Chilean writer Carlos Franz won today the 2nd Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize for Best Novel with his book Si te vieras con mis ojos (If You Could See Yourself Through My Eyes) (Alfaguara), the story of a love triangle between scientist Charles Darwin, painter Johann Moritz and epistolary writer Carmen Arriagada.
In a huge deal that consolidates the publishing industry's wholesaling segment, Follett Corp. has acquired Baker & Taylor for an undisclosed price. According to a release form Follett, the combined company will have sales of $3.6 billion and will offer “librarians, patrons, .....
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 15 of 2016 (week ending 04/17//2016).
Translation was discussed — both as activism and in addition to activism — in one of many well-attended Literary Translation Centre sessions, Translator as Activism: From Politics to Cultural Change, How Translators Are Changing the World Through Their Work.
Foreign rights buyers are turning their attention to the language of Borges and Bolaño — At last! say agents and publishers.“The success of authors in translation such as Karl Ove Knausgård and Elena Ferrante,” the Wylie Agency’s Cristóbal Pera says, “has made large publishing houses open a space for translations.”
Bicultural Writer Speaks on Children’s Lit at SBCC, Visit Public Library This Weekend.
Born in El Paso, Texas, Pat Mora has spent the last three decades carving out a larger space for bilingual children’s literature in libraries across the U.S. On April 15, the bicultural poet, nonfiction writer, and children’s author will travel.......
“The novelist and poet Manuel Vilas Vidal has been announced as the winner of the 2015 Aragon Prize for Literature by a unanimous jury. The award honours continuous work of particular notability or importance by Aragonese people, institutions or entities in the field of literary creativity and research.
“The growth exceeds that of the previous year, which was 0.6% according to data from Spanish publishers. Bookshops continue to be the primary sales channel.To mark the celebration next Saturday, the 23rd of April, the International Book Day, the executive director of the FGEE, Antonio María Ávila......
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'Teatros Ejemplares' (Exemplary Stages), the digital publication of 19 stage adaptations by Latin American and Spanish authors, is making the 'Novelas Ejemplares' (‘Exemplary Novels’) of the great Spanish writer available in new form through the unique creativity of contemporary playwrights.
