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Las desheredadas

Ángeles Caso

Nearly two decades ago, Ángeles Caso published Las olvidadas, the first part of a unique project to reconstruct a cultural female genealogy of all those women who broke with societal expectations and dared to live unconventional lives and imagine to create a better world, ..

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Las mujeres de las Carolinas  

Concepción Revuelta

1935: The Second Republic has brought professional opportunities for women across Spain. As the Civil War approaches, however, this is about to change. With unrest brewing, four young women from different backgrounds and social classes forge ..

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Volver al mundo

J.Á González Sainz 

A woman comes from abroad to the Valley where the man she loved has just died. By inquiring about his death, the novel confronts the fate of a group of friends (young people from the seventies, but also from any youth of the 20th century) who spent part of ...

 

La metamorfosis del sabueso

Horacio Castellanos

'My job consists of swallowing reality, digesting it, and reinventing it according to the laws of literary imagination' The Hound's Metamorphosis. Personal Essays and Other Texts is a masterful example of Horacio Castellanos Moya's skill as an essayist and critical ...

 

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AMIGOS DE ESPAÑOL

Sofia Vergara

Colombian-American actress

Who was Griselda Blanco? For many years, this woman was only the ‘Black Widow’ or the ‘Cocaine Godmother’ two of the nicknames that the few people who knew her were using to identify her. Blanco was a trafficker, an unscrupulous assassin, a mother an her cocaine empire is now the subject of a new Netflix drama series with Sofia Vergara jumping from comedy to drama, shocking the world with this real-life story, one of violence, horror and tragedy. From the creators of ‘Narcos’, this new show has all the elements to engage audiences all over the world again. Sofia Vergara,  plays not only the star lead role of ‘Griselda’ in the new series from Netflix, but is also an Executive Producer alongside with the creator of ‘Narcos’, Eric Newman. Directed by the Colombian Andres Baiz, ‘Griselda’ is the most compelling work of Vergara in her career, showing her chops as a dramatic actress.  

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NEWS

The Cervantes Institute, Lawrence Wilkins Founder Award for its promotion of Spanish and Hispanic cultures in the United States.

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Don't miss the latest selection of titles chosen by our panel of experts in our 2023 edition of the translation rights sales program NEW SPANISH BOOKS!

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Libranda and Zebralution join forces for the development of Spanish audiobooks.

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'Los alemanes' by Sergio del Molino wins the 2024 Alfaguara Novel Prize.

 

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The 'Cortázar Year' begins; 40 years after the death of the writer of chance and mystery.

 

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Vivian Rivera honored as 2024 Bilingual Teacher of the Year

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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: Instituto Cervantes Interview with Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, author of Las ínsulas prometidas

ARS RADIO: RTVE - A Language without borders, with Pedro Álvarez Miranda

INTERVIEW

ARS Interview with Eva Longoria,  American actress, producer, director and business woman

Eva Longoria is looking back at her successful career in Hollywood, following her recent directorial debut with ‘Flamin; Hot.’ The 48-year-old star says that the film industry has evolved when it comes to Latino representation, however, the conversation was not as open at the start of her career as it is today.

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CHILDREN'S BOOK

De mayor quieo ser...feliz  

Anna Morató García 

Meet Julia and her group of friends, the protagonists of this story. Through their experiences, we will LEARN, UNDERSTAND, EXPLORE, and PRACTICE managing our emotions. This book doesn’t promise magical solutions or quick fixes. It’s not about erasing negative emotions but rather about visually explaining to children how to handle them.

 

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