Spain's Crown Prince Felipe said recently in Zaragoza, Spain, that it is "absolutely necessary" to link entrepreneurship and culture in order to establish a powerhouse of Ibero-American creative and cultural industries.
Spain's Crown Prince Felipe said recently in Zaragoza, Spain, that it is "absolutely necessary" to link entrepreneurship and culture in order to establish a powerhouse of Ibero-American creative and cultural industries.
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 48 of 2013 (week ending 12/01/2013).
“La Madrugada,” a new Yale literary magazine that is fully dedicated to the publication of Spanish-language prose and poetry, is slated to publish its first-ever issue in early December. The magazine — which aims to fill a niche in the creative world on campus by providing a forum for self-expression in Spanish — draws its name from the Spanish word referring to the period of time between midnight and sunrise.
The publisher golden anniversary is October 2014, but the celebration started a few months earlier with the first toast at the Guadalajara International Book Fair and a very entertaining event with authors Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Ramírez, Xavier Velasco and Joël Dicker.
The novel, translated by Edith Grossman, makes the list for the books recommended by the popular magazine for December.
Authors, literary agents, librarians, booksellers and more than 1,935 publishing houses from 43 countries are present at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. This year, Israel is the guest of honor and Alfaguara celebrates its golden anniversary. The event ends December 8th.
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 47 of 2013 (week ending 11/24/2013).
After the University of Houston-Victoria was designated a Hispanic-serving institution in May, UHV School of Education and Human Development leaders decided to make bilingual education the focus of the school's fall symposium.
Vicente Sanchez, Consul of Mexico, for the Central California district, gave 110 boxes of books to Fresno Unified School District. The books range from literature books to academic textbooks.
The event opened with presentations by Dan Brown and Jorge Edwards and closed with Junto Días and Ismael Cala. In between, visitors enjoyed the presence of Paul Auster, Richard Blanco, journalist Lawrence Wright, graphic novelist Gene Yang, and more of three dozens of authors and Spanish cultural promoters invited to the fair as guests of honor.
