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La voluntad y la fortuna
(Will and Fortune)
Carlos Fuentes
In Fuentes’s latest work, set in contemporary Mexico City, he offers, yet again a crude picture of Mexico’s existing reality, where power, for many years in the hands of the government, is now in private hands—often the same hands that control organized crime. Josué, the narrator, tells his life story as his decapitated head is washed away in the Pacific Ocean. | | |
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Crepúsculo
(Twilight)
Stephenie Meyer
In Twilight, an exquisite fantasy by Stephenie Meyer, readers discover a pair of lovers who are supremely star-crossed. Bella adores beautiful Edward, and he returns her love. But Edward is having a hard time controlling the blood lust she arouses in him, because--he's a vampire. At any moment, the intensity of their passion could drive him to kill her, and he agonizes over the danger. | | |
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 Los perros románticos (The romantic dogs)
Roberto Bolaño
The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, The Believer, Boston Review, Poetry, Soft Targets, Tin House, The Nation, Circumference, A Public Space, and Conduit.
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 El palacio de la medianoche (The Midnight Palace)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The Midnight Palace is the meeting place of a secret society (Chowbar Society) of seven orphaned children from the St. Patrick's orphanage in the 1930's Calcutta. There, Ben, a twin, is dumped on a rainy night by his grandmother in an effort to keep them safe from a ghost. | |
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Spain's Juan Marse wins 2008 Cervantes Prize
Spanish novelist Juan Marse has been awarded this year's Cervantes Prize, the Spanish language's highest literary honor, in recognition of a body of work that describes the hardships people endured in the Catalonia region after Spain's 1936-1939 civil war.
The winner of this year's Cervantes, awarded by the Spanish government since 1976 and accompanied by a 125,000-euro ($161,250) cash award, was announced Thursday by Culture Minister Cesar Antonio Molina after meeting with the jury.
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Isabel Schon International Center for Spanish Books for Youth
The recently inaugurated Isabel Schon International Center for Spanish Books for Youth
at the San Diego Public Library is a circulating library that promotes literacy and reading. The Center ensures broad access to high-quality books for children and adolescents in Spanish and in English about Latino people and culture by:
• Reviewing Spanish-language books published in the United States and internationally
• Collecting recommended and award-winning books
• Cataloging materials in an online searchable database
• Conducting conferences and seminars
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Juan Goytisolo wins National Prize for Literature
Writer Juan Goytisolo won the National Prize for Spanish Literature, one of Spain's most prestigious awards. With a cash prize of 40,000 euros ($51,000), the prize honors the literary career of a Spanish author.
Considered by Carlos Fuentes as one of the best contemporary novelists in the Spanish language, Goytisolo had just arrived in Mexico when he was given news of the award.A perennial candidate for the Cervantes Prize, he has won such prestigious honors as the 1995 Rachid Mimumi Prize of Paris for Tolerance and Freedom, the 2002 Octavio Paz Prize for Literature, and the 2004 Juan Rulfo Prize for Latin American Literature.
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Course teaches Spanish on television and Internet
"Hola, que tal?" or "Hi, how are you?" the most frequent greeting in the Spanish language, is the name of a course available to anyone wishing to learn the language anywhere in the world, with classes on the Internet and television whose promoters expect to have 1.5 million students within three years.
The office of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid hosted the presentation of the course, developed by the institute itself, Radio Television Española (RTVE), the regional government of La Rioja, SM publishing group and banking giant BBVA.
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 Eva MendesActress
Eva Mendes is a young, attractive Hispanic woman and the new face of Calvin Klein and Revlon. Considered one of the sexiest actresses in Hollywood, her risqué poses have earned her mother’s disapproval on more than one occasion. But she’s also an avid reader with a preference for screenplays based on literature.
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| PARTNER OF THE MONTH |
Lectorum
Continuing its decades-long commitment to the Hispanic community, Lectorum has launched a new Spanish-language website for consumers, offering thousands of adult and children’s Spanish-language titles.
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| ARS ON THE ROAD |
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ARS at CLA Annual Conference
The 2008 Annual Conference & Exhibition of the California Library Association (CLA) was held in San José, CA from November 14 to 17. America Reads Spanish (ARS) participated with great success in the gathering.
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| INTERVIEW LOUNGE |
 David Taylor President of Lightning Source Inc.
David Taylor was named President of Lightning Source Inc. in June 2008. Mr. Taylor joined Lightning Source U.K. in June 2003 as Business Development Director and was named Managing Director in December 2003. In June 2006 he took on the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Lightning Source Inc.
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