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La
última hora del último día (The
last hour of the last day)
Jordi Soler
A Catalonian family has exiled to La Portuguesa, an hacienda set in the
deepest recesses of the Mexican jungle. During the years the family
awaits with naïve energy for the fall of Franco and the advent
of the republic, each becomes more deeply rooted in this wild land
where only the creatures endemic to the region are able to survive.
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 Háblame
en español
(Talk
to me in spanish)
Eulalio
Ferrer
Ferrer
weaves an allegorical masterpiece of the Spanish exile in which he
follows his main characters, a young republican Catalan lady, Ita, and
a little Catalan orphan, Líber. They travel from the bloody
civil war bombing of Barcelona, Gerona and Figueras, into exile through
Paris, Hong Kong, and Boston for the next forty years.
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 Cuentos (Stories)Alfonso Reyes
For
the first time ever, here is a single volume of the short stories from
the great Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes! This enjoyable book showcases
the author's stylish elegance, intelligence and fine sense of humor. We
also find here a lesser known feature of Reyes: his craftiness.
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 Parejas(Couples)
Guadalupe Loaeza
This is an entertaining
journey to the center of passions, devotions, friendships, and
affections. It follows the plot of stories that take us to the
discovery of attractions and early, young and belated attachments,
within numerous environments and various scenes.
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Gloria Guardia
wrapping up Panama trilogy, planning historical novel on WWII
Panamanian
writer Gloria Guardia said she has made substantial progress with her
latest novel, “El jardín de las cenizas”
(The Garden of Ashes), the last installment in her trilogy about the
history of contemporary Panama.
She added that
she next plans to write a historical novel about World War II that will
feature Panamanian and Basque historical figures.
Guardia, 67,
said she has written 250 pages of “El
jardín,” which, like the second book in the trilogy,
“Lobos al anochecer” (Wolves at Nightfall), will be
published by Editorial Alfaguara.
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Writer Antonio Orlando
Rodriguez receives the Alfaguara Novel Prize
Cuban expatriate writer
Antonio Orlando Rodriguez on Monday was awarded the Alfaguara Novel
Prize for his work "Chiquita." The Alfaguara - a Spanish literary award
that was in its 11th edition this year - features a cash prize of
$175,000 and is considered one of the most prestigious given out each
year to an unpublished Spanish-language work. The prize jury, headed by
Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramirez, said "Chiquita" is "a novel that is
at once elegant and full of life, with notable narrative grace and an
unflagging imagination that, like an immense, precisely executed score,
illustrates that period and the life of an extraordinary person."
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Cervantes
Institute presents first “practical guide” to
proper use of Spanish
The Cervantes Institute has presented in Madrid a work titled
“Gramática práctica del
español” (Practical Spanish Grammar), the first in a
series of reference books intended to help increase understanding of
Spanish at a time “of expansion” when, according to
the organization’s director, Carmen Caffarel, 14 million
students are learning the language worldwide.
To address the
many doubts that learners have, the institute decided to jointly
publish this collection of “practical guides” with
the Espasa Calpe publishing house, marking the beginning of a
collaboration that will bear more fruit in the future,
Espasa’s director, Ana Rosa Semprún, said
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Nicaragua's
Belli wins Biblioteca Breve prize
Nicaraguan
writer Gioconda Belli was honored with the Biblioteca Breve Prize for
"El Infinito en la Palma de la Mano" (The Infinite in the Palm of My
Hand), a work that fuses poetry and mystery to create a fable about the
origins of Adam and Eve.
The
jury brought together by Spanish publisher Seix Barral was unanimous in
awarding the prize to a volume outstanding for its "singular approach,
its ability to evoke" an imaginary world "and its anthropological
recreation of the myth of our origin."
The
jury for this 50th edition of the prize included writers Jose Caballero
Bonald, Luis Mateo Diez, Pere Gimferrer, Rosa Montero and Elena Ramirez.
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New releases of
books in Spanish in the US.
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 Francis
Ford Coppola Director
An American by
birth and Italian at heart, Francis Ford Coppola now has his sights set
on Latin America and is learning Spanish. This cinematic giant, best
known for directing “The Godfather” trilogy and
“Apocalypse Now,” will find that the language comes
in handy now that he has a production firm in Argentina and hotels in
Guatemala and Belize and is preparing to start shooting
“Tetro,” a film about an Argentine family in which
Spaniards Javier Bardem and Maribel Verdú have starring roles.
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literary blog. Interviews with authors, audio and video and very
interesting literary news. Among the bloggers are writers like Felix de
Azua, Jorge Volpi,Vicente Verdú, Sergio Ramirez, Clara Sanchez
and many more.
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ARS in the 33rd
Annual Conference of CABE
America Reads Spanish will participate in CABE 2008
33rd Annual Conference "Bilingual Education: Connecting Cultures,
Reclaiming our Future" to be celebrated in the San Jose McEnery
Convention Center, San Jose, California from March 6-8.
America Reads Spanish will
sponsor an information pavilion during the Conference, distributing
copies of the “Essential Guide to Spanish Reading”
to participants who seek information about the campaign. As at previous
events, industry professionals will appreciate the ARS
campaign’s pioneering work to promote the reading of
Spanish-language books in the United States.
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The Red Iberoamericana de
Animación Sociocultural (RIA) was born as a result of the
restlessness of people of very different nature and origin, but who
feel the necessity to combine efforts in a common way.
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 Claudio Iván
Remeseira
Director of the Hispanic New York Project
(HNYP) at Columbia University Claudio Ivan Remeseira, born
in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1960 is the Founder and Director of the
Hispanic New York Project (HNYP) hosted by the American Studies Program
of Columbia University since 2006. Mr. Remeseira holds a Filosophy
degree by the University of Buenos Aires, 1990 and a M.S. in Journalism
by Columbia University, 2002. The mission of the HNYP is to develop an
academic and cultural center to promote the Latino and Latin American
cultural heritage of New York City.
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