The statement is in response to BCALA’s concern about the application of the Stand Your Ground law in Florida and the fact that the ALA Annual Conference is scheduled for Orlando in 2016. The joint statement of action was developed collaboratively by the Executive Boards of BCALA and ALA and then modified and endorsed by the presidents of the other ethnic affiliates - AILA, APALA, CALA, and REFORMA.
Pablo Helguera’s art installation, “Librería Donceles,” is a traveling trove of some 12,000 books in Spanish on many subjects. The exhibit will be open 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays and by appointment through June 28 at Combine Studios Gallery, 821 N. Third St., Phoenix. Admission is free.
dosdoce.com's newsletter features the first Annual ACE: "Impact of new technologies in the cultural sector"; the Global Editors Network summit; a overview on the international market for digital books and the latest trends on the Spanish e-book market.
Diario de las Americas interviewed Ana Eulate about on starting her children's book publishing house and how the business, has a philanthropic side as well.
Magdalena Vinent is the Managing Director of CEDRO, the Spanish Reproduction Rights Center (Centro Español de Derechos Reprográficos), an agency which issues copyright licenses for the legal reuse of books and other publications published in Spain.
Penguin Random House will increase its presence in the Spanish-language world after acquiring the trade book businesses of Santillana Ediciones Generales, the Spain-based textbook and general interest publishing group.
Colombian author Jorge Franco has been awarded with the 2014 Alfaguara Novel Prize for his work “El mundo de afuera” (The Outside World). The jury, presided by Laura Restrepo, has selected the winner by majority vote.
Jorge Franco is the winner of Spain’s Alfaguara Novel Prize for “El mundo de afuera,” which is loosely based on a kidnapping that rocked Medellin in 1971. The jury hailed the novel’s “sense of humor, the effectiveness of its dialogues, its construction of complex characters and narrative agility that ensures the tension is maintained until the last page.”
The death in exile of the Nobel laureate left a project unpublished which now sees the light. The first volume has 500 pages and an introduction study by Mercedes Juliá y María de los Ángeles Sanz Manzano.
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 11 of 2014 (week ending 3/16/2014).
