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Spain's Clara Sanchez wins prestigious novel prize
Spanish author Clara Sanchez has won the prestigious Nadal prize for "Lo que esconde tu nombre" (What Your Name Hides), a novel that examines the life of a former Nazi death camp guard who relocated to Spain after the war.
Based on a true story, the novel tells of an elderly former Nazi who has forged a new life on Spain's eastern coast and another octogenarian, a survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp who lives in Buenos Aires.
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Digital books take off in Spain
This spring, the digital Web site established jointly by the Planeta, Random House Mondadori and Santillana publishing groups will make its debut. Almost 7,000 titles, including newly published works, will be included in the group of books selected to kick off the e-book phenomenon in Spain.
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Few novels make Babelia’s list of 2009’s best books
Babelia, the literary supplement to Madrid newspaper El País, recently published a special edition devoted to the best books published in Spain in 2009. A group of 50 leading critics and Babelia’s own journalists were surveyed and they bestowed the honor of best book of the year on “Anatomía de un instante” (Anatomy of a Moment), a non-fiction work by Javier Cercas about the failed Feb. 23, 1981 coup.
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Spanish language instruction is growing in U.S. schools, but instruction in other languages has declined or increased minutely in recent years, according to a survey by Nancy C. Rhodes and Ingrid Pufahl of the Center for Applied Linguistics.
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Spain’s SGAE nominates Sábato, Delibes and Ernesto Cardenal for Nobels in 2010
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Perez-Reverte reflects on his forthcoming novel
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Michelle Rodriguez
Actress
Thirty-year-old Texas native Michelle Rodríguez, an actress, rebel and notorious “bad girl” who was arrested for assault after fighting with a roommate, is half-Dominican, half-Puerto Rican and 100 percent Latina
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José Saramago
If in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, Jose Saramago presented us with his vision of the New Testament, in Cain he comes back to the first books of the Bible. An unorthodox itinerary takes him to decadent cities and stables, palaces of tyrants and battlefields, led by the hand of the central characters of the Old Testament, with the music and refined humor that are the hallmark of his work.
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Doña Bárbara
(Doña Bárbara)
Rómulo Gallegos
Deeply involved with the social issues of his times Romulo Gallegos crafted his representation of the stratified society around him by building upon firmly grounded and widespread images. These images highlight the underlying cultural and metaphysical beliefs (basis for a legitimized social order) from which the fictional world is finally drawn.
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El pequeño Larousse ilustrado 2010
(Small Larousse illustrated 2010)
Editors of Larousse
This revised edition of the bestseller is a comprehensive Spanish-language dictionary and encyclopedia in one. With updated entries reflecting current events, the latest edition of this full-featured reference includes 90,000 entries with 200,000 definitions.
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(The last Dickens)
Matthew Pearl
In the work of Matthew Pearl, fact and fiction seamlessly blend, and from this provocative brew, strange mysteries emerge. The literary giants of history -- Longfellow, Dante, Poe -- become the subjects and solvers of puzzling thrillers.
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