{"id":49278,"date":"2016-11-17T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo2016.hispanicprwire.com\/ana-ballabriga-y-david-zaplana-ganan-el-tercer-concurso-literario-de-amazon\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:50:23","slug":"ana-ballabriga-y-david-zaplana-ganan-el-tercer-concurso-literario-de-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/ana-ballabriga-y-david-zaplana-ganan-el-tercer-concurso-literario-de-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Ballabriga and David Zaplana win Amazon&#8217;s Third Literary Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n    <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MIAMI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 17, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Amazon has announced that Spaniards Ana Ballabriga and <span class=\"xn-person\">David Zaplana<\/span>, coauthors of &#8220;Ning\u00fan escoc\u00e9s verdadero&#8221; [No True Scotsman], have won the Third Literary Competition for Independent Authors in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>From <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 1st to August 31st<\/span> this year, more than 1400 authors from 39 countries participated. <span class=\"xn-person\">Ismael Cala<\/span> was the ambassador for the competition for\u00a0the\u00a0second consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>Countries with highest participation were <span class=\"xn-location\">Spain<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Mexico<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">Venezuela<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-location\">United States<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">Argentina<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ning\u00fan escoc\u00e9s verdadero&#8221; tells the story of El\u00edas, a private investigator who specializes in art cases and was hired by the bishop of Murcia to find the Cross of Caravaca, which was stolen in 1934. His mission is to recover it for the Pope&#8217;s visit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know where we have come from, and what it has taken us to get here, and right now the future looks like a marvelous place,&#8221; said the authors Ana Ballabriga and <span class=\"xn-person\">David Zaplana<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This competition is a wonderful initiative to shed light on great Spanish works. Year after year, author&#8217;s and\u00a0reader&#8217;s high participation \u00a0show us that there are many more unknown books that millions of people are waiting to discover,&#8221; said <span class=\"xn-person\">Charles Kronbach<\/span>, Director General of Amazon&#8217;s Independent Publications.<\/p>\n<p>In the words of <span class=\"xn-person\">Ismael Cala<\/span>, ambassador of the event and best-selling author: &#8220;Winning a competition is not a matter of luck, but of talent and perseverance. I want to congratulate both authors, but also all of the participants. Beyond the result, everyone has written a work and made it available to readers through Amazon. Success is collective, and our history is being written day by day. Onward!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><u>ABOUT <span class=\"xn-person\">ISMAEL CALA<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Life and human development strategist, best-selling author and international conference presenter. For more than five years, he presented CALA show, at prime time on CNN en Espa\u00f1ol.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently considered one of the most important communicators of the continent, and his message of social entrepreneurship, mindfulness and well-being is a reference for millions of people who follow his work in books, seminars, workshops and conferences throughout all <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span>. Cala has traveled through more than 25 countries, and has impacted hundreds of thousands of people with his message.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently an official collaborator of the program &#8220;Awaken America,&#8221; for Univisi\u00f3n chain, and he writes a weekly column for more than 50 publications in <span class=\"xn-location\">Latin America<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>. &#8220;The <span class=\"xn-org\">New York Times<\/span>&#8221; described him as &#8220;the Latin Larry King.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Author of the best sellers &#8220;La vida es una pi\u00f1ata [Life is a pi\u00f1ata],&#8221; &#8220;El analfabeto emocional [The emotional illiterate],&#8221; &#8220;El poder de escuchar [The power of listening],&#8221; &#8220;Un buen hijo de P\u2026 [A real son of a B],&#8221; and &#8220;El secreto del bamboo [The secret of bamboo],&#8221; Cala was born in <span class=\"xn-person\">Santiago de Cuba<\/span> (1969) and has a degree in Art History from Universidad de Oriente. He is coauthor of the book &#8220;Beat the curve,&#8221; with <span class=\"xn-person\">Brian Tracy<\/span>. He graduated from the School of Communication at the University of <span class=\"xn-location\">York<\/span> in <span class=\"xn-location\">Toronto<\/span>, and has a Seneca diploma in Television Production. He has worked with grand masters such as <span class=\"xn-person\">Deepak Chopra<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">John C. Maxwell<\/span>, and has trained with coaches such as <span class=\"xn-person\">Tony Robbins<\/span> and <span class=\"xn-person\">Miguel Ruiz<\/span>. Cala belongs to a group of collaborating professors at <span class=\"xn-location\">Atlantis<\/span> University and Next University. Visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ismaelcala.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.ismaelcala.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n    <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">MIAMI<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">Nov. 17, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; Amazon has announced that Spaniards Ana Ballabriga and <span class=\"xn-person\">David Zaplana<\/span>, coauthors of &#8220;Ning\u00fan escoc\u00e9s verdadero&#8221; [No True Scotsman], have won the Third Literary Competition for Independent Authors in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>From <span class=\"xn-chron\">July 1st to August 31st<\/span> this year, more than 1400 authors from 39 countries participated. <span class=\"xn-person\">Ismael&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entretenimiento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}