Valió la pena reaches the spot in the top of the sales
09/10/2015The publication of Valió la pena (It was worth it), the book of memoirs by the diplomat and ex-director of the CNI Jorge Dezcallar, has not left anyone indifferent. Three days after its launch, the second edition came out just as it reached the spot in the top 100 general sales on Amazon.es, ranking in what in the last few days climbed to number 7. But Valió la pena has not been distinguished only for the great number of sales. The book has secured a space in a great number of Spanish media and also has provoked reactions of important figures from the political sphere, mainly as a consequence of the declarations that the author made in his memoirs about the government’s management of the March 11, 2004 terrorist attack in Madrid Some of the highlighted press links about Jorge Dezcallar’s work: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/24-horas/24-horas-jorge-dezcallar-lealtad-tiene-limites-01-10-15/3307761/ http://www.lasexta.com/programas/el-intermedio/revista-medios/jorge-dezcallar-comunicado-cni-11m-creo-que-gobierno-manipulo_2015100800361.html http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2015/09/30/actualidad/1443641174_514625.html http://www.cope.es/player/escucha-la-entrevista-a-jorge-dezcallar-en-herrera-en-cope&id=2015100514170001&activo=10
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Valió la pena [It was worth the bother], by Jorge Dezcállar, bestseller before publication
01/10/2015Today Valió la pena reaches bookstores, the memoirs of the diplomat Jorge Dezcállar. The notes and memories of Jorge Dezcállar include his years as ambassador in the Vatican; in Lebanon, after the assassination of the former Spanish leader Pedro de Arístegui, or his mission in the United States and his participation in the Dayton Conference for pacification of the Balkans. Dezcállar was also director of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, (the Spanish secret services), when the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004 took place. The readers’ interest in Dezcállar’s experiences and the wish to know all the details of what took place has placed the book, published by Península, in the leading positions of the bestsellers lists, climbing to the second place in its category weeks before its publication.
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Sergio Ramírez was awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize
13/11/2014Tuesday November 11th, Sergio Ramírez was awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Creative Writing given by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ) and the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA). The members of the jury were Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize and also awarded the first edition of this Prize), Soledad Puértolas, Margo Glantz and Gonzalo Celorio, who chose Sergio Ramirez for "Combining a high quality literature with a committed literature and its role as a free and critical intellectual with a civic high calling ". He has published over 50 titles in various genres such as novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages and he has been awarded with the Dashiel Hammett Prize in 1990 for Castigo Divino (Divine Punishment), the Laure Bataillon Award in 1998 for the best foreign translated book into French for Un baile de máscaras (A mask dance), the Alfaguara International Prize, 1998, for Margarita está linda la mar (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea), and the José Donoso Prize granted by the University of Talca, Chile. It´s an honor for the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency to represent this icon of Ibero-American literature.
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Jorge Volpi returns with "Memorial del engaño"
03/01/2014Two years after being awarded with the Planeta-Casamérica prize for La tejedora de sombras (Planeta), Jorge Volpi returns with Memorial del engaño (Alfaguara), a very singular book that presents itself as the memoirs of J. Volpi, one of the biggest financial criminals of our time. Mixing family drama with crime fiction, Volpi has written a book filled with tricks and traps, in which he investigates the origins of one of the most devastating financial catastrophes of all times. Radical, critical and unique, Memorial del engaño will surely give much food for thought.
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