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New books acquired at the 25th Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (Jalisco, Mexico)

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Picture taken by the Hispanic Specialist. Click on the image to enlarge.

The 25th edition of the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL) was held in Guadalajara (Jalisco) from the 26th of November to the 5th of December 2011, with Germany as guest of honour. With over 250,000 titles on display, 1,935 publishers and 43 countries represented, the FIL is currently the largest and most important book fair for Spanish-language books in the world.

The University Library's Hispanic Specialist, Sonia Morcillo, attending the book fair for the first time, returned to Cambridge with over 250 books for the Library. Recent and retrospective publications from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and El Salvador were purchased. The books cover a range of subjects and periods aiming to document Latin America's present and past.

Some representative acquisitions include Memorias de la lucha sandinista, by Monica Baltodano, a three-volume work with over 200 interviews to 150 guerrilla and colaborators of the FSLN conducted by Baltodano between April 1999 and mid 2002. Also, Historia de las relaciones internacionales de México, 1821-2010, a rigurous seven-volume work on the history of external relations of Mexico spanning seven regions in five continents; and Historia de la Iglesia en Guatemala: 1500-2000 by R. Bendaña Perdomo, one of the most comprehensive studies on the subject published to date.

For a list of titles purchased, click here.

If you have any enquiries about the books featured, please do not hesitate to contact our Hispanic Specialist at hispanic@lib.cam.ac.uk.


New books: Latin American Visual and Performing Arts


The FIL offers a vital platform for librarians and other book professionals interested in the Spanish-language publishing industry. Not surprisingly, Mexican imprints feature prominently with a vast number of publishers on show. Historic and contemporary visual arts from Mexico are well represented, with such prominent publishers such as BANAMEX, UNAM and CONACULTA, to name but a few.

A good selection of Mexican art books was purchased for the Library to meet the growing development of scholarship and research in Latin American visual arts and culture at Cambridge University. The selection aims to reflect the diversity of Mexican art in architecture, drawing, folk art, graphic design, painting, photography and sculpture. Classic and modern artists such as Miguel Covarrubias, Lola Cueto, Ernesto García Cabral, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera are represented, as well as lesser-known names. Although the selection has a strong Mexican focus, some important publications on visual arts from Latin America are also featured. A selection of books on Latin American cinema was also acquired.

The list includes museum and exhibition catalogues showcasing the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico, the Banco Nacional de México, the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes de México and the Museo Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, amongst others.

Some representative acquisitions include La vida en un volado: Ernesto “el Chango” García Cabral (2005), Paul Strand en México (2010), Murales de la Suprema Corte de Justicia (2010), Frida de Frida (2007), Arquitectos iberoamericanos siglo XXI (2006), Soy Cuba: el cartel de cine en Cuba después de la revolución (2011) and Historia del diseño gráfico en México: 1910-2010 (2010).

For a complete list of titles on visual and performing arts purchased, click here.

If you have any enquiries about the books featured, please do not hesitate to contact our Hispanic Specialist at hispanic@lib.cam.ac.uk.


The 25 Best Kept Literary Secrets of Latin America


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From left to right: Andrés Burgos, Fabián Casas, Miguel Antonio Chávez, Roberto Martínez Bachrich, Carlos Oriel Wynter Melo and Andrés Neuman (moderator). Click on the image to enlarge.

To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the FIL presented the project "Los 25 secretos literarios mejor guardados de América Latina" consisting of five round tables showcasing authors who have a recognised career in their countries of origin but who are hardly known anywhere else.

Cambridge University Library holds many of these authors’ publications. We have created a list of their major works with a note of classmarks when applicable. The titles currently on order are expected to arrive within the next few months. So, please bear with us until then. They will be given priority status, so that Cambridge can discover them too.

To access the list of authors and their works, click here.

If you have any enquiries about the books featured, please do not hesitate to contact our Hispanic Specialist at hispanic@lib.cam.ac.uk.


For previously featured items, see the Spotlight archive.

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