Osage High School Spanish teachers Patti Miller and Nathan Liston attended the 2014 Iowa World Language Association Conference (IWLA) recently in Des Moines. The focus was culture as core of the curriculum, helping students to see that there are multiple ways of viewing the world.
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 42 of 2014 (week ending 10/19/2014). Due to technical difficulties at Nielsen BookScan, there has been a delay in publishing this report.
Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez and Mexico's Octavio Paz will be honored at the 28th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, Nov. 29 – Dec. 7th. The event president Raul Padilla Lopez announced that participants will commemorate the birth centennial of Paz (1914-1998) and celebrate the memory of Garcia Marquez (1927-2014), who died in April.
Among the 19 new additions, IPG’s Spanish Language distribution arm has inked contracts with four new publishers for distribution: Linkgua, Titiris, Cute Ediciones, and Páginas Libros de Magia.
OverDrive, the leading platform for eBooks, audiobooks and streaming video to libraries and schools, announced that more than 200 publishers have joined the company's network in 2014, 64 of which represents partners outside of North America.
This is not just for kids: the practice generates wellness, quietness and also stimulates brain areas related to motor skills, the senses and creativity. In fact, publishers have lately been launching coloring books specifically for adults and Spanish publisher Espasa released "Coloréitor," with illustrations by well-known cartoonist Forges.
Offered through the Cátedra Mario Vargas Llosa at The City College, Continuing and Professional Studies course is taught in Spanish by J. J. Armas Marcelo, a leading novelist and critic of the Peruvian writer, with Raquel Chang-Rodríguez, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
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 41 of 2014 (week ending 10/12/2014). Due to technical difficulties at Nielsen BookScan, there has been a delay in publishing this report.
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities' (HACU) 28th Annual Conference “Championing Hispanic Higher Education: Investing in America’s Future,” held in Denver, Colorado, drew more than 1,500 participants from the U.S., Spain, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and Mexico, including approximately 450 students from national colleges and universities.
Felipe Fernández Armesto in conversation with Alfred Mac Adam, Jonathan Cohen and Amadeo Petitbó, Tuesday October 21st, 7 p.m. at Instituto Cervantes. The event is free, in English with simultaneous translation.
