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No 79 March 2013  
José Ovejero wins Alfaguara Novel Prize 2013
According to Global Post, “the jury for the award - accompanied by a cash prize of $175,000 and a sculpture by Martín Chirino - was headed by Manuel Rivas, who said the winning entry 'reveals the transformative power of the imagination and its ability to construct new existences'".

'Santa Biblia / Holy Bible: Reina-Valera 1909' published by Barbour Publishing is #1 best selling title in Spanish in the US for week 11
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).

University of Nevada published a history of Basque literature in English
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 VI International Congress of the Spanish Language will be held in Panamá
The agreement was signed by Panamanian Minister of Education, Lucy Molinar, and the director of the Instituto Cervantes, Víctor García de la Concha, in the presence of the director of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, José Manuel Blecua.

Head of Guadalajara Book Fair resigns
 
 




   

 


 
   
Nowtilus and Tombooktu make history popular


Aaron Sorkin
Screenwriter, producer, and playwright
Aaron Sorkin is the biggest fan of the Man of la Mancha. The creator of the TV series The Newsroom, the first cable series from Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning creator of The West Wing and writer of The Social Network explains in this interview why most of his lead characters are based in the figure of Don Quixote.
 
El papa Francisco 
Sergio Rubin & Francesca Ambrogetti
Monsignor Jorge Bergoglio is successor to Joseph Ratzinger, as Pope Francisco, to fill the throne of Peter. This book is the result of talks with Sergio Rubin and Francesca Ambrogetti. Its a unique testimony and rigorous events that marked the life of the current pontiff. In a clear and close way, Jorge Bergoglio explains how his family landed at the port of Buenos Aires in 1929, the circumstances of his birth, he describes his childhood, and how he had a severe pneumonia. 
 

Oscar y las mujeres
Santiago Roncagliolo
Óscar Colifatto is an eccentric hypochondriac. He dresses in unrepentant black, hates sunlight, animals, children and the frivolous and loud streets of Miami. In fact, he hates everything except himself. He keeps the world at bay so nothing and no one can interfere with his monotonous routine as a soap-opera scriptwriter.

  

 
Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza es íntimo amigo de Gabriel García Márquez desde hace más de sesenta años. Este libro es el extraordinario documento de esta amistad. El autor desgrana los infinitos recuerdos compartidos, desde los primeros pasos periodísticos cuando ambos tenían apenas veinte años hasta la etapa en París durante los años 60 y 70, cuando vivieron juntos el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, o los recuerdos más recientes, ambos ya octogenarios.
  


 

Tiempo de vida
Marcos Giralt   
All writing, even that which imitates life, is a fiction. A trick. Using this as his premise, Giralt Torrente confronts a universal theme in this intimate story: the death of his father. He reconstructs the relationship with his father, the times in life he shared with him, with a surprising eagerness for faithfulness. He does not avoid the shadows but neither does he recreate the story from within them. In this way, with the help of hypnotic and concise prose, this experience turns into everybodys experience.  
 

     
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