The 5th edition of the Congreso Iberoamericano de Cultura (Iberoamerican Congress on Culture), the 5th Foro de Industrias Culturales (Cultural Industries Forum), and the 15th Jornada de Gestión de la Información (Conference on Information Management), are the events featured this month. Plus a note about the Spanish edition of the “Manual de Estilo Chicago-Deusto” (Deusto-Chicago Style Manual.)
Palm Beach County School District joined the Visiting Teachers Program in 2003, and has since employed more than 75 teachers from Spain. This year, the teachers are working in nine of the district's 22 dual language programs.
Read about the publisher's latest print and digital releases. This month's catalog also features
the Holidays Special Section, with the best books to give this season.
Thanks to Dr. Nicolás Kanellos' love for U.S. Hispanic literature, hundreds of award-winning books like Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street” and “Rain of Gold” by Victor Villaseñor were published.
The Peruvian writer and 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature, told a full house at the University of Delaware’s Clayton Hall on Thursday evening that when he sits down to write a novel, the process “is fascinating and mysterious, but it is not fun.”
The first edition of “Barcelona Novela Histórica”, scheduled for November 11- 16 and curated by journalist Enric Calpena, includes roundtable meetings that would try to answer questions about this genre gaining popularity in Spain. Lindsey Davis will be awarded the first Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Barcino.
Pedro Huerta, Director of KINDLE Content in Amazon, told the audience of the Portada Mexico Forum in Mexico City. Huerta leads Amazon Kindle’s expansion into Latin America, including the U.S. Hispanic market. He shared his insights when introducing the Kindle in Brazil and Mexico.
Diana Sorensen, dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard University, spoke to EFE in the framework of the formal inauguration of the Cervantes Institute Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures, at the university.
World Book Night U.S. is part of an ambitious campaign to encourage reading and giving. A half million free paperbacks will be handed out across America all on one day — April 23, 2014 — by enlisting 25,000 volunteer book lovers to promote reading by personally giving specially printed books to light or non-readers and to those without the means or access to them.
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 43 of 2013 (week ending 10/27/2013).
