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13-05-2012
IAN GIBSON RECEIVES THE 17TH FERNANDO LARA AWARD FOR THE NOVEL, 2012
Last Friday, the historian and Hispanicist Ian Gibson received in Seville the prestigious literary award, the Fernando Lara Award for the Novel, for his historical novel La berlina de Prim (Prim’s Berlin Carriage). This prize has been awarded annually since 1996 at the start of the Seville Book Fair, in the festive setting of an open-air dinner at the Real Alcázar palace.
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27-04-2012
PÉTER NÁDAS NOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONALE LITERATURPREIS
The highly praised novel Parallelgeschichten (Parallel Stories) by Péter Nádas, and its award-winning translation into German by Christina Viragh, have been ...
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THE BOOK FEAST: SANT JORDI 2012
As it does every 23 April, Spain is celebrating book day. In Catalonia, the feast day of Saint George, its patron, is a big event for authors, booksellers and publishers.
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IAN GIBSON ELECTED MEMBER OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY IN DUBLIN
The Irish Ambassador in Madrid Justin Harman has warmly congratulated Ian Gibson on his recent election as a member of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin.
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BOLOGNA CHILDREN'S BOOK FAIR 2012
The annual Bologna Book Fair, the largest international meeting-point for children’s and young people’s literature, opens its doors next Monday.
more27-02-2012
FIVE OSCARS FOR HUGO CABRET
Hollywood: The 3-D film by Martin Scorsese won a total of five statuettes.
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THE NEXT GERMAN PRESIDENT: OUR AUTHOR
The next federal president of Germany will be Joachim Gauck.
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