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Entre los muertos

Mikel Santiago

There are dead who never rest, and perhaps they should not rest until justice is served. No one knows this better than Nerea Arruti, an agent of the Ertzaintza in Illumbe, a lonely woman who also drags her corpses and ghosts from the past. A forbidden love story,..

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La dueña 

Isabel San Sebastián

The year 1069 of Our Lord. Christians and Muslims wage a merciless fight in Hispania, at the time divided into kingdoms and taifas (Muslim factions) devastated by internal disputes. In this ruthless world, Auriola recounts to her grandson Diego the deeds....

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De este mundo y del otro

José Saramago

A volume that compiles two collections of articles written by José Saramago between 1968 and 1972 for the journal A Capital and the weekly Jornal do Fundão.Both books in this volume contain articles written with a clear and straight-forward language, in which reflectiveness, observation, and the review of several topics come together.

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El futuro recordado

Irene Vallejo

The apparent contradiction that gives title to this book is also its central premise: The certainty that, on every step we take, we find the marks of a world that was left behind in time, but that impacts each of our gestures and ideas. In these brief essays, Irene Vallejo engages in a dialogue with....

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AMIGOS DE ESPAÑOL

Cate Blanchett

Australian female actor

Cate Blanchett says that she never read anything like the script for “TAR” in her career. TAR is a new movie where the 53-year-old actress stars in the leading role as the German orchestra conductor Lydia Tar  and is directed by the magic of Todd Fields. TÁR is the story of a powerful conductor but it is, before anything else, an x-ray of power, with all that that means, from the veneration that the distinguished honor of an orchestra conductor infuses in its wake.

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NEWS

The registration period for the technical conference of Children’s Books Day Workshop in Newark is now open

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Alfaguara and Santillana will not change their editions of children books by Roald Dahl: "They will stay as they are."

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What is happening to Spanish in the United States?

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No callar", by Javier Cercas, the most lucid and brilliant texts of a writer of international stature finally reunited

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Juan Muñoz, author of the sagas of Fray Perico and El Pirata Garrapata, dies at the age of 93

 

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Leonardo Padura wins the 2023 Pepe Carvalho Award

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Download the Essential Guide to Spanish Reading

NEW SPANISH BOOKS

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ARS MULTIMEDIA

Presentación de «El español en el mundo 2022. Anuario del Instituto Cervantes»

ARS Video: El País - In the library of  Eduardo Mendoza

ARS RADIO: El Anaquel Literary Podcast:   Juan Pablo Villalobos - Other ways of writing

INTERVIEW

La Vanguardia interviews the journalist and novelist Sergio Vila-Sanjuán 

The journalist and novelist Sergio Vila-Sanjuán publishes in Libros de Vanguardia, “Barcelona, la ciudad de los libros.” In this short essay, which includes a conference for the Cervantes Observatory at Harvard University, the author summarizes more than six centuries of tradition and answers these questions:

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CHILDREN'S BOOK

Un reto mágico 

Ana Punset

Is there anything more beautiful than a unicorn? Yes: a baby unicorn! And luckily a bunch of baby unicorns have just hatched at the Unicornia shelter. Here, all animals are magical and, although each unicorn is different, every one of them wants a family just as special as them! But legend has it that black unicorns bring bad luck… and one of the ones that just hatched is as black as coal!.

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