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The Importance of Being Junot—A Pulitzer, Spanglish, and Oscar Wao by Adriana V. López, 11/1/2008
When Junot Díaz arrived in the United States from Santo Domingo at age seven, he landed in New Jersey, that not-so-picturesque East Coast state famous for having nonetheless inspired other internationally celebrated native writers, such as Phillip Roth and Paul Auster. More
Joe Hayes—Award-Winning Bilingual Storyteller
Adriana Domínguez, Críticas - 11/01/2008
Joe Hayes comes from a storytelling home; his father told him stories, and he, in turn, did the same for his own children. It was not long before he ventured out to share his stories with others, and the rest of it, as they say, is history. Nearly three decades after publishing his first book, The Day It Snowed Tortillas (Mariposa Publishing, 1982), the Southwest’s “premier storyte...
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The Importance of Being Junot—A Pulitzer, Spanglish, and Oscar Wao
by Adriana V. López - 11/01/2008
When Junot Díaz arrived in the United States from Santo Domingo at age seven, he landed in New Jersey, that not-so-picturesque East Coast state famous for having nonetheless inspired other internationally celebrated native writers, such as Phillip Roth and Paul Auster.
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Laura Gallego García—The Spanish Queen of Swords
by Adriana Domíguez - 09/15/2008
Following the tremendous success of her fantasy trilogy Memoria de Idhún (“The Idhún Chronicles,” SM, 2004-2006), Laura Gallego García was almost immediately dubbed“the Spanish J.K. Rowling.” And it’s no wonder; the books broke all previous sales records for original young adult novels in her native Spain, and spawned legions of devoted fans.
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Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
by Aída Bardales - 07/15/2008
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
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Playing the Angel
by Adriana V. López. - 05/15/2008
After making fans wait seven painstaking years, Ruiz Zafón returns with El juego del ángel, a prequel to his global best seller La sombra del viento.
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Giaconda Belli Wins 50th Biblioteca Breve Award
By Jessica Bermúdez - 02/15/2008
Nicaraguan poet Gioconda Belli has been given the 2008 Biblioteca Breve Award for El infinito en la palma de la mano (Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand), her allegory about Adam and Eve in paradise.
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Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University October 17, 2008 New graphics and PSAs to promote bibliotecas
The American Library Association and Spanish-language broadcasting colossus Univision... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University July 29, 2008 The Poet Mariachi
The week before that whole hurricane business the library had a visit from the Poet M... More
Multicultural Link Bruce Jensen, Online Reference Librarian, OCLC's QuestionPoint, Multicultural Support Librarian, Kutztown University July 23, 2008 Brownsville's library helps city brace for Dolly
I hope the weather's better where you are. Heavy winds and rain started in the m... More
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez—No Small Feat
Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, the Cuban novelist who won this year’s Premio Alfaguara de Novela, has been traveling nonstop. His book tour brought him to New York City this past May, where he met with reporters eager to interview him on his latest accomplishment.
A place of refuge
In this issue’s cover story, Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz recounts how the library helped him discover a world he wouldn’t have known otherwise and how for him, as an immigrant child, the library was a place—and a concept—he never could have imagined. Some Hispanics, like Díaz, who was newly arrived from the Dominican Republic, will dig right in and...
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