Spanish philologist and professor Ciriaco Morón Arroyo, won the “Premio Internacional Menéndez Pelayo;” Spanish historian Fernando García de Cortázar won the “Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio,” and author Lorenzo Luengo won the “Premio de Novela Ateneo de Sevilla”.
Are you familiar with LIBER? It is Spain’s major Book Fair, a place for publishers to show their newest books. In the past, many U.S. librarians were invited to the Fair by the Spanish Government. But this year, because of Spain’s severe economic crisis, very few U.S. librarians will attend.
Writers, academics, publishers and entrepreneurs participating in the event, acknowledged the need to harness the burgeoning ebook and turn it to publishers’ and authors’ advantage, Publishing Perspectives reports.
To create an itinerant second-hand bookstore, Mexican artist Pablo Helguera came up with an idea: he would request Spanish-language books in exchange for his own artwork. As for the name for the new venture, there was one natural choice: Donceles, a tribute to Mr. Helguera’s book-loving hometown.
In a column published by El País, Blanca Rosa Roca, editor and founder of Roca Editorial, discusses the debacle that in her opinion the publishing industry suffers.
De Riquer was the oldest member of the Royal Spanish Academy, where he occupied the chair H since 1964.
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 37 of 2013 (week ending 9/15/2013).
The new Spanish publishing house aims to translate contemporary Spanish fiction into English, to reach the worldwide English-speaking book market.
In its latest edition, the newsletter publishes an interview with author Patricio Pron, reviews Maruchi Mendez's “Buscando mi estrella”, and Elias Hasbun's “La fuga”, plus news and more.
Santillana has translated Grant Cardone's Axiom Award winning book "Sell or Be Sold" into Spanish. Titled "Vendes o Vendes" is now available in the USA at Amazon.com.
