Given the outsized influence that 33-year-old Books & Books and owner Mitchell Kaplan have exerted on independent bookstores and the literary culture at large, the biggest surprise about this year’s PW Bookstore of the Year Award is that it didn’t happen earlier.
Friends Celene Navarrete and Chiara Arroyo recently opened La Librería, a Spanish-language bookstore for children, on West Washington Boulevard in Central Los Angeles.
In an effort to improve its service to International members and to further support its mission, REFORMA has translated into Spanish several important sections of its National website, which is now available on the organization’s Spanish webpage.
Priest and writer Pablo d’Ors (Madrid, 1963) is a renowned author thanks to his bestselling book “Biografía del silencio” (Biography of Silence).
HarperCollins is creating two new Spanish-language publishing divisions: HarperCollins Español and HarperCollins Iberica. With the move, HC will increase the number of Spanish-language titles it publishes, as HarperCollins Español will do roughly 50 titles a year in the Americas, and HarperCollins Iberica will release about 30 titles a year in Spain and Portugal.
Spanish agency dosdoce.com identifies growing trend on e-book downloads at public libraries
The Chilean writer unanimously won the award for the manuscript “Contigo a la distancia” (With you from the distance) a work of literary suspense.
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Madrid’s Fnac Callao to host an event to commemorate the release of “Hombre Buenos” (Good men), Perez-Reverte’s latest novel.
Maria Dueñas’ latest novel “La Templanza” (The Temperance) is a highly anticipated release by the author of “El tiempo entre costuras” (The Time in Between).
