Venezuelan author Moises Naim has always been well-known in the literary world, but he has now reached mass appeal thanks to “A Year of Books,” Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg's book club.
Venezuelan author Moises Naim has always been well-known in the literary world, but he has now reached mass appeal thanks to “A Year of Books,” Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg's book club.
Martín Blasco, a Washington County Cooperative Library Services outreach librarian for the Latino and youth services program, will chair the Oregon chapter. Elizabeth Lopez, a librarian with the Hillsboro Public Library, will serve as secretary.
In this issue, the newsletter features reviews on Gonzalo Bernardos' “Crisis”, Laura Hillebrand's “Unbroken” and “Cuentos de Navidad” by Paulo Coelho.
For the first time this year, the country’s public schools enroll more “minority” students than non-Hispanic white ones, according to Sarah Carr on her blog “Schooled”. A growing number of middle- and upper-income families recognize the economic advantages of mastering multiple languages in an era of globalization; many have clamored for more dual language schools and programs as a result, helping to legitimize and popularize the approach.
Featuring the publisher's latest print and digital releases, the firsts catalog of the year includes sections Biblioteca Digital and Comunicaciones, plus the special section “Promociones CGA 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 1 of 2015 (week ending 1/4/2015).
There is a growing effort in Prince George’s County to immerse young students in a foreign language. Each of the elementary schools — Cesar Chavez, Overlook in Temple Hills and Phyllis E. Williams in Upper Marlboro — has three or four kindergarten classes and is scheduled to add the program in subsequent grades each school year.
Historic milestones such as the fifth centenary of the birth of St. Teresa de Jesús or 70 years of the end of World War II mark the literary theme this year, as well as the return to the classics, according to El País.
Literary agent Rebecca Carter writes a piece for Publishing Perspective and discusses how independent publishers specializing in translations are impacting the market positively.
The Center for Applied Linguistics and Brown University's The Education Alliance, have published “Two-way Immersion Education:The Basics” with definitions, features, goals and recommended reading materials about dual language education in United States.
