Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport just published its annual grant program for the translation of Spanish literary or scientific works into foreign languages. US publishers can present up to 5 translation projects for this annual program. Deadline to submit applications is March 30, 2015.
The University of Texas’ literary archive said it paid $2.2 million for the works of Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a price the school sought to keep secret until ordered to make it public by the state attorney general’s office.
The latest newsletter features Sony's new tablet with a friendlier DRM (digital rights management), that may help to promote the demand for ebooks.
Every year, a third of children start kindergarten without the language skills they need to learn to read. That is why in the last two years, physicians at clinic in the state of Washington, have given away roughly 25,000 children's books during appointments with young patients.
Eddie Redmayne, Oscar winner as best actor for his role in “The Theory of Everything” is this month's America Read Spanish's Amigo del Español. In this interview the English actor talks about his literary preference and confesses that even though his Spanish is very poor, he wants to improve.
Universidad Desconocida and McNally Jackson Books present the Argentinean author in conversation with Adalber Salas and Claudia Salazar, about "Carcaj: Vislumbres", published by Vaso Roto Ediciones.
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The edition commemorates 400 years of the publication of Don Quixote's second part. Miguel de Cervantes' classic is illustrated by José Ramón Sánchez. Release date is scheduled for April.
While this is not the first time Marvel has published their works for a Spanish-language audience, it is the first time they'll be offering them on FCBD, a day generally seen as a yearly opportunity to draw in new fans.
The announcement was made by University of California Los Angeles Professor Patricia Gándara, who was invited to speak at Florida International Univesity, as part of the College of Education’s Dean’s Speakers Series.
