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Remedios Zafra, winner of Spain's 2025 National Essay Award

Remedios Zafra Alcaraz has been awarded Spain's National Essay Prize for 2025 for her work ‘El informe. Trabajo intelectual y tristeza burocrática’ (Anagrama, 2024), ..

July, August and September 2025 Newsletter #205 is now available with exciting news about America Reads Spanish!

Learn more about the latest Spanish language book releases. Exciting news involving the world of Spanish-language literature

Javier Castillo, from street sweeper at age 16 to selling millions of books before turning 40: Being a writer was unthinkable in my world.

The Malaga-born author, who has just published his eighth novel ‘El susurro del fuego,’ started out self-publishing and is now a success with each of his books, even though he never thought it would be possible.

Natalia Castro Picón wins the Anagrama Essay Prize with a new take on the apocalypse

The Mallorcan author's first work, ‘La fiesta del fin del mundo,’ will be available in bookstores on October 29.

The United States celebrates Banned Books Week in public schools from October 5 to 11.

As book bans spread at an unprecedented rate, according to the latest report from PEN America, the writers' group urges the public to speak out in defense of freedom

More than 40 bookstores apply for Spain's 2025 Cultural Bookstore Award

Last Tuesday, September 30, was the deadline for submitting projects for this year's Cultural Bookstore Award.

The VI Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial announces the six finalists

Six novels are competing for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize, worth $100,000.

Luis Alberto de Cuenca, José Luis Sampedro Award 2025: excellence and cultural generosity

The poet, philologist, manager, and translator is recognized at Getafe Negro for his multifaceted and humanistic career.

The Planeta Award breaks a new record for participation

The 74th edition of the Planeta Award for novels broke a new record for participation, receiving 1,320 original manuscripts aspiring to become the winner of the world's most lucrative literary award,

Authors demand protection of their copyrights against AI at a round table discussion at the BNE.

Madrid, October 2, 2025. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the literary world was the central theme of the round table discusión, 'La vida del escritor en tiempos de AI':

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