America Reads Spanish

Artist, librarian and curator Patricia Figueroa publishes this bilingual blog featuring interviews with new Spanish-speaking authors. It also includes links to other blogs, magazines, web sites, and anthologies recommended by the blogger.

EL MUNDO publishes in the newspaper's online edition an updated list of literary prizes in Spanish

Biblioblog/Libraryblog is a libraries weblog created on May, 2003; at the present time it is maintained by the Department of Analysis and Studies, Foundation Germán Sánchez Ruipérez in Peñaranda de Bracamonte (Salamanca, Spain.)

There can be found contacts to practice languages, short tales, opinions of different types of books.

An educational program to encourage reading, textual creation and respect to the author’s rights, promoted by CEDRO and intended for the whole of the educational community.

An extremely interesting Web site where one can sign up for virtual writing workshops and Internet-based and on-site courses, take part in literary contests, vote for words en route to extinction and stay current on what is happening in the literary world. The Escuela de Escritores team is made up of a group of creative writing professors and computer specialists with experience in distance-learning instruction.

Estandarte.com belongs to the new segment that is electronic publishing, but does not provide this service as just another among many. Estandarte.com is the world leader among Spanish-language electronic publishers and its fundamental goal is to open doors to all those people who have not been able to or wanted to publish their works by traditional means. Spain and Latin America are its natural areas of focus for reasons of language, culture and sensibility.

Help using the Spanish language.

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Letralia, Tierra de Letras (Letralia, Land of Literature), is the online magazine for Spanish-American writers. This is the first literary magazine published on the Web from Venezuela, a country with a great literary legacy but with few opportunities for disseminating the work of its present-day writers, especially young people. In addition to being an option for those – in Venezuela and other countries of the Spanish-speaking world – who want others to read their writing, Letralia is a communication project that seeks to capitalize on the opportunity provided by the Internet for the diffusion of ideas.

International Book Fair (Spain).

USA and Canadian publishers. Information about book related companies, books, newspapers, awards, events, meetigs and contents.

Mi Biblioteca is quarterly paper magazine, which proposes a rigorous and informative approach to the multiple aspects of the librarian’s work. In addition to offering diverse experiences and training materials, it aims to give a voice to anyone involved in library world and in the promotion of reading. It is a publication edited by the Foundation Alonso Quijano (Spain).

Miami Dade County Public School System (USA).

Nobel Prize Organization. Find out facts about all Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature through press releases, biographies, Nobel lectures, interviews, etc.

The media link page of Periodista Digital is a good organized summary of the main sources of information from around the world, including news agencies, newspapers, magazines, digital media, radio and television classified by countries.

Plan to increase reading, the clue to a more educated population.

PARES (Portal of Spanish Archives) is an Internet portal created by the Spanish Culture Ministry with millions of images and documents from Spain’s principal archives – the “big unknown” of the country’s historical heritage. Among the digitalized documents that can be found on PARES are some of great historical value like the Treaty of Tordesillas, Isabella of Castile’s will, documents written by Hernán Cortés and city maps of the colonial period. PARES, which is accessible via any Internet navigator without the user needing to register or make any downloads, is also free of charge.

The Spanish Publishers’ Federation is a professional association, created in 1978 to represent and defend the rights of the Spanish Publishers.

Associations, writers, children´s books, fairs, publishers, education, distributors and printing houses.