Ovidiu Breahna, a student at John Carroll University in Ohio, received today at the Embassy of Spain in Washington an award given to the Student Ambassador of the program "Study in Spain," dedicated to promote Spain as a destiny for international students.
This year, the €55,000 will be shared by veteran winner Sierra i Fabra (Barcelona, 1947), winner in the children category with L’aprenent de bruixot i Els Invisibles (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and the Invisibles), and Murcia-born Luis Leante (Caravaca de la Cruz, 1963), whose book Fuig sense mirar enrere (Run and Don’t Look Back) won in the young adult category. The texts, which will be published in March, were chosen amongst 325 manuscripts in Spanish, Catalan, Galician, and Euskera.
2016 is the year of the 100th birthday of one of the greatest Spanish writers. We will remember his personality and briefly review his body of work, without forgetting the main events that will celebrate the author.
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 2 of 2016 (week ending 01/17/2015).
"Autógrafos de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra" (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's Autograph Book) will be presented by the Royal Academy of Spanish Language in celebration of the quatercentenary of de writers's death.
During the previous presidential administration, Argentina closed its borders to imported books as a way to favor the domestic publishing industry. The new government has lifted these measures, which has readers and booksellers very enthusiastic about finally having access to previously hard-to-import content.
Report from the Cervantes Institute states that between years 2000 and 2013, Spanish language has grown 1,100% on social networks. Sadly, this also carries constant misuse of spelling, grammar, etc.
All nouns in Spanish are either masculine or feminine, and according to the language's rules the masculine form trumps the feminine when describing a group of people containing members of both genders. For example, a group of female workers would be described as “trabajadoras” with the feminine plural ending of “-as”, but a group of 99 female workers and one male worker would be described as “trabajadores” with the masculine plural ending — just because of the presence of one man. More and more Spanish speakers are moving away from this rule and toward what they consider to be more inclusive language. But the highest authority of the Spanish language, The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), isn't a fan.
Wagner College modern-language professors Margarita Sánchez and Katica Urbanc are the authors of a new Spanish textbook, “Retratos: Arte y sociedad en Latinoamérica y España,” published by Focus, an imprint of the Hackett Publishing Company.
"Alma y la isla" (Alma and the island) is the story of a black girl who is rescued from a small boat by a fisherman who takes her to live with his family for a few days.
