Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., top Amazon’s second annual “Most Well-Read Cities in America” list.
Alexandria, Va., Cambridge, Mass., and Berkeley, Calif., top Amazon’s second annual “Most Well-Read Cities in America” list.
The Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade (ICEX), with the support of Federación de Gremios de Editores de España (FGEE), is organizing the Spanish exhibit in the upcoming Book Expo America 2012, June 4th -7th in New York. The latest edition of the “Essential Guide to Spanish Reading” will be presented at the fair, on June 6th.
Fuentes, one of the most influential Latin American writers, died Tuesday at a hospital in Mexico City at the age of 83. He was instrumental in bringing Latin American literature to an international audience, and he used his fiction to address what he saw as real-world injustices.
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 19 of 2012 (week ending 05/13/2012).
Antonio R. Flores, HACU President and CEO, will be a speaker on a plenary session on the topic “U.S. Educational Challenges in a Global Economy,” May 18th. The CNC 16th Biennial National Conference will be celebrated in Miami, May 17-18.
Antonio Villaraigosa also thanked organizers for putting together the Spanish-language book fair.
Spanish Publishers will be one of the exhibitors at the BookExpo America, to be held in New York, June 5 -7, 2012.
Rima de Vallbona of the University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas; will be inducted as a full member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language (ANLE) this Friday at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center of New York University.
The movie, based on Andrés Madrid's “Ayer España enrojeció”, is featured this week at the Días de Cine Reading Club. 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.
America Reads Spanish launched, with great success, its first panel for translation rights in the United States, showcasing the latest titles coming from Spain with rights available for translation.
