The city of Barcelona has just 1.6 million residents,
yet it dictates much of what Spanish speakers around the world read.
Barcelona is home to the two dominant Spanish-language publishing
conglomerates, Grupo Planeta and Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial,
and it is the hometown of the most influential literary agency working
with Spanish authors, Agency Literaria Carmen Balcells, as well as
numerous highly regarded independent Spanish-language publishing
companies.
It is also the capital of Catalonia,
where more than 60% of the residents, in addition to speaking Spanish,
speak and read Catalan and identify themselves primarily as Catalan.
This cultural division is what, in part, prompted Catalonia to vote on
October 1 to secede from Spain and become an autonomous state. ... [mehr] https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/75428-catalonia-s-book-industry-is-small-but-vibrant.html
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