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 31 of 2014 (week ending 8/3/2014).
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 31 of 2014 (week ending 8/3/2014).
Spain has scrapped its university entrance test, known as the Selectividad exam, for foreign students with the goal to establish the country as a major destination for overseas study.
The publishing industry in Spain, including books, newspapers and magazines, provides one third of the GDP of cultural industries. FGEE's president recalled that publishers are making an effort to adapt to the demands of readers: the average price of books has been reduced by 2.3 percent this year and the already very competitive supply for lawfull access to eBooks.
has increased.
The novel, by Marta López Luaces and published by Vaso Roto Ediciones, won first place on the Fictions Awards' Fantasy/Sci-Fi category. Over the last 16 years the International Latino Book Award has grown to become the largest Latino literary and cultural awards in the U.S.
The goal of the summer camp created by the Los Angeles Theatre Academy is to help children with Latino roots hold on to their Spanish.
A member of the PEN Translation Committee and a fierce advocate for translators and translated literature, Margaret Carson is a fixture in the NYC translation community. She translates contemporary fiction, poetry, and drama from Latin America.
Registration is now open for The Comadres and Compadres Writers Conference, that will be held September 27 at Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Brooklyn. This year’s keynote speaker is Puerto Rican author Esmeralda Santiago.
The Lynch School of Education will launch the program in September, and it will certify bilingual education teachers who work in schools offering dual-language immersion classes. This is the first of this kind of programs offered in Massachusetts.
Elementary teacher Armida Lizarraga writes about how difficult is for her to find in United States original children’s literature in Spanish language, meaning books originally published in Spanish. She asks if this is a problem of access, rather than demand.
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 30 of 2014 (week ending 7/27/2014).
