Books by Emilio Calderón now in E-Book
05/11/2012AK Digital is a project that the Literary Agency founded with the principal goal to help the authors that it represents so that their previously edited books that currently have their rights free, can be offered exclusively in digital format, as an effort to conserve the validity of these works through the opportunities that these technologies can offer. At this time we are proud to present as first of the authors we represent, and within this new project, Emilio Calderón with whom we’ve developed three of his titles: The Creator’s Map (2006) The Secret of Porcelain (2007) The Jew from Shanghai (2008) Important links: Amabook Amazon Librería Laie Altaïr ebooks eBook·teca Llibreria Catalònia Y otras más...
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"In Spite of It All", soon in French bookstores (and in movie theatres)
03/09/2014In his novel In Spite of It All (Dolmen, 2010), Juan de Dios Garduño portrays a world turned into a wasteland after the Third World War. In Bangor, Maine, there are only three people left; and these three people (Peter, his daughter and his much hated neighbour Patrick) will have to face a threat coming from things that are not precisely people (things in whose existence chemical weapons have had much to do). The French public will get to know their story soon; and this because the publishing house Eclipse is releasing Y pese a todo the 8th of October. This is how its cover looks; with the same title, Welcome to Harmony, as the motion picture that is on its way, and whose trailer will reach our screens (and our nightmares) in October too. Be prepared for an autumn of cold, snow, confrontation and terriying presences...
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The new digital label Ciudad de Libros includes books by Alonso Cueto, José María Merino and María Pilar Queralt
10/04/2014A new label called Ciudad de Libros has appeared recently with the idea of recovering, in digital format, quality books that were nearly impossible to find for Spanish readers. The project, headed by Blanca Rosa Roca, founder and director of Roca Editorial and Barcelona Digital Editions, will publish authors such as Sherwood Anderson, Erskine Caldwell, Gibran Jalil Gibran, Leon Uris or Thomas Wolfe and many more; three of them are represented by Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency. By the Peruvian author Alonso Cueto, readers will find titles such as Cinco para las nueve, Dalia y los perros, Deseo de noche, Grandes miradas and Los vestidos de una dama. By José María Merino, recently awarded with the National Prize for Literature, Ciudad de Libros will sell Crónicas mestizas, Cuatro nocturnos, Cuentos del Barrio del Refugio, Días imaginarios, El caldero de oro, El centro del aire and Novela de Andrés Choz. María Pilar Queralt is the third of the authors included: she will contribute to the project with the books De Alfonso la dulcísima esposa, La pasión de la reina, La rosa de Coimbra and Leonor. We invite you to take a look around Ciudad de Libros' webpage: it's interactive, participative, and filled, we promise you, with surprises and discoveries.
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The Sadness of the Samurai, one the of the top 25 books of the year
22/11/2012The French weekly newspaper; Le Point, has distinguished the 25 best books published in France in 2012. All genres, French and foreign, compete for a place on this list. This year appearing in this selection, the novel by Spanish author, Víctor del Árbol titled (in French) “La tristesse du samouraÏ” (Actes Sud). This story of intrigue, hate, love and guilt takes place in two important historical periods in Spain, and has captured thousands of French readers. The author has toured the country extensively promoting his novel where it is becoming more and more popular. “La tristeza del samurai” (original title) (Ediciones Alrevés 2011) has been translated in 7 languages. The latest novel by this magnificent author will be published in January of 2013. You can read the complete article in the following link; Scribd Source: Le Point , November 22, 2012
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Barcelona E-books presents the digital publication of “El Carrer dels Tres Llits” (The Street of the Three Beds) by Roser Caminals
06/09/2012In April of this year (2012) Blanca Rosa Roca (Roca Editorial) with the collaboration of Micheal Gordon (son of Noah Gordon) created, Barcelonaebooks. A label exclusively dedicated to the publication of digital books in English from Roca Editorial’s catalogue and from other Spanish publishing houses. Open Road, one of the American publishers, who pioneers in digital publishing and who distributes worldwide, has also joined this society. Open Road is an innovative platform for on-line distribution, using videos and on-line social networks to promote authors. One of the latest publications from Barcelonaebooks is “The Street with Three Beds” by Roser Caminals, published in 2002 with the original title in Catalán, “El Carrer dels Tres Llits” by Plaza & Janés publishing house and in Castellano by Lumen publishers with the title, “Amores oscuros”. We’d like to share the web-link to the audio-visual thatOpen Roadcreated in the web to promote this novel by the outstanding Catalan author Roser Caminals, and we wish the best of luck with this new release. El País, Cultura (30/04/2012) El Huffington Post Open Road: Roser Caminals
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Valió la pena [It was worth the bother], by Jorge Dezcállar, bestseller before publication
01/10/2015Today Valió la pena reaches bookstores, the memoirs of the diplomat Jorge Dezcállar. The notes and memories of Jorge Dezcállar include his years as ambassador in the Vatican; in Lebanon, after the assassination of the former Spanish leader Pedro de Arístegui, or his mission in the United States and his participation in the Dayton Conference for pacification of the Balkans. Dezcállar was also director of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, (the Spanish secret services), when the terrorist attacks of March 11, 2004 took place. The readers’ interest in Dezcállar’s experiences and the wish to know all the details of what took place has placed the book, published by Península, in the leading positions of the bestsellers lists, climbing to the second place in its category weeks before its publication.
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About us
The AK Literary Agency team is composed of a multidisciplinary and multicultural group who share a deep passion for books. The majority have been trained under the guidance of Antonia Kerrigan, continuing with the style of work that she established in the sector, combining experience and legacy with fresh and dynamic ideas that adapt to the new challenges of the current literary environment.
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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.
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El fuego invisible
Planeta Award 2017 David Salas, a promising linguist from Dublin's Trinity College, finds himself, after landing in Madrid to spend his vacations, with Victoria Goodman, an old friend of her grandparents and with her young assistant, a mysterious art historian. That fact will disrupt his plans and push him to a surprising race to find out what happened to one of the students of the literature school run by Lady Goodman. To his surprise, the key seems to be hidden in the myth of the grail and its link with Spain. Remote Romanesque churches of the Pyrenees, art collections in Barcelona, ancient books and strange codes in stone are aligned in a plot full of intrigue that will make us think about the origin of all true inspiration, literature and art.
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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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La Templanza by María Dueñas, bestseller book in Sant Jordi 2015 in Barcelona
24/04/2015Yesterday Barcelona celebrated it's well known Sant Jordi. The day of books and roses. La Templanza by María Dueñas was the number one bestseller with long queues of people waiting to get the book signed by the author. La Templanza, published in March by Planeta, was number one on the lists in Spain a few days after publication. Three weeks later, it is still number one. After the international success of her first novel El tiempo entre costuras (translated into 35 languages) and her second book, Misión olvido, Maria Dueñas's La Templanza, pitched as a Spanish Gone with the Wind set in Mexico City, Havana, and Spain's Jerez de la Frontera, with the outbreak of the American civil war and a chance game of billiards providing the twin catalysts for a war of the sexes between a financially ruined Mexican silver baron and a wily, married Andalusian heiress over title to the eponymous vineyard estate of the novel, who too soon discover that sherry wine may not be their only passion.
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Un libro de familia
A novel full of memorable scenes and wonderful characters, written with great sensibility. An extraordinary story that oozes with the love for books in each of its pages. One of the most captivating voices in present-day literature, translated into a dozen languages and praised by the international critique, Santiago Pajares returns to bookstores with this novel that deals with, among much else, the power of writing as a means to change our lives. Orencio is a thirty-some who, on the day of his grandfather’s funeral, discovers a strange family tradition: for generations, the family’s first born have to write their own version of a novel entitled “Through the Wall”. Disconcerted and lacking self-confidence, he tries to elude the challenge by all possible means, all while trying to put order into his life, although deep down he knows that he has no other choice but to face the blank page. What the press has said about “Ionah’s Rain”: “With a polished prose, Santiago Pajares draws a story of life’s learning.” Le Monde
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Antonia Kerrigan
Born in Paris, Antonia Kerrigan founded her own literary agency in Barcelona in the late 1980s, after having worked for several years at Carmen Balcells’ agency. As the daughter of Anthony Kerrigan, a renowned translator into English of the complete works of Unamuno, as well as important works by Baroja, Neruda, Galdós, and Borges, Antonia grew up surrounded by a deep love for literature. Her mother, Elaine Gurevitz, a pianist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, also dedicated herself to translation, rendering into English the works of authors such as Julio Cortázar. Since its beginnings, the Antonia Kerrigan Agency has been synonymous with success, with a track record highlighted by representing bestsellers such as The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Published in 2001, this novel was not only a publishing phenomenon in the Spanish-speaking world, but was also translated into more than 50 languages, reaching millions of readers worldwide. Antonia always championed Spanish-language literature, with a special commitment to promoting Latin American authors. Over the years, her agency has also opened its doors to writers in languages such as Catalan and Galician. Her main goal was always to make books travel, ensuring that they reached the largest number of readers possible, transcending borders and languages.
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De la melancolía
Espido Freire builds a wonderful novel about the transforming action of love to overcome sadness. Elena and Sergio make-up a united couple, but the impossibility of becoming parents brings about the lack of love between them and Sergio decides, after twenty years of living together, to leave Elena. She falls into a deep depression that shakes all aspects of her life. Time goes by and Elena receives a request from a distant relative to host Lazarus, her uncle, while he convalesces after a recent operation. Elena not only welcomes Lazarus into her house, but, as she has to rent it to survive, other characters soon arrive, along with their vision as to how one should live with sadness or how to flee from it: Sonsoles, an older woman who must sell her house, full of books and memories; Vanesa, a thirty-year-old girl who refuses to grow, because the world of adults is terrifying; Teresa, who comes into the story to procure a kitten for Lázaro and who stays along, like some kind of urban fairy that relieves pain every time she shows up. Or Cristian, an old friend who reappears into her life, a winner type, who conceals as many secrets as he does sins. A story that tells the wounds left behind by the crisis; the ways to survive, and how, in the face of everything, the human being’s strength prevails; how love saves us from many things, and life keeps teaching us lessons, as long as we are willing to carry on learning.
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“Memorial for a Fraud” arrives in France: “Les Bandits”
05/03/2015Les Bandits by Jorge Volpi is since the last week available in French Bookstores. The publishing house Seuil brings this novel, originally published in Spain in 2014 by Alfaguara, to French readers. The novel was translated from the Spanish by Gabriel Laculli, who is known for translating classics like Cervantes and Lorca as well as contemporary authors such as Volpi and Sergio Pitol, among others. Memorial del engaño is a daring novel, full of deception and traps, with which the author, currently one of the most outstanding names in Latin-America, enquires into the origins of one the most disastrous economic catastrophes in history and mixes the family saga with the thriller or noir novel. International rights have also been sold in Italy (Arnoldo Mondadori) and in Poland (Sonia Draga).
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Aparicio, Juan Pedro
España Juan Pedro Aparicio was born in León. Since 1975, the year he published "El origen del mono y otros relatos" (The Origin of the Monkey and Other Stories), he has written novels ("Lo que es del César", "El año del francés", "La forma de la noche", "Malo en Madrid o el caso de la viuda polaca", "El viajero de Leicester" and "La gran bruma") and short story collections. He has also delved into essays, travel books, and so far has compiled his journalistic articles into two collections. In 1989, he won the Nadal Prize with "Retratos de ambigú" (Portraits of Ambiguity), and more recently, in 2005, he received the II Setenil Prize for Short Stories for the best book of stories published that year for "La vida en blanco" (Life in White). He collaborates with various media outlets and is currently the director of the Cervantes Institute in London. "La mitad del diablo" (2008) is his first book of microfiction, or quantum literature, as he himself suggests.
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The Difficult Light
A Moving Novel About a Father’s Love for His Son, Celebrating Life in All Its Brightness It’s seven in the morning when David is jolted awake by a pang of anguish in his gut: the day has come when his son Jacobo is scheduled to die. Paralyzed after a car accident, Jacobo suffers from excruciating pain that has made life unbearable. His brother has taken him to Portland, far from their family apartment in New York, where a doctor will assist him in ending his life. Meanwhile, David waits for news, enduring the slow passing of hours, wondering if Jacobo might change his mind at the very last moment. Almost twenty years later, with dimming eyesight but vivid memories, David recalls those New York days, his son’s devastating accident, and, above all, the long wait on that fateful day—desperately wishing time would stand still as he loses himself in working on his last painting. In this work, he painstakingly strives to capture the elusive reflection of light on water, as though everyone’s lives depend on it. A novel of serene emotion and vibrant beauty, perfect in its understated simplicity, The Difficult Light firmly establishes Tomás González as one of the most significant authors in the Spanish language. It is a story about pain and the nearness of death, yet it celebrates life in all its luminosity. "Upon its release in Colombia, The Difficult Light was hailed as a quiet masterpiece. Years ago, a literary magazine called González ‘the best-kept secret in Colombian literature’; since then, he has become one of his country’s most important novelists and continues to gain readers. Perhaps it’s time to call him something else.”—Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Guardian "One of the best Latin American writers of recent years."—Carlos Pardo, Babelia "Reading him, I felt that Tomás González is a writer of great purity, someone with the potential to become a classic of Latin American literature."—Elfriede Jelinek Rights sold to: Italy (La Nuova Frontiera); Denmark (Aurora Boreal); English World (Archipelago Books); Brazil (Bertrand); France (Seuil); Germany (Fischer); Korea (Thousand Books);The Netherlands (Signatuur)
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Arretxe, Jon
Jon Arretxe has a doctorate in Basque Philology, a degree in Physical Education and has completed his piano and singing studies at the Bilbao and Vitoria conservatories. He has lived in Arbizu (Navarre) since 2004. This multi-faceted and successful author has chosen a literary career as a profession, gives lectures on his books or travels and, in addition, sings opera. His incursion into writing was through travel literature: 7 Colors, Tubabu, The South of Memory... although for the past couple of years he has focused his attention in the noir genre. He has published titles such as Shahmarán, Tangier Dreams, The Arruti Gang... but, mostly, the saga of his detective-visionary, Touré. A character through whose adventures the author makes us participate in the experiences and hardships of the "undocumented". A tireless author, he has also written children and young adults’ literature, with titles such as Towards the Great Wall or The Earth's Heartbeats. www.jonarretxe.net
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The Tipping Point, by Juan Gómez Jurado, lands in the U.K.
04/12/2014The novel, whose lead character is the neurosurgeon David Evans, will be published this month of December in the U.K. The Patient is the fifth novel by the Madrid-born author, published this year by Editorial Planeta. The thriller, that narrates the count down for a prestigious doctor who only has 55 hours to save his daughter from the hands of psychopath, will be in British bookstores on the 11th of December. The publishing house Orion Books, which has published previous works by the author, presents this thriller under the title of The Tipping Point.
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The Master Plan
The highly anticipated return of the master of mystery to bookstores. In 1990, Javier Sierra had an unexpected encounter at the Prado Museum with an enigmatic figure. This person revealed the existence of a secret society that, for centuries, had been safeguarding select works of art that serve as gateways between worlds. That revelation led to the creation of El maestro del Prado (Planeta, 2013). Since then, the author has been attempting to meet that mysterious figure once more and, along the way, has uncovered the existence of a "master plan" that gives art a profound meaning. For centuries, enigmatic masters have shaped humanity in unimaginable ways. Some myths refer to them as divine instructors, others as daimons, angels, or spirits. Their knowledge has been instrumental in developing agriculture, astronomy, mathematics, and artistic expression. But who are they, really? A captivating novel that will take you on a journey through art to uncover a hidden chapter of civilization.
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Aurensanz, Carlos
Carlos Aurensanz studied veterinary at the University of Zaragoza and works in the public health administration. He combines his profession with his passion for writing. His first novel was published in 2009, Banu Quasi, the first book of a trilogy that was followed by: The War of the Al Andalus (2009) and The Caliph’s hour (2013). In it, Aurensanz records three years of research and reading of the Muqtabis, a 1000-year Arab chronicle, in which the historian Ibn Hayyan retells, among other things, the fascinating events that took place in the author’s home town of Tudela (Navarra). After them, the author continues writing historical and suspense stories such as The painted Door (2015) and Hasday: The caliph's doctor (2016) and King Tahúr (2018). The Fabric of the Days (2021) and The Crystal Graveyard (2023) are his latest books.
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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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The story behind the story: "El paso de la hélice" by Santiago Pajares
13/06/2014Sometimes, the stories that books tell are not the only ones worth knowing; the stories behind them are also essential; the ones that explain their creation and their destinies. One of these stories is that of El paso de la hélice, by Santiago Pajares. And, just as El paso de la hélice has two stories (the one it tells and the one it has lived; the one it invents and the one it has gone through), it also has two lives, two origins. The first one goes as far back as 2004, when Santiago Pajares was just 23 years old and Tabla Rasa published his first novel: the above mentioned. And, with this novel, a writer just starting his career together with a modest publishing house sold more than 4.000 copies of a work that became a sales success and a sensation amongst critics, and that earned Pajares the honour of receiving the Ministerio de Cultura's invitation to assist as Spain's representative to the European Festival for Novel Authors (held in Budapest in 2006). But time went by and, with the closing of Tabla Rasa, El paso de la hélice fell into the shadows, and, with this, its first life ended. The second, final life, began last year; it was then when the manuscript arrived at the office. And the experience of reading it can only be described with a single word: enchanting. With the last lines still lingering in her mind, Antonia Kerrigan had made up her mind: this was an astounding piece of work, a manuscript that should be brought back to life and a new author for Antonia Kerrigan's agency. And, with the unpolished text in hand and although the publishing rights still hadn’t been re-sold to any Spanish publishing house, Antonia decided to gamble on it in the Frankfurt Book Fair of October 2013. A proposition that was successful: Objetiva (Brazil), Rizzoli (Italy) and Libri (Hungary) all bought the publishing rights to El paso de la hélice. Shortly after that, Doing Publishing (China) and AST (Russia) joined that list, as well as Destino, the Spanish publishing house destined to give the book the second life it has always deserved. Last week, after being edited by Destino, El paso de la hélice hit the stores again. And the ones that have previously read it, such as the journalist Celia Santos, can only praise it: "It had been a long time since a novel pulled me in as much as this one. It has that thing that many writers are looking for and very few have. It's a story written straight from the soul, but with unusual skill. A novel that seduces you at first, then makes you fall in love with it and finally captivates you. It deserves all the support it can get". And here at the agency we're going to give the book this support; because Antonia believes in it; because Celia's words are precise; because, in its way, La hélice (which is, matter of fact, the book that all the characters in El paso de la hélice read) is going to seduce you; then, to make you fall in love with it and to captivate you in the end. The name of its author you already know: Santiago Pajares. And we have a feeling you're not going to forget it...
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Remembering Gabriel García Márquez: the works of Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza
25/04/2014Here in the agency we've been representing Spanish and Latin American authors for more than thirty years. And the literature in Spanish of the last three decades cannot be understood without Gabriel García Márquez. We are deeply sorry for the passing away of an author to which we, just like every other reader, owe much, starting with a gratitude that should last more than a hundred years, but not filled with solitude, but with the good company of his books. To remember Gabo, we bring you three titles: the three of them written by Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza, Colombian writer and journalist and a personal friend of García Márquez, to whose life and works he has dedicated many pages. Like the ones in El olor de la guayaba (The Fragrance of the Guava) (Random House Mondadori / RBA), a long conversation among friends that illuminates the creative world of the genius from Aracataca. Or those in Aquellos tiempos con Gabo (Those Times With Gabo), published by Plaza y Janés / DeBols!llo, that was a great success in Latin America. Or what probably is the jewel of the collection: Gabo. Cartas y recuerdos (Gabo. Letters and memories), in Ediciones B, that delivers what its title promises and something else: an intimate profile of a García Márquez away from fame, success, celebrity: the García Márquez that was just Gabo. As a bonus, we offer you this video in CNN México, where Mendoza explains Gabo's influences: Kafka, Faulkner, Woolf and many more...
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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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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/
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Brune, Raquel
España Raquel Brune is a writer and communicator specialized in literature born in Madrid, although her family comes from a small town in Castilla y León. In 2019, she published her first trilogy: "Brujas y Nigromantes", which inaugurates an Urban Fantasy saga where witches, ghosts, and all kinds of paranormal beings roam the streets of the Spanish capital. Following its success, she released three more books aimed at young adults: "Los dones de la muerte," "Las heridas de la magia" (both part of the Nigromantes duology), and "Los guardianes de almas," a reinterpretation of the myth of Don Juan Tenorio brought into contemporary times and the world of art. In 2023, she made the leap to adult literature with "Oscura es la noche," a mystery novel set in the northern Iberian Peninsula. Her work has been translated into Romanian and published in nine countries. https://www.raquelbrune.com/
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Manolito Gafotas returns to Italy via Lapis publishing house
01/04/2014The Italian publishing house Lapis will relaunch this year the first three volumes of the Manolito Gafotas' saga, which had been previously published in Italy, in a new translation and with a new design. Manolito Gafotas (1994), Pobre Manolito (1995) and ¡Cómo molo! (1996) become, respectively, Ecco Manolito, Bentornato Manolito and Che forte Manolito: the first of the three is already available in bookstores all around the country, while the other two will appear during the year. We're sure that this new edition, that has been accompanied by a big advertising campaign, will turn Elvira Lindo's character into the favorite one among italian boys and girls. Because, you know: that kid from Carabanchel is known and loved in the whole wide world.
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Cabanas, Antonio
1966 Chosen as one of the most influential people in Spain in 2024 https://fundacionmarquesdeoliva.com/estudio-de-los-500-espanoles-mas-influyentes-de-2024/cultura/ Antonio Cabanas (Spain, 1966) is the author of the following bestsellers: The Thief of Graves, The Pharo’s Conspiracy, Osiris’ Secrets, The Millenary Dream, The Desert’s Son, The Secret of the Nile, The Path of Gods and The Tears of Isis, with which he has achieved a great critical and public success. His books have been translated into several languages. A commercial airline pilot, Cabanas worked as an Iberia captain for thirty-six years, flying to all five continents. A great humanist and admirer of the culture of Ancient Egypt, of which he is a deeply knowledgeable, he spends a great deal of time investigating and writing about it. He is an Egyptologist and has studied the Egyptian language and hieroglyphic writing, and as of 1990 he is a member of the Spanish Association of Egyptology www.antoniocabanas.com/
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María Pilar Queralt conquers Portugal with "As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal"
17/03/2014Released less than a month ago, María Pilar Queralt's latest book, As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal, has become a great success in Portugal. Two weeks ago it was placed at number seven in the Non Fiction category of the best seller list by the bookstore chain Bulhosa, and last week it reached number one among History books in FNAC Portugal. Diario de Noticias echoed the news of the splendid public reaction to the book with an interview with Maria Pilar in which she commented on her interest in Portugal's history, about her ambition to write about history from a feminine point of view and the problems she had to find information about "Portugal's least romantic man"'s private life. She also appeared in the tv station RTP1; you can watch the interview (which we're sure won't be her last about the book) in this link.
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Camino, Abril
Abril Camino was born in A Coruña in 1980. Her passion for literature led her to earn degrees in the philology of two languages, to devour stories tirelessly, and to work for years surrounded by books. However, one day she discovered that creating her own characters and plots was what truly made her happy. Since then, she has been glued to her laptop keyboard. She is the author of more than fifteen novels, always blending elements of romance, narrative fiction, and sentimental fiction. Strong women, deep emotions, and a recognizable style are the hallmarks that attract readers to her books. Some of her most notable novels include Our Last Summer on the Island, Olivia's Request, and Yesterday, Us, and an Impossible Tomorrow.
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Second edition of "That Was Life", by Carmen Amoraga, which is included in the best seller lists
21/02/2014When not a month has passed since the publication of That Was Life, by Carmen Amoraga (winner of the last Nadal Prize), Destino will launch a second edition of a book that has been widely praised since the beginning. Last week, Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia included That Was Life in the eight position of its best seller list, based on data from bookstores all over Catalonia. The book has also appeared in the number ten spot in the best seller list of the newspaper ABC. You can read some interviews with Carmen Amoraga in El País, La Vanguardia or El Mundo.
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Castellarnau, Eduard
Eduard Castellarnau (Barcelona, 1957) is a physician by profession and the author of the short story collection Els Contes de la nit (1993) and several novels, including Tarda d’hivern (1994), Laberint Perdut (1996), L’enigma de la llibreria (1999), and La ruta del silenci (2002), which won both the Leandre Colomer Prize for Historical Novel of Catalonia (2001) and the Catalonia Private Investigators Association Award (2002) for a published novel. His other works include A l’altra banda de la solitud (2006) and Les incertituds de la nit (2011). His books have been translated into multiple languages, and many of his texts have appeared in various magazines. His latest novel, Lunas de diciembre, was published by Milenio.
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Javier Sierra and María Dueñas were two of the best selling authors in 2013 in Spain
19/02/2014We're happy to see two of our titles in the best seller lists of 2013 published by Nielsen Bookscan. Javier Sierra, with his latest novel El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), appears, in the sixth position, as the first Spanish author in the list, with almost 150.000 copies sold of this last book. María Dueñas is in the tenth position with Misión Olvido (Mission Oblivion), that sold almost 120.000 copies. Rights to El maestro del Prado (an intriguing mixture of fiction, essay and biography in which a mysterious master explains the works of the museum to the author) have been sold to the United States, Brazil, Russia, Poland and Romania, in translations that are in the works and will see the light of day at the end of this year. Misión Olvido blends love, intrigue and appealing characters through the story of Blanca Perea, a teacher that will come to surprising conclusions while working on a project that was thought to be boring and unsubstantial. The book has repeated the astounding success of El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress) and has been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Swedish, Norwegian and Catalan.
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Castro, Luisa
España Luisa Castro was born in Foz (Lugo) in 1966 and holds a degree in Hispanic philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A twenty-one she was awarded the Premio Hiperión de Poesia, for Los Versos del Eunuco (The Eunuch’s Verses), and at twenty-four was the runner-up of the Premio Herralde de Novela for El Somier (The Mattress). Ever since, she has worked as a literary critic and collaborated for newspapers such as the ABC, El País, El Periódico de Catalunya, El Mundo, La Voz de Galicia, and Radiotelevisión de Galicia. She was got a Fulbright scholarship to study film at Columbia and New York University, and on her return from New York she taught movie script a the Institut d’Humanitats de Barcelona, and afterwards has given writing courses at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. She has been the director of the Instituto Cervantes of Naples for five years. She presently runs Instituto Cervantes at Bordeaux, and continues to collaborate with the travel supplement of El País: Viajes de El País. As a poet she has written seven books: Odisea Definitiva (The Definite Odyssey, Arnao, 1984), Los versos del eunuco (The Eunuch’s Verses, Hiperión, 1987), Baleas e Baleas (Shots and Shots, runner-up to the Premio Esquío, Fundación Valle-Inclán, 1998), Los hábitos del Artillero (The Artilleryman’s Habits, Premio Rey Juan Carlos I de Poesía, Visor, 1990), De mí haré una estatua ecuestre (I’ll Make an Equestrian Statute of Myself, Hiperión, 1997), Amor mi Señor (Love my Lord, Tusquets, 2004) and Actores vestidos de calle (Actors in Street Clothes, Visor, 2018). As a narrator, she has received the Premio Biblioteca Breve for her novel La segunda mujer (The Second Woman, Seix-Barral, 2006), and the Premio Torrente Ballester for her short stories book Podría hacerte daño (I could Hurt You, Ediciones del Viento, 2004) and the Premio Azorín for El secreto de la lejía (The Secret of Bleach, Planeta, 2001). Besides that, she has published Viajes con mi padre (Travels with my Father, Planeta, 2003), La fiebre amarilla (Yellow Fever, Anagrama, 1996), and El Somier (The Mattress, Anagrama, 1990) Part of her journalistic work in Spanish is collected in the volume Diario de los años apresurados (Diary of the Hurried Years, Hiperión, 1998) and in the book Melancolía de sofa (Sofa-like Melancholy, Xerais, 2009), which is a collection of her collaborations in Galician, her mother tongue. For her collaborations in written media she has received the Premio Puro Cora for journalism. And for her entire output she was been awarded the Premio de Vieira de Plata in 2006. The Premio Quaderni Iberoamericani in 2016, and the Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica in 2017, for her work in the dissemination of culture. She is considered by the critique as one of the most innovative voices of the nineties, and part of her novels and books of poetry are translated into French, Italian, English, German, Dutch and Hebrew.
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"El maestro del Prado" ("The Master of El Prado"), by Javier Sierra, the most sold national novel in Spain in 2013
04/02/2014El maestro del Prado (The Master of El Prado), sixth and last novel by Javier Sierra, was the most sold among the national fiction books in Spain in 2013, as revealed by Nielsen Bookscan. Published in February 2013 by Planeta, it has sold more than 150.000 copies in Spain and the same amount in Latin America, reaching its seventh edition and remaining on the best seller lists for more than 25 weeks in the sales lists. The novel, a mixture of art, history, suspense and conspiracies, crosses the limits between reality and fiction by placing Javier Sierra in the center of a mysterious tour around the Prado in which he is accompanied by an enigmatic master, who will show the author the secrets hidden in paintings by artists such as Raphael, Tiziano, El Bosco, Juan de Juanes, Botticelli, Brueghel or El Greco. By the end of 2014, El maestro del Prado (which has revived the attraction of the public for the museum, and aspires to become a book of reference for all those interested in it) will be published in English, Portuguese, Russian and Hungarian.
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Chávez Castañeda, Ricardo
México He was born in Mexico, D.F. in 1961. He has a degree in Psychology and a master in Creative Writing for the New Mexico State University. He has published many books. Among his Children and YA fiction titles we can find Los ensebados (1993, Premio Nacional de Novela Juvenil FILIJ), El secreto de Gorco (1994, Premio Nacional de Cuento Infantil FILIJ), Miedo, el mundo de al lado (1994, Premio Nacional de Novela Juvenil FILIJ), Las montañas azules (1998), La valla (Everest, 2000), La niña que tenía el mar adentro (2001); Fernanda y los niños secretos (Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil «Juan de la Cabada», 2000), Mañanario (Everest, 2006), Salvavidas ( SM, 2006) y Las peregrinas del fuisoyseré (FCE, 2007). Among his books for adults: Y sobrevivir con las manos abiertas. Una historia de todos los fines del mundo (Mexico 2001), El final de las nubes (RBA, 2001), La Conspiración Idiota (México, 2003), El fin de la pornografía (México, 2005), El libro del silencio (Alfaguara, 2007) y Georgia (FCE, 2011). Some of his short stories have been included in anthologies of Latino or Mexican writers published in Cuba, Mexico, Chili, Spain, and the United States. Besides several national prizes, he has won important international prizes, such as: Premio Borges de Cuento (Argentina, 1987), Premio Latinoamericano de Cuento (Mexico, 1994), and Premio Aresti de Cuento (Bilbao, Spain, 2002). He was finalist in the Premio Planeta Joaquín Mortiz (Mexico, 1994), and twice in the Premio Internacional de Novela Negra "Dashiel Hammett" (1998 and 2002). In 1999 he also obtained a honorific mention in the literary contest "Casa de las Américas" (novel).
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"Apocalipsis Z" in Poland and Galicia
30/12/2013This Christmas, two books of Manel Loureiro's zombie trilogy have been published in Poland and Galicia: Apocalipsis Z. Los días oscuros saw the light of day as Apokalipsa Z. Mroczne Dni, published by Muza, and Apocalipsis Z. El comienzo del fin turned itself into Apocalipse Z. O comezo da fin, published by Urco Editora. The trilogy, which Loureiro posted at first in a blog and then, after having been read by more than 1,5 million people, was published by Plaza y Janés, has been translated into English (Amazon Crossing), French (Panini France), Italian (Casa Editrice Nord Sud), German (Heyne Verlag), Portuguese (Ediçoes ASA in Portugal and Editorial Planeta do Brasil in Brasil), Slovak (Premedia Group), Hungarian (Konyvmolykepzo Kiado), Turkish (Monokl), Japanese (T. O. Entertainment) and Korean (Minumin), and has seen the light of day in other Spanish-speaking countries such as México, Chile or Argentina, becoming an unanimous success that has turned it into one of the Spanish best selling works in digital format all around the world. A film and a TV series are currently in the works.
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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.
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"Marina", by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, enthusiastically reviewed in "The Guardian"
13/12/2013Marina, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, has been enthusiastically reviewed in the teen books section of the prestigious british newspaper The Guardian. Published in England by Weidenfeld & Nicholson last September (in Spain it came out in 1999 in Edebé), the novel (the fourth written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, just before his best seller The Shadow of the Wind in 2001) has been deemed by alanahbee as «a fine piece of well-crafted, intriguing, chilling literature». Ruiz Zafon's style has also been celebrated, being deemed as «a feat in itself» and highlighting its «beauty». Its treatment of teenage angst is compared to the one in such important books as The Catcher in the Rye; the review ends with a clear statement: «Marina should soon become a modern classic and I can't sing its praises enough». The review can be read in the newspapers' webpage.
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"Me, Who Dove into the Heart of the World", by Sabina Berman, nominated to the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2014
04/12/2013Me, 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.
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Fernández, Noemí
Noemí Fernández Selva inició su camino como escritora de literatura infantil y juvenil en 2013. Ha publicado decenas de libros con algunas de las editoriales de referencia del sector, como Salvatella, Planeta, Estrella Polar, Destino, Edicions 62, Lunwerg y Bindi Books. Algunos de sus títulos más destacados son Desde Dentro (2014), Atrapa-palabras (2015), Lluvia de letras (2017), No quiero besar sapos verdes (2018), L’embolic (2021), Mi primer Barça femenino (2023) y Cactus (2024). Desde pequeña, sus grandes pasiones son la lectura, la escritura, la música y la docencia. Estudió Magisterio Musical y Pedagogía en la Universidad de Barcelona. Más tarde cursó el Máster en Psicoterapia Humanista (Instituto Erich Fromm) y el Máster en Dirección de Centros Educativos (IL3-UB). Ha trabajado más de veinte años en escuelas de Primaria, siendo tutora y especialista del ámbito artístico. Ejerció de directora y actualmente es inspectora de educación, labor que compagina con la escritura. @noemi_fernandez_selva
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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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House of Anansi wins the Giller
07/11/2013Lynn 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.
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Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual
Iria G. Parente and Selene M. Pascual are young Spanish writers who have been working together since 2012. They self-published the “romantasy” Pétalos de papel (Paper Petals) with huge success on the Internet, and since 2014 they already have twenty books published, some of them translated into several languages, including Korean, Turkish, and Slovak. Their stories mix fantasy, science fiction , and contemporary romance. Among their works are Anne No Filters, Red and Gold, and the Trilogy of the Full Moon, all of them very different books and of different genres, but with a common core: the importance of emotions and very real characters. Time Keeper is their most ambitious saga so far, a project they have been polishing for more than fifteen years. In their novels, Iria and Selene talk about issues of social importance and give visibility to issues such as mental health or LGBTQI+ representation.
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Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013
31/10/2013Mercedes de Vega, author of the novel El profesor de inglés (The English Professor), was awarded with an honorable mention, for her short story The Last Time I saw My Brother, in the Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013, for the Spanish Railway Foundation and the Antonio Machado Spanish Foundation. The announcement and presentation of the Train Awards took place on the 28th of October, the commemorative date of “Train Day” in memory of the first functioning railway on the peninsula, connecting Barcelona and Mataró. For this year’s awards 849 participants presented themselves from 21 countries and with 981 books, 366 poems and 615 short stories. The poems and short story selected as finalists have been compiled in a book that will be published in December 2013 as part of the Train Awards collection.
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New thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado
07/10/2013The international best seller author, Juan Gómez-Jurado, God´s Spy, The Mosses Expedition and The Traitor´s Emblem comes back with a new frenetic book, TIPPING POINT, that in author´s words is described as: “A frantic and vibrant thriller, that won’t give you time to catch your breath and that will make the reader question their position regarding work, honor and family.” Foreign rights: “Author of GOD'S SPY and THE MOSES EXPEDITION, Juan Gomez Jurado's TIPPING POINT, in which a brain surgeon, victim of a criminally terrifying rogue surveillance, is forced to choose between ending the life of the president of the United States or witnessing a horrifying death for his kidnapped daughter at the hands of his implacable pursuer, again to Johanna Castillo at Atria and again to Kirsty Dunseath at Orion, by The Colchie Agency on behalf of the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency in Barcelona. Foreign rights to Planeta in Spain, and to DTV in Germany, in a preempt, by the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.” Source: Publishers Lunch, October 07, 2013
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Jeunet, María
María Jeunet (Su nombre real es María Astudillo Montero) nació en Salamanca en 1983. Se licenció en Biología en la Universidad de Salamanca para después especializarse en Nutrición y Dietética en la Complutense de Madrid. Fundó la empresa en la que trabaja nada más terminar sus estudios. La literatura siempre ha ido de la mano en su vida y fue en 2013 cuando decidió sentarse a escribir su primera novela. Nació así Las hojas de Julia (2013), una comedia romántica que logró situarse entre los diez ebooks más vendidos en España en 2014. Gracias a esa gran acogida desarrolló su segunda novela, La foto de Nora (2014): una historia con tintes románticos y policíacos.
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Dentro de ti ver o mar (I can See de Sea inside You), by Inês Pedrosa
26/09/2013Inês Pedrosa (Portugal, 1962) is a television and radio journalist, a columnist for both the Portuguese weekly paper Sol and for the magazine Ler and is the director of the Casa Fernando Pessoa in Lisbon, she is also one of the most recognized contemporary Portuguese authors. In 2010 she was the winner of the “Prémio Máximo de Literatura” with her novel; Os Íntimos. Her books have been published in Brazil, Italy, Spain and Germany. Her latest novel, Dentro de ti ver o mar (Dom Quixote, Portugal, 2012), was recently published in Brazil by Alfaguara Editorial. I see the Sea inside You is a bold and original novel written in several layers that tangle together to tell the story of three independent women and the two men that accompany them. “A novel that deserves to be read. Its endowed with qualities of form and depth that characterize it as the best novel by this author.” Miguel Real, JL – Journal; Letras, Artes e Ideias
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Lejardi, Myriam M.
Myriam M. Lejardi (1987) is an author specializing in various subgenres of romance, most notably comedy and paranormal. She began publishing in 2020 and, so far, has six books on the market with various publishers, including Molino, Elastic Books, and Fandom Books. One of them, How (Not) to Fall in Love, has been translated into Polish. You can find her at: @pilkunnussita (Twitter and Instagram) @myriammlejardi (TikTok)
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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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Dora Maar, after Picasso, there’s only God.
10/09/2013Victoria Combalía has a doctorate in Art History and is a professor at Barcelona University, she has written several books about Picasso and Miró. Over the past twenty years, Combalía has dedicated herself to unraveling the mysteries that surround the life of Picasso’s most desperate muse, Dora Maar. «Dora Maar» published by CIRCE Ediciones, is the result of a series of conversations with the painter and photographer that took place during the summer of 1993 and the investigation after consulting over 2,000 documents posterior to the death of the artist, which helped to complete the fractured image of Picasso’s lover. An essential book for understanding this photographer and member of the surrealist movement, who documented with her camera the entire process of the painting of the most famous mural in the world: El Guernica.
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Molina, Tamara
Tamara Molina was born in Barcelona and has lived all her life between pages. Her unbridled imagination and creativity have pushed her to share her passion for literature. A writer and social media content creator, Tamara has caused a sensation with her debut novel Donde no puedas encontrarme (Where you can’t find me). She dreams of continuing to grow as a writer and filling bookstores with her stories. You can find more about the author at: @xtawie@xtawiebooks / @xtawie
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María Dueñas reaps another success in Italy
29/07/2013Just one month after the launch of her 2nd novel “un amore più forte di me” (Mission Oblivion), in Italy published by Mondadori and translated by Federica Niola, María Dueñas is invited back to this country with excellent reviews and has been mentioned as recommended summer reading . We’d like to share with you these reviews and recommendations from various magazines as well as a video with the opinions of booksellers elaborated by Arnoldo Mondadori.
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AKDigital presents the new novel by Matthew Tree: SNUG
05/04/2013Matthew Tree was born in London but has lived in Barcelona since 1984. For literary reasons of his own, in 1990 he stopped writing in English and switched to Catalan, in which language he has published ten books. He has published in English a collection of articles titled “Barcelona, Catalonia. A View from the Inside” and now he presents us with a novel written in English; “SNUG”, published through this agency’s AKDigital project in Amazon for KINDLE and Print on Demand format. "An utterly compelling, uncompromising, visceral and unflinching look at racism, anti-Semitism and the legacy of colonialism. The adult protagonists are drawn with a deft accuracy and the resultant emotional impact of a heat seeking missile. The book bewitches the reader...it is touching, deeply moving and very funny." KS Lewkowicz - composer and lyricist of Goodbye Barcelona and Release The Beat. Amazon.com (Kindle and PoD)
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Monteagudo, Xosé
Xosé Monteagudo (Pontevedra, 1965). Uno de los escritores más reconocidos de la literatura gallega actual, es autor de varias novelas: As voces da noticia (premio Blanco Amor, 2002), Esta historia (2006), Un tipo listo (premio García Barros, 2009), publicada en castellano por Mar Maior, El curioso mundo de las personas normales (2013), publicada en castellano por Pulp Books, Todo canto fomos (2016, premio Gala do libro Galego y Premio San Clemente a la mejor novela en gallego en el 2017) y Eternity (Premio Repsol de narrativa breve en el 2021).
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The best from 2012 in El Cultural supplement magazine
31/12/2012Years end has arrived and with it the various best books lists. The literary critics from the supplement magazine El Cultural from the El Mundo newspaper have voted the best fiction works published over these last 12 months by Spanish and Latin-American authors. The eight professionals from said newspaper have selected their favorite books in order of preference and with which they could rate each of the publications and thus creating their list of the 10 best fiction novels of the year. This year we are pleased to discover at the head of the list the author José María Merino with his latest novel; El río del Edén, (The river from Eden). Ángel Basanta, critic from the cultural supplement notes in his review of the novel; “in El Río del Edén, Merino has completed another gran novel, with a love story various senses (matrimony, father-con, mother-child…), constructed with a good dose of intrigue”. Within the critics selection we also find other works by authors represented by our literary agency; "La tejedora de sombras" (The Shadow Weaver) by Jorge Volpi. "Pasajero K" (Passenger K) by Adolfo García Ortega. More information (in Spanish): Lista completa en El Cultural Votaciones de los críticos Entrevista a José María Merino
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Muñoz Ledo, Norma
She was born in Mexico City on Christmas Eve, 1967. She is one of Mexico’s leading writers of children’s and young adult literature. Norma weaves her narrative worlds from curiosity, research into the diverse topics that interest her, keen observation, and a sense of wonder. Some of her stories—such as Matemágicas, Bestiario de seres fantásticos mexicanos, and Supernaturalia—stem from her desire to highlight the strength and symbolic presence of Mexican traditions and mythology. She is the author of more than thirty books for children and young readers, including the aforementioned titles as well as El nuevo restaurante de Pierre Quintonil, Polvo de estrellas, Peligro de suerte, Tú y Yo, El taller del ermitaño, and Los cazadores del Big Bang. Photos: Copyright Maj Lindström
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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/
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La luz difícil by Tomás González, number 1 in the LitProm (Germany) selection
03/12/2012La luz difícil (The Difficult Light), by Tomás González (Das spröde Licht, S.Fischer Verlage) occupies the number 1 spot in the recommendations list of the Litprom Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Literatur aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika (Litprom, Association for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin-American Literature). Litprom is an association that was founded in Frankfurt in 1980 during the world renowned Frankfurt book fair, who’s policy is: To monitor literary trends and select from the best books by African, Asian and Latin-American writers with the intention to help translate them in German and/or the promotion of these works in the German, Austrian and Swiss markets. To coordinate a center for the investigation and information of the development of literature in the countries of the 3 regions. To establish and guide a round table debate over literature in and from “Third World” countries. The classification of “La luz difícil” in this list is great news regarding the quality and importance of this association, and for the support that the selected novels receive for the promotion in German speaking markets. The Association describes González’ novel as clear, precise and enjoyable, in that the protagonist faces many questions and memories with both caution and distress. For more information about Litprom Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Literatur aus Afrika. Asien und Lateinamerika e.V. (in English): http://www.litprom.de/about_us.html
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Rodríguez, María Paz
María Paz Rodríguez was born in Santiago, Chile. She studied literature and completed a Master’s in Latin American Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2011, she debuted with her first novel, El Gran Hotel (Cuarto Propio), which received very good critical reception, also winning the Literary Creation Grant from the Book Council. Then, in 2015, she published Mala Madre (Alfaguara), a novel that led her to participate in the “Latinoamérica Viva” panel at the FIL Guadalajara 2015 and the Lima Book Fair as a guest of honor. Furthermore, Mala Madre is now in its third edition. In 2018, she published her first book of short stories, Niñas ricas (Alfaguara), where, like in her other books, she proposes a pop aesthetic intersected with feminism and the problematic place of women in contemporary Chile. This book reached a more massive audience and had two editions in less than three months. ARCA is her fourth novel and will be published by Tusquets in 2024 in Chile.
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“A Barcelona Heiress” by Sergio Vila-San Juan
06/11/2012Open Road Integrated Media, an established digital publisher and multimedia content company, and Barcelona eBooks, a new English-language digital publishing house present the novel by Sergio Vila-San Juan "A Barcelona Heiress". This book published in 2010 by Destino Publisher House, is now translated into English and can be found as an ebook all around the world. “A powerful chronicle of Barcelonaduring the 20s, which allows us to discover its mysteries and unravel its clues. With a journalist’s keen eye and the narrative vision of the writer, Sergio Vila-Sanjuán has managed to create an irresistible reading which explores the entire gamut of a society, a time and a fascinating city.” Carlos Ruiz Zafón Promotional video: http://media.openroadmedia.com/files/2012/11/05/SERGIOFINAL.mp4 Synopsis In the 1920’s Barcelona a young lawyer and monarchic journalist comes in contact with a diverse bunch of characters: a beaten cabaret girl who does not confess to all she knows; an anarchist leader who hesitates between compromising or violence; a newly-arrived general intent on imposing order without a second thought, and a handsome and moneyed countess determined to maintain her independence… Guided byPablo Vilar wetravel from the caverns of Montjuic’s, to high-society’s lavish parties at the Ritz or the Laberinto of Horta; and from the anarchist communities to the court rooms where justice is administered or delayed. While the city grazes its zenith, Pablo also fears that his youth will disappear with the coming storm. Based on real facts and people, and on documents from the author’s family files, A Barcelona Heiress proposes a new and different look at a complex and dazzling period.
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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
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Sierra, Javier
Javier Sierra (Teruel, 1971) is the only contemporary Spanish author to have placed his novels in the top ten of the best-selling books in the United States. His works have been translated into more than forty languages and serve as an inspiration for many readers who seek more than just entertainment in a thriller. Trained in journalism—he was the director of Más Allá de la Ciencia magazine for seven years, as well as a presenter and director of radio and television programs in Spain—he now dedicates his time to researching historical mysteries and writing about them. He has published several widely popular books, including The Secret Supper (published in 43 countries), The Blue Lady (published in 20 countries), The Forbidden Route, The Templar Doors, The Lost Angel, The Master of El Prado (the best-selling Spanish fiction book in 2013), and The Immortal Pyramid. His latest novel is The Master Plan.
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Sietecase, Reynaldo
© Gentileza Alejandra López Reynaldo Sietecasas was born in Rosario, Argentina. He is a writer and journalist. Author of the novels "Un crimen argentino" (An Argentine Crime) (2002, Alfaguara), "A cuántos hay que matar" (How Many Must We Kill) (2010, Alfaguara), "No pidas nada" (Ask for Nothing) (2017, Alfaguara), and "La Rey" (2024, Alfaguara). He published the short story collection "Pendejos" (Fools) (2007, Alfaguara) and eight poetry books. Much of this work was compiled in the anthologies: "Nadie es de nadie" (No One Belongs to Anyone) (2019, Sial Pigmalión, Spain) and "Lengua Sucia" (Dirty Language) (2020, Lumen). The book "No hay tiempo que perder" (There's No Time to Lose) (2011, Aguilar) brings together a selection of his best chronicles. He also published the journalistic investigation "Kamikazes, los mejores peores años de la Argentina" (Kamikazes, the Best Worst Years of Argentina) (2013, Aguilar) and the photographic essay "Desnudos de vidriera" (Naked Shop Windows) (2017, Reservoir). In 2022, the film adaptation of "Un crimen argentino" was released, produced by Pampa Films and Warner Bros (currently on HBO Max and Filmin platforms). https://reynaldosietecase.com.ar/
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María Dueñas in Taiwan
12/09/2012Meanwhile in Spain“Mission Olvido” (the new novel by María Dueñas) has begun to climb the lists as one of the bestsellers, this author has arrived to the Far East with a firm step and she has placed “El Tiempo Entre Costuras” (The Seamstress) in the lists of favorites in both China and Taiwan. A few months ago this was published in China with astounding success, selling more than a hundred thousand copies in the 1st month. While inTaiwan the title published in September by the same publishing house (Thinkingdom Media) has already reached the bestseller lists. Links: Enlaces: Trailer "El tiempo entre costuras", Ed. Thinkingdom Media. Special promo by Eslite (bookstore).
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The Prisoner of Heaven hits the USA Top Ten lists
19/07/2012The Prisoner of Heaven hits the USA Top Ten lists in just few days after its release by HarperCollins! Place # 7 Indie Bound Bestseller Lists Place #10 on Nielsen BookScan On July 29th, the NY Times will publish its long-awaited list of bestselling books, among which we are sure will be this beautiful story. We should like to show our recognition to Carlos Ruiz Zafón for another success out of Spain.
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