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Subsuelo, by Marcelo Luján, awarded with the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz at the Tenerife Noir Festival

The novel 'Subsuelo', by Marcelo Luján, wins the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz of the Festival Atlántico Tenerife Noir for the best noir genre novel of the 2015 in Spain.Ver más en: http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2696533/0/subsuelo-marcelo-luj-premio-ciudad-santa-cruz-tenerife-noir/#xtor=AD-15&xts=467263 http://www.eldigitaldecanarias.net/index.php/cultura/9138-subsuelo-de-marcelo-lujan-premio-ciudad-de-santa-cruz-en-tenerife-noir-2016 

Víctor del Ýrbol has been awarded the 2016 Nadal Prize with "La víspera de casi todo"

Víctor del Árbol has been awarded the 72nd Nadal Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in Spanish literature, organized by the Destino imprint of Grupo Planeta. The winner book is La víspera de casi todo (The Eve of Almost Everything) In 2006 he won the Tiflos Prize for Literature with El peso de los muertos. With his novel La tristeza del Samurai (Alrevés, 2011), he was the first Spaniard to obtain the Prix du polar Européen, awarded by the French publication Le Point. With Un millón de gotas, (Destino, 2014) Víctor del Árbol is again awarded in France the Prix de Littérature Policière 2015. “Victor writes with guts and makes pure literary viscerality”CARLES GELI, El País   

Sergio Ramírez was awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize

Tuesday November 11th, Sergio Ramírez was awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Creative Writing given by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM ) and the National Council for Culture and Arts (CONACULTA). The members of the jury were Juan Goytisolo, Mario Vargas Llosa (Nobel Prize and also awarded the first edition of this Prize), Soledad Puértolas, Margo Glantz and Gonzalo Celorio, who chose Sergio Ramirez for "Combining a high quality literature with a committed literature and its role as a free and critical intellectual  with a civic high calling ". He has published over 50 titles in various genres such as novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs. His work has been translated into more than 15 languages ​​and he has been awarded with the Dashiel Hammett Prize in 1990 for Castigo Divino (Divine Punishment), the Laure Bataillon Award in 1998 for the best foreign translated book into French for Un baile de máscaras (A mask dance), the Alfaguara International Prize, 1998, for Margarita está linda la mar (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea), and the José Donoso Prize granted by the University of Talca, Chile. It´s an honor for the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency to represent this icon of Ibero-American literature.

Algaida reissues "The Violinist of Mauthausen", the best selling novel amongst those awarded with the Ateneo de Sevilla

The Violinist of Mauthausen, by Andrés Pérez Domínguez, won the XLI Premio Ateneo de Sevilla in 2009 by unanimous; it was praised by unquestionable authors such as the last winner of the National Award in Narrative José María Merino, who welcomed its thematic novelty and literary vocation. Five years later, its well-balanced mixture of History, intrigue, espionage, adventure, lwar and romance, which portrays the Holocaust from the perspective of exiled Spaniards, has turned it into the bestselling novel amongst all those awarded with this prize, with more than 60.000 copies sold and a new edition that has just hit the stores. Such a long running seller that reaches new readers every day and still has a bright future to come. 

"Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World", by Sabina Berman, nominated to the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014

Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World, by Sabina Berman (Destino), appears in the 15th 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; in the third one, a group of authors and literary reviewers select the winner. Some of the authors rewarded with this price are Orhan Pamuk, Michel Houellebecq, Javier Marías, Herta Müller or Colm Tóibín. Berman’s novel, the tender portrait of a peculiar and unforgettable female character, has been published in 33 countries, achieving an unanimous success. Her new novel, Darwin’s God, will appear in Destino in 2014.

Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013

Mercedes 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.

José María Merino awarded with the National Narrative Prize (Spain's Culture Ministery)

The Literary Agency Antonia Kerrigan wants to congratulate the author José María Merino for receiving, the well deserved,  Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2013 (National Narrative Award 2013) for his novel; The River of Eden (El río de edén) published in 2012 by  Editorial Alfaguara. José María Merino is a member of the Real Academia Española  (Spanish Royal Academy) and has received various awards for his works that include, narrative, young adult literature, short stories, essays and poems. His first novel, The Novel by Andrés Choz, (La Novela de Andrés Choz)  published in 1976, won the Novel and Short Story Award. In 1985 he was distinguished with the Critics Awards for his novel; The Dark Shore, (La orilla oscura). In 1993 he was given the National Young Adult and Children’s Literature Award for; I’m Not a Book, (No soy un libro). The novel Lucrecia’s Visions, (Las visiones de Lucrecia) (1996) received the Miguel Delibes Narrative award. In 2004, the novel The Heir, (El heredero) won the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Award and The Place without Guilt, (El lugar sin culpa), won the Torrente Ballester Award. The River of Eden; (El río del edén) has also won the critic Award of Castilla and León. The jury highlighted The River of Eden as: “a book in which the author has adopted a second auto-reflexive voice in order to bring life to a familiar micro-cosmos, that revolves around a boy with a disability and the crisis that his appearance provokes on family life. It is a technically risky work that has been well resolved, and that gains tension as the story advances and its crucial problems, like the right to a dignified death, find themselves perfectly exposed.”

Reyes Calderón, wins the IV Lawyer Award for Novels

The Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency wishes to congratulate the author Reyes Calderón for winning this year’s IV Edition Lawyer Award for Novels. On the 1st of March the panel of judges comprised of writers; Lorenzo Silva, Silvia Grijalba, Maxim Huerta andNativel Preciado as well as José Calabrús Lara (voice of the Governing Board, president of the Benefits Committee and Vice-President of the Legal Funds Foundation) and Carmen Fernández de Blas (Editorial director for Ediciones Martínez Roca, Grupo Planeta); ruled unanimously that the winner of this year’s edition is the novel; “El jurado número 10” (Trial Number 10) by Reyes Calderón “In this book, the trial has been highlighted, it’s fantastic literary factor, it’s easy comprehension, the ability to surprise the reader, in an extraordinarily armed plot and that with a sense of humor provides a vision of the ups and downs of the legal system from the point of view of a small office.” Reyes Calderón has published seven novels among those stands out the saga featuring the judge Lola Machor with: “The Last Patient of Doctor Wilson”, “The Prime Number Crimes”, “The Canaima File” and “The Revenge of the Pare Murderer.” El jurado número 10 (Trail Number 10) will be published by the Editorial Planeta (Martínez Roca) the 9th of April. More information (in Spanish): Más noticias: Diario ABC Europa Press Diario de Navarra Planeta de Libros - Noticias

Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Nadal Novel Award 2013

The 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).

Jesús Gil Vilda awarded for best screen-play

The full-length film “A puerta fría” (To the Cold Door) was triumphant last October when it was presented with the awards for both, best screen-play and best actor, Antonio Dechent, at the Spanish film festival of Toulouse. This is the second work by the writer Jesús Gil Vilda, (Crisis of the Grand Evil, The Aleph) as principal screen-play writer. In both occasions he collaborated with Xavi Puebla as director and co-screenplay writer. This award is the overall result from the critics of the Malaga Film Festival 2012 and of those obtained from the primer and work, Welcome to Farwelll-Gutmann, in the Montreal Film Festival (2008) and the Gaudí award from the Catalan Film Academy (2009). For more information about Jesús Vil Vilda and his works, here is an interview for Página 2: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/pagina-2/pagina-2-entrevista-jesus-gil-vilda-crisis-gran-mal/1044374/

Clara Obligado presented with the IX Setenil Award

“The Book of the Mistaken Travels” by Clara Obligado, is presented with the IX Setenil Award for the best book of short stories published inSpain in 2012, assembled by the City ofMolina de Segura. Yesterday, the 30th. of October, 2012 the IX Setenil Award for the Best Book of Short Stories Published in Spain was celebrated. This award has been converted into a national reference for the short story genre. The jury was chaired, in this occasion, by the author Cristina Fernández Cubas, and accompanied by Anontio Lucas, poet and redactor of Culture for the newspaper El Mundo, and José María Pozuelo Yvancos, professor at the University of Murcia, columnist for the La Vanguardia newspaper and critic for the newspaper ABC. The presentation of the Award will be assisted by the winner and the jury members on the 11th of December en Molina de Segura. Source: Editorial Páginas de Espuma More information: Editorial Páginas de Espuma Vídeo de Clara Obligado realizado por Casa América

Sabina Berman Awarded “Prix des lecteurs de la ville de Vicennes”

The (Mexican) author Sabina Berman has recently been acknowledged in Europe, on this occasion in France, with the award (Prix del Lecteurs de la ville de Vicennes) for her novel “The Woman who Dove into the Heart of the World” (Moi, Éditions du Seuil, 2011). This award was created in 2006 by the Library Network (Association) of the city of Vicennes with the goal to present an acknowledgement to an author invited to the Festival América (A Literature and Cultural festival of North America that takes place every two years). This year the festival will take place from the 20th until the 23rd of September in the French city.

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 benchmark for successive generations”.

Abad, Mercedes

Mercedes Abad debuted as a writer with Ligeros libertinajes sabaticos (Light Sabbatical Libertinage, 1986), a book of short stories which was awarded the Premio La Sonrisa Vertical. She has published the short story books Felicidades conyugales (Marital Happiness), Soplando al viento (Blowing in the Wind, 1995), Amigos y fantasmas (Friends and Ghosts, 2004), winner of the NH Vargas Llosa Award, Media docena de robos y un par de mentiras (Half a Dozen Heists and a Couple of Lies, 2009), La niña gorda (The Fat Child, 2014) and Casa en venta (House for Sale, 2020). She is also the author of the novels Sangre (Blood, 2000), El vecino de abajo (Downstairs’ Neighbour, 2007) and the essay Solo dime donde lo hacemos (Just Tell where can we do it, 1991). She has also written radio and theater scripts such as Pretèrit perfecte (Present Perfect), Se non è vero (If it’s not True) and Bunyols de Quaresma (Lent Fritters). She has staged Dangerous Liaisons by Christopher Hampton, and has collaborated in the playwriting of the show XXX with the adaptation of Philosophy in the Bedroom, by the Marquis de Sade, produced by La Fura dels Baus. She regularly writes in a number of news media outlets. Her write-ups in the supplement Catalonia of El País have been compiled into the volume Titúlate Tú (Name Yourself, 2002). Her work has been translated into several languages.

Un mundo sin palabras

What would happen if one day words were to abandon us forever? A children’s poem full of magic and sensibility that was awarded Colombia’s prestigious Rafael Pombo award in the year of its centenary.

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Alcalá, Fernando

Fernando Alcalá Suárez (Cáceres, 1980) loves nothing more than telling stories and consuming them, whether in books, TV series, movies, or video games. Although he prefers to live among elves and dragons, life has forced him to pretend to be an adult, and today he teaches English at a high school in Cáceres. He has three cats: Melon, Pineapple, and Lychee. He won the VII Iberian Cultural Prize for Young Artists in the literature category, an international competition for Spanish-speaking artists of all nationalities. Among other achievements, he has received the Extremadura Creation Grant three times, which encouraged him to write Ne obliviscaris and Summer Storm (Edelvives, 2010 and 2011), as well as Carlos, Paula, and Company, which took second place in the I HQÑ Contest and was published by Harper Collins Ibérica in 2013. Together with Geòrgia Costa, forming the Costa Alcalá duo, he won the Kelvin 505 and El Templo de las Mil Puertas awards with Heir, the first volume of The Second Revolution trilogy (Montena, Penguin Random House, 2017, 2018, and 2019). They have also written Good Sisters (Elastic Books, 2019) and the Prodigies series, three standalone novels set in the same universe, published by Nocturna Editorial between 2020 and 2022. Additionally, they are the authors of the children’s series Look Out, Lice (Montena, 2019 and 2020) and several novels published on Fiction Express, such as Journey to the Center of the Volcano, which won the readers’ choice award for best children’s novel on the platform in 2022. In autumn 2023, they published their first novel for adults, The Hunter’s Moon (Umbriel Editores), and in June 2024 Orphans of the Wanderer (Puck Editorial), the first part of Shadowweavers, a duology whose second volume will be released in Spain and Latin America in the first quarter of 2025. That same year, they will launch Nessa, Princess with Animallibres, Bromera, and Algar, a series of graphic novels for early readers. And that’s all for now... Fer has many projects underway, both with Geòrgia Costa and on his own, but he still can’t talk about them.

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 carried away by a premature loss”, and considers that the award for Barrio is “confirmation of a new voice with a whole future ahead ”.

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.

Benzo, Fernando

España Born in Madrid in 1965. He began his literary career at the age of 23, when he was awarded the Premio Castilla-La Mancha de Novela for his first work, "The Happy Years". Ever since, he has published the following novels: "Mary Lou and the Easy Life", (Premio Kutxa-Ciudad de Irún, 1994), "The Sirens' Betrayal", "After the Rain" (Premio Ciudad de Majadahonda, 2001), "I Will never Repeat your Name" and "The Plaza Mayor Castaways". His most recent works are "The Ashes of Innocence" (Ed. Plaza & Janés, 2019), "We were Never Heroes" (Ed. Planeta, 2020) and "The Milky Way Travelers" (Planeta, 2021).  His bibliography is completed with the volume of collected short stories "Ten Sad Tales’, the play "Scottie" and a non-fiction book, "Unexpected Heroes". He contributes frequently to various media outlets.  His latest novel is "The Persecuted" (Planeta, 2023).

Eva García Sáenz de Urturi has obtained the Planeta 2020 Prize with the novel Aquitaine. “A medieval thriller, a tribute to The name of the rose and a Game of Thrones of what would later become Europe, ”said the author, who dedicated the award to the victims of the pandemic. “The world of culture will survive this pandemic, explain it to us and move forward. My characters have a motto, three S’s: I only know how to follow. Literature only knows how to go on, always ”. Sáenz de Urturi (Vitoria, Álava, 1972) is known above all for its Trilogy about the white city, inspired by his hometown and composed by The silence of the white city, The water rites Y The time lords, which to date have produced more than fifty editions and the magic number of one million readers. 

Una novela criminal

  Winner of the Alfaguara Award 2018 All that is written in this novel are actual facts. All its charac-ters are of flesh and blood, and the story, skillfully unraveled and with light cast on in all its nooks and corners thanks to thorough research, is real.On December 8, 2005, south of Mexico City, federal police arrests Israel Vallarta and Florence Cassez, accusing them of kidnapping and belonging to a criminal organization. On the following day, at 06:47 AM, the TV stations Televisa and TV Azteca broadcast live the break-in of federal agents at the ranch Las Chinitas, the freeing of three hostages and the de-tention of Israel and Florence. On the following days, the de-tainees will be tortured, denied their basic rights and the num-ber of charges will grow. But when the defense lawyers point out the inconsistencies between the arrest reports, the tele-vised videos and the defendants’ version, a race against time ensues to uncover one of the biggest police setups in the his-tory of Mexico, whose development rocked the foundations of Felipe Calderón’s government and ended with a diplomatic incident between Mexico and France.A ruthless narration when it comes to depicting the ins and outs of power, the deepest roots of corruption and its reach, as well as the muddled mechanisms of justice, “A Criminal Novel” is also a brave denunciation of the social price of the policies that declare war on crime without putting a stop to its causes.

Canción de antiguos amantes

  LAURA RESTREPO'S NEW NOVEL A double love story in a world on the verge of collapse, by the winner of the Alfaguara Awards, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and Grinzane Cavour. "Every myth that is born is reborn. Every myth that incarnates reincarnates." Obsessed with the Queen of Sheba, Bos Mutas, a young contemporary writer, sets out on a journey around the world to find her, just as historical figures of the likes of Solomon, Thomas Aquinas and Gérard de Nerval had done over the centuries. And although the Queen of Sheba is elusive, Bos Mutas finds in her place the very earthy Zahra Bayda, a Somali midwife. Thus, the real time of the present runs parallel to the immemorial time of the myth. A work of fiction based on the author's travels through the lands of Yemen, Ethiopia and the Somali border—the magical and fierce geography of what was once the kingdom of Saba—, with Doctors Without Borders. This novel is a beautiful kaleidoscope, a gateway to fascinating worlds, a daring amalgamation of genres, eras, secular and biblical rhythms, cruelty and solidarity, love and war, pain and healing. Laura Restrepo accompanies, with this moving story, the eternal journey of migrant women, who despite tripping and stumbling, get up, keep going, learn to look further and further ahead and cross the borders of time and space. Song of Ancient Lovers sketches a seductive proposal: what if the great anthem of the end of time is not the Apocalypse? What if it was the Song of Songs instead?   The critics have said: "When the level of writing reaches as far as Laura Restrepo took it, you must doff your hat." Joseph Saramago "Her fascination with popular culture and her impeccable humor [...] spare her novels any temptation toward pathos or melodrama and instill unmistakable reading pleasures." Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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 novel very different from the ones I have published to date. Its title evokes a natural phenomenon that is only visible in a setting as spectacular as it is unique: the Congo River basin; one of the last green paradises on Earth and the setting for this story starring the young woman, Bineka, whose life I hope will catch you from the first page. "

Berman, Sabina

Mexico Sabina Berman was initially recognized as a playwright, four time winner of the National Theatre of Mexico Award along with a dozen critics’ awards. Berman inaugurates a new work practically every two years in Mexico and her works have been toured extensively within the country and in Canada, USA, Central-America and South-America. To mention a few; Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, 1992); Muerte súbita (Sudden Death), Moliére, Feliz nuevo siglo doktor Freud (Happy New Century Doctor Freud); eXtras. She has also worked in cinema. Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda (Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman, 1992), co-directed by Berman and Isabelle Tardan, was translated to celluloid in 1994 and represented Mexico in the Oscars that year. El árbol de la música (The Music Tree, 1995), also co-directed by Berman and Isabell Tardan also represented Mexico in the Oscars. Backyard (2009) written by Sabina Berman, produced by Tardan/ Berman and directed by Carlos Carrera, won various international awards, among them; Habana Film Festival and the silver metal in the Film Festival in Toronto as well as several “Ariels”, award delegated by the Mexican Academy of Arts and Cinema. She is considered as one of the most esteemed playwrights by the public and critics of Mexico. In prose she has written two short books and two journalistic chronicles: Un grano de arroz (A Grain of Rice) and La bobe (The bobe). Democracia cultural (Cultural Democracy) and Un soplo en el corazón de la Patria (A Murmer in the Heart of the Nation). From 2006 she is a columnist for the influential weekly magazine Proceso and for the two most prestigious literary magazines in Mexico; Letras Libres and Nexos. Sabina also presents a weekly talk show, Shalalá, interviewing cultural personalities on television. She has also been two time winner of the National Journalist Award. From 2009 she has been writing a screenplay for the director Alejandro González Iñarritu (Babel, Biutiful). La mujer que buceó dentro del corazón del mundo (The Woman Who Dove into the Heart of the World, Ediciones Destino 2010) is her first novel.

A day with Dad and Dadda

The families of our times can be very diverse: Look around and see for yourself. But something that almost all families have in common is love. With a sweet story and amusing illustrations, this book teaches that there are many valid ways to relate to and love each other. AUTHOR WINNER OF THE CHILDREN AWARD PREMIO CAMPOYADA FOR 2020

Biedma, Juan Ramón

Juan Ramón Biedma was born in Seville, studied Law, and for years has devoted himself to emergency management, an activity that he has combined with that of radio announcer, screenwriter and film critic, as well as collaborating in various publications and anthologies -The Black List, Probation and other stories, Guernika Variations, The Bible-The book, Coven... God’s Manuscript (Editions B), special mention by the jury during the 2004, II Premio de Novela of Gijón’s Semana Negra, and runner-up to the Memorial Silverio Cañada prize, marks his debut in the field of the novel, kicking off a trajectory that would be followed with The Monster’s Mirror (Editions B)—required reading in Mexico's medical school—and The Magnet and the Compass (Editions B), Hammett, NOVELPOL and Crucedecables awards for the best police novel in 2007. Then came The Transylvania Effect (Roca Editorial) and the graphic novel, Riven, and The Observatory City (Editions B). In June 2010, he published Smoke in the Bottle (Salto de Página), nominated for the Hammett Prize and worthy of the Premio Especial de la Dirección of La Semana Negra 2010, NOVELPOL award and considered by Gangsterera as the best novel of 2010. In February of 2011, Antirresurrección (Ediciones Dolmen) appears, which was nominated for the NOVELPOL 2012 and the CELSIUS award for the best fantasy novel of the year. In September 2014, he won the Premio Valencia de Novela Negra, awareded by the Valencia Provincial Council for his work Your Magnificent Vengeful Eyes when Everything has Occured, edited by Lengua de Trapo in February 2015. In 2020 he published The Sound of your Hair, winner of the XXI Premio Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones. His books are continually re-edited and quoted, and have a large and unconditional following. They have been translated into Portuguese, Greek, German, Russian and Turkish His latest novel is Crisanta (Alianza, 2023) www.juanramonbiedma.es/

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 Spain's Dashiel Hammet Award, France's Laure Bataillon Award, Cuba's José María Arguedas Latinamerican Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the José Donoso Prize in 2011. A Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres of France, and a doctor honoris causa of Blaise Pascal University (France), he is also recipient of the International Award for Human Rights awarded by the Bruno Kreisky Foundation, and the Order of Merit of the Federal Government of Germany. An active journalist, Ramirez was deputy vice president of Nicaragua between 1984 and 1990 when he abandoned politics and became a full time writer.

Boeken, May

España Maitane Vierbucher was born in Pamplona, although she lives in Gipuzkoa. She studied Graphic Arts and later did a Master's Degree in IT, followed by one in Digital Marketing and Business Communication Management (she received the Cambridge International Diploma in Business Communication). As May Boeken, she has published the duology Everlasting Wound I: All the Damned Decisions (nominated for Best National New Adult Novel in the Romantic Corner Awards 2018) and Everlasting Wound II: All the Blessed Decisions, both under the Phoebe imprint of Ediciones Pàmies. In September 2020, she published under the same label, a spin-off related to the duology entitled All The Broken Promises. Sale of this last novel, doubled the sales of her previous publications, becoming one of the best-selling national works that year. She also participated along with other authors in the charity anthology "We All Count", with the story entitled Dear Sara. The proceeds of this anthology were donated to the association MUM (Mujeres unidas contra el maltrato) (Women Against Violence). Besides that, she has participated as co-host in the podcast Gintonizadas, regarding romantic literature, which has about 1,000 listeners per program. She has had the opportunity to interview authors such as: Alice Kellen, Juan Gómez-Jurado, Megan Maxwell... Her lates novel is Your Summers and my Winters (2023).

The Immortal Collection 1: A Saga of the Ancient Family

After the successful “The White City Trilogy” and the Detective Kaken Series, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi - winner of the 2020 Planeta Award - publishes for the first time the complete trilogy with which she began her career. NEVER FORGET THAT BEING LONG-LIVED DOES NOT MAKE YOU IMMORTAL When Adriana, a brilliant young archaeologist, accepts a position at the Museum of Archaeology in her hometown of Santander, Spain, she never imagined that her new boss could have lived through the history she can only study. Iago, the charismatic technical director of the museum, is more than ten thousand years old but appears to be only twenty-five. Iago and his family are longevos: people who never seem to age after reaching adulthood. The ancient family is divided: Iago’s brother and sister seek the source of their longevity in hopes of creating more like themselves, while Iago and his father fear the repercussions of the true Fountain of Youth. A dangerous game of power and knowledge that has played out over eons becomes even more complicated when Adriana attracts both brothers’ attention and learns their secret. Filled with science, history, and passion, The Immortal Collection transports the reader through time and space, from the days of cavemen, through the Roaring Twenties, to the charming plazas of contemporary Spain. Ancient history meets cutting-edge research in this modern love story and sweeping historical saga.

Madrid:Frontera, by David Llorente, winner of the Dashiell Hammett 2017

Madrid:Frontera, by David Llorente, winner of the Dashiel Hammett prize 2017 David Llorente (Madrid, 1972) has won the Dashiell Hammett Prize, awarded during the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his novel Madrid:Frontera (Alrevés). Madrid:Frontera is a disturbing dystopia, a condemning cry for the misery that consumes our present-day society, a disquieting novel that is radical in its approach. The judges note that the winning novel stood out for “its originality and stylistic audacity, as well as its capacity to use literature as a tool for criticism and interpretation of reality.” Llorente succeeds Marcelo Luján, Carlos Zanóno, and Alexis Ravelo with his win. Read more on  El País 

When the storm passes

Manel Loureiro redefines the thriller genre with his latest novel, winner of the 2024 Fernando Lara Award. Stranded on Ons, a small island off the Atlantic coast of Galicia, Roberto Lobeira has no way to reach the mainland or communicate with the outside world due to a storm that feels like a harbinger of tragedy. When he finds a mysterious bundle washed ashore, its contents ignite decades-old resentment, jealousy, unresolved grudges, and a thirst for revenge among the island's few inhabitants. To make matters worse, a sinister, lurking presence leaves a bloody offering at his doorstep, a cryptic message he can’t decipher. Caught in a whirlwind of hatred, unspeakable secrets, and unrestrained ambition, Lobeira must survive on the island… until the storm passes. Rights sold:  English World Rights (Amazon Crossing)

Marcelo Luján wins the Dashiell Hammet Prize 2016 for “Subsoil”. Ignacio del Valle wins the Buenos Aires Negra in the same festival

The Argentine Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) has been awarded the Dashiell Hammett, the principal recognition awarded at the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his book Subsuelo (Subsoil), a disturbing and sober thriller that has been considered by the judges as the best book of the noir genre published in Spain in 2015. Luján won the Getafe award in 2009 for “La mala espera”. Visibly emotional, the winner has assured that one of his “childhood dreams has been fulfilled” and that it is a prize “for the risky decisions taken at the beginning of the writing of the novel.”  With this novel, the winner, whether he likes to go towards the margins of the genre or directly disaffiliate from it, shows that he is an excellent anatomist of daily evil. Three adolescents, three siblings, are sitting on the edge of a pool in a summer house. A fourth arrives late and has to go get ice but doesn’t feel like it. He doesn’t know that his contempt will be the beginning of the tragedy. From this nice and apparently anodyne point of departure, Luján unfurls a deep analysis of desire, envy, hatred, filial love and predatory sex and destruction. A book with a simple style, a thriller based on the strength of the characters and which pays tribute in its profundity to the master Patricia Highsmith. The author of “Moravia” succeeds Carlos Zanón in the list of winners, as well as Alexis Ravelo and Guillermo Saccomanno, the last three to have won it, along with a prestigious group of authors that include Ignacio Taibo II, Andreu Martín, Juan Madrid, and Jorge Reverte. In the same festival, Ignacio del Valle won the Buenos Aires Negra Award for Soles Negros (Black Suns) from the Arturo Andrade Series.

Bolea, Juan

España Juan Bolea (Spain, 1952) has a degree in History and Geography, though he has been working as a journalist for twenty years. He started his literary career with the short novel El palacio de los jardines oblicuos (The Palace of the Slanting Gardens), which received the Ciudad de Alcalá Award in 1981. Then he published two novels that were highly acclaimed by the critics: Mulata (Mulata, Mira 1992), set in Castro´s Cuba, and El color del Índico (The Color of the Indian Ocean, Rey Lear 1996/2008), which takes place in Africa. While directing cultural affairs for the city of Zaragoza, he promoted rock concerts –an experience from which he drew the inspiration for writing: El manager (The Manager, Ediciones B 2001). With Los hermanos de la costa (The Brothers from the Coast, Ediciones B 2005), Bolea began the successful series protagonizing the deputy inspector Martina de Santo, which was followed-up with La mariposa de obsidiana (The Obsidian Butterfly, Ediciones B 2006), Crímenes para una exposición (Crimes for an Exhibition, Ediciones B 2007), Un asesino irresistible (An Irresistible Assasin, Ediciones B 2009) and Orquídeas negras (Black Orchids, Espasa Calpe 2010). With his novel La melancolía de los hombres pájaro (The Birdmen´s Sadness, Martínez Roca 2011) he won the II Premio Abogados de Novela (The II Novel Lawyers Award). His latest novel is El síndrome de Jerusalén (The Jerusalem Syndrome, Ediciones B 2016).  www.juanbolea.com/

Sergio Pitol wins the Alfonso Reyes Prize 2015

The Mexican writer and essayist Sergio Pitol will be awarded the International Prize Alfonso Reyes 2015, in virtue of his valuable cultural, artistic, and literary contributions, and his extensive experience. In a statement, the Organizing Committee of the International Prize Alfonso Reyes announced today that Sergio Pitol is the winner of the award this 2015. It also marks that Pitol is a citizen of the world and at the same time a profound expert on Mexican culture. “He’s the living example of passion for knowledge and implacable criticism, whose unmistakable voice amongst the Hispanic-American narrators is fundamental to the writing, owing to his originality,” declare the organizers. The prize was created by Francisco Zendejas in 1972. It aims to appreciate the work of the Monterrey-native writer Alfonso Reyes by distinguishing personalities with a vast trajectory in the field of humanities. Amongst the prize-winners are Mario  Vargas Llosa, Eduardo Lizalde, Ignacio Bosque, Fernando del Paso and Ida Vitale (previously). Pitol was born in Puebla, March 18, 1993. He studied law and letters at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is a member of the National System of Creators of Art, as creator emeritus, since 1994. He has received the Xavier Villaurrutia Award 1981 for “Nocturno de Bujara,” the Herralde Novel Award in 1984 for “El desfile del amor” and the National Literature and Linguistic Award 1993; as well as those of the Latin-American Literature and the Caribbean Juan Rulfo 1999, and the Cervantes of Literature in 2005. His work is translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, and Chinese. And he as a translator has rendered into Spanish works of authors such as Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Robert Graves, Jane Austen, Witold Gombrowicz, Alexander Zeromsky, Kazimierz Brandys, Jerry Andrzejewski and Bruno Schulz. The Organizing Committee is formed by the Secretary of Culture of the Government of the Republic, the Government of the State of Nuevo León through the Council of Culture and Arts, the Alfonsina International Society, the Autonomous Univeristy of Nuevo Leon (UANL), the Monterrey Technological, The University of Monterrey and the University Regiomontana. (El Universal, Mexico)

Toffana

In 17th-century Rome, where women's voices were suppressed and marriage often meant subjugation, emerges the enigmatic figure of Giulia Toffana. Inheriting her mother Theophania D’Adamo's alchemical knowledge, Giulia refines the Acqua Toffana, an undetectable poison that provides abused wives a lethal means to reclaim their autonomy. Together with her daughter Gironima and confidante Giovanna De Grandis, she orchestrates a clandestine network that challenges the patriarchal order and instills fear among Rome's elite.? Awarded the 2025 Premio Primavera de Novela, Vanessa Montfort crafts a historical and judicial thriller that delves into themes of justice, vengeance, and female solidarity amidst societal darkness. Through immersive storytelling, the author invites readers to ponder whether Giulia was a cold-blooded killer or a vigilante who empowered women in an era that sought to silence them.?

Brenman, Ilan

Brasil Ilan Brenman is considered one of the most important Brazilian children’s authors. His most famous book, Even Pricesses Fart remained for more than 60 consecutive weeks in the best-sellers list of the main bookshops in Brazil and has been translated into more than 15 languages worldwide. He is also a best-selling author in Spain. Ilan has a degree in Psicology (PUC - São Paulo), a MA and PhD from the Faculty of Education (University of São Paulo, USP. Since 1997, Ilan has published more than 60 books for children with various Brazilian publishers such as Companhia das Letras and WMF. Many of his books have been considered "highly recommended" by the National Foundation of the Children Book in Brazil. The same institution has awarded his book 14 Pérolas da Índia (Brinque-Book) with the best story-telling book award in 2009, the best picture book award for Telefone sem fio (Cia das Letras) in 2010 and the best children's book for O alvo (Atica) in 2011. Since 2011, Ilan's books have crossed the Brazilian borders and today some of them are published in Europe and Asia. In 2012, O alvo was selected to be part of the German publisher White Ravens' catalogue. https://www.instagram.com/ilan.brenman/

Calderón, Reyes

España Reyes Calderón (Spain, 1961) is PhD in Economics and Philosophy, a professor and first vice-dean of the Faculty of Economics Sciences and Business at the University of Navarra. She is a visiting professor at the Sorbonne and at the University of Berkley, and centres her professional career focusing on good governance and anti-corruption. Columnist and habitual lecturer, she combines her academic work with writing. Reyes Calderón is author of Ego te absolve (Ego your Absolved), Gritos de independencia (Shouts of Independence), and Las lágrimas de Hemingway (Hemmingway’s Tears). Los crímenes del número primo (The Crimes of the Prime Numbers, RBA 2008. Rights acquired by Nord/Italy, Muza/Poland and Bertrand/Portugal) became a best seller with more than 50.000 sold copies in Spain. It is her first novel in which judge Lola McHor appears, followed by El expediente Canaima (The Canaima File, RBA 2009) and El último paciente del doctor Wilson (Dr. Wilson’s Last Patient, Planeta 2010). After being awarded the Premio de Abogados de Novela for her book Jury Number 10, Reyes Calderón has established herself as an author of reference in the field of suspense literature, as the success amongst the public of her saga with Lola MacHor as the leading character attests; and, who once again returns in her novel Dispara a la luna (Shot at the moon, Planeta 2016) with greater strength than ever before. Her last novel is Clave Matisse (Planeta, 2018) reyescalderon.es/

Caliani, Alberto

ALBERTO CALIANI was born in Ceuta during the era of black-and-white television, though he has been living in Madrid since 2021. In 2013, he published El secreto de Boca Verde, an adventure thriller that became an Amazon #1 bestseller. In 2015, he followed up with La conspiración del rey muerto, a historical novel based on the legend of King Sebastian of Portugal. In 2017, he released La iglesia, a supernatural noir. In 2021, Ediciones B published El puño del emperador, which won the double HISLIBRIS award for Best Historical Novel and Best Spanish Author of the Year. In 2023, the same publisher released La sombra del impostor, set in a Renaissance filled with violence, conspiracies, and secret wars. Some of the characters from La sombra take center stage in Siempre vienen de noche (Ediciones B, 2024), a dark and oppressive thriller set around the Monastery of Piedra. In 2024, he co-wrote the script with Juan Gómez-Jurado for the Reina Roja prequel in audio fiction format: Reina Roja: Origen, El primer caso, available exclusively on Audible. In 2025, he returns to contemporary thrillers with El cazador de libros, once again published by Ediciones B. An active presence on social media, he always appreciates and responds to any comments or reviews on his Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter accounts. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amartinezcaliani Twitter: @AlbertoMCaliani Instagram: @alberto_m_caliani

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.

A thousand drops, winner of the 2015 Grand Prix de Literature Policière

‘Un millón de gotas’ has been awarded the most prestigious French literary award appointed for the noir genre. Its author, Victor del Árbol, repeats once again the great feat of conquering the most distinguished reviews of the noir genre in France. Previously, in 2012, he was the first Spaniard to obtain the Prix du polar Européen, awarded by the prestigious French publication Le Point. Le Grand Prix de literature policière, founded in 1948 by the author and literary critic Maurice Bernard Endrèbe, is given annually to the best French novel [and foreign novel]. This year the French winner was “Derrière les panneaux il y a des homes,” by Joseph Incardona. The winners are determined by a jury of up to 10 members, which also includes authors. Each of the judges preselects a combination of works that they bring to discussion, for later making a voting list that they present before the jury. Amongst the acclaimed authors from the last decades that have been worthy of the prize are Jean-Patrick Manchette, Didier Daeninckx, Mary Higgins Clark, Elizabeth George, Thomas Harris, Patricia Highsmith, Arnaldur Indridason, P.D. James, Léo Malet and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. As of today, Victor del Àrbol joins a grand line-up of authors with “Un millón de gotas,” in French, “Toutes les vagues de l’océan”, published last February by Actes Sud in France and Destino [in Spain] in May 2014. It’s a novel to which the French media have dedicated entire pages and their best praise.

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.

A Thousand Drops by Víctor del Ýrbol, shorlisted for the Grand Prix de Litteratures Policières 2015

The novel A Thousand Drops by Víctor del Árbol is still a success a year after its publication. After 5 editions in Spain (Destino) and 2 editions in France, (Actes Sud) its nomination for one of the most prestigious awards in France: Le Grand Prix de Litteratures Policières 2015 was announced this week. The book by Victor del Árbol has achieved great reviews from the press and is shortlisted for this Prize along with works by other renowed authors of the noir and detective literature like James Ellroy, William Bayer or Don Winslow. The winner will be announced on September 23, but just being shortlisted is a great honor.

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/

Costa, Geòrgia

Geòrgia Costa Villaró (Tarragona, 1984) holds degrees in History and Classical Archaeology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, since the only thing she enjoys almost as much as writing stories is hearing them. She writes children’s and middle-grade books, including the recent Ada Tormentas series: Something’s Up with Ada Tormentas (Salamandra, 2024) and Ada Tormentas is Up to Something (Salamandra, 2024). She also writes children's non-fiction, such as 22 Mysteries of History (Montena, 2015) and the illustrated bestiary Monsters of the World (Montena, 2018). Together with Fernando Alcalá, with whom she forms the writing duo Costa Alcalá, she won the Kelvin 505 Award and the El Templo de las Mil Puertas Award with the novel Heir, the first volume of The Second Revolution trilogy (Montena, Penguin Random House, 2017, 2018, and 2019). They have also written Good Sisters (Elastic Books, 2019) and Prodigies, a series of three standalone novels set in the same universe, published by Nocturna between 2020 and 2022. Additionally, they are the authors of the children's series Look Out, Lice (Montena, 2019 and 2020) and several novels published on Fiction Express, such as Journey to the Center of the Volcano, which won the readers’ choice award for the best children's novel on the platform in 2022. In autumn 2023, they published their first novel for adults, The Hunter’s Moon (Umbriel Editores), and in June 2024 Orphans of the Wanderer (Puck Editorial), the first part of Shadowweavers, a duology whose second volume will be released in Spain and Latin America in the first quarter of 2025. That same year, they will launch Nessa, Princess, a series of graphic novels for early readers, to be published by Animallibres, Bromera, and Algar. And that’s all... for the time being. Fer has many projects underway, both with Geòrgia Costa and on his own, but we’ll have to wait until he’s allowed to talk about them.

Costas, Ledicia

España This Galician writer of YA titles has achieved unanimous praise from critics and audiences alike, ever since the publication of "Escarlatina, the Corpse Cook". This work has received a number of awards (among others, the National Literature Prize in 2015) and has garnered enormous sales success, first in Galicia and then in the rest of Spain, as well as various translations in other countries. The successful prequel "Esmeraldina, the Little Ghost" and the large format book "The Secret Files of Escarlatina", which make up a unique trilogy, have contributed to this success.  Moreover, she is the only author who has three Lazarillo prizes, the oldest award in Spanish literature. The awarded works were "Jules Verne and the Secret life of the Women Plant", "The Ballad of the Unicorns" and "The mechanical hare". Born in Vigo, Ledicia was a voracious reader from a very early age, writing her first book (A Star in the Wind) at sixteen. After finishing law school and practicing law for several years, she abandoned this profession to dedicate herself exclusively to writing, focusing primarily on a children and young adult audience. In her already long career as an author, there are titles such as "Jupiter's Heart", (which deals with the subject of school bullying and the dangers of social networks), "The Adventures of Extravaganza Pérez", "Misses Bubble", or "An Alleged Mist" (a very hard book of short stories based on some of the most chilling incidents of World War II). Her latests works are "The Fire Boy" - which was awarded her second Merlín Prize for children literature in Galician language - and "The Minidead" series. In 2019 she published "Infamy", her first adult novel. "Strokes of Light" is her second novel for adultsand her latest novel is "Lamb Skin". https://lediciacostas.com/es/inicio-es/

"The Seamstress", by María Dueñas, reaches its twelfth edition in The Netherlands

The Seamstress continues to conquer Europe. We've just received copies of the twelfth edition in The Netherlands. With the title Het geluid van de nacht, the publishing house Wereldbibliotheek has sold more than 60.000 copies of the book since it came out in April 2012. The Seamstress, with more than a million readers in Spain, has been turned into a successful TV series and awarded prizes such as the Ciudad de Cartagena to the best historical novel or the Premio de Cultura 2011, and is definitely an international literary phenomenon. 

Cueto, Alonso

Perú Alonso Cueto (Lima, 1954) is the author of several novels, short stories, and essays. Cueto has won several distinctions for his literary work, including the prestigious Herralde Award (Spain 2005) for his novel La Hora Azul (The Blue Hour), the 2007 Casa de Ámericas-Planeta second-place prize for his novel Susurro de la Mujer Ballena (Sigh of the Whale Woman) and the Anna Seghers Prize for his body of work (Germany, 2000). In 2006, the Chinese based National Publishing House, considered La Hora Azul, the best novel published in spanish in the 2005-2006 period. He also received a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation grant in 2002. Filmmaker Francisco Lombardi adapted Cueto’s novel Grandes Miradas (Knowing Gazes) to the screen in “Mariposa Negra,” which won several international awards. Cueto’s work has been translated into 15 languages, including dutch, german, french, italian, rumanian, polish, chinese and korean. Random House published the English-language translation of La Hora Azul (The blue Hour, translated by Frank Wynne). His novel La Viajera del Viento (Voyager of the wind, Planeta) along with The Blue Hour and La Pasajera forms a trilogy around violence in recent Peruvian history. In the book fair of Lima in 2016, La Viajera del Tiempo was the most sold novel.  His latest novel is Francisca: Princesa del Perú.  Cueto, a graduate from the University of Texas at Austin, currently lives in Lima, Peru. He is a full professor of the Literature and Linguistics Department of the Universidad Católica. He is also a member of the peruvian chapter of the Academia de la Lengua of Spain. In 2017, he was awarded the title of meritorious personality of culture by the Peruvian government. alonsocueto.com/

The new digital label Ciudad de Libros includes books by Alonso Cueto, José María Merino and María Pilar Queralt

A 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. 

Sabina Berman and her new success: "Darwin's God"

Soon it will be over two months since El dios de Darwin (Darwin's God), by Sabina Berman, was published, and the book has been receiving excellent reviews since then. Among them is the one that appeared in the Spanish newspaper La Razón a couple of weeks ago, in which Lluís Fernández wrote: "Berman's novel combines with expertise its distinct layers. (...) Masterful, at times. (...) Berman is a meticulous writer that avoids the magic realism of her previous novel and tries to experiment (...) A surprising thriller of theological intrigue". Sabina Berman, that presented El dios de Darwin in Madrid in an event in the Instituto de México the last 23rd of January, is among the nominees for the renowned International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2014 for her first novel The woman who dove into the heart of the world. The shortlist for the prize will be announced on the 9th of April, and the name of the winner will be made public on the 12th of june: we wish Sabina good luck and hope to continue to follow and enjoy her career as it develops. 

Darós, Joan

Joan Daròs studied Dramatic Art and English Philology, and has worked in theater, film and television. Before embarking on this first and award-winning novel, he made his first steps in the field of translation (Matthew López’s The Inheritance and Adam Zmith’s Deep Sniff: A History of Poppers and Queer Futures).  Biting the Orchid is his debut novel, in the style of “The White Lotus”, Winner of the First Asterisco Prize for Queer Narrative.

Dueñas, María

María Dueñas Vinuesa, born in 1964 in Puertollano, Ciudad Real, is a renowned Spanish writer. She holds a Ph.D. in English Philology and spent over two decades as a university professor before dedicating herself entirely to literature. Her literary debut in 2009 with The Seamstress (El tiempo entre costuras) catapulted her to success, becoming a publishing phenomenon and being translated into more than 25 languages. Since then, she has published several novels that have solidified her career, including The Vineyard (Misión Olvido, 2012), A Vineyard in Andalusia (La Templanza, 2015), The Captain's Daughters (Las hijas del Capitán, 2018), and Sira (2021). In March 2025, she will release her new novel, Por si un día volvemos, which will be published simultaneously in Spain, the United States, and Latin America with an initial print run of half a million copies. Her work has been adapted into audiovisual formats, including television series and productions on streaming platforms. Throughout her career, she has received various awards, and her work has achieved significant international recognition, with translations into more than 35 languages. She currently resides in Cartagena, a city with which she maintains a strong personal and professional connection. In January 2025, she was named an Adoptive Daughter of Cartagena in recognition of her career and her bond with the city. María Dueñas continues to write and actively participate in cultural projects, establishing herself as one of the most influential authors in contemporary Spanish literature.

"Baudelaire's Flowers", by Gonzalo Garrido, reissued in DeBolsillo

Las flores de Baudelaire (Baudelaire's Flowers), the first novel by Gonzalo Garrido, published in 2012 by Alrevés, was reprinted last month in its paperback edition by DeBolsillo, which is part of Penguin Random House group. This news just goes to prove how Garrido's career is growing. His first novel, a blend of mistery and history that deals with treason and its presence as a guiding force in our lives, became an unexpected success. The novel (now, in its third edition) has appeared repeatedly in the best seller lists, has been finalist of awards such as the Memorial Silverio Cañada (granted by the Semana Negra de Gijón) and has received the praise of brilliant authors such as Eduardo Mendoza. Las flores de Baudelaire is just the first step in a career that we predict as more than solid, and that has a bright future.

Monika Zgustova, winner of the Amat Piniella Prize for "Valia's Night"

The writer, translator and journalist Monika Zgustova has won the Amat Piniella Prize for her latest novel La nit de Vàlia (Valia's Night), published last year by Proa in its original Catalan version and by Destino in Spanish translation. Valia's Night fictionalizes the true story of artist Valentina Grigorievna, wrongly acused of spying and sent to the gulag, who tries to recover her life and find her true love after many years of captivity. The prize, granted by Òmnium Cultural and the Council of Manresa to a published work that shows a "social concern for the contemporary world", was awarded by majority; Zgustova's novel was selected over titles written by authors such as Margarida Aritzeta, Pere Rovira and Núria Cadenes. The author, who was born in the Czech Republic but has been living in Catalonia for more than thirty years, crowns with this award a splendidly solid career.

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/

Gallego, Laura

España Laura Gallego has a place of honor among the authors of children and young adult literature of our country. A Doctor in Spanish Philology from the University of Valencia, she began to write at the tender age of 11. Finis Mundi, the first novel she published, won the Premio El Barco de Vapor, an award she would win again three years later with La leyenda del Rey Errante. In addition to some children’s tales, Laura Gallego has written more than thirty novels so far, among which are Crónicas de la Torre, Donde los árboles cantan, distinguished with the Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, Todas las hadas del Reino, Todos los hombres del Rey, Omnia, El ciclo del eterno emperador, Stravagantia, and her acclaimed trilogies Memoria de Idhún and Guardianes de la Ciudadela. In 2011, Laura Gallego received the Premio Cervantes Chico for the whole of her work. Her work has been widely translated.

Carmen Amoraga, winner of the Nadal Prize for "La vida era eso"

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. She unexpectedly finds relief in the friends her husband had in the social networks he liked. The jury has highlighted the way that Amoraga uses "with a fine ear contemporary language", the work's modernity in dealing with "new ways of communicating and relating to other people via social networks" and how it achieves a difficult goal: using humor to deal with loss. The author, which was finalist of the Nadal in 2007 with her novel Algo tan parecido al amor, and has received other awards such as the Ateneo Joven de Sevilla or the Valencian Literary Critiques Award, was thrilled to receive the award from Ana María Matute, saying she had never imagined it. Amoraga dedicated the award to her "high school literature teacher, and to all the teacherS that are living through these hard times", and wore a badge to protest for the closing of Canal 9, in which she worked in the past. La vida era eso will appear soon in Destino. 

Jorge Volpi returns with "Memorial del engaño"

Two years after being awarded with the Planeta-Casamérica prize for La tejedora de sombras (Planeta), Jorge Volpi returns with Memorial del engaño (Alfaguara), a very singular book that presents itself as the memoirs of J. Volpi, one of the biggest financial criminals of our time. Mixing family drama with crime fiction, Volpi has written a book filled with tricks and traps, in which he investigates the origins of one of the most devastating financial catastrophes of all times. Radical, critical and unique, Memorial del engaño will surely give much food for thought. 

Gutiérrez, Xabier

Xabier Gutiérrez (San Sebastián, 1960) es cocinero, psicólogo y escritor. Dirige desde 1990 el departamento de innovación del Restaurante Arzak en San Sebastián, además de asesorar a empresas del sector de la alimentación, colaborar con medios de comunicación e impartir clases en el máster de innovación y gestión de restaurantes del Basque Culinary Center. Ha publicado doce libros de cocina y cinco ensayos sobre estética culinaria. Ha sido galardonado con el Premio Nacional de Gastronomía y el Best World Cookbook Award. Tras publicar su primera novela, El aroma del crimen, (Destino, 2015), Gutiérrez repite escenarios y personajes en El bouquet del miedo, la segunda entrega de la serie de noir gastronómico protagonizada por el subcomisario Vicente Parra. En 2017 y 2019 ampliaría la serie con Sabor crítico y De entre el humo.  

Herrero, Nieves

NIEVES HERRERO was born in Madrid. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University and a Law degree from the European University. She also studied Criminology for a year at Camilo José Cela University. With decades of experience as a journalist in print, radio, and television, her career in the media has been recognized with the most prestigious awards in the profession. She is the author of bestsellers such as Lo que escondían sus ojos, whose screen adaptation broke audience records and won an Ondas Award; Como si no hubiera un mañana, recipient of the Madrid Critics Award; Carmen, which remained on the list of best-selling historical books for sixty weeks; Esos días azules, universally praised by both critics and readers; as well as El joyero de la reina, a resounding editorial success, and her most recent work, La baronesa. Passionate about great stories and noir fiction, Nieves Herrero continues her celebrated literary career with Luna roja, which has captivated tens of thousands of readers.

"La tristeza del samurái", by Víctor del Ýrbol, translated into Polish

La tristeza del samurái (The Sadness of the Samurai), by Víctor del Árbol (Alrevés), was published in the Polish publishing house Albatros the last 26th of November. It’s the last country to launch this successful thriller with accents of historic novel, after having been published in the United States (Henry Holt & Co.), Brazil (Companhía das Letras), Italy (Mondadori), The Netherlands (Uitgeverij De Fontein), Romania (TREI), Macedonia (Club Matica), Israel (Armchair Publishing House) and France (Actes Sud), where it was awarded the Prix du Polar Européen 2012 to the best European thriller. Víctor del Árbol, author also of Respirar por la herida (Breathe by the wound, Alrevés, 2013), will publish his new novel in Destino in 2014. 

Martínez, Javier

Javier Martínez estudió en la Universidad de Granada y en la Escuela de Cine y Televisión de  la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles, donde obtuvo una beca Fulbright y el Student Academy Award, entre otros premios. Vive en Madrid y trabaja como guionista y director creativo de series de animación (Iron Kid, 2007; Mica, 2014; Emmy & GooRoo, 2020) y supervisor de producción (Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas, 2019; Dragonkeeper, 2021). También ha abordado el álbum ilustrado infantil y la novela juvenil, con obras como la saga de la detective Mina San Telmo (Edebé) y la novela de terror El autor de este libro es un zombi, finalista del Premio Everest de literatura juvenil.

House of Anansi wins the Giller

Lynn Coady’s short story collection Hellgoing won Canada’s biggest prize for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize. House of Anansi Press, her Toronto-based publisher, had also published Coady’s novel The Antagonist, which was shortlisted for the prize in 2011.She has also been shortlisted to the Gobernor General’s Literary Award and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humourm, and has four times made The Globe and Mail’s annual list of Top 100 Books. Spanish rights for the short story collection are available through the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency. 

Medina, Maribel

Maribel Medina (Pamplona) has a passion for travel has taken her as far as India, but for the past 25 years, she has called the Baztán Valley in Navarra home. As a teenager, she became an orphan, forcing her to abandon her dream of becoming an astrophysicist and instead pursue a degree in Geography and History. Later, she worked as an external reader for a national publishing house.In 2014, she published Sangre de barro (Blood of Mud), a crime novel about doping in sports that achieved critical and commercial success. This was soon followed by the next installment in the Connors series, Sangre intocable (Untouchable Blood), which continued to tackle international plots rooted in real-world issues. In 2019, the final book of the Blood trilogy, Sangre entre la hierba (Blood Among the Grass), was released.Exploring a new genre, she published the illustrated story El Niño-Hoja (The Leaf-Child). Medina has served as a judge for various literary competitions, including the Tenerife Noir Prize and the prestigious María Moliner Award.Since 2019, she has been the president and director of Mi Pueblo Lee, a national rural network of literary festivals that was honored in 2024 with the National Award for Promoting Reading.On the wall of her office, the words “A bold life or nothing” are written—a reflection of her fearless approach to life and literature.

Méndez, Roxana

Roxana Méndez (San Salvador, 1979). Writer and translator. She holds a degree in English Philology and a Master's in Spanish and Latin American Literature. In 2023, the New York Public Library included her book The Market on its list of Best Books for Kids of 2022. That same year, she won the José Hierro International Poetry Prize in Spain for her book The Bathers. In 2019, she received the Cuatrogatos Foundation Award in Miami for her book Flying Machines, and that same year, she won the Ciudad de Melilla Christmas Story Award in Spain and the Central American Children’s Story Award from the Books for Children Foundation. In 2012, she received the Alhambra American Poetry Prize in Spain, and in her country she was awarded the Grand Master of Poetry prize, along with national narrative and children's poetry awards. She has published books such as Caro and Lucy on Garbage Island (Children’s Fiction, Fiction Express, 2024), The Bathers (Poetry, José Hierro University and RTVE, 2022), The Market (Children's Fiction, Books for Children, Nicaragua, 2022), The Mechanical Cat (Children's Fiction, DPI, El Salvador, 2021), Olivia and the Screeching Cart (Children's Fiction, Piedrasanta, Guatemala, 2021), Flying Machines (Children's Poetry, Valparaíso Ed., 2018), The Rain of 1979 (Valparaíso Ed., Spain, 2018), The Secret Book (Children's Poetry, DPI, El Salvador, 2017), The Sky in the Window (Poetry, Valparaíso Ed., Spain, 2012 and Valparaíso USA, 2017), Clara and Clarissa (Children's Fiction, Loqueleo, Guatemala, 2012), Mnemosyne (DPI, El Salvador, 2008 and Bombadil Ed., Sweden, 2011), and Memory (Poetry, DPI, El Salvador, 2004). Upcoming: Ana Glass (Children’s Fiction, El Naranjo Publishing, Mexico, 2025) WEBSITE: roxanamendez.net

Montfort, Vanessa

Vanessa Montfort is a novelist and playwright with a degree in Information Sciences, considered one of the leading international voices in contemporary Spanish literature. As a novelist, she has published El ingrediente secreto (XI Ateneo Joven de Sevilla Award, 2006); Mitología de Nueva York (XI Ateneo de Sevilla Award, 2010); La leyenda de la isla sin voz (International Ciudad de Zaragoza Award for Best Historical Novel, Plaza y Janés, 2014); and Mujeres que compran flores (Plaza y Janés, 2016), which has had 29 editions in Spain, achieved great success in Italy and Latin America, and whose rights have been sold to over 15 countries, including France, Portugal, Germany, Norway, South Korea, and Bulgaria. She has also published El sueño de la crisálida (Plaza y Janés, 2019) and La mujer sin nombre (Plaza y Janés), where she revives the writer María Lejárraga. This novel, along with Firmado Lejárraga, the play that preceded it, has received critical acclaim and culminated in her participation in the TVE documentary María Lejárraga: A las mujeres de España, directed by Laura Hojman. Her varied theatrical work ranges from documentary theater to radio and musical theater. Notable works include Flashback, La cortesía de los ciegos, and Tierra de tiza, written for the Royal Court Theatre in London; a free adaptation of La Regenta (Teatros del Canal, 2012); El galgo (Teatro Anfitrione in Rome, with multiple translations); Sirena negra, adapted into a film by Elio Quiroga (Sitges Festival, 2015); El hogar del monstruo (CDN, 2016); and Firmado Lejárraga (CDN, 2019, finalist for the 2020 Max Awards for Best Playwriting). In 2022, she premiered three productions: El síndrome del copiloto (Festival de Málaga and Teatros del Canal, Madrid); Saúl, a radio theater medium-length feature for the BBC as part of the One Five Seven Years series; and La Toffana (International Classical Theater Festival of Almagro, 2022 / Teatro La Abadía, Madrid, 2022). As a producer, she co-founded BEMYBABYFILMS in 2016 with director Miguel Ángel Lamata, with whom she produced the feature film Nuestros Amantes (2016) and the documentary Héroes, Silencio y Rock & Roll (premiered on Netflix, nominated for the Goya Awards for Best Documentary). The theatricality of her dialogues, her lyricism, the humanization of cities and their conflicts, and her ability to reflect contemporary issues with a touch of the extraordinary make her novels an emotional rollercoaster starring unforgettable characters.

Respirar por la herida by Víctor del Ýrbol published in France

Following the great success that his novel, The Sadness of the Samurai (La Tristesse du Samouraï, Actes Sud, 2012) received in France; Víctor del Árbol returns with this story of pain and vengeance entitled; Respirar por la herida (Le maison des chagris, Actes Sud, 2013). In Respirar por la herida, del Árbol creates a perfectly warped and complicated plot, that captures the reader like a fly in a spider’s web. Different lives with distinct origins and events that seem completely unrelated from one another are the pieces of this puzzle that will come together little by little when the reader least expects it. “Human beings know nothing about themselves. We think we know ourselves; in a secure environment we are predictable, but when we are faced with something extraordinary we don’t know how we will react until it occurs. Preconceptions are worthless. It’s not so easy to kill someone and assume the consequences, nobody can guarantee that vengeance will bring you justice or even less peace” Víctor del Árbol Víctor del Árbol has been translated into ten languages and was awarded in France with the Le Prix Le Point du Polar European 2012 for The sadness of the Samurai, for the best crime novel of the year.

Ramírez, Sergio

Nicaragua, 1942 Sergio Ramírez was born in 1942 in Masatepe, Nicaragua. He published his first short stories at the age of eighteen. Whilst studying law he founded the literary magazine “Ventana” (“Window”) and in 1970 published his first novel, Tiempo de fulgor (Glaring Times). Since then till Tongolele no sabía bailar (Tongolele did not know how to dance) there have appeared Ya nadie llora por mí (No One No Longer Cries for Me, Alfaguara, 2017), Un baile de mascaras (Masked Ball), Castigo Divino (Divine Punishment) (Premio Dashiel Hammett in 1990), Margarita está linda la mar (Margarita How Beautiful the Sea) (Premio Alfaguara in 1998), Mil y una muertes (One Thousand and One Deaths), La Fugitiva, (The Fugitive), or the detective novel El cielo llora por mi (The Sky Cries for Me). Another of his constant genres has been the short story, of which stand out the volumes El reino animal (Animal Kingdom), Perdón y olvido (Forgivness and Oblivion), Flores oscuras (Dark Flowers) and his Personal Anthology, 50 Years of Short Stories (Oceáno Mexico, 2017). But also the recollection, Adiós muchachos (Goodbye Fellows, 1999), the essay Mentiras verdaderas (True Lies, 2001) and the indefatigable oped writer. His books have been translated into 20 languages. His latest novel is Ese día cayó en domingo (That Day Fell on a Sunday, 2022). • Cervantes Prize 2017 • Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso, awarded by the Universidad de Talca, Chile, 2011 • Premio Panamá Negro. Feria Internacional del Libro, Panamá, 2017. • Premio Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria (Spanish language), awarded in México, 2014. • Premio del Festival Internacional Metrópolis Bleu, Montreal, Canadá, 2011 • Premio Latinoamericano José María Arguedas, 2000 • Premio Alfaguara de Novela, 1998 • Prix Laure Bataillon, 1998 • Premio Internacional Dashiel Hammett de Novela ,1995 • Named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 1993) www.sergioramirez.com/

Restrepo, Laura

The Colombian author Laura Restrepo has been a professor of literature at the National University of Colombia, as well as editor of the Bogota weekly magazine Semana, where she covered the drug trade for 12 years.  In 1984, she was a member of the Peace Commission that brought the Colombian government and the guerrillas to the negotiating table, an experience she later recorded in her first book History of a Hope (1986).  More recently she has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction, held a Distinguished Professorship at Cornell University, and travelled with Doctors Without Borders to Yemen, to write about the refugee crisis there.  Restrepo is the author of nine novels and novellas, published in over 20 languages. They include Isle of Passion (1989), Leopard in the Sun (1993, which when  republished in Spain in 2001, won the Premio Arzobispo San Clemente), The Angel of Galilea (1995, Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz in Mexico and Prix France Culture, both in 1997),  The Dark Bride (1999,  which became a bestseller throughout Latin America), A Tale of the Dispossessed (2001), The Scent of Invisible Roses (2002), No Place for Heroes (2009), and Hot Sur (2012).  Her best known novel  Delirium  (2004) confirmed her critical reputation internationally as a major voice from the Spanish-speaking world.  Winner of the prestigious Premio Alfaguara 2004 in Spain  (with a jury headed by Nobel author José Saramago), shortlisted in French for the Prix de Meilleur Livre Étranger 2005, awarded the Italian Premio Grinzane Cavour 2006, the novel sold over a quarter of a million copies in Spanish alone. In 2007, she received the VI Premio Nacional de Literatura de Colombia for her body of work. Restrepo currently divides her time between Mexico and Spain. Her most recent novel, Canción de antoguos amantes (Song of Ancient Lovers), was released in 2022. Praise for RESTREPO  “An impeccable writer and a courageous person.” --ISABEL ALLENDE “Laura Restrepo breathes life into a singular amalgam of journalistic investigation and literary creation. Thus, the wretchedness and violence which nest in the heart of Colombian society are always present; but also there are her fascination with popular culture and the play of her impeccable humor, of that biting but at the same time tender irony that saves her novels from any temptation toward pathos or melodrama, and infuses them with unmistakable reading pleasure.”--GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ "Restrepo has a total mastery over what she writes, an astonishing but absolute mastery.”--JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Rubio, Salva

Salva Rubio is a screenwriter, writer, and more. An associate member of the Writers Guild of America and the Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, he was a finalist for the prestigious SGAE Julio Alejandro Award, and his work has been nominated for both an Eisner Award and a Goya Award for Best Animated Feature. Holding a Master’s Degree in Film and TV Screenwriting from UC3M, he has worked as a screenwriter on five feature films for various Spanish production companies, including the Goya-nominated Deep. He has also written for Disney Channel. Additionally, he is a script analyst and has collaborated with companies such as Alta Films, Colomo PC, Instituto Cervantes, F. Carolina, and ICAA. As a graphic novel writer, he has published The Photographer of Mauthausen (three editions and five translations) and Monet, Nomad of Light (eight translations), which was nominated for an Eisner Award. He currently writes for some of Europe’s most important publishing houses, including Dupuis, Delcourt, Glénat, and Le Lombard. With Planeta Cómic, he published the spin-off of The Tango of the Old Guard by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. In 2012, he released the novel Zíngara: Looking for Jim Morrison with Suma de Letras (Penguin Random House) and has recently completed his fourth novel, Dance, Laia. As an essayist, he is the author of the pioneering book Extreme Metal: 30 Years of Darkness (six editions), the most extensive work on the subject ever published. It was followed by a second volume, Extreme Metal: Chronicles from the Abyss, and he was selected to continue the successful Save the Cat! series with the U.S. release of Save the Cat! Goes to the Indies. He is also a regular contributor to Jot Down.

The author Víctor del Ýrbol starts off the new year with important news

The novel La tristeza del samurái, (The Sadness of the Samurai) (Editorial Alrevés, 2011) continues its voyage around the world; accumulating success and recognition. The novel already known and recognized with the award Le Prix Polar Européen in France, has been recently published in paperback format by the publishing house Actes Sud; (La Tristesse du Somouraï). In the upcoming month of February this thriller with accents of historic novel will see the light in Italy through the publishers Arnoldo Mondadori and coming in autumn the novel will be published in Brazil (Companhía das letras), Macedonia (Club Matica) y Poland (Albatros). In Spain, coming on 26th of January the publishing house; Editorial Alrevés will publish the latest novel by Víctor del Árbol; Respirar por la herida (Breath for the pain/ wound). A story where pain and guilt are mixed with the anxiety to live. “It’s possible that god plays dice with our destiny, scattering the pieces of a puzzle that always comes back together one way or another. Respirar por la herida borders the limits of its protagonists with the pressure and psychology dignified of the master that its author, Víctor del Árbol, has converted himself into.” 2013 presents itself as a year filled with great challenges for this author and excellent releases for the readers that follow his work. Interesting links: La tristeza del samurái- Editorial Alrevés La Tristesse du Samouraï- (Babel Noir) Actes Sud La Cause Litteráire

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos

España Carlos Ruiz Zafón is one of the most widely read and recognized authors in the world. His literary career began in 1993 with "The Prince of Mist" (Edebé Award), to which followed the titles; "The Midnight Palace", "September Lights" (compiled in a three-volume edition "The Mist Trilogy"), and after followed by, "Marina". In 2001, he published his first adult novel, "The Shadow of the Wind", which soon became an international literary phenomenon. With "The Angel’s Game" (2008), and "The Prisoner of Heaven"(2011) he returns to the universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. His work has been translated into more than 50 languages and he has captured millions of readers from all five continents. Photo: ©David Ramos

Dueñas and Palma nominated for the IMPAC Dublin

In the 12th of November the list of nominated novels was presented for the; “Internacional IMPAC Dublín Literary Award, 2013”. The list, containing 154 titles sellected by public libaries from 120 cities in 44 countries and 19 languages, will compete for one of the most international literary awards. Among the selected include; “El tiempo entre costuras” (The Seamstress/ The Time Between) by María Dueñas and “El mapa del tiempo” (The map of Time) by Félix J. Palma The selected titles are considered novels of high literary quality. The list of finalists (maximum 10 titles) will be made public in April 2013 and the winner, will be selected by an international group of five judges. We are anxiously awaiting April to learn the results of this selection. In the meantime we congratulate both in-house authors for this grand acknowledgement.

Sguiglia, Eduardo

Eduardo Sguiglia nació en Rosario, vivió en México entre 1977 y 1982 y desde 1983 reside en Buenos Aires. Fue profesor regular de la UBA y primer embajador argentino en Angola. Es autor de varias investigaciones y ensayos, entre ellos “Agustín Tosco” y “El club de los poderosos”, que merecieron dos premios nacionales de economía. Sus relatos y novelas –“Fordlandia”, “No te fíes de mi si el corazón te falla” y “Un puñado de gloria” – fueron traducidas a diferentes lenguas y distinguidas en los concursos internacionales Dublín Literary Award y Grinzane Cavour. El periódico The Washington Post consideró a “Fordlandia” como una de las cuatro mejores obras de ficción del año 2002. También integró los jurados en narrativa de Casa de las Américas (Cuba) y Casa del Teatro (República Dominicana), y el panel de apertura del Festival de Literatura de Berlín (2007).

Solares, Martín

Martín Solares (Tampico, Tamaulipas, 1970) has published a book of essays, Cómo dibujar una novela (How to Draw a Novel); a children's book, Los monstruos y tú (The Monsters and You); and two novels set in the Gulf of Mexico: No manden flores (Don't Send Flowers), translated into English, French, and Polish, and a finalist for the Violet Noir Prize, as well as Los minutos negros (The Black Minutes), translated into six languages, a finalist for the Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize, the Antonin Artaud Prize, and the Bibliothèque des Littératures Policières Prize. The Black Minutes was selected by the Times Literary Supplement as one of the best novels of the year and was adapted into a film in 2022. He has won three national literature awards: the José Revueltas Fine Arts Prize for Literary Essay, the Juan de la Cabada National Prize for Children's Short Stories, and the Efraín Huerta National Short Story Prize, as well as the International Book Award for Best Mystery Novel. This year, the third installment of the Catorce colmillos (Fourteen Fangs) trilogy will be published. These three detective novels blend historical accuracy with the freedom of fantastic imagination and take place in the turbulent Paris of the 1920s, a city teeming with spies, anarchists, and assassins.

Vierci, Pablo

- Representado por Thomas Colchie - Pablo Vierci nació en Uruguay en 1950. Su primera novela, Los tramoyistas (1979), se tradujo al portugués (Os trampolineiros, 1983) y al inglés (The imposters, 1987), y fue reeditada como Los gringos (2000). Escribió las novelas Pequeña historia de una mujer (1984), Detrás de los árboles (1987, segundo Premio Nacional de Literatura de Uruguay), 99% asesinado (2004, segundo Premio Nacional de Literatura de Uruguay), Artigas - La Redota (2011) y El desertor (2012). En 2009, se publicó su libro testimonial La sociedad de la nieve, Premio Libro de Oro de la Cámara Uruguaya del Libro, que se tradujo al portugués y se convirtió en un best seller en Latinoamérica y España. En 2010, publicó el libro de humor De Marx a Obama en México y Uruguay. Escribió guiones para los largometrajes Aqueles dois (Brasil, 1985), El viñedo (Uruguay, 1999, Premio Fona), Matar a todos (Uruguay, Argentina y Chile, 2007, galardonado con el Premio al Mejor Guión en el 29° Festival de Cine de La Habana 2007 y el Premio al Mejor Guión en el 14° Festival de Cine de Lérida 2008) y Artigas - La Redota (Uruguay, España y Brasil, 2011). También escribió el guión de Contámela en colores, una serie histórica emitida en la televisión uruguaya durante 2012. En periodismo escrito, trabajó en cargos de dirección y en redacción. En Uruguay dirigió el noticiero de un canal de televisión durante cinco años. En 2003, obtuvo el Citi Journalistic Excellence Award en la Universidad de Columbia de Nueva York.

Edición Conmemorativa de "Un baile de máscaras" de Sergio Ramírez

The Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramírez celebrates his 70th birthday this year and 50 years as an author. There have been a variety of events; presentations, exhibitions and tributes held in honor of this well known award winning author, including the International Alfaguara Novel Award for his title,; “Margarita, the Sea is Beautiful” in 1998. Uruk Editores, Publishing House in San José, Costa Rica published commemorative edition of the novel “ A Dance of Masks”, winner of the 1998 Laure Bataillon Award for the best foreign language translation in France. Regarding this book, Sergio Ramírez commented; “…this is his favorite novel because it’s the story of his childhood, of his family in Masatepe, and the town where he was born.”