Previewing BEA; The Toils of a Translator

CRÍTICAS Connection

May 15, 2007

Previewing BEA

Grupo Nelson and Simon &
Schuster to Co-Publish
Joel Osteen

Paidós Launches New
Fiction Imprint

Four Spanish Publishers
Announce Joint Venture

Previewing BEA
For the past several years, BookExpo America's (BEA) treatment of the Spanish-language book market has been growing in scope, and this year's event in New York City is no exception. Críticas will sponsor the Spanish Pavilion for the seventh year in a row. Here are the events you shouldn't miss.

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Grupo Nelson and Simon & Schuster To Co-Publish Joel Osteen
Grupo Nelson, Thomas Nelson's Spanish-language imprint, and Simon & Schuster's Atria announced this month plans to publish and distribute the Spanish-language version of Houston-based Pastor Joel Osteen's upcoming book Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving your Life. Under the new agreement, which was announced after a long negotiation between the two publishers, S&S will distribute Lo mejor de ti. Siete pasos hacia la grandeza interior in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico; Grupo Nelson will supply the Latin American and Spanish markets.

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Paidós Launches New Fiction Imprint
Paidós, which has traditionally published nonfiction works, announced the launch of alea, an imprint focused on fiction. Editorial director Claudia Casanova said in a press release that they decided to publish fiction because "[Paidós] has covered all disciplines within the humanities with success and prestige.... We had no other [genre] to explore besides fiction." Under this new imprint, Paidós aims to publish foreign authors whose critically acclaimed works have not previously been available in Spanish.

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	Yanitzia Canetti—The Silent Task of the Good Translator
The work of a translator is to build a bridge—a sound, sleek, and smooth bridge that perfectly, and seamlessly, connects the book in question with a new group of readers. As translator Yanitzia Canetti puts it, there is nothing worse than reading a book and noticing right away that it is a translation; "something just isn't quite right, it sounds awkward." more

NonFiction Best Sellers – May 15

Dile adiós a tus temores. Witt, Marcos. (U.S.: Atria: S&S. 2007.)

Una vida con propósito. Warren, Rick. (U.S.: Vida: Zondervan. 2003.)

Ama de verdad, vive de verdad. Cutie, Alberto. (U.S.: Berkley Hardcover: Penguin. 2006.)

Qué se puede esperar cuando se está esperando. Eisenberg, Arlene, et. al. (U.S: Workman Pub. 2006.)

Vivir en equilibrio. Dyer, Wayne D. (U.S: Hay House. 2007.)

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