Barcelona E-books presents the digital publication of “El Carrer dels Tres Llits” (The Street of the Three Beds) by Roser Caminals
06/09/2012In April of this year (2012) Blanca Rosa Roca (Roca Editorial) with the collaboration of Micheal Gordon (son of Noah Gordon) created, Barcelonaebooks. A label exclusively dedicated to the publication of digital books in English from Roca Editorial’s catalogue and from other Spanish publishing houses. Open Road, one of the American publishers, who pioneers in digital publishing and who distributes worldwide, has also joined this society. Open Road is an innovative platform for on-line distribution, using videos and on-line social networks to promote authors. One of the latest publications from Barcelonaebooks is “The Street with Three Beds” by Roser Caminals, published in 2002 with the original title in Catalán, “El Carrer dels Tres Llits” by Plaza & Janés publishing house and in Castellano by Lumen publishers with the title, “Amores oscuros”. We’d like to share the web-link to the audio-visual thatOpen Roadcreated in the web to promote this novel by the outstanding Catalan author Roser Caminals, and we wish the best of luck with this new release. El País, Cultura (30/04/2012) El Huffington Post Open Road: Roser Caminals
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La Templanza by María Dueñas, bestseller book in Sant Jordi 2015 in Barcelona
24/04/2015Yesterday Barcelona celebrated it's well known Sant Jordi. The day of books and roses. La Templanza by María Dueñas was the number one bestseller with long queues of people waiting to get the book signed by the author. La Templanza, published in March by Planeta, was number one on the lists in Spain a few days after publication. Three weeks later, it is still number one. After the international success of her first novel El tiempo entre costuras (translated into 35 languages) and her second book, Misión olvido, Maria Dueñas's La Templanza, pitched as a Spanish Gone with the Wind set in Mexico City, Havana, and Spain's Jerez de la Frontera, with the outbreak of the American civil war and a chance game of billiards providing the twin catalysts for a war of the sexes between a financially ruined Mexican silver baron and a wily, married Andalusian heiress over title to the eponymous vineyard estate of the novel, who too soon discover that sherry wine may not be their only passion.
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Mercedes Abad presents "La niña gorda" in Barcelona, Madrid and Seville
24/03/2014Catalan writer Mercedes Abad returns after five years of silence with La niña gorda (The Fat Girl, Páginas de Espuma). A group of interwoven short stories, the girl in the title (a character inspired by the author when she was a child, or an imaginary double of hers in her adult age) is the guiding figure through all the stories, in which humor and irony mix with sadness to speak about childhood and adolescence, about women. La niña gorda will be presented in Barcelona, hometown to the author, tomorrow, Tuesday the 25th, at 19h in La Central del Raval (Elisabets, 6). Mercedes Abad will be joined by writer Pedro Zarraluki and Paginas de Espuma's publisher Juan Casamayor. Other presentations will be held in Madrid (Wednesday the 26th, Mujeres y Compañía, 20:30) and Seville (Thursday the 27th, Mercería Café Cultural, 20h). Here you can see an enigmatic and disturbing book teaser of Abad's latest work, which would probably leave you wanting to learn more about the book.
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“A Barcelona Heiress” by Sergio Vila-San Juan
06/11/2012Open Road Integrated Media, an established digital publisher and multimedia content company, and Barcelona eBooks, a new English-language digital publishing house present the novel by Sergio Vila-San Juan "A Barcelona Heiress". This book published in 2010 by Destino Publisher House, is now translated into English and can be found as an ebook all around the world. “A powerful chronicle of Barcelonaduring the 20s, which allows us to discover its mysteries and unravel its clues. With a journalist’s keen eye and the narrative vision of the writer, Sergio Vila-Sanjuán has managed to create an irresistible reading which explores the entire gamut of a society, a time and a fascinating city.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón Promotional video: http://media.openroadmedia.com/files/2012/11/05/SERGIOFINAL.mp4 Synopsis In the 1920’s Barcelona a young lawyer and monarchic journalist comes in contact with a diverse bunch of characters: a beaten cabaret girl who does not confess to all she knows; an anarchist leader who hesitates between compromising or violence; a newly-arrived general intent on imposing order without a second thought, and a handsome and moneyed countess determined to maintain her independence… Guided byPablo Vilar wetravel from the caverns of Montjuic’s, to high-society’s lavish parties at the Ritz or the Laberinto of Horta; and from the anarchist communities to the court rooms where justice is administered or delayed. While the city grazes its zenith, Pablo also fears that his youth will disappear with the coming storm. Based on real facts and people, and on documents from the author’s family files, A Barcelona Heiress proposes a new and different look at a complex and dazzling period.
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Árbol, Víctor del
Víctor del Árbol (Barcelona, 1968) fue mosso d’esquadra desde 1992 hasta 2012, cursó estudios de Historia en la Universitat de Barcelona y colaboró como locutor en Catalunya Sense Barreres (Radio Estel, Once). Es autor de las novelas El peso de los muertos (Premio Tiflos de Novela 2006), El abismo de los sueños (finalista del XIII Premio Fernando Lara 2008) y La tristeza del samurái (Prix du Polar Européen 2012), traducida a una decena de idiomas y bestseller en Francia. Sus últimas obras son Respirar por la herida (finalista en el Festival Internacional de Cine Negro de Beaune 2014 a la mejor novela extranjera), Un millón de gotas (ganadora en 2015 del Grand Prix de Littérature Policière), La víspera de casi todo (Premio Nadal de Novela 2016), Por encima de la lluvia (Destino, 2017), Antes de los años terribles (Destino, 2019) y El hijo del padre (Destino, 2021) . En 2018 fue nombrado Caballero de las Artes y las Letras de la República Francesa. Crítica: «Hay un autor español que puede plantar cara a la novela negra escandinava: Víctor del Árbol.» Jordi Basté, Rac 1 «Víctor del Árbol ha sido todo un descubrimiento.» Óscar López, Cadena Ser «Víctor del Árbol ocupa un lugar muy especial en las letras actuales.» El Mundo «Las novelas de Víctor del Árbol van más allá de los códigos clásicos del thriller. Impresiona la destreza con la que maneja las idas y venidas de las distintas épocas.» Bastien Bonnefous, Le Monde des Livres «Creemos firmemente que este autor merece más; sus obras se encuentran, si no por encima, en el rango de libros de autores como Stieg Larsson.» Mystery Tribune. «Víctor del Árbol construye vidas que se niegan a renunciar a sus principios y a resignarse a sus finales.» Javier Lahoz, El Periódico
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El fuego invisible
Planeta Award 2017 David Salas, a promising linguist from Dublin's Trinity College, finds himself, after landing in Madrid to spend his vacations, with Victoria Goodman, an old friend of her grandparents and with her young assistant, a mysterious art historian. That fact will disrupt his plans and push him to a surprising race to find out what happened to one of the students of the literature school run by Lady Goodman. To his surprise, the key seems to be hidden in the myth of the grail and its link with Spain. Remote Romanesque churches of the Pyrenees, art collections in Barcelona, ancient books and strange codes in stone are aligned in a plot full of intrigue that will make us think about the origin of all true inspiration, literature and art.
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Antonia Kerrigan
Born in Paris, Antonia Kerrigan founded her own literary agency in Barcelona in the late 1980s, after having worked for several years at Carmen Balcells’ agency. As the daughter of Anthony Kerrigan, a renowned translator into English of the complete works of Unamuno, as well as important works by Baroja, Neruda, Galdós, and Borges, Antonia grew up surrounded by a deep love for literature. Her mother, Elaine Gurevitz, a pianist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, also dedicated herself to translation, rendering into English the works of authors such as Julio Cortázar. Since its beginnings, the Antonia Kerrigan Agency has been synonymous with success, with a track record highlighted by representing bestsellers such as The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Published in 2001, this novel was not only a publishing phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world, but was also translated into more than 50 languages, reaching millions of readers worldwide. Antonia always championed Spanish-language literature, with a special commitment to promoting Latin American authors. Over the years, her agency has also opened its doors to writers in languages such as Catalan and Galician. Her main goal was always to make books travel, ensuring that they reached the largest number of readers possible, transcending borders and languages.
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Sort que et tinc a tu
Pedro and Eduardo met in medical school in Barcelona during the last years of Francoism. Although they couldn’t be more different from one another, their friendship never ceased to grow as they shared thousands of hours of study, long conversations, political hiding and a run or two by the cops. Later on, the friendship would withstand the onslaught of politics, of couples, of their different way of practicing medicine, of their culinary abilities and, even, of the arguments as to how whiskey must be drunk, with or without ice. At the height of their lives, this quarry-like friendship would run into a dangerous hurdle by the name of Thais, a red-headed, green-eyed seductress with provocative hips. Will they be able to overcome it? Perhaps—only perhaps. Behind the covers of the book lies the answer. “Lucky that I have You” is the story of a profound friendship and a loving passion, in the unrivalled setting of the Alt Empordà, that takes one to the most profound nooks and corners of humankind’s contradictions.
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Bernal, Javier
Javier Bernal was born in Valencia. He has lived in Barcelona, London and New York. He has a law degree from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from IESE of the University of Navarre. He presently lives in Madrid where he is a director in an important global financial institution. He has published “The Enigma of Rania Roberts” (Suma, 2014) and its NY guide, “The New York Secrets”. “For a Fistful of Words” is his second novel.
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Laura Freixas recovers 4 of her most revered works in digital format
15/01/2015Four of the novels by the author, professor and lecturer Laura Freixas, have been recovered in digital format and can been found for sale on Amazon. The novels include Entre Amigas (Between Friends), originally published 1998, Amor o lo que sea (Love, a Reader) (2005), Adolescencia en Barcelona hacia 1970, (Adolescence in Barcelona around 1970) published in 2007 and Cuentos a los 40, (Stories at Forty) (2001). One of the titles; Amor o lo que sea, can also now and for the first time be found in English, with the title Love, a Reader. It was translated by Pamela J. DeWeese, translator, writer and professor. With the inauguration of these works by Laura Freixas, Amazon is offering the opportunity to download free of charge but only on the 16th and 17th of January, the title Amor o lo que sea in both Spanish and English language versions. Here are the links: - Love, a Reader - Amor o lo que sea
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Castellarnau, Eduard
Eduard Castellarnau (Barcelona, 1957) is a physician by profession and the author of the short story collection Els Contes de la nit (1993) and several novels, including Tarda d’hivern (1994), Laberint Perdut (1996), L’enigma de la llibreria (1999), and La ruta del silenci (2002), which won both the Leandre Colomer Prize for Historical Novel of Catalonia (2001) and the Catalonia Private Investigators Association Award (2002) for a published novel. His other works include A l’altra banda de la solitud (2006) and Les incertituds de la nit (2011). His books have been translated into multiple languages, and many of his texts have appeared in various magazines. His latest novel, Lunas de diciembre, was published by Milenio.
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The new digital label Ciudad de Libros includes books by Alonso Cueto, José María Merino and María Pilar Queralt
10/04/2014A new label called Ciudad de Libros has appeared recently with the idea of recovering, in digital format, quality books that were nearly impossible to find for Spanish readers. The project, headed by Blanca Rosa Roca, founder and director of Roca Editorial and Barcelona Digital Editions, will publish authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, Gibran Jalil Gibran, Leon Uris or Thomas Wolfe and many more; three of them are represented by Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency. By the Peruvian author Alonso Cueto, readers will find titles such as Cinco para las nueve, Dalia y los perros, Deseo de noche, Grandes miradas and Los vestidos de una dama. By José María Merino, recently awarded with the National Prize for Literature, Ciudad de Libros will sell Crónicas mestizas, Cuatro nocturnos, Cuentos del Barrio del Refugio, Días imaginarios, El caldero de oro, El centro del aire and Novela de Andrés Choz. María Pilar Queralt is the third of the authors included: she will contribute to the project with the books De Alfonso la dulcísima esposa, La pasión de la reina, La rosa de Coimbra and Leonor. We invite you to take a look around Ciudad de Libros' webpage: it's interactive, participative, and filled, we promise you, with surprises and discoveries.
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La verdad no termina nunca
Alfredo is a young man in the Barcelona of the 1950s, orphaned of his father and with a mother who lives immersed in a vital silence and her dedication to knitting. Alfredo knows practically nothings of how his parents met, and even less why she won’t return to that period to explain to him who he was. Many are the secrets that shroud this woman’s sad face. But need to discover one’s roots is unstoppable, and fate will lead Alfredo to investigate, on the one hand, a series of characters who lived in the 1930s, the same period in which his parents met, and, on the other, to establish a relationship with the daughter of one the city’s wealthiest families. The Queralt family will reveal the brave and committed person that his mother at a time in which working women were invisible characters for society, and they will help him to understand why she has protected him from the truth for so long. A moving story that allows us to travel across the decades of the 30s through to the 50s, key years in the history of Spain, and to make a journey through the postwar silence; the explosion of art in the 1920s, the emergence of the black market, the world of journalism and the atmosphere of the orchestras and cabaret.
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Palabras de otro lado
II Premio de Narrativa Juan Goytisolo de Alcobendas Aurora is a young thirty-year-old lawyer who lives in Lima. She is a successful professional and leads a peaceful life. At the start of this novel—after the secret that her mother reveals on her deathbed—she suddenly finds herself on the edge of a precipice. She discovers that her father is a Spaniard living in Madrid and, after some initial hesitations, decides to travel in search of him. Throughout her journey in a city that she does not know, she runs into a series of characters. Carlos, Nuria, Paco, Luis and others will accompany her on a day of personal revelations and substitutions of the past. Set in Madrid and Barcelona, the novel follows the exploration of this young woman in the labyrinths of her identity. Gradually, as she approaches the truth as to who her father is and who she is, she recognizes a ghost from her past. Provided with humor, suspense and language that delves into the characters’ unconscious, “Words from Elsewhere” is a story of our time. Aurora is Latin American, Peruvian and also Spanish. She is young, while at the same time is overwhelmed by her past. She is a migrant who did not realize it. Many stories and secretes run through her blood, from different cultures and countries. All the characters she meets in Spain, migrants by vocation and by necessity, recognize her as one of their own. Traveler who walks firmly and gropingly, Aurora will discover, however, towards the end of the novel, that her father is someone quite different from who she expected.
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Castro, Luisa
España Luisa Castro was born in Foz (Lugo) in 1966 and holds a degree in Hispanic philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A twenty-one she was awarded the Premio Hiperión de Poesia, for Los Versos del Eunuco (The Eunuch’s Verses), and at twenty-four was the runner-up of the Premio Herralde de Novela for El Somier (The Mattress). Ever since, she has worked as a literary critic and collaborated for newspapers such as the ABC, El País, El Periódico de Catalunya, El Mundo, La Voz de Galicia, and Radiotelevisión de Galicia. She was got a Fulbright scholarship to study film at Columbia and New York University, and on her return from New York she taught movie script a the Institut d’Humanitats de Barcelona, and afterwards has given writing courses at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She has been the director of the Instituto Cervantes of Naples for five years. She presently runs Instituto Cervantes at Bordeaux, and continues to collaborate with the travel supplement of El País: Viajes de El País. As a poet she has written seven books: Odisea Definitiva (The Definite Odyssey, Arnao, 1984), Los versos del eunuco (The Eunuch’s Verses, Hiperión, 1987), Baleas e Baleas (Shots and Shots, runner-up to the Premio Esquío, Fundación Valle-Inclán, 1998), Los hábitos del Artillero (The Artilleryman’s Habits, Premio Rey Juan Carlos I de Poesía, Visor, 1990), De mí haré una estatua ecuestre (I’ll Make an Equestrian Statute of Myself, Hiperión, 1997), Amor mi Señor (Love my Lord, Tusquets, 2004) and Actores vestidos de calle (Actors in Street Clothes, Visor, 2018). As a narrator, she has received the Premio Biblioteca Breve for her novel La segunda mujer (The Second Woman, Seix-Barral, 2006), and the Premio Torrente Ballester for her short stories book Podría hacerte daño (I could Hurt You, Ediciones del Viento, 2004) and the Premio Azorín for El secreto de la lejía (The Secret of Bleach, Planeta, 2001). Besides that, she has published Viajes con mi padre (Travels with my Father, Planeta, 2003), La fiebre amarilla (Yellow Fever, Anagrama, 1996), and El Somier (The Mattress, Anagrama, 1990) Part of her journalistic work in Spanish is collected in the volume Diario de los años apresurados (Diary of the Hurried Years, Hiperión, 1998) and in the book Melancolía de sofa (Sofa-like Melancholy, Xerais, 2009), which is a collection of her collaborations in Galician, her mother tongue. For her collaborations in written media she has received the Premio Puro Cora for journalism. And for her entire output she was been awarded the Premio de Vieira de Plata in 2006. The Premio Quaderni Iberoamericani in 2016, and the Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica in 2017, for her work in the dissemination of culture. She is considered by the critique as one of the most innovative voices of the nineties, and part of her novels and books of poetry are translated into French, Italian, English, German, Dutch and Hebrew.
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Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013
31/10/2013Mercedes de Vega, author of the novel El profesor de inglés (The English Professor), was awarded with an honorable mention, for her short story The Last Time I saw My Brother, in the Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013, for the Spanish Railway Foundation and the Antonio Machado Spanish Foundation. The announcement and presentation of the Train Awards took place on the 28th of October, the commemorative date of “Train Day” in memory of the first functioning railway on the peninsula, connecting Barcelona and Mataró. For this year’s awards 849 participants presented themselves from 21 countries and with 981 books, 366 poems and 615 short stories. The poems and short story selected as finalists have been compiled in a book that will be published in December 2013 as part of the Train Awards collection.
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Cerezo, Luís
Luis Cerezo (Barcelona, 1969) studied Arts in the Escola Massana and Music at Barcelona’s Liceo. He has combined literature with boxing, musical composition, cameraman, as well as an early career as a jazz musician. For fifteen years he worked as an advertising creative director and film and television screenwriter—activities which he has juggled with musical composition and independent filmmaking. In 2004, he directs and produces his first experimental full-length film, Náufragos (Shipwrecked). In 2006, he promotes the manifesto Cinelibre (FreeFilm), an alternative production platform inspired on guerrilla cinema, and which fosters solitary filmmaking. Fiesta (Party), his first full-length documentary (2008), was officially selected for the international festivals of Warsaw, Toulouse and Montreal, among others, besides inaugurating the season of Spanish cinema at the Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai and Beijing. In 2013, he directs and releases the full-length film “Plan B”, selected by the Bogota International Film Festival. In 2015 he published his first novel, Eo, and Estigia followed in 2019. His latest novel is El cocinero (2023), which received the "Ciudad de Alcalá" award for narrative. www.luiscerezo.net/
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Mona Carmona
A man has died and with that the fate of his city has changed. Francesc Carmona has left, the last hu-man being capable of telling the truth about the Sagrada Familia, that pride of Barcelona that has been under construction for more than a hundred years. Now only speculation and legend remain around Gaudí's masterpiece. Unless Ramona Carmo-na, Mona to her friends, manages to prove that her grandfather did not take any secret to the grave, that the truth is there, waiting for someone to have the ability—and the audacity—to reveal it.
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New thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado
07/10/2013The international best seller author, Juan Gómez-Jurado, God´s Spy, The Mosses Expedition and The Traitor´s Emblem comes back with a new frenetic book, TIPPING POINT, that in author´s words is described as: “A frantic and vibrant thriller, that won’t give you time to catch your breath and that will make the reader question their position regarding work, honor and family.” Foreign rights: “Author of GOD'S SPY and THE MOSES EXPEDITION, Juan Gomez Jurado's TIPPING POINT, in which a brain surgeon, victim of a criminally terrifying rogue surveillance, is forced to choose between ending the life of the president of the United States or witnessing a horrifying death for his kidnapped daughter at the hands of his implacable pursuer, again to Johanna Castillo at Atria and again to Kirsty Dunseath at Orion, by The Colchie Agency on behalf of the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency in Barcelona. Foreign rights to Planeta in Spain, and to DTV in Germany, in a preempt, by the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.” Source: Publishers Lunch, October 07, 2013
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Ciudad de cenizas
In the Barcelona of the Tragic Week of 1909, a young night watchman and an experienced inspector must solve a crime in which the body and the city are covered in ashes. In Barcelona in the year 1909, Enrique Hernández, a young night watchman, encounters a strange burning smell while patrolling the streets of the La Seca neighborhood. Upon entering the residence, the police discover a mountain of ashes on a pair of women's shoes in front of an armchair. The rest of the furniture is intact and both the door and the windows were closed from the inside. How could such a tragedy occur? Eloy Pavía, a reputed inspector of the new surveillance force and a former commissioner of the Scotland Yard, takes charge of the case. Pavía's keen insight and unconventional style will make an excellent match with the enormous passion and youth of Hernández, who, from the first moment, will be involved in the investigation. Together, they embark on a tireless search for clues, entering into the shadows of a working-class city agitated by the Tragic Week. City of Ashes is a fascinating detective novel that will immerse you in the Barcelona of the beginning of the 20th century, a beautiful and wild city that becomes another proganist of the story. Kike Corella, with his unforgettable characters and ability to recreate the atmosphere of the time, transports us to a world full of intrigue and surprise that will captivate readers.
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Corella, Kike
España, 1983 Kike Corella was born in the Poblenou neighborhood of Barcelona in 1983. He graduated with degrees in Humanities and Business Management, and later completed a postgraduate degree in Strategic Marketing. He combines writing with long hours of wandering around the city and, additionally, is a professor at the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya. Since 2007, he writes articles about culture and travel for publications such as La Clave, Time Out, Traveler, and Guía Repsol. City of Ashes is his first published novel and is also the first of the cases of Hernández the night watchman and Inspector Pavía. https://www.instagram.com/kikecorella/ www.kikecorella.com
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Diagonal-Manhattan
THE BEST SELLING AUTHOR IN CATALAN LANGUAGE! In 1989, Edda Leveroni, a 21-year-old from Barcelona, receives a life-changing gift: a one-year stay in New York to work at the prestigious advertising agency of Bianca B. Miller, an environment run exclusively by women. Far from home and everything she knows, Edda plunges into the energy of Manhattan, a city that never sleeps, where professional and personal success seem to go hand in hand with ambition and constant struggle. While she learns to navigate a world where slogans can build or destroy empires, her father, Brauli Leveroni, remains at the helm of one of the most influential agencies on Barcelona’s Diagonal, where marketing and advertising are the driving forces of his life. Between these two cities and two different ways of understanding work and life, Diagonal-Manhattan is a novel that explores independence, the search for one's destiny, and second chances in a world of creativity, promises, and challenges.
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International deal news
01/10/20131. “Dr. Roberto Canessa and author (and fellow Uruguayan) Pablo Vierci's THE DOCTOR FROM THE MOUNTAIN, whose teachings in neonatal heart medicine stem from his "impossible" survival, as a pre-med student and rugby player, in the devastating 1972 Andes plane crash, to Atria, on exclusive submission, by Thomas Colchie at The Colchie Agency (world English and North American Spanish).” Publishers Lunch, September 27, 2013 Rights in Spanish (except for USA), France, Holand, Germany, Portugal and Brazil are available through Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency on behalf The Colchie Agency. 2. "Novelist and career diplomat Edgard Telles Ribeiro's Brazilian PEN Prize winner (2011), HIS OWN MAN, a Machiavellian tale of a charismatic young diplomat in Brazil's Foreign Ministry who renounces his past ideals and becomes an informer after the military coup of 1964, navigating the shadow world of international deception and surveillance in a chilling depiction of political ambition, power, and betrayal, to Judith Gurewich at Other Press (US English rights) by Thomas Colchie of the Colchie Agency on behalf of Henry Rosenbloom at Scribe Publishing in London and Melbourne, with world English (Melbourne, April 2014; London, June 2014; and New York, Sept 2014) and Spanish publication set for next year's 50th anniversary of the 1964 coup in Brazil. World Spanish rights to Pilar Reyes at Alfaguara by the Antonia Kerrigan agency in Barcelona on behalf of the Colchie Agency." Publishers Lunch, September 30, 2013 Rights in France, Holand, Germany, Portugal and Brazil are available through Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency on behalf The Colchie Agency.
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De las Muelas, Javier
España Entrepreneur and expert in cocktails, he began his business career in the hotel business in 1979, date in which the cocktail Bar Gimlet was created; the mythical bar of Rec Street in Barcelona, and which immediately turned into a place of reference for the city. Then came the opening of Gimlet in Santaló and afterwards bars such as the Nick Habana or Casa Fernandez, and also recreated places such as the brewery Montesquieu and the now legendary cocktail bar Dry Martin, created in 1978 by who has been its master, Pedro Carbonell. This last place, internationally recognized as one of the ten best bars in the world according to Tyler Brûlé, journalist and editor founder of the prestigious magazines Wallpaper y Monocle, since 2002 lodges in its establishment the clandestine restaurant Speakeasy, which pays homage to clandestine bars that opened during the Prohibition in the US, and to which Javier de las Muelas defines as his “factory of ideas”. He takes part as a speaker in various professional meetings of the world of bars and cocktail lounges—amongst which stand out the Bar Show of London, the Barzone of Berlin, the Hotel Cavallieri Hilton of Rome, the Four Seasons of Tokyo, Madrid Fusion or the Bar Show of Amesterdam—and he usually carries out presentations and trainings.
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De Vega, Mercedes
Mercedes de Vega es escritora, licenciada en Sociología y Ciencias Políticas. Ha residido y trabajado en Nueva York, Barcelona y Madrid. Actualmente vive en Montreal. Ha cursado estudios literarios en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y participado en numerosos talleres de escritura. Colabora habitualmente en varia revistas literarias y es miembro del jurado del Concurso Resonancias de Cuento. Ha publicado el libro de relatos Cuentos del sismógrafo, Ediciones Atlantis, y varias publicaciones colectivas, como las antologías de cuentos: El hilo de Sofía (2011), traducido y editado por la Universidad de Sofía de Bulgaria, Madrid golpea la crisis (2012) y Madrid golpea la corrupción (2013), los tres libros publicados por Ediciones Atlantis, Madrid. El profesor de inglés fue su primera novela, publicada por Huerga y Fierro Editores. En 2015 publicó Cuando estábamos vivos (Plaza&Janés), un libro al que le seguirían Todas las familias felices (Plaza&Janés, 2018), El largo sueño de Laura Cohen (Plaza&Janés, 2020) y Una historia desconocida: Marie Jelen (Huso, 2021). Escribe habitualmente en su blog Escribir…, uno de los más leídos en la red. Su escritura es bien conocida en Internet y en las redes sociales.
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Dora Maar, after Picasso, there’s only God.
10/09/2013Victoria Combalía has a doctorate in Art History and is a professor at Barcelona University, she has written several books about Picasso and Miró. Over the past twenty years, Combalía has dedicated herself to unraveling the mysteries that surround the life of Picasso’s most desperate muse, Dora Maar. «Dora Maar» published by CIRCE Ediciones, is the result of a series of conversations with the painter and photographer that took place during the summer of 1993 and the investigation after consulting over 2,000 documents posterior to the death of the artist, which helped to complete the fractured image of Picasso’s lover. An essential book for understanding this photographer and member of the surrealist movement, who documented with her camera the entire process of the painting of the most famous mural in the world: El Guernica.
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Dance, Laia
Salva Rubio returns to the novel-genre with an optimistic story for these times when all we want to do is to go out and dance like crazy. Laia and Albert are a happy couple about to celebrate their ten-year anniversary, but she begins to think that maybe they need to recover the passion from the beginning of their relationship. Laia then decides to sign up for a lindy hop class, where in addition to the fun dance, she discovers the world of polyamory and open relationships with Helena, an experienced dancer and owner of the school. At the same time, Laia meets Zack, a charming and fascinating American dance instructor who begins to attract her irremediably. Amidst so many passions, Laia begins to rethink her life. Will the couple survive so many temptations, doubts, and dance steps? Dance, Laia is a story (or two? or three?) of seduction, a musical, a comedy of thirty-somethings, and a love letter to Barcelona. With influences of Nick Hornby, Billy Wilder, and Dirty Dancing, Salva Rubio combines in a fresh and funny novel the dynamic universes of swing and the fascinating world of polyamory.
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AKDigital presents the new novel by Matthew Tree: SNUG
05/04/2013Matthew Tree was born in London but has lived in Barcelona since 1984. For literary reasons of his own, in 1990 he stopped writing in English and switched to Catalan, in which language he has published ten books. He has published in English a collection of articles titled “Barcelona, Catalonia. A View from the Inside” and now he presents us with a novel written in English; “SNUG”, published through this agency’s AKDigital project in Amazon for KINDLE and Print on Demand format. "An utterly compelling, uncompromising, visceral and unflinching look at racism, anti-Semitism and the legacy of colonialism. The adult protagonists are drawn with a deft accuracy and the resultant emotional impact of a heat seeking missile. The book bewitches the reader...it is touching, deeply moving and very funny." KS Lewkowicz - composer and lyricist of Goodbye Barcelona and Release The Beat. Amazon.com (Kindle and PoD)
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Del Río, José Manuel
José Manuel del Río (A Coruña, 1982) reside en Barcelona y ejerce como abogado penalista y periodista cultural. Su debut con la novela total sobre narcotráfico Marea Roja (Ediciones B, 2019) supuso un éxito de crítica que continuó con La Milicia de la Noche (Ediciones B, 2020) cuando se confirmó como una de las voces más eclécticas del panorama editorial actual. Brillante prosista y dialoguista, Del Río se vale de contextos históricos apasionantes para mostrarnos el lado más oscuro del ser humano con personajes fronterizos y realismo descarnado. Su último libro, A bocajarro, es una novela policiaca de las de antes, en la que la bondad se mezcla con la mezquindad y, gracias a su excepcional estilo, la crueldad roza la delicadeza.
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Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Nadal Novel Award 2013
08/01/2013The Nadal Novel Award is a literary award for the best in-edit work selected by the publishing house, Ediciones Destino (a sub-label of the Grupo Planeta). Its notoriety is established as the oldest literary award granted in Spain and in the category of the writers who have been acknowledged with this prestige are important Spanish literary figures from the 20th century. This year the winner of the 69th edition of the Nadal Awards is the journalist and writer Sergio Vila-Sanjuán for his novel Estaba en el aire, (It was in the air), which will be published by Ediciones Destino on the 12th of February. The novel takes place in Barcelona at the beginning of the 60’s when the “consumer society” was born, it narrates the story of four characters who converge in a clenching ending. It’s true, that his first novel; Una heredera de Barcelona (2010), (An heiress of Barcelona), also passes in Barcelona, in the 20’s and part of the narrations are of his grandfather. Estaba en el aire, describes Barcelona at the beginning of the 60’s and is inspired by memories of his father and of his childhood. “I come from a family of three generations of journalists, but they didn’t write about their lives only about the lives of others. Mi first novel narrates a moment of my grandfather’s career and of my father. I believe that, one day, I’ll end up writing about myself, but first I preferred to pass through my family tree .” (El Pais, 8, January 2013).
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Dòria, Sergi
Sergi Dòria (Barcelona, 1960) es doctor en Ciencias de la Comunicación, periodista y crítico del suplemento cultural de ABC, y profesor en las universidades Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona y Ramon Llull. Autor del libro-reportaje La Guineueta (1995) y de Imatges 1930. Barcelonins i moderns (2004), en 2005 coeditó con Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Paseos por la Barcelona literaria; ha reeditado el libro de viajes del capitán Enric Blanco, Boston-Barcelona (2006). Además, ha publicado la edición crítica de las novelas de Ignacio Agustí, la guía literaria La Barcelona de Carlos Ruiz Zafón y la biografía del autor de Mariona Rebull, Ignacio Agustí, el árbol y la ceniza (2013). Foto: © Yolanda Cardo
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El Príncipe del Parnaso (The Prince of Parnaso) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón is published internationally
13/12/2012“One day the walls will fall and Barcelona will spread under the heavens like a drop of ink over holy water” Last April 23, 2012 for the “Day of the Book” Carlos Ruiz Zafón published with the publisher’s Editorial Planeta a short story un-edited titled, El Príncipe de Parnaso (The Prince of Parnaso). The story that forms part of a special edition pack with the author’s latest novel El Prisionero del Cielo (The Prisoner of Heaven). A few of the foreign Publishing Houses that publish this well known author didn’t want to let this opportunity escape them and have decided, in view of the Christmas season, to offer this un-edited work for the readers of El Prisionero del Cielo (The Prisoner of Heaven). Planeta Portugal lanced last September an exclusive edition with the sale of O Prisioneiro do Céu the short story titled; O Príncipe do Parnaso. Following along with the same idea Muza, publishers of Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Poland, have also published this special edition. For more information: Más información: Información.es Planeta de Libros Planeta Portugal Muza Polonia
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Espinosa, Julio
Julio Espinosa Guerra (Santiago, 1974) es un autor chileno que reside en España desde 2001. Ha publicado las novelas El día que fue ayer (Mago, Chile, 2006) y La fría piel de agosto (Alfaguara, Chile, 2013), los libros de poemas La soledad del encuentro (Mosquito, Chile, 1999), Las metamorfosis de un animal sin paraíso (LF, Béjar, 2004, Premio Villa de Leganés), NN (Gens, Madrid, 2007, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz), Sintaxis asfalto (Olifante, Zaragoza, 2010), La casa amarilla (Pre-Textos, Valencia, 2013), De lo inútil (Candaya, Barcelona, 2017). Ha practicado la crítica literaria en medios como literaturas.com, La estafeta del viento, Revista de libros, Turia y Heraldo de Aragón. Dirige en Zaragoza el Espacio literario MilMadres, que cobija la editorial y la libería del mismo nombre, y los cursos de escritura creativa de Estudio de Escritura. En marzo de 2023 Pre-Textos editará su nuevo libro, Secuoya.
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Espinosa, Óliver
Óliver Espinosa Sorensen (Barcelona, 1985) es licenciado en Derecho por la Universitat de València. Después de trabajar para algunos de los bufetes de abogados y consultoras más importantes de este país y para el Ministerio de Economía, pasó al sector hotelero.En La librera y el ladrón habla con conocimiento, por diversas experiencias profesionales, sobre el desconocido y fascinante mundo de los ladrones de libros, coleccionistas y bibliófilos y sobre un mercado negro de grandes obras culturales mucho más tenebroso de lo que podemos llegar a imaginar.
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Fernández, Noemí
Noemí Fernández Selva inició su camino como escritora de literatura infantil y juvenil en 2013. Ha publicado decenas de libros con algunas de las editoriales de referencia del sector, como Salvatella, Planeta, Estrella Polar, Destino, Edicions 62, Lunwerg y Bindi Books. Algunos de sus títulos más destacados son Desde Dentro (2014), Atrapa-palabras (2015), Lluvia de letras (2017), No quiero besar sapos verdes (2018), L’embolic (2021), Mi primer Barça femenino (2023) y Cactus (2024). Desde pequeña, sus grandes pasiones son la lectura, la escritura, la música y la docencia. Estudió Magisterio Musical y Pedagogía en la Universidad de Barcelona. Más tarde cursó el Máster en Psicoterapia Humanista (Instituto Erich Fromm) y el Máster en Dirección de Centros Educativos (IL3-UB). Ha trabajado más de veinte años en escuelas de Primaria, siendo tutora y especialista del ámbito artístico. Ejerció de directora y actualmente es inspectora de educación, labor que compagina con la escritura. @noemi_fernandez_selva
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Freixas, Laura
España, 1958 Laura Freixas (Barcelona, 1958) studied in the French Licée in Barcelona. She got a degree in Law in 1980, but has always worked as a writer. She became known in 1988 with a collection of short stories; El asesino en la muñeca (Murder in the doll). In 1997 she published her first novel; Último domingo en Londres (The Last Sunday in London), followed by; Entre amigas (1998) (Between Friends), Amor o lo que sea (2005) (Love or whatever), Adolenscencia en Barcelona hacia 1970 (2007) (Adolenscence in Barcelona towards 1970), and Los otros son más felices (2011) (The Others are Happier). Her latest book is, Una vida subterráneo, Diario 1991-1994 (2013) (A Subterranean Life, Diary 1991-1994). Parallel to her narrative work, Laura Freixas has dedicated much time to women's studies. In 1996 she coordinated and wrote the prologue for an anthology of short stories by contemporary Spanish women writers; Madres e hijas (Mothers and Daughters) having nine editions published in the first year. In 2000 she published the influential Essay; Literatura y mujeres (Literature and Women). In 2009 brough light on another anthology of similar character; Cuentos de amigas (Stories of Friends) as well as the work; La novela femenil y sus Lectrices (The Feminine Novel and its Readers) winning the Leonor de Guzmán Award. She has also published the biography about the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, titled Ladrona de rosas (2010) (The Rose Thief). Freixas gives literary workshops for diverse institutions and has been a professor, lecturer and invited writer in numerous Universities both in Spain and Iternationally. Visit: http://www.laurafreixas.com/ www.laurafreixas.com/
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Molina, Tamara
Tamara Molina was born in Barcelona and has lived all her life between pages. Her unbridled imagination and creativity have pushed her to share her passion for literature. A writer and social media content creator, Tamara has caused a sensation with her debut novel Donde no puedas encontrarme (Where you can’t find me). She dreams of continuing to grow as a writer and filling bookstores with her stories. You can find more about the author at: @xtawie@xtawiebooks / @xtawie
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Queralt, María Pilar
María Pilar Queralt del Hierro, licenciada en Historia Moderna y Contemporánea por la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, ha sido profesora universitaria y editora. Desde el año 2000 se dedica exclusivamente a la divulgación histórica mediante colaboraciones en distintos medios de comunicación a fin de acercar la historia hasta el gran público y para ello aborda indistintamente el ensayo biográfico y la novela histórica. Lo hace en ambos casos con un único eje discursivo: el estudio de la figura femenina. Entre sus obras destaca la trilogía de novela histórica Inés de Castro, Leonor y La rosa de Coimbra, en torno tres figuras capitales de la historia de Portugal. La primera, ha merecido ser objeto de estudio en diversas universidades portuguesas y es de lectura obligatoria en la Escuela Superior del Profesorado de la Universidad de Lisboa. Su última novela es Las damas del rey (2011) calificado por la crítica como “un ameno e instructivo viaje por la Europa del Renacimiento escrito con gran preciosismo literario y cuidado lenguaje sobre una documentación bien fundamentada “ En 2012, su ensayo biográfico “Las mujeres de Felipe II. Deber y pasión en la casa del rey” ha sido galardonado con el IX Premio Algaba de Biografía e Investigaciones Históricas.
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Santos, Celia
Celia Santos reside en Barcelona. Durante siete años dirigió la sección de recomendaciones literarias en Tele Taxi TV, así como la web literaria Más que palabras. Tras cursar estudios de narrativa en el Ateneo de Barcelona, ha escrito numerosos relatos y cuentos, en su mayoría dirigidos a un público infantil y juvenil. Su primera novela para adultos, La maleta de Ana, basada en la historia de las mujeres españolas que emigraron a Alemania a trabajar en los años sesenta y setenta, cultivó un gran éxito. Más rápida que la vida es su nueva novela, en ella narra la historia de Dorothy Levitt una mujer que rompió con todos los prejuicios de la época.
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Tree, Matthew
Matthew Tree (Londres, 1958) aprendió catalán, se convirtió en profesor de esa lengua en 1979 y vino a vivir a Barcelona en 1984. Ha publicado las novelas Fora de lloc (Cafè Central,1996) y Privilegiat (Premio Columna 2001), el libro de cuentos Ella ve quan vol (Premio Octubre de Narrativa 1999) y el libro de viajes CAT. Un anglès viatja per Catalunya per veure si existeix (Columna, 2000). Es miembro del colectivo Hermanos Miranda, con el que ha contribuido en todos sus libros de cuentos: Aaaahhh... Dotze contes eròtics (Columna, 1998), El Barça o la vida (Columna, 1999), Tocats d'amor (Columna, 2000), Contes per a nenes dolentes (Columna, 2001), La vida sexual dels Germans Miranda (Columna, 2002) y Adeu, Pujol (Columna, 2003). Ha colaborado en diversas publicaciones inglesas y catalanas y actualmente escribe una columna mensual para los diarios El Punt y Diari de Barcelona (en Internet). Ha colaborado en diversos programas de radio y televisión durante los últimos cinco años. Su libro más reciente se titula Memòries! 1974-1989 (Columna, 2004).
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