The current director of LéaLA, the largest Spanish-language book fair in the U.S., was named to lead the Guadalajara Book Fair and will start her new role April 1st. She is succeeding Nubia Macías, who resigned last week after a tenure of 10 years.
The current director of LéaLA, the largest Spanish-language book fair in the U.S., was named to lead the Guadalajara Book Fair and will start her new role April 1st. She is succeeding Nubia Macías, who resigned last week after a tenure of 10 years.
The movie, based on Benito Pérez Galdós' novel, will be available at Días de Cine Reading Club until March 31st, 2013. This initiative is sponsored by the America Reads Spanish program and the American Library Association to promote literature and the Spanish language in American libraries and universities.
So far, over 600 librarian are among the “people shaping the future of Libraries”. Library Journal presents every each of them. Discover who the Change Agents are, the Innovators, the Marketers, the Advocates, the Community and the Tech Leaders. Or see what librarian from your home state has made the list.
The conference on the future of publishing, organized by Bookrepublic, focuses on changes in the reading experience and the relationship between author, publisher and reader in the new digital era.
The new head of the Spanish Confederation of Unions and Associations of Booksellers, was elected last week. CEGAL gathers 1,600 bookstores located in Spain.
The 54-year-old-Spanish author won the prestigious award for his novel “La invención del amor."
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 2013 (week ending 3/17/2013).
The Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno, announced the publication “Basque Literary History”. This work has the main purpose of presenting written Basque literature since the seventeenth century to academic centers in United States.
The non-fiction essay, written by Ana Fuentes, tells real, amazing stories of ten Chinese people from all rungs of the socio-economic ladder: from a dissident lawyer, a young nationalistic millionaire, an entrepreneur, to a nostalgic maoist taxi driver, and a migrant worker, among others.
Dolores Redondo's novel, “The invisible guardian”, has been reprinted five times in three weeks following publication in January in the original Spanish language, and translation rights have been sold in 15 languages. In a piece entitled “The Rising Basque Star of Crime Fiction,” Publishing Perspectives tells us who she is.
