The publisher golden anniversary is October 2014, but the celebration started a few months earlier with the first toast at the Guadalajara International Book Fair and a very entertaining event with authors Mario Vargas Llosa, Sergio Ramírez, Xavier Velasco and Joël Dicker.
The novel, translated by Edith Grossman, makes the list for the books recommended by the popular magazine for December.
Authors, literary agents, librarians, booksellers and more than 1,935 publishing houses from 43 countries are present at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. This year, Israel is the guest of honor and Alfaguara celebrates its golden anniversary. The event ends December 8th.
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 47 of 2013 (week ending 11/24/2013).
After the University of Houston-Victoria was designated a Hispanic-serving institution in May, UHV School of Education and Human Development leaders decided to make bilingual education the focus of the school's fall symposium.
Vicente Sanchez, Consul of Mexico, for the Central California district, gave 110 boxes of books to Fresno Unified School District. The books range from literature books to academic textbooks.
The event opened with presentations by Dan Brown and Jorge Edwards and closed with Junto Días and Ismael Cala. In between, visitors enjoyed the presence of Paul Auster, Richard Blanco, journalist Lawrence Wright, graphic novelist Gene Yang, and more of three dozens of authors and Spanish cultural promoters invited to the fair as guests of honor.
Spain’s Crown Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia gave a royal touch to the opening of the 30th edition of the Miami Book Fair International last week and marked the Spanish colonization of Florida with the arrival of Juan Ponce de Leon 500 years ago.
Penguin Random House and Books and Books are inviting to the launch of “Piel de agua” (A Skin of Water), a novel by the Spanish author Estrella Flores-Carretero on December 5 at 6:30 p.m. in Coral Gables, Florida.
"El mundo amarillo’s" message is to seek the intensity and nuances of different types of friendships. In order to live a bright and vivid life, Espinosa advises his readers to actively seek out people who can change their lives. These friends he refers to as "yellows,” their qualities and how to recognize or approach them, are the crux of this book.
