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ARS organizing meeting for US book
professionals and Spanish publishers during Book Expo America
At
the upcoming BookExpo America in New York, AMERICA
READS SPANISH is organizing for the fourth consecutive year a Breakfast
Meet & Greet event, where US book professionals and the 40
Spanish
publishers at BEA 2009 will have an opportunity to meet or reacquaint,
and exchange information about new releases and market and distribution
opportunities. BEA will be held in New York May 28-31. The meeting will
begin at 9:00 a.m. at the Jacob K. Javits Center on Thursday, May 28.
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Argentina's
Andres Neuman on Monday was awarded Spain's Alfaguara Novel Prize -
considered among the most prestigious of its kind in the Spanish
language - for "El viajero del siglo" (The Traveler of the Century).
Neuman, a novelist, poet and short story writer who was born in 1977 in
Buenos Aires but has lived in the southern Spanish city of Granada
since his youth, received a cash award of $175,000. Considered among
the most promising Spanish-language authors in recent years, Neuman
published his first novel, "Bariloche," at the age of 22 and has
followed that up with more works in that genre, as well as short
stories and poetry collections.
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Successful
“Spanish Authors in America Program” expands to new
locations
Spanish
Authors in America is a program aimed toward the promotion and
divulgation of Spanish writers in the USA. The program has been
extremely successful with its presentations of Spanish writers in the
US and it is expanding to new locations. The program brings best seller
Spanish authors to New York and Miami to share their works and writing
experiences with the public. The plan is sponsored by Spain´s
Ministry
of Culture, the New York Public Library (NYPL), the Spanish Association
of Publishers Guilds (FGEE) and coordinated by America Reads Spanish
(ARS) and the Instituto Cervantes (New York).
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Without
Columbus, Spanish wouldn't be a global language
If
not for the discovery of America, Spanish today would be just another
European language ranking 27th worldwide in terms of number of
speakers, just ahead of Ukrainian, according to the director of the
Chilean Academy of Language. "But in addition to the huge number of
speakers (in the) Americas, (the Spanish language's cultural influence)
is rising as a force," Alfredo Matus said during the presentation of
the first two volumes of the study "El Valor Economico del
Español: una
empresa multinacional" (The Economic Value of Spanish: A Multinational
Enterprise).
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Colombian
writer Angela Becerra wins Iberoamericano Planeta-Casa de
América Prize
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39
Cervantes Scholars in the United States
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Eliacer
Cansino wins Anaya Children's Novel Prize
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100-volume
encyclopedia traces Latin America’s contemporary history |
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Gael
García Bernal
Actor
Gael García Bernal, a 30-year-old actor
from Guadalajara, Mexico whose rise to stardom has made him a citizen
of the world, had his big breakthrough with the film Amores Perros and
keeps reaching new heights, undeterred by any barriers Hollywood may
put in his path.
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Final del juego
(End of the Game)
Julio
Cortázar
The
stories in this book include 'Blow Up", and 14 others as well, such as
the one that is about a mystery novel reader who finds out too late
that he himself is the murderer's victim and another story in which a
motorcyclist has an accident and finds himself in a hospital dreaming
he is being sacrificed in an ancient Aztec ritual only to awake to find
he actually is. Cortazar is into the magical tradition of the
"doubles". This is exciting reading, yet deep and philosophical at the
same time.
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El encantador de perros
(Cesar´s Way)
César
Millán
Dog Whisperer
Millán takes his
principles of dog psychology a step further, showing you how to develop
the calm-assertive energy of a successful pack leader and use it to
improve your dog's life--and your own. Filled with practical tips and
techniques as well as real-life success stories from his clients.
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Primavera con una esquina rota
(The
Gift)
Richard Paul
Evans
Nathan Hurst meets Addison
Park when they’re snowed in at the Denver airport. As Nathan
is falling in love with this woman, he discovers her son’s
gift of healing. Unfortunately, he’s not the only one. As
Addison tries to protect her son, Nathan is drawn into the melee that
unfolds. But there are things Addison doesn’t know about
Nathan’s past.
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¡Vive
tu sueño!
(Put Your Dream to the Test)
John C. Maxwell
What’s the
difference between a
dreamer and someone who achieves a dream? According to best-selling
author Dr. John Maxwell, the answer lies in answering ten powerful, yet
straightforward, questions. Put Your Dream to the Test provides a
step-by-step action plan that you can start using today to see, own,
and reach your dream
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