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 2013 (week ending 10/13/2013).

Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation convened a group of experts to propose a path to ensure the future of bookstores network in Spain.

This award was established by author and poet Pat Mora and her siblings in honor of their parents, to promote El día de los niños. Iit is presented annually, in partnership with REFORMA.

LéaLA, the Los Angeles-based Hispanic book fair, announced that it will not hold its annual event in 2014 due to a lack of funding. The event will return to Los Angeles in the spring of 2015.

The partnership, that marks Open Road’s first venture into the foreign-language e-book market, will release its debut list in the first quarter of 2014 and according to Open Road CEO Jane Friedman the goal is to do “a few hundred” titles in its first full year of operation.

Cuban-born novelist, author of “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” collapses on tennis court on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 62.

Novelist, poet and essayist, author of the renowned Pepe Carvalho series, he also contributed columns and articles to El País, that with this piece pays a tribute to the prolific Spanish writer, who died in Thailand on 2003.

Ignacio Olmos, who has a degree in Philosophy and Economics from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, is leaving his post as director in Chicago to direct the Instituto Cervantes New York. Julio Martínez Mesanza, who directed several branches abroad, has ben named academic director of the institution.

Canadian author Alice Munro has won this year's Nobel Prize in Literature.

Adan Griego, from Stanford University Libraries, tells of his experiences in LIBER after two years of absence. Griego not only writes about the Fair, but about his discoveries in Madrid: from bookstores and museums, to his visit to the antiquarian book fair and of course, tapas dinner.