It is like an episode of the «Cuéntame» series dedicated to blue-collar neighborhoods and to a very particular urban tribe. Because «Heavy 1986» (ed. Sapristi, 17,90 euros) is a comic book by Miguel B. Núñez that tells the story of a group of kids like so many others in those years, with the same worries, the same family troubles, and with the threat of the militia hanging over them like the sword of Damocles… but all inhabited by a single passion: hard rock.
Read the first chapter of «Héroes por casualidad» (“Heroes by Chance”), Laura Gallego’s latest book
The author of «Memorias de Idhún» (Idhún’s Memory”) releases the sequel of «Mago por casualidad» (“Magician by Chance”)
The January issue is now available with exciting news about America Reads Spanish!
The Peoria Public Library, like many agencies, businesses and nonprofits, is looking for ways to extend its reach to the Hispanic Community. This weekend, the library is hosting its first event specifically aimed at bringing more Latino visitors through its doors. The event will have live music, food and library card registration.
Spanish and English, two languages forced to try to understand each other
The 7th International Congress of the Spanish Language, which will take place on March 11-18, will tackle in Puerto Rico the "coexistence" of the two languages
This year is the 400th anniversary of this twist of fate, and the debate about the coexistence of the two languages, the advantage English has in the newest technologies, the emergence of middle ways such as Spanglish or the desired bilingualism, is more alive than ever.
Earlier this month, we sent out a survey asking you which countries and publishing markets you wanted to learn more about, which parts of the world you wanted to focus on in the coming year. The results are in, and your votes confirm that many publishers have their eyes on growth markets, while looking to maintain and strengthen relationships in established markets.
By Hannah Johnson | @hannahsjohnson
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 2016 (week ending 01/10/2015).
In her essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf suggested the idea she posits in the quote mentioned above. It was a revolutionary idea for its time and no doubt stirred many passions when she proposed it in the lectures she gave at Cambridge University in 1928. What she was referring to, of course, was the financial and conventional barrier that aspiring women writers faced in English society in those days.
The programs provide instruction in two languages to help students develop proficiency in both and ready them for jobs.
The Digitalia Film Library, a division of Spanish-language e-content provider Digitalia Publishing, allows libraries to bring the world of cinema to their patrons.
