Five years ago, the release in India of “The Red Sari,” about the president of the then-governing Indian National Congress Party, Sonia Gandhi, was unthinkable. Her loyalists burned effigies of its Spanish author, Javier Moro, and according to the Spanish publisher, lawyers representing the Gandhi family threatened a lawsuit.
“La Voz del árbol” and “Feliz Feroz” won Premio Fundación Cuatrogatos 2015, whish distinguishes the best 20 Spanish-language, children and young adults books published in Latin America, Spain and United States durning the prior year.
The Houston Independent School District is hosting school administrators from across the state, to discuss the importance of making sure Texas students are globally competitive.
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 4 of 2015 (week ending 1/25/2015).
Read in this edition an interview with Margaret Carson, a member of the PEN Translation Committee and a fierce advocate for translators and translated literature. “Amigos del Español” section features actress and producer Claire Danes, and don't miss book reviews, the latest industry news, and the best of ARS TV and ARS Radio.
“¿Por qué España?” (Why Spain) by Anna Caballé Masforroll and Randolph D. Pope, collects the experience of some of the most renowned current “hispanists” from their own anglo training and explores why they chose Spain as a professional vocation.
The Nobel prize-winning Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa is making his debut as an actor in the premiere of In Tales of the Plague, his adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, as Duke Ugolino, a 14th-century nobleman. The play runs from January 28 to March 1 in Teatro Real in Madrid.
Through a collaboration between Claudia Roman Jimenez, a librarian with the Northfield Public Library, and Father Denny Dempsey of the Church of St. Dominic, books in Spanish have been available for checkout during a special library event on Sundays.
New Spanish Books project is an on-line guide of Spanish titles with rights available for translation, funded by the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX) and the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.This project is aimed at publishers, translators, agents and professionals interested in first hand knowledge about the latest books being published in Spain.
Spanish publishers and literary agents are asked twice a year to submit the books they would like to promote for publishing in this market. Local independent experts are then selected to this end. Out of all the books submitted, the panelists select those titles they consider to have potential for translation and publication.
Writers from 12 countries are part of “Humanismo Solidario”, an anthology that aims to claim missing values back and seek more commitment in times of crisis.
