 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
|
|
Chilean
Nicanor Parra Awarded Spain's Cervantes Prize 2011
Chilean
Nicanor Parra was awarded Spain's Cervantes Prize on Thursday in
recognition of a lifetime's work and his creation of a new and
different poetic language that the nonagenarian has labeled
"anti-poetry."Spain's culture minister, Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde, and
Margarita Salas, the first woman to head a Cervantes Prize jury, made
the remarks in describing the the new recipient of the Spanish-speaking
world's most prestigious literary honor.
|
|
Casa del Libro
a Front Runner in Race for Spain’s Digital Readers
The launch of Casa del
Libro’s project Tagusmarks a beginning and end in the the
short-lived, although intense, history of digital publication in Spain.
With the impending arrival of Amazon, Apple, Google eBooks, Kobo,
Copia, among other players, into the Spanish market, the most important
Spanish chain of bookstores, Casa del Libro, has taken steps to
confront its competitors in an effort to obtain an important market
share of the future digital market in the mid term.
|
|
Javier Celaya:
Transmedia, A New World of Opportunity for Authors and Publishers
As a writer in the 21st century, I am
rather curious as to the different opportunities transmedia
storytelling has to offer in the process of creating a work. Which
multimedia languages are the most appropriate in which to tell a story?
What role do the various platforms play in creating a story? What is
the production process like? What role does a publisher play in the
entire process? How is a transmedia story marketed? How can the
production costs be made profitable?.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
Caballo de Troya 9. Cana
J.J. Benítez
Finally, we have the
long-awaited ending to the great saga The Trojan Horse. After reading
Cana, the reader comes to a conclusion: everything that has been said
about Jesus of Nazareth is now open to doubt. If you undertake to read
the first line of this work, it won’t be by chance
and you had better steel yourself, as you will be shaken to the
core.
|
El puente de los asesinos
Arturo
Pérez-Reverte
Naples, Rome and
Milan are but a few of the settings of this latest adventure in the
Captain Alatriste series. Alatriste, accompanied by the young Inigo
Balboa, is ordered to intervene in a crucial conspiracy to take place
in Venice involving the Spanish crown: a lightning attempt to
assassinate the Doge during Christmas Mass and then install a
government favorable to the court of the Catholic King in that Italian
State. For Alatriste and his comrades—the veteran soldier
Sebastian Copons and the dangerous Moor Gurriato, among
others—the mission will prove to be difficult, risky, and
full of surprises, a suicide mission, perhaps, but not an impossible
one.
|
|
Para que no me olvides
Marcela
Serrano
This work considers, in a spontaneous and
unique manner, the amorous discourse of a woman whose new object of
passion derails her apparently secure world. The thought and
far-ranging experiences, even the most terrible, of women emerge from
the pen of this author, who day by day gains recognition as one of the
best contemporary writers in the Spanish language.
Marcela Serrano acutely and decisively reveals the myriad emotions and
different ways of coping way with life of the women who inhabit these
pages; her forcefulness, freshness, and irony allow the reader
recognize him or herself, with astonishment and a smile, in this warm
story.
|
Conversación
Gonzalo
Bayal
Five
stories, five different narrators, ranging from first-person confession
to a transcript of what you hear, the story in first person in plural
to the purely speculative someone you rarely know. Conversation is an
extraordinary volume which demonstrates the versatility and expertise
of a narrator as Gonzalo Hidalgo, whom many considered a classic today.
|
|
|
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
