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The Casa Universitaria del Libro (University House of Books) is located on Puebla and Orizaba Streets. The building dates from 1920, when it was built by Joaquin Barando for the McGregor family. During the Second World War it was used as the Brazilian embassy. The Centro Asturiano took possession in the 1930s.
Espasa-Calpe opened Casa del Libro in Gran Vía, Madrid, [7] which continued with the direction of Enciclopedia Espasa. [8] In addition, it established a headquarters in Buenos Aires, where it was extended into Chile, Uruguay, Perú, Mexico and Cuba. [8] In 1991, Espasa-Calpe was acquired by Grupo Planeta, which paid 15.000 million Spanish ...
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL (from its Spanish name: Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest book fair in the world after Frankfurt's. It is also considered the most important cultural annual event of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world. [1]
The book's author was requested by Financiera Aceptaciones S.A. (a finance company from Mexico's Banco Serfin), to publish this work for the Mexican public due to the interest of the Mexican Academic circles, it was inspired by his own thesis "Haciendas de Jalisco y aledaños: fincas rústicas de antaño, 1506–1821", a 270 pages work that was made to obtain a Master of Arts degree in Latin ...
In 1992, Planeta acquired the Espasa Calpe publishing company and the Casa del Libro bookstore chain. [6] [7] José Manuel Lara Hernández's son, José Manuel Lara Bosch, became the company president upon the death of his father in 2003. [8] Also in 2003, Planeta became the primary shareholder of Antena 3. [9]
Casa del Lago has multiplied its cultural offers in the same way that the university community and the creators and public communities have increased, keeping alive that "dialogue between history and present as a basis of their identity", making permanent that spirit of risk, of its vocation in the search for the experimental, emergent and ...
José Luis Paredes Pacho (Mexico City, March 17, 1961) is a Mexican musician, researcher, writer and cultural advocate. [1] [2] He is the founder of the new cycle of Poesía en voz alta Mexican poetry festival, Radical Mestizo's Festival de Mexico music program and founder member of Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio where he was drummer during 18 years.
Roxana del Consuelo Sáizar Guerrero (born 1961 in Acaponeta, Nayarit, Mexico), is an editor and publisher, former CEO of Fondo de Cultura Económica (2002-2009), President of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (CONACULTA) (2009-2012) and President of the Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cerlalc) (2010-2012).