Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013
31/10/2013Mercedes de Vega, author of the novel El profesor de inglés (The English Professor), was awarded with an honorable mention, for her short story The Last Time I saw My Brother, in the Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013, for the Spanish Railway Foundation and the Antonio Machado Spanish Foundation. The announcement and presentation of the Train Awards took place on the 28th of October, the commemorative date of “Train Day” in memory of the first functioning railway on the peninsula, connecting Barcelona and Mataró. For this year’s awards 849 participants presented themselves from 21 countries and with 981 books, 366 poems and 615 short stories. The poems and short story selected as finalists have been compiled in a book that will be published in December 2013 as part of the Train Awards collection.
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Víctor del Ýrbol has been awarded the 2016 Nadal Prize with "La víspera de casi todo"
18/01/2016Víctor 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
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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
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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.
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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.
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A Thousand Drops by Víctor del Ýrbol, shorlisted for the Grand Prix de Litteratures Policières 2015
02/07/2015The 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.
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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/
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"Baudelaire's Flowers", by Gonzalo Garrido, reissued in DeBolsillo
08/03/2014Las 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.
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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).
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Carmen Amoraga, winner of the Nadal Prize for "La vida era eso"
07/01/2014In 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.
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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/
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José María Merino awarded with the National Narrative Prize (Spain's Culture Ministery)
28/10/2013The 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.”
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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/
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Sergio Vila-Sanjuán Nadal Novel Award 2013
08/01/2013The Nadal Novel Award is a literary award for the best in-edit work selected by the publishing house, Ediciones Destino (a sub-label of the Grupo Planeta). Its notoriety is established as the oldest literary award granted in Spain and in the category of the writers who have been acknowledged with this prestige are important Spanish literary figures from the 20th century. This year the winner of the 69th edition of the Nadal Awards is the journalist and writer Sergio Vila-Sanjuán for his novel Estaba en el aire, (It was in the air), which will be published by Ediciones Destino on the 12th of February. The novel takes place in Barcelona at the beginning of the 60’s when the “consumer society” was born, it narrates the story of four characters who converge in a clenching ending. It’s true, that his first novel; Una heredera de Barcelona (2010), (An heiress of Barcelona), also passes in Barcelona, in the 20’s and part of the narrations are of his grandfather. Estaba en el aire, describes Barcelona at the beginning of the 60’s and is inspired by memories of his father and of his childhood. “I come from a family of three generations of journalists, but they didn’t write about their lives only about the lives of others. Mi first novel narrates a moment of my grandfather’s career and of my father. I believe that, one day, I’ll end up writing about myself, but first I preferred to pass through my family tree .” (El Pais, 8, January 2013).
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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.
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Dueñas and Palma nominated for the IMPAC Dublin
14/11/2012In 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.
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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.
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Jesús Gil Vilda awarded for best screen-play
09/11/2012The 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/
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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
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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.
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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.
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