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Nada sucede la víspera

Chufo Llorens

Impossible relationships, private vices, and a crime that altered everyone’s life in Barcelona, in the nineteen sixties. Barcelona, late 1969. The Marquis de Soto, Don Julio Urquízar, is found dead and shows signs of violence. What is behind this tragic incident began earlier that year. 

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Cocina y vencerás 

David de Jorge, Martín Berasategui 

After the great success of It’s a Piece of Cake (Debate, 2021) and Cooking Without Shame (Debate, 2020), Martín Berasategui and David de Jorge return with new and delicious recipes everyone can cook. Cook and Conquer gathers scrumptious, simple, popular, and tasty dishes, with the distinctive humor of this culinary duo, capable of improving anyone’s cooking skills.

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La vida es bonita 

Belén Domínguez

Belén is an ordinary girl with an ordinary life. She lives in Madrid and enjoys her job, her partner, and her friends. It's summer, vacation is around the corner, and everyone is full of plans and dreams to fulfill—until a pain in her back sends her to the doctor. What seemed like a simple muscle strain turns out to be ....

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El cuerpo tiene memoria 

Natalia Seijo 

We often consider our body as a mere spectator in our lives, indifferent to what we experience and feel. However, the body continuously experiences, remembers, and expresses itself with signals that we don’t always know how to decipher. Natalia Seijo, a psychologist specializing in ...

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AMIGOS DE ESPAÑOL

Timothée Chalamet

American actor

He’s up for best actor for portraying the famous folk singer, and so far, has spearheaded a press tour both unique and entertaining. He’s done interviews with internet personalities like Nardwaur, Brittany Broski and Theo Von; pulled double duty on ‘Saturday Night Live’, performing an eclectic mix of Dylan’s deep cuts; and last Friday filmed an artsy conversation with Kendrick Lamar ahead of his Super Bowl halftime show. Based on the book “Dylan Goes Electric” by Elijah Wald, ‘A Complete Unknown’ tracks Dylan’s rise as an artist leading up to his infamous set at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, during which he performed live with electric instruments for the first time.

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NEWS

Spanish-language writers and the making of a U.S. literary tradition

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Yolanda Arencibia, professor of Spanish Philology and expert on the figure of Benito Pérez Galdós, dies at 85

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Voices unidas: Bilingual education students share their journeys at Illinois State University in English and Spanish

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Guillermo Saccomanno, 2025 Alfaguara Prize Winner

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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: Canal a Fondo  RTVE & Editrama on writer Carmen Martín Gaite

ARS RADIO: La Milana Bonita interviews  Belén Gopegui,  Spanish writer, novelist and screenwriter

INTERVIEW

El Periódico interviews Luis García Montero, poet and director of the Cervantes Institute.

During Almudena's illness, I realized that the sick person also cares for those who care for them. Luis García Montero is a poet, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada, and currently director of the Cervantes Institute. Last Thursday, he participated in the talk "Love and Pain" as part of the MOT Literature Festival. You have experienced both things up close, love and pain.

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CHILDREN'S BOOK

Telmo Lobo 

Emilio Aragón 

Telmo Lobo is losing his mind: he sees things no one else can, seagulls talk to him, and a mysterious millionaire shows up claiming to know where his father is; the same father who disappeared years ago without uttering a word, leaving his children, Telmo, Mía, and Sammy, behind.

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