Miami Book Fair to Feature Major Latino Authors

The Miami Book Fair, which is scheduled to take place from November 4-11 while the street version of the fair will run from November 9, 2007.

A sample list of Hispanic authors who'll be making appearances and signing books: Teresa Rodríguez (The Daughters of Juarez), Raul Ortega (Desde la isla), Jorge Ramos (El regalo del tiempo), Gaby Triana (Backstage Pass), Andrea O'Reilly (Cuba: Idea of a Nation Displaced), Juan José Benítez (Caballo 8) and many others.

Visit Miami Book Fair for additional information and a more comprehensive list of Latino authors.

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Ernestina Sodi to Release English Version of Explosive Autobiography

Ernestina Sodi, Thalia's sister and the mother of the twenty-something Mexican actress Camila Sodi will soon release an English version of her 2006 autobiography Lìberanos del Mal. Deliver Us from Evil will recreate Sodi's headline-creating kidnapping and brutal rape. Ernestina has, in the past, gotten a lot of heat for her candidness, particularly from family member Laura Zapata who publicly denounced Ernestina's choice to recount being raped in the Spanish-language version of the book.

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Book Selected for Oprah Winfrey's Book Club

Nobel Laureate and current Mexican resident Gabriel Garcìa Marquez's 1985 classic novel Love in the Time of Cholera was selected by Oprah Winfrey's bookclub. This is of course, very timely, as the book's film version will be released in November. This marks the second time that the fantasy novelist's book has gotten this honor. In 2004, Ms. O hand-picked Gabriel Garcìa Marquez's most celebrated novel One Hundred Years of Solitude as a selection.