Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by Sabina Berman (Destino), appears in the 15 th position in the list of nominees to the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014, which is rewarded with 100.000 euros. The winner has to overcome three selection phases: in the first one, the responsibles of the public libraries in different countries choose the books; in the second, an international jury reduces the amount of titles;... - Read more

Conference: THE ANATOMY OF DESOLATION Monday 20 August 8:30pm - 9:30pm RBS Corner Theatre Carlos Gamerro is a leading voice in Argentinian literature and his new novel The Islands recounts the surreal story of the Falklands War from one Argentinian perspective. Alongside him, László Krasznahorkai discusses his Hungarian masterpiece Satantango, which was described by Susan Sontag as 'a stirring manual of resistance to desolation'.... - Read more

In its 70th edition, the journalist and writer Carmen Amoraga (Picanya, Valencia, 1969) received the Nadal Prize for La vida era eso, an "intimistic" novel that deals with love, loss and social networks, "the value of what we have lived and what is yet to be lived", and that was presented, as usual, under a pen-name, and with the title Senza fine. The novel's main character, Giuliana, loses her husband and has to take care of her two children.... - Read more

Divine Punishment  was published back in 1988 and has been translated into many languages, but never before into English. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, it is launched today by McPherson & Co . This publication will be celebrated with appearences of the author and translator at the Americas Society in New York City in association with the Instituto Cervantes. Tomorrow there will be a panel for Sergio at the Instituto... - Read more

The Uruguayan writer, translator and journalist Claudia Amengual has recently published El rap de la morgue y otros cuentos ( The Rap of the Morgue and Other Stories ). The book, the first collection of short stories she publishes after having written novels, biographies and journalistic pieces, appeared in the United States in La Pereza Ediciones, and gathers texts written between 2001 and 2012. Tense and threatening, filled with lonely and... - Read more