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No 90 March 2014 
 
 
 
Julio Cortázar
If In response to these demands, we came up with a simple idea that would turn out to be a pretty challenging project: an illustrated biographical dictionary, or photo-biography, self-documented with portraits from every period of Cortazar’s life: photos of every one of his first editions; some of his publications in newspapers and magazines; an anthology of texts accompanied by his personal objects and paintings; reproductions of original handwritten and typed manuscripts; unedited scribblings; and, scattered throughout, the reminiscences of those who were his closest friends.
 
Mayra Montero
If In the late 18th century, the young Antonia de Salis is living with her cousin Teresa in Russia. There they receive the visit of a fascinating Hispanic-American military, Francisco de Miranda, precursor of the independence that is shaking up the colonies, who is on a mission in Russia to work out an alliance with Potemkin.

Ricardo Piglia
Emilio Renzi has arrived at the campus of a prestigious university in New Jersey to teach a course on the Argentinian years of W. H. Hudson. He has been invited by the director of the department, the beautiful and feisty Ida Brown. A series of small incidents and strange mistakes culminate in the tragic death of Professor Brown in anunexplained accident. But there is a strange detail: Ida’s hand is burnt and this fact seems to connect her to a series of terrorist attacks against leading figures in the academic world. But when the real instigator of the attacks is uncovered the surprise is even greater.
 
William Navarrete
If Flights seduces with the musical quality of its phrasing and an endearing story that moves between a chronicle of Cuba and the evocation of an exile looking back -or dreaming- and finding the magnificence of the conga. A conga that, as in life itself, develops and disappears in the streets. Sombra, Jota Uve, De Chirico, Garcilasa and Solenodon live like anybody else the everyday events of a country incapable of offering better perspectives to its youth, one that does not succumb to tedium. 
Spanish media group Prisa said it had agreed to sell Alfaguara and several other editorial brands, to Penguin Random House for $100 million. "Prisa, which publishes Spain's most-read quality newspaper El Pais, has been restructuring its debt burden of over 3 billion euros and selling off assets," reports Reuters.  Keep reading...

 “El mundo de afuera,” by Jorge Franco, 2014 Alfaguara Novel Prize
Colombian author Jorge Franco has been awarded with the 2014 Alfaguara Novel Prize for his work “El mundo de afuera” (The Outside World). The jury, presided by Laura Restrepo, has selected the winner by majority vote. Keep reading...

The latest edition of Spanish Royal Academy's dictionary to be released in October
More amendments, more meanings, more Americanisms, more lexicographical and linguistic debate, more nuanced, the 23rd edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy has been completed and will be released in October. Keep reading... 

Bilingual programs in San Francisco are as effective as English only ones, according to a study
A research conducted by Stanford University found that by the time they reach 5th grade, English-language learners in San Francisco's public schools were equally proficient in English regardless of whether they had been in a bilingual program or had received all their instruction in English.

 
 
Chris Hemsworth
Actor   
Less than two years ago, Chris Hemsworth was a barely known actor, struggling to make the jump from his native Australia to Hollywood. Today he is a major star thanks to movies like Thor, where he plays a superhero, and driving Formula 1 cars in Rush. Balanced and a hard working actor Hemsworth is married to the Spanish actress Elsa Pataky with whom he has a little girl called India. In a recent press event we had the chance to talk with this amazing Australian actor who is trying his best to learn and speak Spanish.Keep reading... 
  

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