Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

When not a month has passed since the publication of  That Was Life , by Carmen Amoraga (winner of the last Nadal Prize), Destino will launch a second edition of a book that has been widely praised since the beginning. Last week, Spanish newspaper  La Vanguardia  included  That Was Life  in the eight position of its best seller list, based on data from bookstores all over Catalonia. The book has also appeared in the... - Read more

Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez was named yesterday the winner of the 2017 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. Ramírez has written more than 20 novels, including “Margarita, está linda la mar” (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea), which won Spain’s prestigious Alfaguara award in 1998. His work has been widely translated.  He has also received... - Read more

The writer Gonzalo Giner has obtained the XXV Fernando Novel Prize Lara with the work "The green mist". The Jury for this Award made the decision public during an award ceremony held at the Casa Guardiola in Seville. The novel is a fast-paced adventure, a moving ecologist plea, a hymn to conservationism and a great love story in the legendary African jungle. In the words of the author, « The green haze  It is a... - Read more

Marta Barrio won XVII Tusquets Novel Editors Award with Small firewood which, according to the unanimous verdict of the jury, is a “startling and surprisingly mature account of the dramatic experience of a young woman and her unexpectedly frustrated motherhood.” It is, according to the statement released by the publisher, a story that “maintains at all times a difficult balance between pain and the strength of not being... - Read more

The writer and academic José María Merino has been awarded the 2021 National Prize for Spanish Letters for “his mastery and excellence in the creation of fantastic literature in the narrative modalities of novels, short novels, short stories and short stories”. The jury highlighted “the intelligence of his theoretical reflections on fiction” and stressed that José María Merino “is a... - Read more