Na série de blog Conveyances, as salas de leitura das coleções internacionais da Biblioteca do Congresso exploram as formas em que a palavra traduzida nos conecta através de continentes, culturas, e séculos. O presente blog é uma entrevista escrita entre Henry Widener (HW), Bibliotecário Lusófono de Referência, com a autora e tradutora brasileira Vanessa Bárbara …
A written interview between Henry Widener, Portuguese Language Reference Librarian in the Hispanic Reading Room, and Brazilian author and translator Vanessa Bárbara on the author’s lifelong engagement with translation, both through translating authors like Lewis Carroll, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Virginia Woolf, and her own award-winning novel Noites de Alface.
To celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, a series of blog posts will discuss the efforts of Hispanic Reading Room staff to follow recipes taken from cookbooks in the Library of Congress’ collections. The first recipe is arroz con camarones as presented in Nilda Luz Rexach’s The Hispanic Cookbook.
Visiting researcher and librarian Isaac Carranza shares his top five finds related to the Panama Canal (including photographs, blueprints, letters, and announcements) from the collections in the Manuscript Division.
This blog highlights some of the collection items from Ediciones Vigía (Watchtower Editions). These are handmade books that present text and images in interactive and unexpected ways.
Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa, a towering figure in Latin American Literature, after his recent passing highlighting his connections to the Library and its collections.
A new batch of fifty recordings from the PALABRA Archive (an audio archive dating back to 1943) featuring Luso-Hispanic writers are released as part of National Poetry Month.
This is a guest blog post written jointly by Yuliana Contreras-Abrego, Darian Andrade-Diaz, and Celina Lozano, Archives History Heritage Advanced (AHHA) interns working with the Communities of Practice and Publications team in the Latin American Caribbean and European Division during fall 2024. Can you give us an overview of an AHHA project you worked on? …
Con motivo de la celebración del natalicio de Rómulo Gallegos, Joseph Torres-González reseña algunos de los recursos disponibles en la Biblioteca del Congreso sobre el autor, incluyendo la reciente digitalización de su grabación para el Archivo de la PALABRA.
