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Read more at: Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers
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Carlos Fonseca awarded the 2024 Anna Seghers Prize for promising young writers

The Faculty is delighted to congratulate Dr Fonseca - novelist, critic and Spanish lecturer - on the award for young Latin American writers.


Read more at: Cambridge pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time
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Cambridge pioneer JB Trend's 'La civilización de España' published in Spain for the first time

Trend helped organise the contingent of almost 4,000 Basque children who were shipped to England in 1937 after the bombing of Guernica.


Read more at: Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

Dr. Lucy Foster wins the 2023 Bridport First Novel award

The Spanish and Portuguese Section is delighted to share that our colleague and former PhD student, Dr. Lucy Foster, has won the 2023 Bridport First Novel award.


Read more at: Dr Jorge Agulló appointed new Ibero-Romance Junior Research Fellow at Queens College
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Dr Jorge Agulló appointed new Ibero-Romance Junior Research Fellow at Queens College

Dr Agulló will work on Ibero-Romance Linguistics for three years from October, based at Queens' College.


Read more at: New Linguistics Journal, Glossa Contact

New Linguistics Journal, Glossa Contact

Glossa Contact is the proud new member of the Glossa family of linguistics journals. It is a new international open-access peer-reviewed journal devoted to the triggers, effects and processes of language contact, symbiosis and change in multilingual settings . It invites original contributions of both empirical and...


Read more at: Professor Dominic Keown wins prestigious Catalan prize
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Professor Dominic Keown wins prestigious Catalan prize

The prestigious Ramon Llull Foundation recognises contributions to the promotion of Catalan language and culture throughout Europe and beyond.


Read more at: Dr. Maya Feile Tomes shortlisted for the Sundial Translation Award

Dr. Maya Feile Tomes shortlisted for the Sundial Translation Award

The Spanish and Portuguese Section is delighted to announce that Dr. Maya Feile Tomes has been shortlisted for the Sundial Translation Award from the University of Columbia for her translation of 'Ciudades en las que nunca has estado' by César Sánchez.


Read more at: The Phoebe Taylor Prize 2023
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The Phoebe Taylor Prize 2023

This year, the Phoebe Taylor prize for outstanding work in Spanish Translation was awarded to Rosie Aylard for her project on the 2020 illustrated novel Ese Verano a Oscuras by Mariana Enríquez. Like Phoebe’s project, this translation focuses on a Latin American author, with Rosie taking up the work of contemporary...


Read more at: Applications Open for the Professorship of Spanish

Applications Open for the Professorship of Spanish

The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Spanish in the University of Cambridge invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work falls within the general field of the Professorship (broadly understood) to take up appointment on 1 October 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. For further information...


Read more at: Dr. Doriane Zerka publishes 'Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature'
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Dr. Doriane Zerka publishes 'Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature'

Warmest congratulations to Dr Doriane Zerka on the publication of her book, Imagining Iberia in Medieval German Literature .