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Spain's Nadal Prize Goes to Casavella
The 2008 Premio Nadal, awarded by Ediciones Destino (Grupo Planeta), was presented on Sunday, January 6 to Spanish author and journalist Francisco Casavella (b. 1963) for Lo que sé de vampiros (“What I Know of Vampires”), which takes place during the 18th century when the Jesuits were expelled from Spain. The prize, the oldest (est. 1944), is considered the most prestigious literary award in Spain. Casavella will receive €18,000 (approximately US$26,620) and the publication of the novel by Destino.
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Yuyi Morales and Margarita Engle Win 2008 Pura Belpré Awards
The Pura Belpré Awards, one of the most prestigious distinctions for Latino/Latina authors and illustrators of children’s books, were presented on January 14 at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia. Yuyi Morales’s Los Gatos Black on Halloween [title okay?](Colt, 2006), a picture book about spooky monsters gathering for a Halloween ball, received the Illustrator Award, while the Author Award went to Margarita Engle for The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano (Colt, 2006), a moving biography of a young slave with extraordinary intellectual powers.
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Ariel Magnus—Truth Through Humor in Argentina |
The 33-year-old Argentine writer, journalist, and translator Ariel Magnus will remember 2007 as the year he won two international literary awards for separate works. He received the third Premio La Otra Orilla de Novela for Un chino en bicicleta (“A Chinese Man on a Bicycle”; Norma, 2007). Then, just two months later, his Muñecas (“Dolls”) won the Premio Iberoamericano de Novela Breve Juan de Castellanos (Juan de Castellanos Latin American Prize for Novella), organized by the Bogotá World Book Capital 2007. These two consecutive victories surprised a writer who, until recently, “distrusted literary competitions” and only allowed himself to participate after publishing two
other novels [Sandra, Emecé, 2005; La abuela (“The Grandmother”), Seix Barral, 2006].
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The Best Children and YA Books of 2007
Something magnificent happened in 2007 in the children's publishing industry. Many Spanish-language translations of American best-sellers were pretty good, some even outstanding: their texts flow; they are a pleasure to read, and a delight to hear. We usually don't include translations in this list, but we've made an exception this year to include a few titles that libraries and bookstores should not be without.
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- Amando a Pablo, odiando a Escobar. Vallejo, Virginia. (Grijalbo. 2007.)
- Dijiste que me querías. Collins, María Antonieta. (Rayo. 2007.)
- La suma de los días. Allende, Isabel. (Rayo. 2007.)
- El secreto. Byrne, Rhonda, et al. (Atria Español & Beyond Words. 2007.)
- Thalía: ¡Belleza! Thalía with Belen Aranda-Alvarado. (Chronicle. 2007.)
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