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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).
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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.
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Viaje
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.
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La 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.
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“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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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New releases of
books in Spanish in the US.
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Javier
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 |
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 |
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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FEATURED LINK
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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.
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INTERVIEW
LOUNGE |
Laurence 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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