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El problema final

Arturo Pérez-Reverte

June 1960. A storm strands nine travelers at an inn on the idyllic island of Utakos, across from Corfu. No one has any premonition of what is about to happen: Edith Mander, a quiet English tourist, turns up dead in the beach pavilion. It looks like a suicide, but ...

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Le dedico mi silencio  

Mario Vargas Llosa

Toño Azpilicueta, Creole music expert, discovers a guitar virtuoso, Lalo Molfino, whose talent seems to confirm every instinct: his profound love for Peruvian waltzes, marineras, polkas, and huaynos has social grounds.

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Pablo Picasso. Libro de las conversaciones

Rafael Inglada

50 years after his death, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) continues to be a benchmark, a synonym for Art. Eugenio d'Ors ended his essay on Goya with these words: "Any matter seems clear, until the day it is given a little study." This is probably what happens here when we delve into these pages to hear the artist speak in the first person through his...

 

Vladimir

Leticia Martín

Guinea's professorial career at an American university is cut short after word gets out of her relationship with a much younger student. Fleeing from scandal and in search of a new life, she flies to Buenos Aires, only to discover upon her arrival that the city is in a total blackout. Her phone has no signal, and she has no idea where to go.

 

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AMIGOS DE ESPAÑOL

Xolo Maridueña

American actor

The new DC action movie, 'Blue Beetle', is the first to feature a Latino superhero as the protagonist. The film tells the story of Jaime Reyes, a recent university graduate, who returns home to Ciudad Palmera when he comes into contact with a Beetle; an ancient relic of alien biotechnology. Starring Xolo Maridueña, (Cobra Kai), Scarab chooses Jaime to be his host, fusing with his spine and granting him a blue armor capable of all kinds of incredible powers. Jaime chooses to use his new abilities to protect Palmera City by becoming the superhero Blue Beetle. Maridueña spoke about the possibility of deepening Latino representation in Hollywood by making not only Jaime, but the entire Reyes family the focus of a superhero movie.

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NEWS

Miami Book Fair: the Spanish program will be inaugurated by journalist and narrator Rosa Montero.

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Bilingual Education is America’s Future.

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NdeNovela, the new fiction label of the Planeta group, is born.

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Latin America and the United States account for half of Spanish publishing production.

 

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Sonsoles Onega Wins the 72nd Planet Award for ‘The Daughters of the Maid’.

 

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CEDRO requests urgent regulation of artificial intelligence to guarantee respect for copyright.

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NEW SPANISH BOOKS

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ARS MULTIMEDIA

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

ARS Video: Instituto Cervantes: Presentation of "Spanish in the world 2023. Instituto Cervantes Yearbook"

ARS RADIO: La Milana Bonita -  We talk about 'Feliz Idade' with poet Olga Novo, National Poetry Award

INTERVIEW

Interview with author  Agustín Tejada (Castejón-Navarra 1961)

He has been an English teacher for thirty years. "La sombra del rey de Jerusalén" is his latest published novel. In this interview he tells us about it and many other topics. I appreciate the time given for this interview.

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CHILDREN'S BOOK

Un patito sin suerte  

Gemma Merino 

After a particularly unlucky moment, Duck has had enough! Heading off to ask Wise Owl why he's so unlucky, he comes across a lonely swan, a hungry fox and a bare tree, all looking for answers of their own. Will Wise Owl's advice help Duck to find his luck after all? And has he just been looking in the wrong place all along?

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