Findings from the 2009-2013 American Community Survey show more than 60 million Americans over the age of five speak a language other than English in their home. Spanish is by far the most common language and is spoken in the home by 37 million people.
Fibla has translated books by iconic writers such as Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, John Irving, Henry James, William Kennedy, John Kennedy Toole, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, David Malouf, and Arthur Miller.
In 2015, 34 libraries throughout the state of Texas received the Texas Book Festival Collections
Enhancement Grant. The R.B. Tullis Branch Library in New Caney was among the grant recipients.
Stieg Larsson's Millennium books are reported to be getting a second alternative ending in a set of new comic books inspired by the Swedish trilogy.
Transylvania University will welcome two prominent Spanish artists and poets to campus for their North American debut.
Alicia Giménez Bartlett and Daniel Sánchez Arévalo (winner and frontrunner respectively) were careful not to disclose many details about their novels.
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 44 of 2015 (week ending 11/01/2015).
On Tuesday, Amazon, the largest bookseller in the world, did something it has never done: it sold a book to a customer face-to-face. Despite appearances Amazon Books, the company's first branded retail storefront, is a far cry from the bookstore as we know it.
The Arkansas Tech University Office of Admissions has scheduled a series of campus tours that will provide the Spanish-speaking community with access to information about higher education.
Albany County School District No. 1 in Wyoming is contemplating a new Spanish immersion program that would introduce students to the language from an early age.
