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No 91 April 2014 
 
 
 
Jorge Volpi
A manuscript arrives in the hands of a famous North American editor. The conclusion is clear: the book is a sort of autobiography of J. Volpi, a famous investment banker who, after the housing crisis, has fled due to a fraud of close to ten billion dollars. Based on real historical facts, Jorge Volpi constructs a new reality from the world of fiction. Focused on the market crisis in 2008, Memoir of a fraud is the story of a family through three generations, from World War II until today.
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Francisco Martín Moreno
The unveiling of a disturbing family secret is starting point for a journey to the past that will take readers down the sunny streets of Madrid and Valencia to the hardship of exile in France, the atrocities of the jails of Franco and the German concentration camps. From the Berlin with echoes of the Belle Époque, to the exoticism of Casablanca in Morocco, and finally to the thriving Mexico of the 1940
Sonia Ballesteros
Domestic abuse is a problem all over the world. This book offers women a solid game plan to help them get out of dangerous relationships and situations. It emphasizes both self-esteem and self-defense.
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Valentina Alazraky
Floribeth Mora, in her fifties and mother of four, was presented by the Catholic Church as the woman who was cured from a brain aneurism through a miracle attributed to the beatified John Paul II. Valentina Alazraki carries out a journalistic investigation to tell, in an intimate way, the amazing story that has captivated the world.From the moment the illness was detected to the unexplainable recovery of Floribeth, Alazraki achieves an unmatched chronicle about the Costa Rican miracle that will make the "pilgrim pope" a saint.
World press honors Gabriel García Márquez
Multimedia specials published by the digital edition of newspapers around the world, pay tribute to Colombian writer and nobel prized laureate García Marquez, who died last Thursday.
Compilation of videos, photographs, anecdotes and more, plus the legacy of this universal writer, can be seen here.
 “New Spanish Books” releases its 2014 Newsletter
Featuring the new titles Spanish publishing industry has available for translation; the industry experts panel's six books selected that have something to add to the UK panorama of literature in translation; and interesting articles and interviews.
Read the complete newsletter  below.
The Mexican journalist and author is the fourth woman to receive the prestigious award. In the ceremony, she recalled how Gabriel García Márquez “gave wings to Latin America.”
Read about the ceremony and Poniatowska acceptance speech
Bilingual children’s books are finalist at the International Latino Book Awards
Nine months from the first publication, three new children’s stories have been published in both Spanish and English by Avian Kingdom, and this month, they are finalists for the book award. The publisher’s goal with these children’s books is to promote literacy, family values, and environmental stewardship.
 
 
Natalie Portman
Actress   
Natalie Portman is as renowned for her intelligence as she is for the movies she acts in. Not only has she famously turned down roles and missed premiers in order to focus on and further her studies, but she also works as a UN ambassador and is fluent in a number of languages including Hebrew, German, Japanese, Spanish and French. Natalie Portman has been known to be able to deliver a speech quite well in any of these languages. Celebrities like Natalie Portman are realizing how important it is to speak more than one language, as does the rest of the global population.
  
ARS TV: Gabriel García Márquez - in His Own Words
 

 
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