Marcelo Luján wins the Dashiell Hammet Prize 2016 for “Subsoil”. Ignacio del Valle wins the Buenos Aires Negra in the same festival
19/07/2016The Argentine Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) has been awarded the Dashiell Hammett, the principal recognition awarded at the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his book Subsuelo (Subsoil), a disturbing and sober thriller that has been considered by the judges as the best book of the noir genre published in Spain in 2015. Luján won the Getafe award in 2009 for “La mala espera”. Visibly emotional, the winner has assured that one of his “childhood dreams has been fulfilled” and that it is a prize “for the risky decisions taken at the beginning of the writing of the novel.” With this novel, the winner, whether he likes to go towards the margins of the genre or directly disaffiliate from it, shows that he is an excellent anatomist of daily evil. Three adolescents, three siblings, are sitting on the edge of a pool in a summer house. A fourth arrives late and has to go get ice but doesn’t feel like it. He doesn’t know that his contempt will be the beginning of the tragedy. From this nice and apparently anodyne point of departure, Luján unfurls a deep analysis of desire, envy, hatred, filial love and predatory sex and destruction. A book with a simple style, a thriller based on the strength of the characters and which pays tribute in its profundity to the master Patricia Highsmith. The author of “Moravia” succeeds Carlos Zanón in the list of winners, as well as Alexis Ravelo and Guillermo Saccomanno, the last three to have won it, along with a prestigious group of authors that include Ignacio Taibo II, Andreu Martín, Juan Madrid, and Jorge Reverte. In the same festival, Ignacio del Valle won the Buenos Aires Negra Award for Soles Negros (Black Suns) from the Arturo Andrade Series.
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Subsuelo, by Marcelo Luján, awarded with the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz at the Tenerife Noir Festival
14/03/2016The novel 'Subsuelo', by Marcelo Luján, wins the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz of the Festival Atlántico Tenerife Noir for the best noir genre novel of the 2015 in Spain.Ver más en: http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2696533/0/subsuelo-marcelo-luj-premio-ciudad-santa-cruz-tenerife-noir/#xtor=AD-15&xts=467263 http://www.eldigitaldecanarias.net/index.php/cultura/9138-subsuelo-de-marcelo-lujan-premio-ciudad-de-santa-cruz-en-tenerife-noir-2016
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Javier Rovira finalist in the Primer Novel Festival of Chambéry
25/10/2012“El Festival du premier roman de Chambéry is the only literary manifestation in France to work towards the discovery and promotion of novel French language and novel European authors through writing. In effect, 3000 demanding and passionate readers make the selection, after one year of debates and lectures, the novel writers that have won the most attention are invited to the Festival. Every year 15 novel French language writers and 8 novel, Italian, Spanish, German, Romanian, English and Portuguese writers, participate in the acts of the Festival, along with well known authors. This original focus creates a unique and plural literary event at the service of the creation of contemporary literature. In March 2013 the novel winners of the 26th edition will be selected. On this occasion 12 novel Spanish authors have been selected as finalists which include the author, Javier Rovira and his work; “Private Session”. More information: Finalists Festival Du Premier Roman (in English)
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In Vino Veritas
Inspector Oteiza faces the most important case of her career. History, Nazi plundering, intrigue and wine, in a fast-paced investigation that will change her forever. The theft of one of the best preserved mosaics in Europe leads Inspector Oteiza, from the Historical Heritage Brigade of the Judicial Police, to move to a small town in Burgos to investigate the case. Everything changes for her when her boss decides to include her in a highly complex investigation: the disappearance of some valuable bottles of wine from vintages prior to World War II. This kicks off a journey that begins in Madrid, continues in San Sebastian during the Film Festival and ends in the Bordeaux vineyards. A fascinating journey in which Oteiza will count on the collaboration of Édouard DeauVille -wine expert and owner of a château-, with whom an undeniable chemistry will emerge. As her investigation progresses she will not only discover a passion for wine, but also the struggle of French winemakers to defend themselves from Nazi plundering during the war, their collaboration with the Resistance during the occupation, and the existence of works of art that hid and still hide great mysteries. A complex maze that will pit her against the dark ghosts of her own past, and in which her routine and solitary life will take a surprising turn: nothing will ever be the same for her. History, wine, art, action and eroticism become the parameters of a novel of great intensity that captivates from the first to the last page. Reviews: «The author creates a very interesting mix of crime novel with the right touches of eroticism, all wrapped up in the exciting world of wine. Highly recommended. » Amazon «The investigation that one needs to get reacquainted with suspense.» Glamor «This novel has ingredients that make it a captivating work from the first to the last page.» Vinetur Magazine
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Cerezo, Luís
Luis Cerezo (Barcelona, 1969) studied Arts in the Escola Massana and Music at Barcelona’s Liceo. He has combined literature with boxing, musical composition, cameraman, as well as an early career as a jazz musician. For fifteen years he worked as an advertising creative director and film and television screenwriter—activities which he has juggled with musical composition and independent filmmaking. In 2004, he directs and produces his first experimental full-length film, Náufragos (Shipwrecked). In 2006, he promotes the manifesto Cinelibre (FreeFilm), an alternative production platform inspired on guerrilla cinema, and which fosters solitary filmmaking. Fiesta (Party), his first full-length documentary (2008), was officially selected for the international festivals of Warsaw, Toulouse and Montreal, among others, besides inaugurating the season of Spanish cinema at the Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai and Beijing. In 2013, he directs and releases the full-length film “Plan B”, selected by the Bogota International Film Festival. In 2015 he published his first novel, Eo, and Estigia followed in 2019. His latest novel is El cocinero (2023), which received the "Ciudad de Alcalá" award for narrative. www.luiscerezo.net/
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Gasull, Virginia
Virginia Gasull comienza su actividad profesional en el sector de la arquitectura y después lo dirige hacia el desarrollo de proyectos relacionados con Internet. En paralelo realiza estudios de sexología y en 2009 inicia su labor profesional como formadora impartiendo charlas sexológicas para grupos y asociaciones de mujeres. Su afición por la cultura del vino la lleva también a realizar diferentes cursos de enología y cata, así como visitas a bodegas en las principales regiones vinícolas de Europa. Durante una de estas visitas a la región de Burdeos, comienza el estudio La Historia de los viticultores franceses durante la ocupación alemana en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Tras años de escribir relatos cortos, en 2013 se sumerge en la investigación y elaboración de su primera novela: In Vino Veritas donde aúna la cultura del vino, el periodo histórico de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el mundo del Arte. In Vino Veritas fue publicado en Amazon y obtuvo un gran éxito de descargas u críticas, manteniéndose durante varias semanas en el número uno de la lista de más vendidos, recibiendo al poco tiempo la propuesta de Suma de Letras para ser publicada bajo su sello editorial, recibiendo muy buenas críticas por parte de la prensa especializada. En el Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastian de 2015 firmó una opción con la productora Orreaga Filmak para la adaptación cinematográfica de In Vino Veritas, que está en proceso de preproducción. Es miembro junto con otros escritores de la Asociación Cultural Oskarbi. En 2016 participa en el libro recopilación de relatos Oskarbi 21 con su relato 1943, una historia sobre la red Comète en la evacuación clandestina de fugitivos de la Europa ocupada durante la II Guerra Mundial. En Marzo de 2017 recibe un accésit en el prestigioso XVI Certamen ‘Encarna León’ por su relato Las mujeres del río. Su última novela es Nicole (Suma de Letras, 2021).
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Empty Runway
For the past month, Barcelona’s El Prat airport has kept its passengers locked inside for reasons no one can quite explain. Among the more than five thousand souls wandering its terminals, two Chilean brothers — estranged for years and on their way to Turkey for a hair transplant — set off on a desperate search: that of their father, a quiet widower who was supposed to accompany them to the place where they would try to correct their genetic inheritance, but who has vanished somewhere in the airport’s maze. Along the way, they encounter a punk who hides his face behind a baby mask to escape his past, a Mexican anarchist leading an international operation against an indie festival, and a group of bullfighters who organize clandestine child races. Between absurdity and melancholy humor, the search for their father becomes a search for themselves. A novel about family, displacement, and the twisted shapes masculinity can take, it reconstructs the story of an immigrant family between Chile and Spain while revealing the intimate cracks that open when three lost men are forced to truly see one another for the first time.
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Llorente, David
David Llorente nació en Madrid en 1973. En esta ciudad publica las novelas Kira, premio Francisco Umbral de novela corta en 1998, y El bufón, premio de narrativa Ramón J. Sender 2000. En el año 2002 se trasladó a Praga (República Checa), donde escribe las novelas Ofrezco morir en Praga y De la mano del hermano muerto, esta última también traducida al checo. En esta ciudad crea el grupo de teatro Séptimo miau, cuyas obras escribe y dirige él mismo. Ha representado por casi todos los países de Europa Central y del Este y ha obtenido diversos premios en varios festivales internacionales. Algunas de sus obras han salido publicadas en el libro Los árboles dormidos. Sus últimos libros son Te quiero porque me das de comer (Alrevés 2014), Madrid: Frontera (Alrevés 2016), y Kira (nueva edición de Alrevés, 2017).
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RITUALS (Witches and Necromancers #2)
Be careful what you wish for — it might just come true. The future of magic hangs in the balance. The Madrid coven is preparing to choose a new Lady and sign the long-awaited Treaty with the necromancers — a pact that could finally bring peace between their worlds. But not everyone is willing to accept it. Cal, the newly appointed leader of the necromancers, struggles to hold on to power while a sinister voice whispers in his mind, tempting him toward darkness. Meanwhile, Sabele and her friends try to return to normal with a summer trip to Edinburgh, where the FREF — a renowned festival that gathers witches from all over the world to celebrate Lughnasadh — is in full swing. The last thing Sabele expects is to run into Luc, the boy who’s been ignoring her calls for months. She’s determined to forget him… but magic, as always, has other plans. Among haunted ruins, kelpies, ghosts, and fae, Sabele will learn that the heart is the most dangerous spell of all — and that trusting in the seductive promises of the fair folk may cost her everything.
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Castigo Divino, by Sergio Ramírez, appears in English for the first time
06/05/2015Divine Punishment was published back in 1988 and has been translated into many languages, but never before into English. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, it is launched today by McPherson & Co. This publication will be celebrated with appearences of the author and translator at the Americas Society in New York City in association with the Instituto Cervantes. Tomorrow there will be a panel for Sergio at the Instituto Cervantes. Both events are officially part of the PEN World Voices Festival. Upon its original publication, Carlos Fuentes declared Divine Punishment to be the quintessential Central American novel. In this, the greatest work of a storied literary career, Sergio Ramírez transforms the most celebrated criminal trial in Nicaraguan history—the alleged murders in 1933 of two high society women and their employer by a Casanova named Oliverio Castañeda—into an examination of the entire Nicaraguan society at the brink of the first Somoza dictatorship. Passion, money, sex, gossip, political intrigue, medical malpractice and judicial corruption all merge into a novel that reads like a courtroom drama wrapped in yellow journalism disguised as historical fiction posing as a scandal of the first order. “This is a big, beautiful novel –a compelling historical drama of competing narratives and colorful characters that is self-aware and tigned with black humor.” - Publishers Weekly
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Medina, Maribel
Maribel Medina (Pamplona) has a passion for travel has taken her as far as India, but for the past 25 years, she has called the Baztán Valley in Navarra home. As a teenager, she became an orphan, forcing her to abandon her dream of becoming an astrophysicist and instead pursue a degree in Geography and History. Later, she worked as an external reader for a national publishing house.In 2014, she published Sangre de barro (Blood of Mud), a crime novel about doping in sports that achieved critical and commercial success. This was soon followed by the next installment in the Connors series, Sangre intocable (Untouchable Blood), which continued to tackle international plots rooted in real-world issues. In 2019, the final book of the Blood trilogy, Sangre entre la hierba (Blood Among the Grass), was released.Exploring a new genre, she published the illustrated story El Niño-Hoja (The Leaf-Child). Medina has served as a judge for various literary competitions, including the Tenerife Noir Prize and the prestigious María Moliner Award.Since 2019, she has been the president and director of Mi Pueblo Lee, a national rural network of literary festivals that was honored in 2024 with the National Award for Promoting Reading.On the wall of her office, the words “A bold life or nothing” are written—a reflection of her fearless approach to life and literature.
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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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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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The adaptation for TV of the bestseller “El tiempo entre costuras” (The Seamstress)
09/09/2013Last Friday, the 6th of September, television networks Antena 3 and Boomerang TV presented the pilot episode of the series El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress), during a party for the Vitoria-Gasteiz Television Festival (FesTVal). The adaptation for television of the novel written by María Dueñas and translated into more than 30 languages, is the much anticipated Autumn Prime Time launch for Spanish television. From Bestseller to TV success << El tiempo entre costuras (The Seamstress)>> is going to have the same success as the book has. The story of Sira is exciting and it has everything one could wish for entertainment: romance, adventure, passion, betrayal, unforgettable moments from our History, danger… Through the life of the protagonist, we don’t only pass through part of Spanish History but also all of the feelings and emotions that a human being can go through. You are magically struck with empathy for Sira. <>, commented Adriana Ugarte. Newspaper ABC 09/07/2013 Editorial Planeta published a special edition for the series on its Booket label (paperback). We can get a glimpse, on the cover, of Sira Quiroga, played by the actress Adriana Ugarte.
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Pérez, Luismi
Luismi Pérez has been working professionally as a television screenwriter for nearly twenty years. He is one of the creators, writers, and executive producers of the two seasons of Nasdrovia (Movistar, 2020 and 2022). Nasdrovia received the Dama Award for Best Comedy Series and the Excellence Award at the Luchon Television Festival (France). He has also been a writer for the TV fiction Capítulo 0 (Movistar, 2018), Malaka (TVE, 2019), and is the co-creator and writer of the series Dos años y un día (AtresPlayer Premium, 2022). For seven years, he worked developing projects at Globomedia (The Mediapro Studio), the production company where he began his screenwriting career with the comedy series La Tira (La Sexta, 2008), followed by the sketch show Ell@s (Antena 3, 2008). For the next eight years, he was part of the writing team of El Intermedio. There he learned the dynamics involved in working on a daily show and something even more important: you can always make one more joke about Esperanza Aguirre’s dog. Currently, in addition to continuing to develop series and film scripts, he is writing novels for adults and children. Together with Ledicia Costas, he has published the first gamebook of the trilogy Brujas & Dragones (Triqueta, 2025). Besides writing, Luismi plays guitar in the bands Tigres Leones and Petróleo, alongside comedian Ignatius Farray. Although the truth is he’s not very good at playing the guitar.
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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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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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Sabina Berman Awarded “Prix des lecteurs de la ville de Vicennes”
13/09/2012The (Mexican) author Sabina Berman has recently been acknowledged in Europe, on this occasion in France, with the award (Prix del Lecteurs de la ville de Vicennes) for her novel “The Woman who Dove into the Heart of the World” (Moi, Éditions du Seuil, 2011). This award was created in 2006 by the Library Network (Association) of the city of Vicennes with the goal to present an acknowledgement to an author invited to the Festival América (A Literature and Cultural festival of North America that takes place every two years). This year the festival will take place from the 20th until the 23rd of September in the French city.
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Roso, Luis
Luis Roso (Moraleja, Cáceres, 1988) holds degrees in Hispanic Philology from the University of Salamanca and English Philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is also the curator of the Gata Negra crime fiction festival, held every summer in the Sierra de Gata (Extremadura). His accolades include the Ciutat de Vila-real Narrative Prize for Durante la nevada (Alrevés, 2020) and the Tuber Melanosporum Prize for Best Debut Crime Novel in 2016, awarded by the Morella Negra festival, which he won with his first novel, Aguacero, also published by Alrevés (2023 edition). His other books include Todos los demonios (Alrevés, 2021) and El crimen de Malladas: Por vuestra boca muerta (Alrevés, 2022), which was nominated for the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for Best Nonfiction Crime Book at the Semana Negra de Gijón and was selected by El País as one of the best crime novels of 2022. He recently reissued Primavera cruel, also with Alrevés.
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Carlos Gamerro a guest from the “Edinburgh World Writers´Conference 2012-2013″
05/07/2012Conference: THE ANATOMY OF DESOLATION Monday 20 August 8:30pm - 9:30pm RBS Corner Theatre Carlos Gamerro is a leading voice in Argentinian literature and his new novel The Islands recounts the surreal story of the Falklands War from one Argentinian perspective. Alongside him, László Krasznahorkai discusses his Hungarian masterpiece Satantango, which was described by Susan Sontag as 'a stirring manual of resistance to desolation'. This summer it is finally published in English – a long-awaited landmark in literature. Carlos Gamerro & László Krasznahorkai “The anatomy of desolation” Edinburgh International Book Festival Edinburgh World Writers´Conference 2012-2013 ‘Gamerro's balls-out novel is a delirious mash-up ... [His] gross, bleakly funny, violence-saturated satire of a psychologically damaged society hung up on impossible myth relies on epic hyperbole, masterfully translated by Ian Barnett. There is enough invention here for four novels, but this multilayered nightmare vision is deftly rendered and devastating in its intensity.’ (Siobhan Murphy, Metro UK). Image from Siobhan Murphy´s article in the newspaper "Metro"
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Rovira, Javier
Javier Rovira es pianista profesional y profesor de conservatorio en Madrid, además de licenciado en Filología Hispánica por la UNED. Formado en Madrid, París y Bruselas, ha ofrecido recitales en numerosos países y ha actuado como solista con diversas orquestas. Como gestor cultural, es fundador y director artístico del Festival Clásicos en el Parque, que se celebra cada mes de julio en Rodalquilar (Parque Natural Cabo de Gata-Níjar, Almería). Desde hace años compagina sus actividades musicales y docentes con la literatura: su novela Sesión Privada (2012) fue muy bien acogida por la crítica y resulto finalista en el Festival du Premier Roman de Chambèry (Francia). Mala mar es su segunda novela publicada.
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Rufo, Arantxa
Arantxa Rufo, born in Madrid in 1979, but a resident of Tenerife since 1980, initially pursued a degree in Sound Engineering, though her career eventually shifted towards the fields of IT and graphic design.She has self-published four crime novels and contributed to the Tenerife Noir Anthology of Stories (2024). A frequent participant in Tenerife Noir and Las Palmas Confidencial crime fiction festivals, she is also a regular presence in media outlets, both on the Canary Islands and the Spanish mainland.
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Santirso, Jaime
Jaime Santirso (Gijón, 1990) is a writer and journalist. He has lived in China for nearly a decade, where he currently serves as Asia correspondent for the newspaper ABC. He also reports for Telecinco and Cadena SER, and previously worked for El País. During this time, he has covered major historical events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, and the centenary of the Chinese Communist Party. In January 2020, he was one of the few journalists who remained in Wuhan after the Chinese government declared the city’s lockdown. From the ground, he reported on the spread of the coronavirus, the collapse of hospitals, the population’s response, and the subsequent repatriation of Spanish citizens trapped there. This experience is chronicled in his second book, Los primeros días (Altamarea). In 2021, he received the APM Award for Young Journalist of the Year 2020. The jury highlighted that Santirso “embodies the courage of journalists who, in a country as challenging for the press as China, did not hesitate to travel to Wuhan to witness the outbreak of the health crisis and provide multimedia coverage —text reports, videos, and photographs— of the city’s lockdown during the first days of the pandemic.” His first book, Encuentro (Trea, 2018), is a poetry collection built through a combination of verse and prose. He has participated in literary events such as the II EU-China International Literary Festival —where he was selected as the Spanish representative—, the Havana International Poetry Festival (2021), The Bookworm Literary Festival (2019), and the XXXI Semana Negra. He holds a degree in Journalism from the University of Navarra and a Master’s in International Relations from Tsinghua University.
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Sguiglia, Eduardo
Eduardo Sguiglia nació en Rosario, vivió en México entre 1977 y 1982 y desde 1983 reside en Buenos Aires. Fue profesor regular de la UBA y primer embajador argentino en Angola. Es autor de varias investigaciones y ensayos, entre ellos “Agustín Tosco” y “El club de los poderosos”, que merecieron dos premios nacionales de economía. Sus relatos y novelas –“Fordlandia”, “No te fíes de mi si el corazón te falla” y “Un puñado de gloria” – fueron traducidas a diferentes lenguas y distinguidas en los concursos internacionales Dublín Literary Award y Grinzane Cavour. El periódico The Washington Post consideró a “Fordlandia” como una de las cuatro mejores obras de ficción del año 2002. También integró los jurados en narrativa de Casa de las Américas (Cuba) y Casa del Teatro (República Dominicana), y el panel de apertura del Festival de Literatura de Berlín (2007).
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