fair this month (from an article by Publishing Perspectives).
The president of the United States, Barack Obama, visited a library in Washington D.C. to announce an initiative, funded with 250 million dollars, to offer free access to e-books for children with low resources.
Adan Griego, Stanford University’s Latin American Collections Curator describes journey to South America to find amazing contents in Spanish.
Libreria Donceles in Brooklyn will feature roughly 25,000 second-hand books in Spanish on a tour that has involved cites like Miami, San Francisco in the past.
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 4/29/2015).
According to Spain’s Ministry of Culture, roughly 2% more books were published in 2014 compared to previous year.
The Nobel Prize laureate talked his new novel which will be titled “Cinco esquinas” (Five Corners).
News Spanish Books interviewed Gregory Rabassa, translator to English of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez.
Digital platform is helping close ademic gap by providing immigrant children with educational tools in their own language.
