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El cuaderno verde del Che
El cuaderno verde del Che
(Che's Green Notebook)
Pablo Neruda, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Nicolás Guillén, César Vallejo
Among Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara's possessions the day of his capture was a green notebook filled with poetry. This notebook, guarded by the Bolivian military, eventually went missing, and a photocopy landed in the hands of Mexican writer, Taibo, familiar with Guevara's handwriting from authoring his biography Ernesto Guevara, también conocido como el Che, (Ernesto Guevara: Also Known as Che, Planeta, 1996).  
 

Por amor a la música
Por amor a la música
(For the Love of Music)
Kike Santander
Who is Kike Santander? Originally from Cali, Colombia, this graduated Medical Doctor showed interest for the music since he was a boy. Since then, he learned to play piano, accordion, bass, percussion and guitar. In these pages Kike talks about the most important moments of his career, and also unknown aspects of his life, some unexpected. He won several Grammy Awards, Premios Lo Nuestro and Composer of the Year BMI.
 
       
Viaje al corazón de ChinaViaje al corazón de China
(A Journey to the Heart of China)
Vicenta Cobo
This is an exciting visual journey around the most emblematic places of this millenarian Eastern civilization’s culture and history. It is also a journey into the bowels of the dragon, which wakes up and devours its offspring incited by the excessive consumerism and communism. An airplane ticket to Beijing, a Spanish-Mandarin dictionary, and a globetrotters’ guide were the only objects Vicenta Cobo had in her backpack when she decided to travel to this great Eastern country.

La mano del fuegoLa mano del fuego
(The Fire's Hand)
Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Ruy Sánchez returns to Mogador in this story about the anti-love affair, and the ludicrous search for the erotic. Despite the multiple faces of desire, eroticism is only an illusion. It exists like a second skin that burns and comes alive like a sleepwalker. It lives for the adventure of playing with fire. A frustrated editor of an erotic magazine is hell bent on writing about the Arab Kama Sutras; but it appears that life is also hell bent on showing him how wrong he is.
“The Economist”: Sales of books in Spanish are booming, and there is plenty of room for growth
The market for books in Spanish is thought to be the second-largest in the world said the prestigious magazine “The Economist” in its later edition. It is the biggest for books in translation, which account for about a fifth of the 120,000 Spanish titles published each year. With sales up by 7.5% in 2005—growth is strongest in Argentina, Mexico and Colombia—it is expanding faster than many other book markets. Since many of the world's 400m Spanish-speakers live in developing countries, it has great potential: literacy rates are high and incomes are rising. (Ibero-American publishing, which also includes books in Portuguese, is worth about $6 billion a year.)
 
Piña Rosales chosen as new director of North American Academy of the Spanish Language
Leading Spanish-born academic Gerardo Piña Rosales, who has lived in the United States for more than three decades, has been elected the new director of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, or ANLE, the institution said. Piña Rosales will replace the late Odón Betanzos, one of the organization’s founders at the beginning of the 1970s.

Piña Rosales was born in the southern Spanish town of La Línea de la Concepción in 1948, spent his early childhood in Málaga and went to high school in Tangiers, Morocco.

ICEX launches 20-million-euro plan to internationalize cultural industries
The Institute of Foreign Trade, or ICEX, has implemented a plan to internationalize Spanish cultural industries and bolster their image abroad.
Cultural industries accounted for 2.94 percent of Spain’s gross domestic product in 2004, with the four most important sectors in terms of export activity being the audiovisual, music, publishing and educational services sectors.
Those four, which together made up 2.54 percent of GDP that year, had combined annual revenue of 27.4 billion euros in 2006, provide employment to 377,600 people and earn about 1.5 billion euros in export revenue annually.
The Best Children and YA Books of 2007 by Criticas
Something magnificent happened in 2007 in the children’s publishing industry. Many Spanish-language translations of American best-sellers were pretty good. Some even outstanding: their texts flow; they are a pleasure to read and a delight to hear. We usually don’t include translations in this list, but we’ve made an exception this year to include a few titles that libraries and bookstores should not be without.
Another interesting thing was the small number of unique non-fiction titles that were published last year. Many library-bind series were too boring, frankly, and a few good biographies lagged in design. Let’s hope this new year brings new zeal for this much-sought-after category.
 
SPECIAL REPORT
Oklahoma Spanish Language Outreach Program: Siga Adelante (Moving Forward)
The Oklahoma Spanish Outreach Language Program Siga Adelante (Moving Forward) is a partnership between WebJunction (www.webjunction.org) and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. They have developed templates for workshops in Spanish and English on the topics of citizenship, health, and family literacy. Three more topics are planned for implementation in 2008. WebJunction and other partners also present free webinars focused on different topics and available on its page.
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BOOK SELECTIONS 


 
New releases of books in Spanish in the US.
 
Michael DouglasJavier Bardem
Actor
Javier Bardem, a Spanish actor and now Hollywood heavyweight, has made a big splash in recent months with two films adapted from acclaimed novels: Colombian Gabriel García Márquez’s “El amor en los tiempos del cólera” (Love in the Time of Cholera) and American Cormac McCarthy’s “No Country for Old Men.”
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PARTNER OF THE MONTH
 
bibliodiversidad
 
Bibliodiversidad
 
An interesting quarterly magazine put out by a group of small Madrid-based publishers to announce the release of their latest literary titles also is an attempt to combat the dominance of the industry’s biggest players.
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ARS ON THE ROAD
NABE 2008
 
ARS participates in NABE Annual Conference
America Reads Spanish has participated with great success in the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE) 37th Annual Conference celebrated in Tampa, Florida, February 6-9, 2008.
The National Association for Bilingual Education is the only professional organization at the national level devoted to representing Bilingual Learners and Bilingual Education professionals.
NABE's mission is to advocate for our nations Bilingual/English Language learners and families and to cultivate a multilingual/multicultural society by supporting and promoting policy, programs, research, pedagogy and professional development that yield academic success, value native language, lead to English proficiency, and respect cultural and linguistic diversity.

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DILVE
 
DILVE is the technological platform for the management and distribution of the bibliographical and marketing information of Spanish books in print. Free access.

INTERVIEW LOUNGE
Ernesto MartínezLaurence Bennett
Vice President, Spanish Language Materials and Print On Demand, Baker & Taylor, Inc.
Larry Bennett has held the position of Vice President, Spanish Language Materials and Print on Demand for Baker & Taylor, Inc. since June, 2007. Baker & Taylor is the leading book and entertainment products wholesaler worldwide. Previously, Mr. Bennett was President and Founder of Public Square Books, a distribution/publishing company that provided a wide assortment of Spanish language graphic novels to bookstores, public and school libraries through a network of book wholesalers. Mr. Bennett graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, with a BS in Economics.

 

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