Hundreds of language students and their teachers participated in the University of North Georgia’s 38th annual Modern Language Day competition April 11, including one teacher who competed in the event when she was in high school, reports the Gainesville Times.
Libraries are among the supporters of the event, which is celebrated on UNESCO’s (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) International Day of the Book, as well as Shakespeare’s birthday. It was also chosen in honor of Miguel de Cervantes, who died on April 23, 1616 (the same day as Shakespeare). There will be 2,000 World Book Night host locations, with more than 900 libraries participating.
The movie, based on Antonio Gala's novel, will be available at Días de Cine Reading Club until April 28th, 2013. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.
World Book Night is an annual celebration dedicated to “spreading the love of reading, person to person.” Each year on April 23, thousands of people go out into their communities and give half a million free World Book Night paperbacks to light and non-readers.
Today, Cervantes Institute's director, Víctor García de la Concha, will sign an agreement with Harvard University to open an observatory of the Spanish Language in the prestigious campus, reports El País.
“La Gaceta” magazine, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica of Spain, features Javier Celaya's article on the future of bookstores. Celaya proposes twelve ideas to help bookstores understand the transformation process they have to go through to be updated, reports dosdoce.com.
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 15 of 2013 (week ending 4/14/2013).
Bookmasters will be the official U.S. distributor of the Spanish edition of Francisco, Nuevo Papa (Francis, New Pope), a biographical account of the life of Pope Francis, for one of the world’s most prominent Spanish-Catholic publishers, Edibesa.
Asociación de Revistas Culturales de España (ARCE) and Instituto de Comercio Exterior (ICEX) signed a collaboration agreement to promote the internationalization of cultural magazines, which runs until December 2016.
With growth as a goal, the Institute is strengthening its presence in the U.S. Part of this stragety is the agreement that its director, Víctor García de la Concha, has reached with Harvard University, reports El País.
