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Cuentos Chinos
Andrés Oppenheimer Which countries are reducing poverty and improving the well-being of their people and which are simple telling “tall tales”? | |
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Llámame Brooklyn Eduardo Lago
Winner of this year's Premio Nadal, Llámame Brooklyn is a novel of love, friendship, and bittersweet humor. | |
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La Orden del Temple
Raymond Khoury
A historical thriller, Raymond Khoury's first novel about the Order of the Templar Knights, and their lost secret. | |
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El Pintor de Batallas Arturo Pérez-Reverte Faulques, a war photographer is painting a grand fresco on a tower on the Mediterranean, disturbed by the memories of a woman, and a man who wants to kill him. | |
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Paul Auster wins 2006 Prince of Asturias prize for literature
American writer Paul Auster has been awarded this year's Prince of Asturias prize for literature. According to award organizers, he was chosen because of “the literary renewal he has carried out by uniting the best of the North American and European traditions.” | |
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More than 50 Spanish Firms Took Part in Book Expo America
More than 50 Spanish companies took part in the recently concluded BookExpo America – the largest book publishing event in the United States – with the aim of promoting titles published in Spain and increasing their presence in the U.S. market, which is the world's second-largest in terms of Spanish speakers. | |
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Spain hands out national literature
awardsWriter Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald received the 2005 National Prize of Spanish Letters, an award that honors a Spanish author's entire body of literary work in any of the country's languages. It is considered Spain's second most prestigious literature award after the Cervantes Prize. | |
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First free automatic translation system for languages of Spain
Three computer software firms and four Spanish universities have collaborated to develop the first free automatic translation system that allows texts, documents and Web pages to be translated from Spanish into Catalan, Galician and Basque, as well as from Catalan and Galician into Spanish. | |
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Use of Spanish Language
Report prepared for Hispanic USA which subject is to provide estimates of the size of the Spanish-speaking Hispanic population today, and 10 and 20 years into the future.
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AMIGOS DEL ESPAÑOL |
María Elena Salinas
Maria Elena Salinas is one of the most prominent Hispanic journalists in the United States. She has spent the past 25 years as a reporter and news anchor for Univision.
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HACU
One of the most important goals of the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities (HACU) is to improve access to and the quality of post-secondary educational opportunities for Hispanic students.
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ARS ON THE ROAD |
BookExpo a success for Spanish Publishers
With over 2,000 exhibits, 500 authors and 60 conference sessions, BookExpo America is one of the largest industry conventions in the USA.
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SOL
The Servicio de Orientación de Lectura (SOL) is a project that promotes reading for all ages and recommends books.
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INTERVIEW LOUNGE |
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of “La sombra del viento” (The Shadow of the Wind), the biggest-selling Spanish novel in recent years, is not concerned about duplicating that success with his next book, with which he is still “wrestling.”
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