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Chilean wins
prestigious Alfaguara literature prize
Chilean writer
Hernan Rivera Letelier was awarded Spain's prestigious Alfaguara Novel
Prize on Monday for his work "El arte de la resurreccion" (The Art of
Resurrection).
The president of the jury, Spanish novelist and feature writer Manuel
Vicent, made the announcement during a meeting with authors and
journalists at the headquarters of the Santillana publishing group in
Madrid.
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“Festival
of the Word” to transform Puerto Rico into
Caribbean’s literary focal point
The “Festival
de la Palabra” (Festival of the Word) will transform Puerto
Rico into the Caribbean’s literary and cultural focal point
during the first week of May, according to the director of the event,
writer Mayra Santos-Febres.
The author of “Nuestra Señora de la Noche”
said that the Ballajá Quarter of Old San Juan will host a
festival designed to foster reading in Puerto Rico and which is
expected to attract more than 50,000 visitors.
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Spanish
writers win children Literature Prizes
Spanish writer Jordi Sierra i Fabra won the El
Barco de Vapor Children's Literature Prize, which is awarded by
publishing house SM, for "Historia de un segundo."
Sierra i Fabra, who was born in Barcelona in 1947 and is one of the
most popular children's authors in Spain, said he would donate the cash
prize of 50,000 euros ($68,242) to his foundation, which works with
disadvantaged children in Colombia and Spain.
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Chaired by Freda Mosquera, Broward County Library,
FL, this list is a compilation of recommendations from expert
librarians across the US.
ALCÁNTARA, Ricardo La casa de los miedos illus. by Ximena
Maier. 141p. Edelvives 2009. pap. $11.95. ISBN 978-84-263-7269-7. Gr 3-5
BRUNO, Pep. Un loro en mi granja illus. by Lucie
Müllerová. unpaged. Edelvives 2009. Tr $22.95. ISBN
978-84-263-7341-0. Gr 1-3
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2009 Librarian eBook Survey by
HighWire Press-Stanford University Libraries
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Collection rescues Filipino
literature in Spanish
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Robert Redford
Actor,
director and producer
Robert Redford came to fame as an outlaw and, movie
legend or no, he sees himself as an outsider still.
A good Spanish speaker, Redford lived five years in a little town in
the south of Spain at the end of the fifties and grew up in south Los
Angeles, surrounded by a Spanish community. Good friend of Gabriel
Garcia Marquez.
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Martín
Solares
To solve
the murder of a journalist, a policeman not to smart has to investigate
a crime that took place 20 years ago in Paracuan, in the Gulf of Mexico.
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(The black revolution)
Maria Isabel Grau
Published
in the series Historia desde abajo (History from Below), this is the
inspiring story of the armed rebellion in Haiti (17911804), when black
slaves, led by Toussaint Louverture, adopted the French Revolution's
cry for liberty, equality, and fraternity, leading to the island
colony's own declaration of independence in 1804.
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Ya solo habla de amor
(Only
love)
Ray
Loriga
Incapable of overcoming a
broken heart, Sebastian wallows in his failure with gleeful abandon. He
divides his time between the useless pursuit of compulsively
proofreading Blake s translated poems, the detailed observation of the
female gender, exploiting his friends patience, and breathing life into
Ramon Ayala, his imaginary alter ego.
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(The true story of Malinche)
Fanny del
Río
A woman who played an active
and powerful role in the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Malinche was an
interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for Hernán
Cortés. She was also a mistress to Cortés and gave
birth to his first son Martín Cortés. It through the
letters from mother to son, that the author constructs this vivid tale
about the woman behind the myth.
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