Spanish and Latin American Authors MARTÍN CAPARRÓS (Argentina)
EMILIANO MONGE (Mexico)
ÁLVARO COLOMER (Spain)
MANUEL MUJICA LÁINEZ, Estate of (Argentina)
EL ROTO (Spain)
ELVIRA NAVARRO (Spain)
MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ (Argentina)
JORDI NOPCA (Spain)
LAURA ESQUIVEL (Mexico)
ESTELA OCAMPO (Spain)
LEONARDO FACCIO (Argentina)
DIEGO OJEDA (Spain)
CRISTINA FERNÁNDEZ CUBAS (Spain)
DOLORES PAYÀS (Spain)
JOSÉ FERRATER MORA, Estate of (Spain)
MARINA PEREZAGUA (Spain)
JUAN FORN (Argentina)
CARMEN POSADAS (Spain)
JORGE FRANCO (Colombia)
GERVASIO POSADAS (Spain)
CARLOS FRANZ (Chile)
PAUL B. PRECIADO (Spain)
FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA, Estate of (Spain)
EMILIO PRADOS, Estate of (Spain)
MARGARITA GARCÍA ROBAYO (Colombia)
PABLO RAMOS (Argentina)
JOSÉ MARÍA GUELBENZU (Spain)
EMMA REYES (Colombia)
JORGE GUILLÉN, Estate of (Spain)
MARGARITA RIVIÈRE (Spain)
RAFAEL GUMUCIO (Chile)
MONTSERRAT ROIG, Estate of (Spain)
BORIS IZAGUIRRE (Venezuela)
MERCE RODOREDA, Estate of (Spain)
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY (Chile)
ALEJANDRO ROSSI, Estate of (Mexico)
PAOLA KAUFMANN, Estate of (Argentina)
PEDRO SALINAS, Estate of (Spain)
ENRIQUE LYNCH (Spain)
EUGENIO TRÍAS (Spain)
JAVIER MARÍAS (Spain)
ESTHER TUSQUETS, Estate of (Spain)
TOMÁS ELOY MARTÍNEZ, Estate of (Argentina)
FERNANDO VALLEJO (Colombia)
MARWAN (Spain)
JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ (Colombia)
ÁNGELES MASTRETTA (Mexico)
MANUEL VILAS (Spain)
OSCAR MASOTTA (Argentina)
GABRIELA WIENER (Peru)
JUAN JOSÉ MILLÁS (Spain)
CARLOS ZANÓN (Spain)
Martín Caparrós Martín Caparrós (Buenos Aires, 1957) is an internationally acclaimed chronicler and novelist. He has lived in Paris, Madrid and New York. He has worked as both a television and radio journalist, as editor-in-chief of several magazines, traveled around the world, and translated Voltaire, Shakespeare and Quevedo. He has had around twenty books published, which include the stories and chronicles that helped establish him as one of the most respected narrative journalism writers of his time: LA
, DIOS MÍO, LA VOLUNTAD, LA GUERRA MODERNA, AMOR Y ANARQUÍA and EL INTERIOR. DISTANCIA
His novels, translated into twelve different languages, undoubtedly belong to the great tradition of Latin American narrative: ANSAY O LOS INFORTUNIOS DE LA GLORIA, NO VELAS A TUS MUERTOS, LA NOCHE ANTERIOR, EL TERCER CUERPO, LA HISTORIA, UN DÍA EN LA VIDA DE DIOS, VALFIERNO and A QUIEN CORRESPONDA. He received the Premio Herralde in 2011 for his last novel LOS LIVING.
His narrative non-fiction masterpiece EL HAMBRE is making huge waves internationally. "In this new century, Martin Caparrós is the most important travel writer of the Spanish language. I think Paul Theroux is the closest English language equivalent, though I hold Caparrós in higher regard.” Jorge Carrión, ABC "Martin Caparrós is a true phenomenon, and yet he somehow carries on without the level of international acclaim he so richly deserves. For me he is currently the most important writer of narrative journalism: our Capote, our Kapuscinski.” Jorge Fernández Diaz, La Nación "Caparrós is a master of the chronicle.”
Juan Villoro, Reforma
El hambre / Hunger
Non fiction
580 pages Latin America: Planeta, 2014 • Spain: Anagrama, 2015 • World English: Faber and Faber • Sweden: Natur och Kultur • Portugal: Temas e Debates • Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek, 2015 • Italy: Einaudi, 2015 • Brazil: Bertrand • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2015 • USA: Other Press • France: Buchet Chastel, 2015 • Taiwan: China Times • Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie • Norway: Cappelen Damm • Denmark: Tiderne Skfiter • Croatia: Algoritam • China: Shanghai99 “Astounding, useful and extraordinarily well-informed.”
Jean Ziegler
This book brings us the story of Hunger –both its past and un(fore)seen present– in a way that has never been shown and told before. With utmost eloquence, Martín Caparrós passionately responds to the very recent reality that a billion people are right now suffering from hunger, and to the fact that every year nine million die of starvation – a holocaust and a half. After reading this book, no one would dare deny that hunger is the biggest crisis of our time. Nothing has been as lethal or as decisive in humankind´s survival, and without proper nutrition, it makes it very difficult to tend to other world problems such as environmental destruction, overpopulation, gender inequality, or terrorism. This is just one of the many truths the author lays down as the pillars for a much wider and in-depth exploration, while always emphasizing that it also happens to be the most preventable crisis of our time. In search of the mechanisms that cause this mass starvation and the fights against it, Martín Caparrós sheds geographical and historical barriers, making this book not only serve as a critical overview of the history of
hunger, but also as a voyage to different parts of the world, from the poorest (to even some of the richest): Niger, India, Bangladesh, Argentina, Madagascar, South Sudan, and the USA. Each region exemplifies the particular violences and also reaffirms the contradictions that unite them. But most of all, it is in only in the slums and peripheries where the stories of today’s famished can be told. Making an important stop inside the Chicago Board of Trade, the author also includes the stories of those who speculate with food and starve so many people. Filled with bone-chilling anecdotes and testimonies, none of what you read will be forgotten and the emotional distance we put between us and the victims will have dissipated. All the above makes EL HAMBRE both a masterpiece of literary reportage and a pamphlet for the whole world to read. "A hard and passionate reportage.”
La Repubblica
"A book that will surely be important. A book we've been in need of.”
Agustín Fernández Mallo
"As well as a chronicle/essay on the ´biggest human failure´, it is a monumental reflection on the work of a journalist: why does a journalist do what he/she does and for what; why does he/she tell and for what, in this case, misery: so much misery.” Leila Guerriero “Strange, singular, violent, necessary. Caparrós’ writing has a memorable pulse.” Antonio Lucas, El Mundo “It impresses, discomforts and fascinates. It takes a powerful punch at our all too comfortable civilization.” Núria Escur, La Vanguardia COMÍ • Spain and Latin America: Anagrama, 2013 • France: Éditions Buchet-Chastel LOS LIVING XXIX Premio Herralde de Novela •Spain and Latin America: Anagrama, 2011 • France: Éditions Buchet-Chastel, 2013 • Germany: Berlin Verlag, 2014 ENTRE DIENTES (CRÓNICAS COMILONAS) •México: Almadía, 2012 IDA Y VUELTA (2012)
• Latin America: Planeta Argentina, 2012 ARGENTINISMOS (2011) • Latin America: Planeta Argentina, 2011 UNA LUNA (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Anagrama, 2009 A QUIEN CORRESPONDA (2008) • Spain: Anagrama, 2008 • Germany: Berlin Verlag, 2010 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2011 • Italy: Il Sagiattore • France: Éditions Buchet-Chastel VALFIERNO (2004) Premio Planeta Argentina de Novela 2004 • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2004 • Germany: Eichborn Verlag, 2006 • Italy: Ponte alle Grazie, 2006 (cxl) • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2008 • France: Éditions Fayard, 2008 • Portugal: Ambar, 2006 • Korea: Random House Joongang, 2007 • Poland: ZNIW, 2009 • Russia: Geleos • Greece: Patakis Publishers, 2007 • USA: Atria Books, 2008 • Romania: RAO Publishing • Croatia: Fraktura, 2010 • Serbia: Ikp Evro-Giunti • Sweden: Lethe Forlag, 2012 • Turkey: Nail Kitabevi
Álvaro Colomer Álvaro Colomer (Barcelona, 1973) is a novelist and journalist never afraid to face the hard facts and delve deeper. His novels include LA CALLE DE LOS SUICIDIOS, MIMODRAMA DE UNA CIUDAD MUERTA and LOS BOSQUES DE UPSALA, with which he concludes his a trilogy begun eight years ago. As a journalist he is the author of SE ALQUILA UNA MUJER. HISTORIAS DE PUTAS, a collection of essays based on true stories that cover a range of experiences of prostitutes in Spain. He recently published GUARDIANES DE LA MEMORIA. RECORRIENDO LAS CICATRICES DE LA VIEJA EUROPA, a collection of news reports that visit the sites of the most significant events of recent European history, such as Auschwitz and Guernica, and describe in detail the nature of contemporary life in these stigmatized cities. The chapter covering the present-day consequences of the Chernobyl disaster was honoured with the 2007 International Award for Excellence in Journalism from the International Institute of Journalism and Communication. His new novel is ARDERÁN DENTRO DE SUS TANQUES, a retelling of the secretive Spanish army’s attack on Iraq in 2004. www.alvarocolomer.com “Impecable prose and wisely pleasant.”
Agustín Fernández Mallo
“Colomer’s novels are always deceivingly pessimist and painfully tied to true stories.” La Razón “A true quality of writing that reaches a pathos that is tragic, poetic and reflexive.” Juan Antonio Masoliver
Arderán dentro de sus tanques / They Will Burn Inside Their Tanks
Novel
300 pages Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2016 On April 4th, 2004, the Spanish president José María Aznar who was just leaving office, ordered for an invasion of Iraq. Many know the Battle of Najaf to be one of the fiercest during the Iraq war, but few know that Spanish soldiers were sent to fight alongside Blackwater mercenaries against the Iraqi militia fighters. It happens that a month earlier the terrorist attack hit the Atocha Station and the investigation and anti-war uproar took all attention away to what was happening in Najaf, the atrocities, the casualties, events so brutal they were silenced and remain so. In THEY WILL BURN INSIDE THEIR TANKS, Álvaro Colomer uses the space and freedom of a novel to re-enact the Battle of Najaf, through the eyes and psychological experience of its participants. It is the result of more than 200 interviews with soldiers and civilians from Spain, the USA, El Salvador, Iraq, Germany, UK, Czech Republic and Denmark. The Spanish were the most reluctant and fearful to talk. The author himself received many Government calls to abandon this project, calling him “a traitor to his homeland” for filling in this historical gap.
LOS BOSQUES DE UPSALA (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 • World English Electronic Rights: Hispabooks Publishing, 2014 EL CANGREJO MATÍAS (2013) • Spain: Edebé, 2013 TERROR EN LA RED I, TERROR EN LA RED II, TERROR III (2012) • Spain and Latin America: Edebé, 2012, 2014 NAJAF 444 • Spain: Alfaguara
GUARDIANES DE LA MEMORIA (2008) • Spain: Ediciones Martínez Roca, 2008 MIMODRAMA DE UNA CIUDAD MUERTA (2004) • Spain: Siruela, 2004 (cxl) SE ALQUILA UNA MUJER. HISTORIAS DE PUTAS (2003) • Spain: Martínez Roca, 2003 LA CALLE DE LOS SUICIDIOS (2002) • Spain: Círculo de Lectores, 2002
Andrés Rábago (El Roto) Painter, cartoonist and illustrator, Andrés Rábago better known as Ops or El Roto, holds a long, interesting and ever-changing career. Since 1972, Rábago has had numerous private and group shows in art galleries, government venues and museums around the world. He is also a frequent contributor to magazines and publications such as Triunfo, Hermano Lobo, Cuadernos para el Diálogo, Tótem, Madriz, Diario 16, Pardon, El Independiente, El Periódico de Cataluña, Cambio 16, El Jueves, Ajoblanco, Tiempo or the newspaper El País, where he publishes a daily black and white cartoon, which comes in full colour in the Sunday Madrid edition. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards: Premio Nacional de Ilustración (Spanish Illustration Award), the award for best newspaper design from the Society for News Design (EE UU, 1997), the Courier International Award for Press Cartoons (Rouen, France, 1999) and the Award of Excellence Best of Newspaper Design (EE UU, 2000), to name but a few. Rábago has also published books and illustrated works by Jonathan Swift and Alejandro Gándara.
EL LIBRO VERDE (2014) ●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2014 A CADA UNO LO SUYO (2013) ●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2013 OH! LA L’ART! (2013) ●Spain and Latin America: Libros del Zorro Rojo, 2013
CAMARÓN QUE SE DUERME (O SE LO LLEVA LA CORRIENTE) (2012) ●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2012 VIÑETAS PARA UNA CRISIS (2011) ●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2011 ● Italy: Minimun Fax, 2013 LA EDAD DEL SILENCIO (2011)
●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2011 VOCABULARIO FIGURADO 2 (2007) ●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2007 EL LIBRO DE LOS DESÓRDENES (2006)
●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2006 VOCABULARIO FIGURADO (2005) ●Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2005 EL GUARDAGUJAS (2003) ●Spain: Catálogo Exposición Universidad de Alcalá, 2003 BESTIARIO (EXTENDED EDITION) (2002) ●Spain: Ediciones Medusa, 2002 EL PABELLÓN DE AZOGUE (2001) ●Spain: Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2001 EL FOGONERO DEL TITANIC (1999) ●Spain: Temas de Hoy, 1999 LA MEMORIA DEL CONSTRUCTOR (1999) ●Spain: Diputación Provincial de Sevilla, 1999 LA VISITA INESPERADA (1999) ●Spain: Catálogo Exposición Centro Duque de Madrid, 1999 HABAS CONTADAS (1994) ●Spain: PPC, 1994 DE UN TIEMPO A ESTA PARTE (1991) ●Spain: Ediciones de la Torre, 1991 BESTIARIO (1989) ●Spain: Alfaguara, 1989 LA CEBADA AL RABO (1975) ●Spain: Cuadernos para el diálogo, 1975 MITOS, RITOS Y DELITOS (1973) ●Spain: Fundamentos, 1973 LOS HOMBRES Y LAS MOSCAS (1971) ●Spain: Cuadernos para el diálogo, 1971
Mariana Enríquez Mariana Enríquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) is considered one of the most original narrators of her generation. She graduated in Journalism from the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and writes for Radar, the arts and culture supplement of the Argentinian newspaper Página/12. Enríquez has published two novels -BAJAR ES LO PEOR (Espasa Calpe, 1995) y CÓMO DESAPARECER COMPLETAMENTE (Emecé, 2004)- and a collection of short stories, LOS PELIGROS DE FUMAR EN LA CAMA (Emecé, 2009). Some of Enríquez’s stories have been published in the collections LA JOVEN GUARDIA (2006), UNA TERRAZA PROPIA (2006), EN CELO (2007) and LOS DÍAS QUE VIVIMOS EN PELIGRO (Emecé, 2009), as well as in Granta en Español and English magazines like McSweeney’s, Granta UK and Asymptote. She also has a collection of chronicles on cemeteries she has visited throughout the world, titled ALGUIEN CAMINA SOBRE TU TUMBA (2014). With a new novel in the works, her upcoming story collection is titled LAS COSAS QUE PERDIMOS EN EL FUEGO, to be published in February 2016 by Anagrama and in Spring 2017 by Hogarth in the USA and Portobello in the UK, and in many other languages. "These spookily clear-eyed, elementally intense stories are the business. I find myself no more able to defend myself from their advances than Enriquez’s funny, brutal, bruised characters are able to defend themselves from life as it’s lived." Helen Oyeyemi "It seems wrong, somehow to call this grouping of Mariana Enriquez’s stories a collection. There is nothing collected about these stories. These stories unsettle; they disturb; they disquiet. Read them!" Kelly Link “Her fictional universe feels unabashed, unmediated, and unafraid; her writing is so honest and observant that it’s able to evoke a reality that somehow seems more vivid than my own. Certainly more vivid than whatever was passing by outside my train. This is, of course, is the result of painstaking craftsmanship, and evidence of a first-rate writer. A true storyteller, and through her work, you can sense the presence of a remarkably generous spirit " Daniel Gumbiner, McSweeney’s “Her literature leaves a physical impact that is hard to find in other fiction.”
Ezequiel Acuña, Página 12
“Without a doubt my discovery. The stories happen with a contained and cerebral style, astonishingly solid, with a lethal narrative pulse, which alternates between the icy tone used for moments of horror and the almost delicate meticulousness for nuance and atmosphere.” Javier Calvo “The author shares a characteristic with Argentinian writers such as Cortázar and exacerbates this: the rotten and malevolent of everyday life, the crack through which irrationality filters and where bodies splash about, giving in to their excretions and palpitations.” Beatriz Sarlo
Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego / The Things We Lost in the Fire
Stories
224 pages Spain and Latin America: Anagrama ● US: Hogarth Press (Crown) ● UK: Portobello (Granta) ● Holland: Meridiaan ● Israel: Am Oved ● Germany: Ullstein ● Sweden: Norstedts ● Italy: Marsilio ● Denmark: Rosinante ● France: Sous sol (Seuil) ● Brazil: Intrínseca --Editor endorsements available-Women who set themselves on fire in protest of domestic violence, angst-ridden teenage girls, friends until death do part, street kids and social workers, young women bored of their husbands or boyfriends, a nine-year old serial killer of babies, a girl who pulls out her nails and eyelids in the classroom; hikikomori, abandoned houses, black magic, Northern Argentinean superstition, disappearances, crushes, heartbreak, regret and compassion. Imagine a 21st century remix of Dirty Realism, Edgar Allan Poe, Julio Cortázar and Shirley Jackson, in a Buenos Aires as a truly visceral setting, its outskirts, its cruelty, its past that haunts. Through a work that is classical and contemporary at once, fiercely original, voice-driven, feminist, anti-feminist, political, apathetic, dark, funny, Mariana Enríquez dares to do it all, tell it all. Each sentence is seduction, horror made so believable, and literature life again.
ALGUIEN CAMINA SOBRE TU TUMBA (2014) ● Argentina: Galerna, 2014 ● Italy: Caravan Edizioni CUANDO HABLÁBAMOS CON LOS MUERTOS (2013) ● Chile: Montacerdos, 2013 ● Italy: Caravan Edizioni, 2014 ● Germany: Verlag Hans Schiller CHICOS QUE VUELVEN (2010) ● Argentina: Eduvim, 2010 ● Germany: Verlag Hans Schiller ● Sweden: Rastlös Forlag LOS PELIGROS DE FUMAR EN LA CAMA (2009) ● Argentina: Emecé, 2009 ● Peru: Santuario, 2015 ● Colombia: Laguna COMO DESAPARECER COMPLETAMENTE (2004) ● Argentina: Emecé, 2004 ● Germany: Verlag Hans Schiller ● Spain and Latin America: Planeta BAJAR ES LO PEOR (1995) ● Argentina: Espasa Calpe, 1995; Galerna, 2014
Laura Esquivel Laura Esquivel (Mexico City, 1950) began her career as a screenwriter, gaining international acclaim and winning several awards. The publication of her first novel, COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE in 1990 was one of the major literary landmarks of that decade and has been translated into thirty-three languages. In the United States alone it sold more than two million copies and remained on the best-seller list for over a year. The film, based on the novel with a script written by Esquivel herself, won several prizes and was also a tremendous hit at the box-office, and an especially notable triumph in the U.S. Her following novels, LA LEY DEL AMOR, TAN VELOZ COMO EL DESEO and MALINCHE, shared similar success amongst critics and the public alike and have also been widely translated.
A Lupita le gustaba planchar / Lupita Liked Ironing
Novel
198 pages Spain and Latin America: Suma, 2014 A moral parable on a world in crisis, the search for universal love, and our power to change our own lives. Lupita is an anti-heroine unlike any other. She is a policewoman, not blessed with the best physique, a recovering alcoholic, who has suffered from so much violence and who survives in a world where appearances, money and power all reign. In her search for love, she finds herself randomly involved in the murder of a politician and she must unravel everything behind this crime, putting her own life in danger. With her characteristic accessible and catchy language, a refreshing dark humour and a deep spiritual outlook, Laura Esquivel draws a fascinating portrait of a society that has lost its way, where there is something of Lupita in all of us and we are all searching for something to save us from heartbreak. ● Italy: Garzanti, 2015 ● Poland: Znak ● Brazil: Bertrand • Portugal: ASA, 2015 ● Turkey: Can • Bulgaria: Colibri ESCRIBIENDO LA NUEVA HISTORIA (2012) ● Spain and Latin America: Suma, 2012 ● Brazil: Bertrand Brasil • Portugal: ASA, 2013 MALINCHE (2006) ● Spain and Latin America: Suma, 2006 ● Punto de Lectura, 2007 (ppbk) • World English: Atria Books, 2006 • Italy: Garzanti, 2007 • Netherlands: Uitgeverij Arena, 2006 • Russia: Eksmo, 2010 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 2006 • Brazil: Ediouro, 2007 • Bulgaria: Colibri, 2006 • Korea: Sodam Publishing Company, 2012 • Serbia: Graficki Atelje Dereta, 2007 • Greece: Modern Times, 2009 • Germany: Stockmann Verlag, 2009 • China: Yilin Press • Turkey: Ilgi Kultur Sanat Yayinlari , 2011 • Czech Republic: Alpress, 2012 • Poland: Znak, 2013 TAN VELOZ COMO EL DESEO (2001) ● Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 2012 ● Russia: Eksmo, 2010 ● USA: Crown Publishing, 2001 ● Netherlands: Arena, 2001(cxl) ● Greece: Oceanidas, 2002 ● UK: Transworld Publishers, 2001 ● Italy: Garzanti, 2003 ● Poland: Znak ● Portugal: ASA Editores, 2001 ● Bulgaria: Bard, 2001; Colibri, 2011 ● Germany: Lübbe, 2002 ● Croatia: Algoritam, 2007 ● Brazil: Objetiva, 2001 ● France: Archipel, 2003 (cxl); Gallimard, 2013 (ppbk) ● Taiwan: Crown Publishing , 2006 (cxl) ● Serbia: Narodna Knjiga, 2003 ● Romania: Humanitas, 2004 • China: Yilin Press
EL LIBRO DE LAS EMOCIONES (2000) ● Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 2012 ● Portugal: ASA Editores, 2003 • Russia: Amphora Publishers, 2005 (cxl) ESTRELLITA MARINERA (WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY FRANCISCO MELÉNDEZ)(1999) ● Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 2012 ● Italy: Mondadori, 2000 ● Portugal: ASA Editores, 2001 (cxl) ÍNTIMAS SUCULENCIAS (2000) ● Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 2012 ● USA: Crown, 2001; Amazon Crossing ● Germany: Ullstein Verlag, 1999; Digital Publishing, 2005 ● Taiwan: Crown Publishing Company, 2000 ● Portugal: ASA Editores, 1999 • Bulgaria: Colibri, 2007 • Turkey: Can Yayinlari, 2010 LA LEY DEL AMOR (1995) ● Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 2012 ● Italy: Garzanti, 1996 (ppbk): 1997 (cxl) ● France: Robert Laffont, 1996 ● USA: Crown Publishing, 1996; Amazon Crossing ● UK: Chatto and Windus, 1996 ● Portugal: ASA Editores, 1996 ● Korea: Minumsa, 2000 (cxl) ● Germany: Ullstein, 1996 (cxl) ● Netherlands: Arena, 1996 ● Brazil: Martins Fontes, 1996 ● Greece: Oceanida Publications, 1998 ● Denmark: Samlerens, 1996 ● Israel: Or-Am, 1997 (cxl) ● Norway: Cappelen (cxl), 1997 ● Russia: Amphora, 2001 ● Poland: Zysk I S-Ka, 2001 ● Taiwan: Crown Publishing Company, 1998 (cxl) • Bulgaria: Colibri, 2010 • China: Yilin Press COMO AGUA PARA CHOCOLATE (1989) ● Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 2012 • Brazil: Martins Fontes, 1996 • USA: Doubleday, 1993 (cxl) • Germany: Suhrkamp – Insel, 1993 • Italy: Garzanti, 1998 • France: Folio Gallimard, 2009 • Netherlands: Boekerij • Norway: Aschehoug, 1992; (ppbk): 1997 • Sweden: Bokförlaget Natur Och Kultur, 1992 • Denmark: Samleren, 1992 • UK: Transworld Publishers, 1993 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 1993 • Finland: W. Söderstrom, 1993; (ppbk): 1994 • Bulgaria: Colibri, 2011 • Korea: Minumsa Publishing, 2004 • Croatia: Algoritam • Czech Republic: Baronet, 1995 (cxl); Academia Publishing • Taiwan: Azoth Books Co. Ltd, 2011 • Greece: Oceanida, 1993 • Hong Kong: Crown, 1994 • Hungary: Pesti Szalon, 1995; Ulpius-Ház Kiadó 1994 • Iceland: Isafold, 1992 • Israel: Am Publishers, 1994 (cxl) • Japan: Sekai Bunkasha, 1993 (cxl) • Latvia: Jumava, 2000; Novosti, 1993 • Poland: Znak • Romania: Humanitas, 2004 • Russia: Ripol Classic, 2004 • Serbia: Plavi Jahac, 1996 • Slovakia: Vydavatelstvo, 2004 • Slovenia: Mladinska Knjiga, 1999 • Thailand: Srisara, 1996 • Turkey: Can Yayinlari, 2011 • Lithuania: Tyto Alba, 2003 ● Albania: Skanderbeg Books, 2004 • Indonesia: Dinastindo • Estonia: Sinisukk & Co., 1994 • Bulgaria: Colibri, 2011 • Sri Lanka: Wijesooriya. 2007 • Belgium: Standaard Uitgeverij, 2004 • China: Yilin Press • World Arabic: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation • Phillipines: Precious Page
Leonardo Faccio Leonardo Faccio (Buenos Aires, 1971) has lived in Barcelona for a number of years and writes for Spanish and Latin American press like El Mundo, El País, El Periódico, La Vanguardia, Esquire, Etiqueta Negra. He is a teacher for the master program BCNY (Columbia University and Barcelona University) and the postgraduate program in Photojournalism at the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona. He has received an honorary mention by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Gabriel García Marquez’s foundation for new journalism. Faccio is also one of the journalists featured in the anthology LO MEJOR DEL NUEVO PERIODISMO DE AMÉRICA LATINA II (The Best New Journalism in Latin America II), edited by FNPI and Fondo de Cultura Económica.
“Messi’s magic turned into a book.”
Matías Néspolo
"Exceedingly well-written, captivating, and almost poetic."
Playback STL
Messi
Biography
240 pages Spain and Latin America: Debate, 2011, 2014 *** Updated version for the 2014 World Cup.*** ***French sample available*** Only four players have made their way to the podium of the History of Football: Pele, DiStefano, Cruyff and Maradona. Over the past four years the Argentinian Leo Messi has been calling insistently at the door of this restricted club: his extraordinary performances every week confirm him to be the new master of the ball. A star of this dimension deserves more than the usual morbid hagiography or a pamphlet. In the best tradition of narrative journalism that arose with Gay Talese, Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer, Leonardo Faccio has drawn a fascinating profile of the most famous football player in the world, who at the early age of 24 has already broken all records. A shy, small and seemingly fragile child, he has become the jewel of the crown of the greatest show on earth. Come and read. • Poland: Sine Qua Non, 2012 • USA and Canada: Vintage, 2012 • Denmark: Art People, 2012 • Estonia: Oceanic Invest OU • Hungary: Libri Kiadó, 2012 • Japan: Toho Suppan, 2012 • Brazil: Editora Evora, 2012 • The Netherlands: Uitgeverij Thomas Rap, 2013 • Korea: Grijoa, 2014 • Turkey: Yurt Kitap, 2013 • Russia: AST • Portugal: Marcador Editora, 2013 • Czech Republic: Albatros Media, 2014 ● China: Beijing Timespace’s Eye
Cristina Fernández Cubas Cristina Fernández Cubas (Arenys de Mar, Barcelona,1945) is an indisputable master of the short story, with her work studied in high schools and universities around the world. Ever since the publication of her first volume of short stories in 1980, she has become an undeniable point of reference for the generations of short story writers to have followed. She is the author of five short story collections: MI HERMANA ELBA, LOS ALTILLOS DEL BRUMAL, EL ÁNGULO DEL HORROR, CON AGATHA EN ESTAMBUL and PARIENTES POBRES DEL DIABLO (Premio Setenil de Relatos, 2006) ; the novels: EL AÑO DE GRACIA and EL COLUMPIO; a play, HERMANAS DE SANGRE, and a groundbreaking memoir, COSAS QUE YA NO EXISTEN, a book warmly received by both critics and readers alike, exploring how she shaped one of the most fascinating and unique literary universes of Spanish literature. Her work has been translated into 10 languages. A complete collection of her stories was recently published by Tusquets as a way to pay homage to her literary career. In light of this compilation titled TODOS LOS CUENTOS she received the Premio Cuidad de Barcelona and the Premio Salambó for the best book published in Spanish in 2008. Just recently, she made a comeback with a second novel LA PUERTA ENTREABIERTA and this time under the pen name “Fernanda Kubbs”. “An author who must be placed in the first ranks of Spanish language narrative.” José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC “Her stories are purely magnificent, resonant with Henry James’ ambiguity, the literary invention of the gothic novel and Borges’ clean prose.” Francisco Solano “One of the best prose’s we have and the lucidity of one who weaves with wisdom.”
La habitación de Nona / Nona's Room
Fernando Castanedo, El País
Short Stories
189 pages Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 2015 A young girl feels growing envy towards her sister Nona who has strange things happen to her, although they only happen in hiding, making matters worse. A woman about to be evicted trusts a benevolent and solitary old lady who invites her over for a coffee. A school group comments on a painting and suddenly someone sees something upsetting that disturbs the peace of the moment. The narrator spends the night in a Madrid hotel and leaves with a big jump in time. Cristina Fernández Cubas revisits childhood and adulthood, solitude and family, the everyday of our homes and our cities, and shows us that inhabiting all of this is mystery, surprise and shivers. “Rich and full of spark, it is a book that disrupts and surprises, that tenses up the distance between what we wabt abd what we have, what we fear and reality.” Berna González Harbour, Babelia – El País LA PUERTA ENTREABIERTA (2013) ● Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 2013 TODOS LOS CUENTOS (2009) ● Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 2009 PARIENTES POBRES DEL DIABLO (2006) ● Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 2006 COSAS QUE YA NO EXISTEN (2001) ● Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 2011
CON AGATHA EN ESTAMBUL (1994) ● Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 2001 ● Italy: Frassinelli, 1998 ● Portugal: Teorema, 1995 ● Turkey: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2009 EL COLUMPIO (1995) ● Spain and Latin America: Tusquets Editores, 1995 ● Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997 EL ÁNGULO DEL HORROR (1990) ● Spain: Tusquets, 2001 MI HERMANA ELBA /LOS ALTILLOS DEL BRUMAL (1980) ● Spain: Tusquets, 1980/83 ● Italy: Sugar Co. Edizioni, 1989 ● Portugal: Teorema ● France: Seuil, 1998 EL AÑO DE GRACIA (1985) ● Spain: Tusquets, 1985 ● France: Ed. du Seuil, 1987 ● Germany: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1989 ● Netherlands: In the Knipsheer ● Norway: Gyldendal, 1991 ● China: People’s Literary Publishing House, 2007 HERMANAS DE SANGRE (2001) - Theatre ● Spain: Tusquets, 2001
Juan Forn Juan Forn was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. After publishing his first and only book of poetry in 1979, he began working in the publishing industry as a translator, reader and editor. More notably, Forn served as associate editor for Planeta and as the director of the literary supplement of the Argentinean newspaper Página 12. In 1987 he published his first novel CORAZONES CAUTIVOS, followed by his second book, NADAR DE NOCHE, published in 1991. Several of the short stories in this collection have already appeared in magazines and anthologies. Forn was named a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center (Washington DC). He also received a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Buenos Aires).
María Domecq
Novel
220 pages Spain and Latin America: Emecé Editores, 2007 “Every family has its mythical tale”, says the narrator of this story shortly before he discovers that his own, with his great grandfather admiral Manuel Domecq García as the main character, could have originated in an opera that has been moving the public for over a century: the renowned Madame Butterfly, by Giacomo Puccini, where a Japanese woman has a son with an American and commits suicide after he abandons her. In an article he writes for the cultural supplement of a newspaper, the protagonist narrates this link and publicly vows to find the Japanese son of his ancestor. However, he doesn’t begin to pursue his promise until he is enchanted by the curious vitality of a young girl who reads his article. It is a search in which he will discover far more than what he expected. This is an amazing demonstration of the way in which life twists and turns as if it were the wildest fiction. MARÍA DOMECQ is a contemporary novel about the weight of the past on the present and the secret but indestructible bond one can find between the most remote facts and people. Unearthing relationships and parallelisms with each step, Juan Forn takes the reader from one surprise to another until the novel’s finale.
NINGÚN HOMBRE ES UNA ISLA (2010) ● Spain and Latin America: Emecé Editores, 2010 LA TIERRA ELEGIDA (2005) ● Spain and Latin America: Emecé Editores, 2005 CORAZONES CAUTIVOS (2009) ●Spain and Latin America: Emecé Editores, 2009 NADAR DE NOCHE (2008) ●Spain and Latin America: Emecé Editores, 2008 PURAS MENTIRAS (2001) ● Spain and Latin America: Emecé Editores, 2010 ● Italy: Giunti Editore S.p.A. 2008 FRIVOLIDAD (1995) ● Argentina: Emecé Editores, 1995
Jorge Franco Jorge Franco, born in Colombia in 1962, studied Film Direction at the London International Film School and Literature at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. MALDITO AMOR was his first book of short stories and MALA NOCHE his first novel, both of which received prestigious national awards. ROSARIO TIJERAS, published in 1999, has enjoyed spectacular commercial success in Colombia and marked the breakthrough of one of the most promising writers of new Latin American narrative. It is the story of the love triangle between outlaw Rosario and two young men from Colombian high society. Terrorism, violence and narco-trafficking provide a fascinating background to the fast-paced plot. It has recently been made into a major feature film, taking the Colombian box-office by storm with 500,000 movie-goers flocking to the big-screen within only two weeks of opening. PARAÍSO TRAVEL (2002) solidly reaffirmed Jorge Franco’s reputation with the tale of a young Colombian couple who attempt to escape the widespread violence of their country of origin by fleeing to New York as illegal immigrants. MELODRAMA (2006) is yet another contemporary story of “Colombians abroad” in Paris. He made an important comeback with the novel EL MUNDO DE AFUERA, winner the Premio Alfaguara 2014. "This is one of the Columbian authors to whom I would like to pass the torch."
Gabriel García Márquez
"One of the very few writers who write in my language and who I admire."
Almudena Grandes
www.jorge-franco.com
El mundo de afuera / The World Outside
Novel
320 pages Winner of the 2014 Premio Alfaguara Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2014 In 1971 Medellín, Don Diego, a rich powerful man, is kidnapped by a gang of slum kids. This was by mistake. Who the leader El Mono was after is really Don Diego’s daughter, the untouchable half-German Isolde who is only allowed outside of her parents’ custom-made castle if its within their secluded, private forest. El Mono becomes obsessed with Isolde but all his attempts at getting closer to her fully fail. In the end, Isolde brings two worlds together – the rich and the poor – despite the fact that she belongs nowhere or to no one in the end, perhaps not even to her own father who loves her more than anything. The story is beautiful and haunting at the same time, it examines how young kids from a slum in the 70s are a prelude to current day narcotrafficking, reflecting their materialistic dreams which aren't so different in the end from the rich textile businessman who marries a German woman and convinces her to leave a poor war-torn Berlin for a safe and secure tropical paradise, "where no one touches a soul". Told like a Tarantino or Coen Brothers movie, or a Brothers Grimm story with flashback and parallel narrative, EL MUNDO DE AFUERA is a chilling and thought-provoking modern twist on old storytelling and old themes of love and death, where every character is far from simple. • Brazil: Objetiva • Portugal: Objectiva • France: Anne-Marie Métailié • Netherlands: Meulenhoff • Denmark: Turbine • Poland: Prószynski Media • Japan : Sakuhinsha SANTA SUERTE • Latin America: Planeta Colombia, 2010 • Spain: Editorial Seix Barral, 2012 • Turkey: Ithaki, 2013 MALA NOCHE • Latin America: Planeta Colombia, 2003
MALDITO AMOR • Latin America: Planeta Colombia, 2003 MELODRAMA • Latin America: Planeta Colombia, 2006; Planeta Mexico, 2006 • Spain: Mondadori, 2006; Circulo de Lectores (BC), 2007 • Brazil: Objetiva • Portugal: Temas & Debates, 2007 (cxl), Circulo de Leitores (BC), 2007 • Italy: Giunti Editore, 2009 • France: Anne Marie Métailié Editions, 2010 • Israel: Kinneret-Zmora, 2010 • Hungary: Ulpius-Ház Kiadó (ppbk) • Greece: Livanis Publishing (cxl) PARAISO TRAVEL (2001) ● Spain: Grijalbo Mondadori, 2002 ● Latin America: Planeta Colombia, 2001 • France: Les Éditions Anne Marie Métailié, 2004 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2003 (cxl) • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2003 (cxl) • Germany: Unionsverlag, 2005 • Italy: Ugo Guanda Editore, 2005 • USA: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2006 • Poland: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2007 • Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2012 • Film rights: Paraíso Pictures Ltda, (Santiago Díaz & Sergio Cabrera), 2007. ROSARIO TIJERAS (1999) ● Latin America: Planeta, 2004 • Spain: Grijalbo-Mondadori, 2006 • France: Les Éditions Anne Marie Métailié, 2001 • Greece: Livanis Publishing, 2000 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2000 (cxl) • Italy: Ugo Guanda Editore, 2002 (cxl) • Germany: Unionsverlag, 2004 • USA: Seven Stories, 2004 • Japan: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 2003 • Poland: Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2005 • Film rights: Río Negro Producciones S.L., 2006, Intrigue Entertainment • Brazil: Editorial Objetiva, 2007 • Serbia: Laguna, 2010 • Netherlands: Rainbow Pocket, 2012.
Carlos Franz Carlos Franz (Geneva, 1959) , son of a Chilean diplomat, is the author of the following novels: SANTIAGO CERO, (1990, awarded with the CICLA Latin American Prize for Novels), EL LUGAR DONDE ESTUVO EL PARAÍSO (1996, First Finalist of the Argentinian Planeta Prize for Latin American Fiction, and adapted into a Spanish film in 2001), EL DESIERTO (2005, distinguished with the La Nación International Novel Award in Buenos Aires), and ALMUERZO DE VAMPIROS (2007). He is also the author of a book of essays: LA MURALLA ENTERRADA (2001) and a volume of short stories: LA PRISIONERA (2008). Thus far, his books have been translated into 11 different languages. He currently contributes essays and articles for several important newspapers and magazines in Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, and Madrid. His new novel is titled SI TE VIERAS CON MIS OJOS, inspired by Darwin and the painter Johan Moritz Rugendas. “A powerful, creative and seductive voice, fully commited to the word.”
Carlos Fuentes
"El desierto is one of the most original novels produced in modern Latin American literature."
Mario Vargas Llosa
Si te vieras con mis ojos / If You Saw Yourself With My Eyes
Novel
240 pages Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2015 The young Charles Darwin and the travelling painter Johan Moritz Rugendas meet in Chile mid-19th century. Complete opposites in every sense but in love with the same married woman, the methodical naturalist and the impulsive artist confront face off in an epic two person battle that will take them through wild nature to the top of the Andes and with both lives at stake. Many years after this passionate love, the fight it provoked and the special friendship that arose, will be told by the brilliant, learned and untameable who marked the lives of these men forever. Imagining that triangular encounter, Carlos Franz creates an ambitious novel of passion, adventures and ideas, observed from a modern and indirect point of view. SI TE VIERAS CON MIS OJOS is a sophisticated game of narrative mirrors, in which romanticist sensitivity and rationalist mentality are reflected and mixed together. But above all, in this novel two different conceptions of love face one another, both of which collide when they try to come together. And the reader feels the moving impact of that disencounter right into our days.
ALMUERZO DE VAMPIROS (2007) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007 EL DESIERTO (2005) Premio La Nación-Sudamericana de Novela 2005 • Argentina: Sudamericana, 2005 (cxl) • Spain: Mondadori, 2005, Santillana • Poland: Muza, 2008 • Turkey: Dogan Kitalçilik, 2008 (cxl) • Italy: Edizioni E/O, 2008 • USA: Mc Pherson & Company, 2011 • Israel: Xargol (cxl) • Romania: RAO, 2013 LA PRISIONERA (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2010 LA MURALLA ENTERRADA (2001)
• Colombia: Planeta, 2001 • Chile: Planeta EL LUGAR DONDE ESTUVO EL PARAÍSO (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007 • Brazil: Editora Nova Fronteira (cxl) • Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1999 (cxl); (ppbk): Fischer Verlag, 1999 • Greece: Livanis • Finland: Otava, 2000 (cxl) • France: Éditions du Seuil, 1999 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2000 (cxl) • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 1999 • China: Yilin Press, 2000 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 1999 (cxl) • Film rights sold to: Tornasol S. A. (Gerardo Herrero) • Romania: RAO
Federico García Lorca Federico García Lorca was born in Fuente Vaqueros, Spain on June 5, 1898 and graduated with a degree in Literature and Law from the University of Granada. His first book, IMPRESIONES Y PAISAJES, was published in 1918. In Madrid, he lived at the famous Residencia de Estudiantes and cultivated friendships with some important figures of the nascent Spanish avantguard movement, including the likes of Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel and the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. In 1927 he participated, along with Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén and several other poets, in commemorative events honouring the Baroque poet Luis de Góngora; events which would give the generation its name and lead to a renaissance in Spanish poetry after centuries of slumber. It was during these years that García Lorca met the musician Manuel de Falla, with whom he would go on to elevate Andalusian ‘flamenco’ culture to new heights of literary and musical majesty; this was the experience that produced his now legendary ROMANCERO GITANO (1927), a thundering success from the moment it was first published. His travels to America would eventually become embodied in the volume POETA EN NUEVA YORK (1930), the most enduring impression Surrealism was to leave on Spanish poetry. Some of the poems included in this collection, such as the ‘Ode to Walt Whitman’, are universally considered to be among the most outstanding works of poetry in the Spanish language. Around this time, García Lorca also visited Cuba and parts of South America, where his recitals and conferences were met by rapturous applause. By the early 1930s, García Lorca had become a towering cultural figure. His poems were receiving unprecedented levels of praise from critics and public alike, and in 1934 his theatrical activity reached its own zenith with the debut of his play YERMA, starring the actress Margarita Xirgu. Following BODAS DE SANGRE and LA CASA DE BERNARDA ALBA, YERMA completed the Andalusian poet's celebrated theatrical trilogy. However, soon a dark storm was beginning to brew on Spain's horizon, and it would not be long before the ever-growing specter of fascism would cast its long shadow upon García Lorca, a living example of the vitality and freedom so characteristic of Andalusia –and indeed, all of Spain. On August 19, 1936, in Viznar, near Granada, García Lorca was executed by the Spanish Falange. Over sixty years have passed since his treacherous murder, but García Lorca’s legacy lives on. In their attempts to silence him, the Fascists only succeeded in making him a martyr, a hero, a myth; a cult figure so idealised, many perceive him to have been the incarnation of pure poetic genius. His work has achieved an almost miraculous ubiquity at all levels of Spanish culture. Beyond Spain’s borders, García Lorca remains undoubtedly, the most famous Spanish poet and playwright of the 20th century.
Margarita García Robayo Margarita García Robayo (Cartagena, Colombia, 1980) is the author of the novel LO QUE NO APRENDÍ, finalist for the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana in 2015, as well as the novel HASTA QUE PASE UN HURACÁN. Her most recent short story collection COSAS PEORES was awarded with the prestigious Casa de las Américas 2014. She had made her breakthrough in 2010 with the short story collection, the first of four, HAY CIERTAS COSAS QUE UNA NO PUEDE HACER DESCALZA, which won critics over. Her work has been included in several anthologies such as Childless Parents (Traviesa, 2014), translated and published in English. She has worked as a film columnist for El Universal, Project Coordinator of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, and Director of the Tomás Eloy Martínez Foundation from 2010 to 2014. She currently lives in Buenos Aires and speaks English perfectly. In 2008 the magazine Cambio chose her as one of the 50 leaders of her country, in 2012 she was chosen as one of the 100 Most Successful Colombians Abroad, and in 2013 she was distinguished with a Literary Creation Grant from the Han Nefkens foundation and the Pompeu Fabra University. “With a clever perception of contemporary life, she is exceptionally talented at soft irony, sharp psychological perception and at cultivating an exceptional poetic of displacement.” Juan Villoro “Margarita assembles memories as if they were flowers. She smells them. She plants them. They hurt. She tells them to learn, but she herself doesn’t want.” La Voz del Interior “Her stories combine the atmosphere of Desperate Housewives, Hemingway’s iceberg theory and a memorable, bittersweet ending.” Jorge Carrión “Full of everyday details that reveal the most vulnerable aspects of feminine subjectivity.”
La Nación
Cosas peores / It Could Be Worse
Short stories
Premio Casa las Américas 2014 304 pages Latin America: Seix Barral, 2015 Uncomfortable family situations, unfortunate health conditions, people on the brink of survival – this is what each story in this collection captures, every ripple and every echo that travels from one person to another. With narrative ease and a seductive pull, Margarita García Robayo reminds us that sometimes the most intimate struggles are as fragile as the political and there is nothing but time that keeps us going and quiet hope that heals. For example, in the title story, Titi was born with a rare obesity. Confused with a symptom of good health, it wasn’t healed in time. And so he watches the days go by, observed and judged by others, and in an ongoing limbo. But as his mother says, things could be worse. Worse would be death, solitude, loss, and absence its in most sophistaced forms. In this book, García Robayo’s voice is more distinguishable than ever. LO QUE NO APRENDÍ (2013) • Argentina: Planeta, 2013 • Spain and Latin America: Malpaso, 2014 HASTA QUE PASE UN HURACÁN (2012) • Latin America: Tamarisco, 2012 • Colombia: Laguna Libros, 2015 HAY CIERTAS COSAS QUE UNA NO PUEDE HACER DESCALZA (2009) • Spain: Destino, 2010 • Latin America: Planeta, 2009 • Italy: Marcos y Marcos, 2010
José María Guelbenzu José María Guelbenzu was born in Madrid in 1944. He was initially involved in the world of publishing as the director of the magazine Cuadernos Para El Dialogo, and later as editorial director of the publishing houses Taurus and Alfaguara. He is now a frequent contributor to the Op-Ed page and the Literary Supplement of the Spanish newspaper El País. Among his novels, special mention should be given to EL RÍO DE LA LUNA (winner of the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 1981), a semiautobiographical portrait of the generation who witnessed the radical social, political and cultural changes undertaken by Spain during the seventies, as well as to the highly praised LA TIERRA PROMETIDA (winner of the Premio Plaza y Janés de Novela in 1991). He later shifted his literary focus with the Judge Mariana de Marco detective series, including NO ACOSEN AL ASESINO (2001), LA MUERTE VIENE DE LEJOS (2004), EL CADÁVER ARREPENTIDO (2007), UN ASESINATO PIADOSO (2009), EL HERMANO PEQUEÑO (2011), MUERTE EN PRIMERA CLASE (2012) y NUNCA AYUDES A UNA EXTRAÑA (2014). www.jmguelbenzu.com “One of Spain’s best novelists.”
El Cultural
“Guelbenzu is one of the first narrators of an outstanding generation which was known in Spain and Europe at the end of the seventies. And here, to everyone’s satisfaction, he continues to write the novel of our time.” José Carlos Mainer, El País
Nunca ayudes a una extraña / Never Help a Stranger
Novel
432 pages Spain and Latin America: Editorial Destino, 2014 In Judge Mariana de Marco’s new case, Javier Goitia is an undercover journalist who has just been let go by his boss. In the coffee bar of a train heading to the city of G…, he is fascinated by a woman who will leave a permanent mark on him. One night while having drinks, already in G…, he spots a man running out of a side street where a woman is lying on the ground. Javier runs after him immediately and once they break into a fight, the police arrest them both. Javier’s testimony is questioned because it goes against his opponent’s declaration, which claims that Javier got the wrong guy. After a few procedures, Javier’s case is brought to Judge Mariana de Marco, who is no other than the mysterious woman from the train. The journalist’s situation is far from favourable: there is no way to prove his testimony, the victim is out of sight, and the man he accuses is a womanizer, son of one of the most important families in the zone. Moral and financial corruption and the sickening hypocrisy of certain social sectors lead Mariana de Marco’s investigations deeper into the secret relations of G…’s society. At the same time, her personal life will be shaken by feelings she thought she had left behind. MENTIRAS ACEPTADAS (2013) •Spain and Latin America: Siruela, 2013 MUERTE EN PRIMERA CLASE (2012) •Spain and Latin America: Editorial Destino, 2012 • Italy: E/O EL HERMANO PEQUEÑO (2011) •Spain and Latin America: Editorial Destino, 2011
UN ASESINATO PIADOSO (2008) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 EL CADÁVER ARREPENTIDO (2006) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007 • Germany: Bertelsmann (cxl) LA MUERTE VIENE DE LEJOS (2004) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara 2004 • Romania: R.A.O. International Publishing Company • Germany: Bertelsmann (cxl) NO ACOSEN AL ASESINO (2001) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2001; Punto de Lectura, 2002 (ppbk) • Russia: AST Publishers, 2006 • Germany: Bertelsmann, 2008 EL AMOR VERDADERO (2010) •Spain and Latin America: Editorial Siruela, 2010 ESTA PARED DE HIELO (2005) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2005 LA NOCHE EN CASA (2004) •Spanish and Latin America: Destino, 1990 UN PESO EN EL MUNDO (1999) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1999, Siruela • Russia: Eksmo, 2004 EL SENTIMIENTO (1995) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2003 LA TIERRA PROMETIDA (1991) •Spain and Latin America: Plaza y Janés (Premio Plaza y Janés), 1991 (cxl); Alfaguara, 2001 • France: Editions du Seuil, 1995 (cxl) LA MIRADA (1987) •Spain and Latin America: Editorial Siruela, 2010 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 1988 • France: Climats, 1991 • Netherlands: Flint, Spectrum, 1989 EL ESPERADO (1984) •Spain and Latin America: Editorial Siruela, 2012. EL RIO DE LA LUNA (1981) •Spain and Latin America: Editorial Siruela, 2010; Cátedra, 2012 • France: Editions du Seuil, 1992 (cxl)
Jorge Guillén Jorge Guillén (Valladolid, 1893 - Malaga, 1984) is, along with Federico García Lorca, Pedro Salinas and Rafael Alberti, one of the greatest poets of the so-called ‘1927 Generation’, the most important Spanish poetic movement of the past century. Guillén graduated in Philosophy and Arts in 1913. During his university years he became acquainted with many of the other great poets and artists of his generation. He was a visiting professor in Spanish at the Sorbonne, and in 1925, he became head of the Spanish Language and Literature department at the University of Murcia. Years later, following a period spent teaching at Oxford, he was appointed professor at the University of Seville. During the Spanish Civil War, Guillén was blacklisted and forced into exile. He then moved to the United States, where he was a professor at several colleges and universities, including Wellesley College, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. During the course of his lifetime, Guillén was awarded many honours. Perhaps most notably, in 1976 he was handed the first-ever Cervantes Award, which marked the first piece of official recognition he had received in Spain. His books had previously been banned under Franco’s dictatorship. Guillén was always adding to his already impressive back catalogue, which seemed to grow as if of its own volition: CÁNTICO in 1928, CLAMOR, MAREMAGNUM, in 1957, …QUE VAN A DAR A LA MAR in 1960, A LA ALTURA DE LAS CIRCUNSTANCIAS in 1963, HOMENAJE in 1967, Y OTROS POEMAS in 1973 and FINAL in 1981. The definitive collection of his complete works is titled AIRE NUESTRO.
“‘Each of his literary phases constituted a growth and improvement in poetic values. This process of writing and publishing reflects the writer’s very strict and clear concept of the poetic work in the search for and the discovery of a connection between the desire to create poetry and its fulfilment. From his first poem to his last, Guillén was a poet who wanted the reader to have access to his entire works; to all the disparate elements which make up its body.” Pedro Salinas
Rafael Gumucio Rafael Gumucio (Santiago, Chile, 1970) has worked in journalism as a cultural and political columnist, television critic and political reporter for the Chilean newspapers El Mercurio, La Tercera, La Nación, Las Últimas Noticias, and El Metropolitano, amd a contributor to El País, La Vanguardia, ABC, Qué Leer, and Letras Libres. He is also the author of a number of fiction and non-fiction books. His first novel, MEMORIAS PREMATURAS, was an instant bestseller in Chile and Spain, where it received stellar reviews from the most respected literary critics. In 2002, his second novel, COMEDIA NUPCIAL, an acidic, devious deconstruction of a disintegrating marriage, was published to another round of critical accolades and won him the prestigious Anna Seghers Prize in Germany. LOS PLATOS ROTOS, UNA HISTORIA PERSONAL DE CHILE, (2004) hit the bestseller list in his homeland. His most recent novel is MILAGRO EN HAITÍ. “Possibly the South American author who is in his best form at the moment.”
Patricio Pron
“Someone said that Gumucio was a Catholic version of Woody Allen. This metaphor is most certainly valid for describing the compulsive, whining, shy, nervous, sensual, impudent, seductive and corrosive style of this narrator.” Ignacio Echevarria, El País
Milagro en Haití / Miracle in Haiti
Novel
240 pages Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2015 “I am nothing but a broken bag of Chilean words melting in Haiti, of memories I don’t know where to place in the world”, Carmen Prado says, the heroine of this surprising and moving novel. Rafael Gumucio recreates the voice of a woman, who after a risky aesthetic surgery, is recovering in a Caribbean clinic at the hands of an infinitely patient and finely ironic cook. Though not exempt of love, Carmen Prado’s vision of the world is brazenly incorrect, scathing and contradictory, “always exagerated”, according to the narrator that is the counterpoint to her heady monologue. With carnival first and then Haitian socio-political violence in the backdrop, the novel principally takes place in Carmen Prado’s hospital room while she tactlessly evokes her past, thinks about her present and caustically speculates about her future, always accompanied by her selfless caregiver, with whom she builds a tender feminine and sedentary version of Don Quijote and Sancho Panza. “His best work yet.”
Patricio Pron
MI ABUELA, MARTA RIVAS GONZÁLEZ (2013) • Spain and Latin America: Universidad Diego Portales, 2013 DEFENSA DEL INSTINTO (2010) • Spain: Huacanamo, 2010 CONTRA LA BELLEZA (2010) • Spain and Latin America: Tumbona Ediciones, 2010 LA DEUDA (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2009 • France: Éditions Anne Marie Metailié, 2012 PÁGINAS COLONIALES (2006) • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Random House Mondadori, 2006 COMEDIA NUPCIAL (2002) • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Debate, 2002 • Italy: Le Lettere, 2005 • Germany: Anna Seghers Literary prize, 2002
MEMORIAS PREMATURAS (1999) • Chile: Sudamericana, 1999 • Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2006 • Germany: Edition 8 LOS PLATOS ROTOS • Chile: Grijalbo, 2004 • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Hueders
Boris Izaguirre Boris Izaguirre (Caracas, 1965) began his career writing newspaper articles and soap opera scripts in his home country. An ingenious polemicist, passionate about cinema, literature and architecture; he has in a few years become a well-known public figure, taking advantage of the newfound platform the media has provided him with, to present his particular view of the world; a view composed by equal doses of rigor, creativity and a sense of humour. He is a regular contributor to Zero, El País Semanal, Fotogramas and Marie Claire. He has published the novels EL VUELO DE LAS AVESTRUCES (1991), AZUL PETRÓLEO (1998), VILLA DIAMANTE which was finalist for the 2007 Planeta Prize and sold more than 300,000 copies in Spain, and Y DE REPENTE FUE AYER (2009). He is also the author of several essays including: MORIR DE GLAMOUR (2000), VERDADES ALTERADAS (2001), FETICHE (2003) and EL ARMARIO SECRETO DE HITCHCOCK (2005). www.borisizaguirre.net
Un jardín al norte / A Garden Up North
Novel
443 pages Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2014 The mesmerizing novel about Rosalinda Fox, the real-life character who we first met in María Dueñas’ The Time in Between *A prequel to El tiempo entre costuras authorized by both Planeta and María Dueñas* From the day she was born, Rosalinda Fox’s life took one turn after a next, just like the Old Continent she loved and fought for so dearly. She was an inter-war heroine who showed only the privileged few (and those who read this novel) who she really was. With an extravagant prose and exhilirating subplots, Boris Izaguirre brilliantly recreates this enigmatic spy and this lifelong seeker of romance and adventure, a remarkable life that spans the last century’s most important events –the First and Second World War, the Spanish Civil War. His exquisite imagination and prose entice us into this woman’s inner universe and also reminds us of what Winston Churchill once said, “The war would have taken a different path were it not for Rosalinda Fox.” DOS MONSTRUOS JUNTOS • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 20011 Y DE REPENTE FUE AYER • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2009 • Poland: Muza, 2012 VILLA DIAMANTE •Premio Planeta Finalist, 2007 • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2007
Alejandro Jodorowsky The son of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in northern Chile in 1930. From an early age he became interested in mime and theater and at the age of 23 he left for Paris, where he has lived ever since. A friend and companion of Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor, he founded the Panic movement and has directed several “cult” films including HOLY MOUNTAIN, EL TOPO and SANTA SANGRE (all of them released on DVD by Abcko Films, New York). Mime artist, tarologue and prolific author, he has written novels, poetry, short stories, essays and over thirty comic books, working with such highly regarded comic book artists as Moebius and Bess. DONDE MEJOR CANTA UN PÁJARO, EL NIÑO DEL JUEVES NEGRO and ALBINA Y LOS HOMBRES PERRO are among his best-known novels. DE AQUELLO QUE NO SE PUEDE HABLAR, NO BASTA DECIR and SOLO DE AMOR are his books of poetry. LA SABIDURÍA DE LOS CHISTES and LA SABIDURIA DE LOS CUENTOS are anthologies of initiation tales from various immemorial traditions. He has also written an autobiography, LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD, where he recalls the ups and downs of his remarkable life story as well as sharing his own unique and complex views on the world. The film based on this book saw its Cannes premiere in 2013 and was a great success. A passionate enthusiast and specialist in the art of the tarot, Jodorowsky has published YO, EL TAROT, a book of poems inspired by tarot cards, and LA VÍA DEL TAROT, an exceptional 600-page volume in which he shuffles his deck of cards and wisdom in order to offer the fullest extent of his profound knowledge. Influenced by his fascination with the tarot , his years spent working in theatre and by his experiences of psychoanalysis (he himself underwent analysis with Erich Fromm), he has also created his own particular brand of therapeutic practice, which is a mixture of modern psychotherapy and shamanism first presented in his book: PSICOMAGIA: EL TEATRO DE LA CURACIÓN. UNA TERAPIA PÁNICA, allegedly providing the reader with remedies to help mend ‘flawed lives’. In his book MANUAL DE PSICOMAGIA we are offered a first look at the practical aspects of the techniques which, with more than 300 recommendations, aim to help all those that experience different psychological, sexual, emotional or material problems, and wish to heal or improve their lives. His books METAGENEALOGÍA and OJO DE ORO have been just as successful as his previous works. Jodorowsky already holds a significant devoted readership worldwide and his phenomenon is growing more than ever.
“One of the most inspiring artists of our time. A prophet of creativity.”
Kanye West
“Alejandro Jodorowsky seamlessly and effortlessly weaves together the worlds of art, the confined social structure, and things we can only touch with an open heart and mind.” Erykah Badu “I divide the world into two categories: the originals, and the ones who follow. The originals are the people looking differently, who take the simple elements of everyday life and make miracles. And for me, Alejandro, you are the original.” Marina Abramović “A man whose life has been defined by cosmic ambitions.”
The New York Times Magazine
“A legendary man of many trades, talents and of passionate sincerity.”
Roger Ebert
La vida es un cuento / Life is a Story
Short stories
318 pages Spain: Siruela, 2015 Alejandro Jodorowsky confesses that in his childhood it was reading stories that saved his difficult existence. Since then he likes telling stories: short, long, wise or crazy. Stories have been the vertebrate of his life and trajectory as a writer. In 2005, he published EL TESORO DE LA SOMBRA, and in 2015 his love for the short story encouraged him to revise and extend that compilation to so much as double that volume. LA VIDA ES UN CUENTO crystalizes the inmense wisdom of this writer, who when questioning the meaning and the absurdity of our world tries to bring forward a fun and surrealist life lesson.
OJO DE ORO • Spain: Siruela, 2012 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2012• Italy: Feltrinelli METAGENEALOGÍA • Spain: Siruela, 2011 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2011• World English: Inner Traditions, 2014 • France: Albin Michel, 2011 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2012 • Romania: Philobia MANUAL DE PSICOMAGIA • Spain: Siruela, 2009 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2009 • Italy: Feltrinelli • Germany: Windpferd, 2011 • France: Albin Michel, 2009 • World English: Inner Traditions CABARET MÍSTICO • Spain: Siruela, 2006 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2006 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2012 • Serbia: IKC Solaris, 2008 • France: Albin Michel, 2011 TRES CUENTOS MÁGICOS PARA NIÑOS MUTANTES
• Spain: Siruela, 2009 • Latin America: Mondadori; Debolsillo (ppbk), 2009 • Italy: Feltrinelli EL TAROT DE LOS GATOS • France: Éditions du Rélié, 2012 • Spain: Ediciones Obelisco, 2013 • Italy: Spazio Interiore EL MAESTRO Y LAS MAGAS (2005) • Spain: Siruela, 2005 • Latin America: Debolsillo (ppbk), 2006; Random House Mondadori, 2011 • Catalan: Columna, 2005; • World English: Inner Traditions, 2008 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2010 • Poland: Wydawnictwo Okultura • Slovenia: Zalozba Eno D.O.O., 2013 • France: Albin Michel, 2008 LA VÍA DEL TAROT (In collaboration with Marianne Costa) (2004) • Spain: Siruela, 2004 • Mondadori; Debolsillo (ppbk) • Latin America & USA: Random House, 2004 (cxl) • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2012 • France: Albin Michel, 2004 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2005 • Portugal: A Esfera dos Livros (cxl) • Germany: Windpferd Verlagsgeselschaft, 2008; • Brazil: RPG Devir (cxl) • Poland: Wydawnictwo Okultura • World English: Inner Traditions, 2009 PSICOMAGIA – EL TEATRO DE LA CURACIÓN, UNA TERAPIA PÁNICA (1995) • Spain: Siruela, 2004 • France: Albin Michel, 1995 • Mexico: Random House Mondadori, 2004 •Italy: Feltrinelli, 2006 • Portugal: A Esfera dos Livros (cxl) • Catalan: Columna, 2005 • Brasil: Gryphus • Croatia: Naklada Antares • World English: Inner Traditions, 2010 • Germany: Windpferd Verlagsgeselschaft, 2011 • Poland: Wydawnictwo Okultura • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2004 • Slovenia: Zalozba Eno, 2012 • Turkey: Alfa/Everest LA DANZA DE LA REALIDAD (2001) • Spain: Siruela, 2001 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2001 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2004 • France: Albin Michel, 2002 • Portugal: A Esfera dos Livros, 2006 (cxl) • Brazil: RPG Devir, 2009 • Poland: Wydawnictwo Okultura • Japan: Bunyu-Sha Ltd., 2012 • World English: Inner Traditions ALBINA Y LOS HOMBRES PERRO (1999) • Latin America: Mondadori, 2000 • France: Métailié, 2001 • Spain: Siruela, 2002 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2005 • Russia: Kolonna, 2004 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2000 • World English: Restless Books, 2015 TEATRO SIN FIN (2008) • Spain: Siruela, 2007 • Italy: City Lights, 2008
EL NIÑO DEL JUEVES NEGRO (1999)
• Spain: Siruela, 1999; (ppbk): 2002 • France: Métailié; (ppbk), 2002: Métailié, 2000 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 1999 • Portugal: Oficina do Livro, 2002 • Italy: Giunti Editore, 2003 • World English: Restless Books (electronic rights) DONDE MEJOR CANTA UN PÁJARO (1994) • Spain: Siruela, 2002 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2007; Debolsillo (ppbk) • Portugal: Oficina do Livro, 2004 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2007 (ppbk) • France: Les Éditions Métailié, 1998 (ppbk) • Germany: Suhrkamp, 1996; (ppbk): Suhrkamp, 1998 • Netherlands: Arena, 1997 (cxl) • Brazil: Planeta Brasil, 2003 • World English: Restless Books, 2015 • Turkey: Alfa/Everest LOS EVANGELIOS PARA SANAR (1997) • Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1997 (cxl); Grijalbo (cxl) • Spain: La Llave 1999 (cxl); Mondadori, 2002; Siruela 2007 • Italy: Mondadori, 2003 (ppbk) • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2007 LA ESCALERA DE LOS ÁNGELES (2006) • Italy: City Lights, 1999 • Spain: Ediciones Obelisco, 2006 DE AQUELLO QUE NO SE PUEDE HABLAR (1999) • Italy: City Lights, 1999 LAS ANSIAS CARNÍVORAS DE LA NADA (2006) • Spain: Siruela, 2006 • Russia: Kolonna Publications, 2005 • Italy: Giunti, 2010 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2006 EL TESORO DE LA SOMBRA (2003) • Spain: Siruela, 2003 • Italy: City Lights, 2004 • Russia: Kolonna • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2003 LA SABIDURÍA DE LOS CUENTOS (2005) • Spain: Obelisco, 2005 • Portugal: Pergaminho, 2006 (cxl) • Italy: Mondadori (cxl), 2010 • Turkey: Periferi Kitap (cxl) • Korea: Editions Samtoh • Brasil: Landy Editora, 2011 (cxl) LA SABIDURÍA DE LOS CHISTES • Mexico: Grijalbo, 2002 EL LORO DE LAS SIETE LENGUAS • Spain: Siruela, 2005 • Italy: Giunti, 2011 • Russia: Kolonna Publications, 2006 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2005 EL PASO DEL GANSO • Italy: Mondadori, 2007 • Mexico: Random House Mondadori, 2002 FABULAS PÁNICAS
• Mexico: Random House Mondadori, 2003 • World English: Inner Traditions EL DEDO Y LA LUNA • Spain: Obelisco, 2003 • France: Albin Michel, 1997 • World English: Inner Traditions MEGALEX • Spain and Mexico: Random House Mondadori, 2010 MEMORIAS DE UN NIÑO BOMBERO • Argentina: Planeta Editora, 2010 LA CASTA DE LOS METABARONES • Spain: Random House Mondadori, 2007
NO BASTA DECIR • Spain: Visor Libros, 2003 PASOS EN EL VACÍO • Spain: Visor Libros, 2009 PSICOPOSTA • Spain: La Esfera de los Libros, 2008 • Italy: Alberto Castelvecchi Editore, 2007 SOLO DE AMOR • Spain and Latin America: Visor Libros, 2007 • Italy: City Lights, 2006 TODAS LAS PIEDRAS • Spain and Latin America: Debolsillo; Obelisco, 2008 • Italy: Giunti, 2014 YO, TAROT • Spain: Siruela, 2004 • Italy: City Lights, 2007 • Latin America: Random House Mondadori
Paola Kaufmann Paola Kaufmann was born in Río Negro, Argentina in 1969. Despite her training as a neurobiologist, literature had always been her passion. In 1987 she moved to Buenos Aires to study Biology and, concurrently with her doctoral studies in Neuroscience, Kaufmann began writing her first literary pieces- short stories, for which she won several awards. Continuing her doctoral studies at Smith College, Massachusetts took her to the home of Emily Dickinson. Kaufmann’s own passionate research on the poet culminated in a novel about her life, LA HERMANA, for which she was the recipient of the Casa de las Américas Award in Cuba. EL LAGO, her last novel, won the Planeta Argentina Novel Prize in 2005. She passed away in 2006, shortly after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour.
El Lago
Novel
330 pages Premio Planeta Argentina de Novela 2005 Latin America: Planeta, 2005 Ever since one particular scientific expedition, dating back to 1922, various generations of naturalists have believed in the existence of a prehistoric animal which inhabits the waters of one of the Patagonian lakes. The main protagonists of the original expedition were the engineers Frey and Viktor Mullin, who went on to spend the rest of their lives looking for the monster in order to prove its existence to the rest of the world. Fifty years later, Viktor’s daughter Ana is also now a naturalist, who decides to carry on her father’s work in hunting for the beast. With the ease of a truly great novel, EL LAGO constructs a complex and fascinating plot which transcends its original narrative universe. The reader becomes inevitably entranced by the increasingly enigmatic story. It soon becomes apparent that the lake holds not only a prehistoric monster, but probably also thousands of corpses. However, it remains unclear as to whether the beast can be found anywhere in the outside world, or whether it simply resides in a dark region of the human psyche. Paola Kaufmann has written an exceptional novel, which explores the fascinating subject of memory, identity and the search for truth. • Brazil: Planeta Brasil, 2007 • UK: Alma Books, 2006 (cxl) • Netherlands: Signatuur, 2008 EL SALTO (2012) • Argentina: Planeta, 2012 LA HERMANA (2003)
Premio Casa de las Américas de Novela, 2003 • Spain: Siruela, 2004 • Argentina: Sudamericana, 2003 • Netherlands: MM Boeken, 2005 • UK: Alma Books, 2006
Enrique Lynch Enrique Lynch, though born in Buenos Aires in 1948, has lived in Barcelona since 1976. Over time he has become an ever increasingly prominent figure, working as an editor in the field of humanities as well as a frequent contributor to major Spanish newspapers and cultural magazines. His main activity as a writer has been in the field of philosophy, most specifically in the rather ambiguous zone where philosophy and literature meet. He is currently Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Barcelona. He is also a highly respected translator, and has translated into Spanish works by Foucault, Hobbes, Elster, Lyotard and Paul de Man, among many others. He is also highly regarded for his work as an editor of books on contemporary criticism and analysis. www.enriquelynch.com
“Enrique Lynch may very well be one of the greatest exponents of this type of essay in our language. He is one of our most agile, acid writers, and rarely disappoints the intellectual reader.” Fernando Savater
In-Moral: Filosofía y/o literatura: identidad y/o diferencia
Essay
120 pages Spain: Universidad de Navarra, 2006 • Latin America: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007 Quite resonant with his previous work, Lynch explores the relationship between philosophy and literature, and in particular, four crucial aspects of this generic distinction. In the first section, we consider what could be a suitable space for philosophy, taking into account the shared interests of philosophy and literature, particularly since the start of the modern period. In the second, he defines poetry as “a language of precision”, a model of the type of writing to which philosophy aspires. The third section focuses on the common ancestry philosophy and literature share, as both are descendents of myth. So, after reviewing the theories that are currently in force regarding myth, he examines the influence of myth on narrative models and on theories of interpretation. Finally, in the fourth section he tackles the difficult problem of the definition of prose within the Romantic, Post-Romantic and Formalist traditions. Lynch is not interested in the prosaic as a philological problem but rather in finding in the concept of prose the essay style that identifies modern and contemporary philosophy. In his opinion, from Hegel onwards, there is no more thought than that which is produced in essay form. We are presented with a prose of extraordinary precision; with the exact dose of scholarship that, without overwhelming the reader, stimulates, instructs and invites you to think. LA LECCIÓN DE SHEHEREZADE – FILOSOFÍA Y NARRACIÓN (1987) • Spain: Anagrama, 1987; Debolsillo, 2007 (ppbk) EL MERODEADOR – TENTATIVAS SOBRE FILOSOFÍA Y LITERATURA (1990) • Spain: Anagrama, 1990; Debolsillo, 2007 (ppbk) PROSA Y CIRCUNSTANCIA (1997) • Spain: Anagrama, 1997 • Argentina: Alfaguara, 1999 • Brazil: Editora Campus, 1998 (cxl) DIONISO DORMIDO SOBRE UN TIGRE – A TRAVÉS DE NIETZSCHE Y SU TEORÍA DEL LENGUAJE (1993) • Spain: Destino, 1993 (cxl) SOBRE LA BELLEZA (1998) • Spain: Anaya, 1998 LA TELEVISIÓN: EL ESPEJO DEL REINO (2000) • Spain: Debolsillo, 2000
Javier Marías Javier Marías was born in Madrid in 1951. He is the author of the novels LOS TRAVESÍA DEL HORIZONTE, EL MONARCA DEL TIEMPO, EL SIGLO, EL HOMBRE SENTIMENTAL (Premio Internazionale Ennio Flaiano 2000; Premio Grinzane Cavour; Alberto Moravia Prize), TODAS LAS ALMAS (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona , 1989), CORAZÓN TAN BLANCO (Critics’ Prize, 1993; Prix l’Oeil et la Lettre 1993; IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 1997), MAÑANA EN LA BATALLA PIENSA EN MI (Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos, 1995; Premio Fastenrath 1995; Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente 1996; Prix Femina Étranger 1996; Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello Città di Palermo, 1998), NEGRA ESPALDA DEL TIEMPO, and the trilogy TU ROSTRO MAÑANA: 1 FIEBRE Y LANZA) (Premio Salambó 2003) , 2. BAILE Y SUEÑO. 3.VENENO Y SOMBRA Y ADIÓS, LOS ENAMORAMIENTOs (Premio Qué Leer; Premio Lampedusa), and ASÍ EMPIEZA LO MALO. DOMINIOS DEL LOBO,
He is also the author of the short story volumes: MIENTRAS ELLAS DUERMEN, CUANDO FUI MORTAL and MALA INDOLE; the collection of short biographies VIDAS ESCRITAS, each and every one crafted as if they were short stories; a selection of his articles on football titled SALVAJES Y SENTIMENTALES and alos several collections of articles and essays. Among his translations, one that deserves a special mention is Sterne’s TRISTRAM SHANDY (Premio Nacional de Traducción 1979). He has been a lecturer at the University of Oxford, at universities in the United States and at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. In recent years, Javier Marías has become a genuine worldwide literary phenomenon. His books have been translated into 42 languages and published in 54 countries. More than 6 million copies of his books have been sold throughout the world, including 1,700,000 copies of CORAZÓN TAN BLANCO and 1,100,000 copies of MAÑANA EN LA BATALLA PIENSA EN MÍ. For his literary work to date, he is the recipient of the Nelly Sachs Prize (1997), the Grinzane Cavour Prize in Turin (2000), the Alberto Moravia Prize in Rome and the José Donoso Prize in Chile (2008) , the Nonino Prize in Italy (2011), the Österreichische Staatpreis für Europäische Literatur (2011), and the Premio Formentor (2013). He is also a member of the Real Academia Española.
“One of the the writers who should get the Nobel Prize is Javier Marías.”
Orhan Pamuk
“Javier Marías is one of the greatest living authors.”
Claudio Magris, Corriere della Sera
“Javier Marías is in my opinion one of the best contemporary European writers.” J.M. Coetzee “Marías uses language like an anatomist uses the scalpel to cut away the layers of the flesh in order to lay bare the innermost secrets of that strangest of species, the human being.” W.G. Sebald “By far Spain’s best writer today.”
Roberto Bolaño
www.javiermarias.es
Así empieza lo malo / Thus Bad Begins
Novel
534 pages Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2014 “Best Book of the Year” by Babelia, El País ´It was not so long ago when that story happened, and nonetheless today it would be impossible. I mean what happened to them, to Eduardo Muriel and to his wife, Beatriz Noguera, when they were young, and not so much what happened to me with them when I was young and their marriage a long and indissoluble misfortune.´ This is how ASÍ EMPIEZA LO MALO begins, “a tenuous story of intimate life, of those which aren´t often told or only in whispers”, evoked by Juan de Vere, a witness and participant in his youth, while he was at the service of a
once famous film director. This job allowed him to closefully watch this strange, rocky marriage, as well as peeking into its earlier mysterious grievances. In the overexcited Madrid of 1980, Muriel commissions the young De Vere to investigate and conjole an almost lifelong friend of his, doctor Jorge Van Vechten, whose indecedent behaviour in the past has lead to many rumours spreading. But Juan won´t do just this and will take dubious initiatives, because, as he himself recognizes at adult age, “young people have their soul and conscience deferred”. This way he will discover that there is no selfless justice, but one that is always tainted by personal grudges, and that all forgiveness or punishment are arbitrary, the individual ones and the collective ones. With his intelligent and profound prose, Javier Marías also gives us a novel on desire, which often prevails over every scruple, loyalty or respect, and also a novel on our imperfect contemplation of facts, always twisted: sometimes because we don´t have a choice, and other times because we have fully decided so. • UK: Hamish Hamilton • USA: Knopf • Netherlands: Meulenhoff • Germany: Fischer, 2015 • Italy: Einaudi, 2015 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras • Poland: Sonia Draga • Greece: Patakis • France: Gallimard • China: Shanghai99 • Gyldendal: Denmark • Norway: Forlaget Press • Hungary: Libri Kiado • Turkey: Yapi Kredi • Slovenia: Zalozba • Lithuania: Alma Littera ● Croatia: Profil
MALA ÍNDOLE. CUENTROS ACEPTADOS Y ACEPTABLES (2012) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2012 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2014 • France: Gallimard LOS ENAMORAMIENTOS (2011) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2011; Debolsillo (ppbk) • France: Gallimard, 2013 • Germany: Fischer, 2012 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2012 • China: Shanghai 99 Readers’ Culture • Croatia: Profil • Finland: Otava, 2012 • Greece: Patakis Publishers • Hungary: Libri Kiado, 2012 • Iceland: Bjartur • Israel: Modan Publishing House, 2013 • Italy: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2012 • Norway: Forlaget Press, 2012 • Poland: P.h.u. Sonia Draga Sp. z o.o • Portugal: Santillana Editores S.A., 2012 • Russia: Corpus Books, 2013 • Sweden: Albert Boniers Förlag, 2013 • Turkey: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari • UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2013 • USA: Knopf, 2013 • Denmark: Gyldendal • Bulgary: Altera • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2012 • Slovenia: Cankarjeva Zalozba Zaloznistvo D.O.O., 2013 • Macedonia: Ars Lamina • Romania: Univers • Czech Republic: Paseka • Albania: Fjala Publishing • Malayalam language: Megha Books • Japan: Tokyo Sogensha • Latvia: Zvaigzne Abc TU ROSTRO MAÑANA (3. VENENO Y SOMBRA Y ADIÓS) (2007) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007; Debolsillo (ppbk); Bookclub: Círculo de Lectores, 2008 • Germany: Klett-Cotta, 2010 • Italy: Einaudi, 2010 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2010 • USA: New Directions, 2009 • France: Gallimard, 2009 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2009 • UK: Chatto & Windus, 2009 • Poland: P.H.U Sonia Draga, 2013 • Slovenia: Cankarjeba Zalozba, 2010 • Bulgaria: Altera, 2013 • Portugal: Publicaçoes Dom Quixote • Turkey: Metis, 2013 • Sweden: Albert Bonniers Förlag • Film rights: RT Features • Romania: Polirom TU ROSTRO MAÑANA (2. BAILE Y SUEÑO) (2004) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2004; Debolsillo (ppbk), 2008; Bookclub: Círculo de Lectores, 2005 • Germany: Klett-Cotta, 2006 • Italy: Einaudi, 2007 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2008 • USA: New Directions, 2006 • France: Gallimard, 2007 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2006 • UK: Chatto & Windus, 2006 • Russia: Eksmo Publishers (cxl)• Romania: Polirom, 2006 • Poland: P.H.U Sonia Draga, 2011 • Slovenia: Cankarjeba Zalozba, 2009 • Turkey: Metis, 2011 • Bulgaria: Altera, 2011 • Portugal: Publicaçoes Dom Quixote • Sweden: Albert Bonniers Förlag • Film rights: RT Features TU ROSTRO MAÑANA (1. FIEBRE Y LANZA) (2002) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2002; Debolsillo (ppbk); Bookclub: Círculo de Lectores, 2002 • Germany: Klett-Cotta, 2004 • Italy: Einaudi, 2003 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2003 • USA: New Directions, 2005 • France: Gallimard, 2004 • Portugal: Publicaçoes Dom Quixote, 2005 • Bulgaria: Altera, 2011 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2005 • UK: Chatto and Windus, 2005 • Croatia: Profil International • Romania: Editora Polirom, 2005 • Turkey: Metis, 2011 • Slovenia: Cankarjeba Zalozba, 2008 • Poland: PHU Sonia Draga, 2011 • Sweden: Albert Bonniers Förlag • Film rights: RT Features
VEN A BUSCARME (2011) • Spain: Alfaguara 2011 • Italy: Gallucci, 2012 LECCIÓN DE LENGUA (2011) • Spain: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2011 NI SE LES OCURRA DISPARAR (2011) • Spain: Alfaguara, 2011 INTÉRPRETES DE VIDAS (2007) • Italy: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2011 NEGRA ESPALDA DEL TIEMPO (1998) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2000 • France: Rivages, 2000 (cxl); Gallimard • Italy: Einaudi, 2000 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2000 • USA: Vintage, 2013 (ppbk) • UK: Chatto & Windus, 2003; Penguin (ppbk), 2013 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag; (ppbk): DTV, 2002 • Portugal: Relogio d’Agua, 2002 (cxl)• Brazil: Martins Fontes, 2000 (cxl) • Serbia: Narodna Knjiga • Romania: Univers • Czech Republic: BBArt Publishing, 2009 • Sweden: Bonniers Forlag, 2011 • Poland: Sonia Draga, 2014 MAÑANA EN LA BATALLA PIENSA EN MÍ (1993) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2000; (ppbk): Alfaguara, 1996; Debolsillo (ppbk) • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 2012 • France: Gallimard (ppbk), 2010 • UK: Penguin, 2012 • Portugal: Santillana Editores • Greece: Medusa Selas, 1997 • Brazil: Martins Fontes, 1997 (cxl) • Italy: Einaudi, 2000 • USA: Vintage, 2013 • Poland: Muza SA, 2003 • Romania: Univers, 2002 • Lithuania: Alma Litera • Russia: Amphora, 2003 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 1996 • Sweden: Bonniers, 2008 • Norway: Gyldendal Norsk, 1997 (cxl) • Denmark: Forum, 1998 (cxl)• Serbia: Mediasat • Slovenia: Cankarjeva Zalozba, 1999 • Czech Republic: Argo Publisher, 1999 • Hungary: Libri Kiado • Korea: Moonji • Croatia: V.B.Z. 2005 • Turkey: Yapi Kredi • Israel: Ivrit Hebrew Publishers, 2006 • Bulgaria: Colibri, 2006 • China: People’s Literary Publishing House • Poland: Sonia Draga CORAZÓN TAN BLANCO (1992) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara. 2000 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 2012 • UK: Penguin, 2012 • USA: Vintage, 2013 • France: Gallimard (ppbk), 2008 • Denmark: Gyldendal, 1993 • Norway: Gyldendal Norsk, 1996 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 2010 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras (ppbk), 2008 • Italy: Einaudi, 1999 (ppbk) • Poland: P.H.U Sonia Draga Sp. z o.o, 2012 • Greece: Medusa Selas, 1995 • Portugal: Santillana Portugal • Turkey: Yapi Kredi • Finland: Otava, 2012 (ppbk) • Serbia: Evro Giunti, 2008 • Hungary: Europa Kiado, 1998 • Croatia: Konzor (cxl) • Slovenia: Cankarjeba Zalozba, 2006 • Japan: Kodansha Ltd, 2002 • Lithuania: Alma Litera, 2001 • Israel: Babel Publishing, 2000 • Bulgaria: Obsidian, 2003 • Russia: Amphora, 2002 • Latvia: Zvaigzne • Estonia: Varrak Publishers, 2002 (cxl) • Romania: Rao Publishing • Czech Republic: BB Art, 2005 (cxl) • Korea: Moonji., 1997 • China: Eurasian Press, 2009 • Continental China: Shanghai 99 • Vietnam: Bach Viet Books, 2009 • Macedonia: Ili-Ili • Film rights: Black Forest Films • Hungary: Libri Kiado, 2012 • Bosnia: BTC Sahinpasic (ppbk) • Albania: Fjala Publishing LOS DOMINIOS DEL LOBO (1999) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2011 • Hungary: Park Publishing, 2001 • Greece: Kastaniotis Editions, 2002 • Italy: Einaudi, 2013 TRAVESÍA DEL HORIZONTE (1972) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2011 • Turkey: Everest, 2000 • Germany: Klett-Cotta, 2002 (cxl) • Italy: Einaudi, 2005 • USA: McSweeney’s, 2006 EL MONARCA DEL TIEMPO (1978) • Spain: Reino de Redonda, 2003 EL SIGLO (1983) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2000 • Greece: Livanis Publishing • Italy: Einaudi, 2013
EL HOMBRE SENTIMENTAL (1986) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2006 • France: Gallimard, 2006 (ppbk) • UK: Harvill, 2004; Penguin (ppbk), 2013 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 1991 (cxl) • Denmark: Gyldendal, 1994 • Greece: Zacharapoulos, 1991 • Czech Republic: Volvox Globator • Italy: Einaudi, 1999 • Turkey: Sel Yayinlari, 2009 • Poland: Proszynski i Ska, 2002 (cxl) • Israel: Babel Publishing, 2001 (cxl) • Portugal: Dom Quixote, 2002 (cxl)• Serbia: Evro Giunti, 2007• Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2004 • Albania: Editions Albin (cxl)• USA: Vintage • Romania: Univers, 2009 • Vietnam: Bach Viet Books, 2009 • Bulgaria: Altera TODAS LAS ALMAS (1989) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1999 • Catalonia: Funambulista, 2009 • France: Gallimard, 2006 • U.K: Penguin, 2012 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 2012 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff (ppbk), 2013 • Portugal: Dom Quixote, 2002 (cxl) • Poland: Rebis, 2001 • Turkey: Gendas Publishing (cxl)• Greece: Kedros, 1998 • Romania: Univers, 2006 (cxl) • Italy: Einaudi, 1999 • Brazil: Martins Fontes, 1999 • USA: Vintage, 2013 • Czech Republic: BB Art, 2007 (cxl) • Bulgaria: Prozoretz Ltd., 2002 (ppbk) • India: Confluence International, 2004 • Russia: Amphora, 2004 • Denmark: Tiderne Skifter, 2009 • Lebanon: Naufal Group, 2008 • Israel: Ivrit Hebrew Publishing, 2009 • Serbia: Evro Giunti, 2007 • Sweden: Albert Bonniers, 2008 • Estonia: Varrak Publisher Ltd. • China: People’s Literary Publishing House MALA ÍNDOLE (1999) • Spain: Plaza & Janés 1998 • UK: Granta Magazine, 1999 • France: Le Monde, 1998 • Italy: Einaudi, 2001 • Serbia: Narodna Knjiga, 2002 • USA: New Directions, 2010 • Norway: Gylendal Norsk, 2012 • China: Shanghai99 MIENTRAS ELLAS DUERMEN (1990) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2000; Debolsillo (ppbk) • France: Gallimard, 2007• Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 1995 • Germany: Wagenbach, 2001 • Portugal: Rélogio D’Água, 2001(cxl) • Italy: Einaudi • USA: New Directions, 2010 • UK: Chatto & Windus, 2010 • Film rights: Wayne Wang Productions CUANDO FUI MORTAL (1996) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1996; Debolsillo (ppbk) • France: Rivages, 2000 (cxl) • Portugal: Relogio d’Agua, 1999 (cxl) • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 1998 • UK: Penguin, 2013 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag • Greece: Medusa Selas, 2000 • USA: Vintage, 2013 • Slovakia: Art Forum, 2010 • Italy: Einaudi, 2003 (ppbk)• Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2006 • Romania: Univers • Hungary: Europa K., 2008 • Arabic World Rights: Kalima Project for Translation • China: Shanghai 99 • World Arabic: Kalima Project PASIONES PASADAS (1991) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1999; Debolsillo (ppbk) • Portugal: Rélogio D’Água, 2000 (cxl) LITERATURA Y FANTASMA (1993) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2001 • Portugal: Rélogio D’Água (cxl) • Germany: Wagenbach, 2003 • France: Gallimard, 2009 VIDA DEL FANTASMA (1995) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2001, Debolsillo, 2007 VIDAS ESCRITAS (1992) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2000 • France: Editions Rivages, 1996 (cxl) • Portugal: Quetzal, 1997 (cxl) • Germany: Fischer • Italy: Einaudi, 2004 • USA: New Directions, 2006 • UK: Canongate, 2006; Penguin (ppbk) • Turkey: Can Yayinlari, 2008• Estonia: Loomingu Raamatogoku, 2002 • Poland: Sonia Draga • France: Gallimard MANO DE SOMBRA (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara SI YO AMANECIERA OTRA VEZ (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara
MIRAMIENTOS (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2000 • Italy: Mavida, 2010 DESDE QUE TE VI MORIR (1999) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara SERÉ AMADO CUANDO FALTE (1999) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara SALVAJES Y SENTIMENTALES (2000) • Spain and Latin America: Aguilar, 2000 • Germany: Klett Cotta, 2000 (cxl) • Italy: Einaudi, 2002 • Portugal: Dom Quixote, 2002 (cxl) • Czech Republic: BBART Publishing, 2004 (cxl) CUENTOS ÚNICOS (1989) • Spain: Debolsillo (ppbk), 2007 EL HOMBRE QUE PARECÍA NO QUERER NADA • Spain and Latin America: Espasa Calpe, 1996 (1996) EL OFICIO DE OIR LLOVER (2005) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara DONDE TODO HA SUCEDIDO (2005) • Spain: Galaxia Gutenberg, 2005 • Italy: Passigli Editori, 2008 DEMASIADA NIEVE ALREDEDOR (2007) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007 LO QUE NO VENGO A DECIR (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 LOS VILLANOS DE LA NACIÓN Y OTRAS LETRAS (2010) • Spain: Los Libros del Lince, 2010
Tomás Eloy Martínez Writer and journalist Tomás Eloy Martínez (Argentina, 1934 - 2010) has published various novels, short stories and essays, as well as having written several film scripts. His novel SANTA EVITA (1995) established him as one of Argentina’s most internationally acclaimed writers. Translated into 25 languages and published in more than 30 countries, it is regarded as one of the great achievements in contemporary Latin American narrative, and has been publicly lauded by a host of names including those of Carlos Fuentes, Augusto Roa Bastos and Gabriel García Márquez. He has also published a further four novels, translated into over ten languages. These include: LA MANO DEL AMO (1991), EL VUELO DE LA REINA (2002), EL CANTOR DE TANGO (2004) and PURGATORIO (2008). In 2002, EL VUELO DE LA REINA was awarded with the Alfaguara Novel Prize, and the following year with the award of ‘Best Foreign Novel’ by the People’s Literary Publication House of Beijing-Shanghai. In 2005 he was a finalist of the Man International Booker Prize for his lifetime’s work. Throughout his lifetime, Tomás Eloy Martínez amassed a body of work so remarkable that it has since been hailed by The New York Times and the London Review of Books as ‘the most important literary phenomenon in Latin America since Gabriel García Márquez’s ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE.’ From 1991 until his death in February 2010, Martínez was a distinguished professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey and a regular contributor to The New York Times Syndicate, El País in Madrid, and La Nación in Buenos Aires.
Tinieblas para mirar / Darkness to See
Short Stories
164 pages Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2014 Written over the course of fifty years, most of these short stories have been unpublished until now. These texts are a prime example of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s talent and of the matters that preyed on him most throughout his lifetime: the upheavals in Argentina, Peronism and its emblems, exile, sexuality and death. The failed attempt of switching the bodies of the distinguished Evita and Aramburu, with the help of a tanker truck as vehicle and refuge; the life of a woman who puts on a whole choreographed show in a New York City train station; an ironic biographical note of a prodigious child destroyed by a possessive mother; the confrontation between an army and a group of workers in the outskirts of Tucumán a short while after ’55; the legendary adventures of two bank robbers from the 30s are some of the stories that make up this collection. From journalistic chronicle to the most delirious plots of fiction, these stories are more relevant than ever and confirm the literary power of an indispensable writer.
PURGATORIO (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2008 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 2010 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2009 • France: Gallimard, 2011 • UK: Bloomsbury, 2011 • Portugal: Porto Editora, 2011 • Turkey: Apollon Yakincilik Ltd.Sti, 2011 • Italy: Sur, 2015 ARGENTINA Y OTRAS CRÓNICAS (2011) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2011 EL CANTOR DE TANGO (2004) •Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2004 • English world rights: Bloomsbury, 2006 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2005 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2004 • France: Gallimard, 2006 • Netherlands: Cossee, 2006 • Greece: Kastaniotis, 2006 • Italy: Ugo Guanda Editore (cxl) • Israel: Kinneret-Zmora, 2009 • Denmark: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 2006 • Turkey: Alkim Basin Yayin Dagitim, 2005 • Romania: Curtea Veche Publications, 2010 • Portugal: ASA
Editores, 2006 • Hungary: Ulpius- Hazkaido, 2006 • Poland: W.K Twoj, 2008 • China: Lin King, 2009 • Croatia: Algoritam, 2010 • Russia: Eksmo Publishing, 2006 • Serbia: Geopoetika, 2007 • Albania: Pegi Publishing, 2006 • Slovenia: Mladinska, 2009 EL VUELO DE LA REINA (2002) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2003 • Russia: Ast Publishers • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2003 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 2004 • Italia: Ugo Guanda Editore, 2003 (cxl) • Brazil: Editorial Objetiva, 2002 • France: Robert Laffont, 2004 • Serbia: Narodna Knjiga • Greece: Kastaniotis, 2008 • Hungary: JLX Publishers • Israel: Hakkibutz Hameuchad, 2006 • China: People’s Literary Pub. House, 2003 • Romania: Curtea Veche Publishing, 2006 • Argentina: Santillana • Turkey: Ikarus Yayinevi • Poland: Amber Publishing, 2005 FICCIONES VERDADERAS (2000) • Argentina: Planeta, 2000 (cxl) • España y Latinoamérica: Alfaguara, 2011 EL SUEÑO ARGENTINO (1999) • Argentina: Planeta, 1999 (cxl) • España: Alfaguara, 2002 (cxl) SANTA EVITA (1995) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2010 • Turkey: Can Publishers, 1998 • Greece: Oceanidas, 1997 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 1997 • France: Editions Robert Laffont, 2014 (ppbk) • English World Rights: Knopf, 1996; (ppbk): Knopf, 1996 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 1996 • Sweden: Forum, 1998 • Norway: Aschehoug, 1997 • Netherlands: Anthos, 1996; (ppbk):1996 • Finland: Werner Södestrom, 1996 • Denmark: Gyldendal, 1997 • Germany: Fischer Verlag (ppbk), 2010 • Slovenia: DZS, 1997; (ppbk): Editions 10-18, 1998 • Italy: Sur, 2013 • Japan: Bungeishunju Ltd, 1997 (cxl) • Poland: Wydawnictwo da Capo, 1997 • Korea: Chajaknamu, 1997 • Croatia: Katarina Zrinski • Serbia: Narodna Knjiga, 1998 • UK: Transworld, 1996 • Czech Republic: Alpress; Bookclub: Knizni Club • Hungary: JLX and Co, 1997 • Bulgaria: Hemus • Russia: Ast Publishers (ppbk) • Estonia: Varrak Company, 2000 • Vietnam: Dai Viet Books LA NOVELA DE PERÓN (1985) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 • USA: Pantheon Books, 1988; (ppbk): Knopf, 1989 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 1998 • France: Robert Laffont, 2014 (ppbk) • UK: Transworld Publishers • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2001 (cxl); Fischer Verlag (ppbk) • Italy: Ugo Guanda, 1999 (cxl) LAS MEMORIAS DEL GENERAL (1996) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 LA MANO DEL AMO (1996) Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2002 • Russia: Ast Publishers, 2003 (ppbk) • France: Robert Laffont, 2004 (cxl) • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2008 LUGAR COMÚN LA MUERTE (1979) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 LA PASIÓN SEGÚN TRELEW (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2004
Marwan The Spanish market is now witnessing the fruitful start of a phenomenon no one would have ever expected: singer/songwriters who are writing books of poetry that connect with readers in the same way that their music does with crowds. In some cases, these singers are more famous for their poetry than for their music. The one who started it all and whose sales surpass the “hottest” novels and are just underneath María Dueñas on the bestseller list: Marwan, born in 1979 in Madrid, of both Spanish and Palestinean heritage. He self-published his first book of poetry LA TRISTE HISTORIA DE TU CUERPO SOBRE EL MÍO, selling 25,000 copies in Spain alone and with no ilegal downloads. His second book of poetry TODOS MIS FUTUROS SON CONTIGO was published this year by Planeta and had three editions within three weeks, with sales surpassing his first book. Planeta Argentina and Mexico are only growing his fan base of 63,000 followers on Twitter and 150,000 likes on Facebook.
Todos mis futuros son contigo / All My Futures Are With You
YA/Poetry
234 pages Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2014 • Italy: Giunti Junior • Portugal: Marcador Marwan's poems are short texts that draw you in immediately, like the lyrics in his songs, but with him knowing exactly what he is doing when it comes to conceiving a book. He tells stories, he cures broken hearts by telling you about his, he teaches to turn the page, to be inspired by the little things in life, and to keep loving no matter what. The instant intimacy with the anonymous reader is his greatest gift. Some of his poems are single sentences or two pages long, some in prose and some in verse. While it is common belief that poetry has little commercial potential, Marwan is a whole different story and is a sign of the future of what readers really want. Perhaps shorter texts that can be easily shared through social networks? A new kind of YA? A book that is easy to gift? Writers having similar selling tactics as singers and bands?
LA TRISTE HISTORIA DE TU CUERPO SOBRE EL MIO (2014) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2014 • Portugal: Marcador
Ángeles Mastretta Angeles Mastretta was born in Puebla, México in 1949. She worked as a journalist before her first novel ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA (1986) suddenly propelled her to worldwide literary prominence, achieving both critical and commercial success. Her next novel, MAL DE AMORES, won the 1995-96 Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos as the best novel written in the Spanish language. She has also published the short-story collection MUJERES DE OJOS GRANDES (1991), three volumes of literary, autobiographical and journalistic pieces entitled PUERTO LIBRE (1994), EL MUNDO ILUMINADO (1998), and EL CIELO DE LOS LEONES (2004), and the novella NINGUNA ETERNIDAD COMO LA MÍA (1995). MARIDOS (2007) is her latest work of fiction. The film based on the novel ARRANCAME LA VIDA, directed by Roberto Sneider, premiered in Mexico in late 2008 and was a great box office success, also receiving a warm critical reception. The film was among the nine preselected to compete in the Best Foreign Film category in the 2009 Oscar Awards. Her direct and clear style allows her to approach complex topics with surprising grace and simplicity. In ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA, Catalina Ascencio, the novel's protagonist and narrator disapproves of the corrupt manner in which her husband, a regional chief in the post-revolution Mexico of the thirties and forties, is carving out his path to political power. She throws herself into the arms of another man, which brings fatal consequences. Romanticism and plots of power, feminine sensibility and social violence intertwine in a novel that carries incredible strength and freshness. It places the reader in a dynamic and absorbing world, with its magnetism as difficult to explain as it is to resist. Ten years passed before readers could enjoy another Ángeles Mastretta novel. MAL DE AMORES has the Mexican revolution as its backdrop, adding historical interest and local colour to this timeless story of the vicissitudes of love. This is not to say, however, that the politics of the period are left ignored, as Mastretta subtly points to several key factors that have helped to mark the subsequent historic transformation of Mexico. Mastretta’s writing is as strong as it was in ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA, but now there is also a maturity in her character design and the reconstruction of the period, which raises the novel to the level of masterpiece. ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA and MAL DE AMORES have both become classics of the contemporary Latin American narrative, particularly within the boom of the feminine novel over the last two decades. “In all her books, Angeles Mastretta examines the sentimental problems of men and women, however she singularly explores the female soul”. Jorge Halperén, Clarín “Current Mexican literature seems to be branded with the mark of female cosmo-vision, its fundamental authors being women: Laura Esquivel, Elena Poniatowska, and Angeles Mastretta.” Christian Kupchik, Elle
La emoción de las cosas / The Emotion of Things
Narrative
274 pages Spain and Latin America: Editorial Seix Barral, 2012 This powerful and wise book is a hybrid of two genres: autobiography and the short story. The author takes us on a gripping journey through the history of her parents, grandparents and the general search for the bonds between Italy and Mexico. Contaging us with her restless curiosity for the past, her focus covers everything from the Mexican Independence, to their Revolution and the Second World War. At the same time, she evokes personal experiences and everyday struggles: her childhood, her beloved yet challenging city, and all the fears and suffering she strived to overcome. The author also opens a reflection on nature, technology, love and literary creation. The result is a siren song that recovers the joy of listening to stories and of discovering new ways of perceiving reality. • Italy: Giunti, 2013
MARIDOS (2003) • Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2007 •Germany: Suhrkamp, 2009 • Italy: Giunti, 2008 • Portugal: ASA, 2010 EL CIELO DE LOS LEONES (2003) • Spain: Seix Barral, 2012 • Latin America: Planeta, 2006 • Italy: Giunti, 2004 MAL DE AMORES (1996) • Spain: Punto de Lectura, 2002; Seix Barral, 2007• Latin America: Planeta 2002 • France: Belfond, 1998 (cxl) • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2008 • Italy: Giunti, 2004 • Portugal: Editora ASA, 1997 • Denmark: Forum, 2000 • Netherlands: Wereldbiblioteek, 1997 (cxl) • Brazil: Objetiva, 1997 • Australia: William Heinemann, 1998 • UK: Jonathan Cape, 1998 • Finland: Tammi Publishers, 2000 • Serbia: Narodna Knjiga • Croatia: Izvori • Taiwan: Babylon, 1999 • China: Thinkingdom (ppbk), 2012 • USA: Putnam’s Sons, 1998; Audio: Recorded Books, 2004; Spanish ppbk: Vintage • Russia: Amphora, 2002 • Turkey: Alfa Publishers (cxl) • Greece: Oceanidas, 1998 • Yugoslavia: Narodna knjiga • Sweden: Themis Förlag, 2004 MUJERES DE OJOS GRANDES (1991) • Spain: Seix Barral, 2008 • Latin America: Planeta, 2002 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2010 • Netherlands: Werelbibliotheek, 1994 • Italy: Marcos y Marcos, 1992; hardcover ed.: Giunti, 1998 • Korea: Chajaknamu • China: Beijing, 2000 (cxl); Thinkingdom (ppbk), 2010 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 2003 • Brazil: Objetiva, 2001 • USA: Riverhead, 2003 • Film rights: Anola Films ARRÁNCAME LA VIDA (1987) • Film Rights: Estudio México Films, 2007 • Spain: Seix Barral (ppbk), 2004) • Latin America: Planeta, 2006• Romania: Editora Polirom, 2002 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 1989 • Denmark: Tidens, 1988 • UK: Penguin, 1989; (ppbk): Vintage Books, 1999 • USA: Riverhead, 1997; Vintage español (ppbk) • Taiwan: Babylon Publishers, 1999 • China: Thinkingdom (ppbk), 2010 •Brazil: Editorial Objetiva, 2003 • Finland: Tammi, 1992 (cxl) • France: Gallimard, 1989 • Netherlands: Wereldbibibliotheek (ppbk), 2003; Rainbow Pocketboeken (ppbk), 1998 • Sweden: Forum, 1991 • Israel: Kinneret • Italy: Giunti, 2005 • Portugal: ASA Editores, 1994 • Turkey: Everest, 2001 • Greece: Oceanidas, 1998 • Korea: Munhakdongne, 2010 • Poland: Muza, 2010 • Serbia: Media II, 2010 • China: Thinkingdom Media Group, 2010 PUERTO LIBRE (1993) • Latin America: Planeta, 2007 • Spain: El País Aguilar, 1994 (cxl) • Italy: Giunti, 2000; Zanzibar, 1995 EL MUNDO ILUMINADO (1998) • Latin America: Planeta, 2006 • Spain: Alfaguara, 1999 (cxl); Planeta, 2006 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2000 (cxl)
Juan José Millás Juan José Millás is the author of such novels as EL DESORDEN DE TU NOMBRE, VISIÓN DEL AHOGADO, EL JARDÍN VACÍO, LA SOLEDAD ERA ESTO,
VOLVER A CASA, LETRA MUERTA, EL ORDEN ALFABÉTICO, DOS MUJERES EN PRAGA, and LAURA Y JULIO; as well as of the journalistic works: HAY ALGO QUE NO ES COMO ME DICEN, EL CASO DE NEVENKA FERNÁNDEZ CONTRA LA REALIDAD, CUERPO Y PRÓTESIS or ARTICUENTOS. He has also published short story volumes including PRIMAVERA DE LUTO, ELLA IMAGINA or CUENTOS DE ADÚLTEROS DESORIENTADOS. As a journalist, he is a regular contributor for both El Pais and the Prensa Iberica newspaper group, work for which he has received awards such as the Mariano de Cavia, Fundación Germán Sánchez Ruipérez, Atlántida and the Francisco Cerecedo. His narrative work has been translated into more than 20 languages. His novel EL MUNDO won the Planeta Prize in 2007 and has sold more than 400,000 copies to date. www.juanjose-millas.com
La mujer loca / The Crazy Woman
Novel
200 pages Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2014 Julia works at a fish stand and goes about her everyday life in Madrid -single, no kids, and at first glance with no big excitements. But for Julia, who chooses language as her new hobby, words are just as real as people and objects, and why would we think otherwise? What makes it right to say “I am a wrong sentence” and then wrong to say “I am a sentence good”? And why can´t the word “poorblem” exist instead of “problem” if we want it to? Tongue-tied, perplexed and never predictable, perhaps the only person who can help her out is her boss Roberto, who also happens to have his undergraduate degree in Spanish. She might be a lost cause until something else unexpected happens: Millás himself makes a long cameo, giving up on his shrink and in search of a new muse for his next novel. Not only can Julia help him unwind his reason but she might also trigger that next milestone in his career: a literary style and maturity like never before. Paying witness to these searches and queries, readers are taken on an intelligent and hilarious fast-paced thrill ride where not even as outsiders can we help being estranged by those same familiar words used day in and day out. • Portugal: Planeta Manuscrito • Egypt: The General Egyptian Book Organization • Serbia: RDP B92 ARTICUENTOS COMPLETOS (2011) • Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2011 LO QUE SÉ DE LOS HOMBRECILLOS (2010) • Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2010 • Portugal: Planeta Manuscrito, 2012 • Egypt: The General Egyptian Book Organization • Russia: Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Llc LOS OBJETOS NOS LLAMAN (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2009 • Portugal: Planeta Manuscrito, 2010 • Estonia: Loomingu Raamatokogu • Italia: Passigli Editore EL MUNDO (2007) Premio Planeta 2007 • Premio Nacional de Narrativa, 2009 • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Planeta, 2007 • Italy: Passigli Editori, 2009 • Germany: S. Fischer Verlag, 2009 • Greece: Modern Times • Serbia: RDP B92, 2008 • Egypt: The General Book Publishing Organization, 2009 • Korea: Munhakdongne Publishing Corp • Brasil: Planeta • Portugal: Planeta • Croatia: Sysprint (cxl) • France: Galaade • Turkey: Hayy Kitap, 2010 • Sweden: Tranan Publisher • Russia: Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Llc • Macedonia: ILI ILI Publishing House
LAURA Y JULIO (2006) • Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2006 • Italy: Einaudi, 2007 • Brazil: Planeta, 2007 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2007; Circulo de Leitores, 2011 (BC) • Korea: Munhakaonge Publishing, 2008 • France: Galaade, 2010 • Taiwan: Beijing, 2009 • Greece: Modern Times, 2008 • Island: Bjartur, 2009 • UK: Artsmagic Limited (electronic) • Arabic: AFAQ • Arabic: General Egyptian Book Organization CUENTOS DE ADÚLTEROS DESORIENTADOS (2003) • Spain and Latin America: Lumen, 2003; Debolsillo (ppbk), 2007 • Italy: Einaudi, 2004 • Taiwan: Eurasian Press, 2004 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2006 • Croatia: Izvori Publishing, 2006 • Russia: AST Publishing • Brazil: Ediouro, 2005 • Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek, 2006 • Serbia: RDP B92, 2007 • Czech Republic: Paseka, 2012 HAY ALGO QUE NO ES COMO ME DICEN (2004)
• Spain and Latin America: Seix Barral, 2013 • France: Galaade, 2006 DOS MUJERES EN PRAGA (2003) • Primavera Novel Prize, 2002 • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Espasa Calpe, 2003 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2004 • Germany: DTV (cxl), 2005 • Italy: Il Saggiatore (cxl) • Croatia: Izvori pub., 2003 • Slovakia: Slovart Pub., 2004 • Turkey: Can Yayinlari, 2005 (cxl) • Russia: AST Pub • Greece: Diigisi (cxl) • France: Galaade, 2007 • Serbia: Narodna Knija, 2002 • Romania: Humanitas, 2010 • Slovenia: Association 2000, 2013 NÚMEROS PARES, IMPARES E IDIOTAS (2001) • Spain and Latin America: Ediciones SM, 2009 • Brazil: Siciliano, 2003 NO MIRES DEBAJO DE LA CAMA (1999) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1999; Punto de Lectura, 2001 (ppbk) • Italy: Il Saggiatore, 2002 (cxl) • Turkey: Kültur Publishers, 2002 • Israel: Carmel publications, 2007 (cxl) • Slovakia: Slovart Publishing, 2007 • UK Electronic Rights: Artsmagic Limited EL ORDEN ALFABÉTICO (1998) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1998; Punto de Lectura, 2000 (ppbk) • Italy: Il Saggiatore, 2001 (cxl) • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2000 (cxl) • France: Éditions du Hasard, 2001 (cxl) • Poland: WBA Publishing, 2004 • Germany: DTV (cxl) • Romania: Humanitas Pub. (cxl) • Russia: Azbooka-Atticus Publishing EL DESORDEN DE TU NOMBRE (1986) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2008, Destino (ppbk), 1991 • Denmark: Gyldendal, 1990 • France: Galaade (ppbk), 2006 • Greece: Forma, 1994 • Germany: Suhrkamp. 1992 (cxl) • Norway: Aschehoug, 1990 (cxl) • Italy: Cronopio, 1994 (cxl) • Turkey: Can, 1992 • UK: Allison & Busby, 2000 • Portugal: Editora Presença, 1996 • Albania: Editions Albin, 2005 • Taiwan: Eurasian Publishing, 2006 • Film Rights: Sea Wall Entertainment • Russia: Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Llc LA SOLEDAD ERA ESTO (1990) • Spain and Latin America: Destino, 2010; (ppbk), 2003 • UK: Allison & Busby, 2000 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 1994 (cxl) • Portugal: Temas y Debates, 2000 • Norway: Aschehoug, 1990 • Sweden: Forum, 1992 • France: Galaade, 2006 • Netherlands: Contact, 1991 • Denmark: Gyldendal, 1991 • Turkey: Can Yayinlari, 1992 • India: Confluence Internacional, 2007• Taiwan: Eurasian Publishing, 2005 • Italy: Einaudi, 2006 • Israel: Rimonim Publishing, 2007 • Egypt: The General Egipcian book org., 2009 • Film rights: Enrique Cerezo; Lola Films CUENTOS A LA INTEMPERIE (1997) • Spain: Editorial Acento, 1997 TONTO, MUERTO, BASTARDO E INVISIBLE (1994) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara • Denmark: Gyldendal, 1996 • Norway: Ashchehoug, 1996 • Brazil: Nova Fronteira (cxl) • Greece: Kastaniotis, 1999 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2002 • Serbia: RPD B92, 2006 • Croatia: Sysprint VOLVER A CASA (1991) • Spain: Destino, 1993; Alfaguara, 2006 (ppbk) • Greece: Kastaniotis, 1997
ELLA IMAGINA (1994) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1994; Punto de Lectura (cxl) • Hungary: Magyar Konivklub, 2002 CERBERO SON LAS SOMBRAS (1989) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1989 (cxl); Punto de Lectura, 2005 PAPEL MOJADO (1983) • Spain and Latin America: Anaya, 1983; Alianza, 2005 • Italia: Passigli Editore, 2012 • Norway: Aschehoug Dansk Forlag A/S, 2003 VISIÓN DEL AHOGADO (1977) • Spain: Alfaguara, 2001; Seix Barral (ppbk), 2006
Emiliano Monge Emiliano Monge (Mexico City, 1978) studied Political Science at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, where he also taught until his move to Barcelona, where he currently resides. Though he has worked as a book and magazine editor, at present, he fully dedicates his time to this writing. His first short story collection Arrastrar esa sombra was published in 2008, followed by the novel Morirse de memoria; both were finalists for the Antonin Artaud award. With a wide array of non-fiction essays, reportage and book reviews, he has been an ongoing contributor to the Spanish newspaper El País, the Mexican newspaper Reforma, and prestigious magazines such as Letras Libres and Gatopardo. He was the two-time recipient of the Conaculta award Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and is now a member of the “Orden del Finnegans”, a group of Spanish writers that gather annually on Bloomsday in Dublin in honour of Joyce’s Ulysses. In 2011, the Guadalajara International Book Fair chose him as one of the top 25 best-kept secrets in contemporary Latin American literature. Last but not least, he was selected for “México20”, a list of twenty important young Mexican authors (chosen by The British Council, the FIL, Hay Festival, Conaculta) who will be the guests of honour at the upcoming London Book Fair, with their work featured in an anthology to be published by Pushkin Press. “Rarely can we witness literature like this.”
Miguel Ángel Ángeles, Rolling Stone
“Emiliano Monge’s use of grim humour recalls that of works such as Bolaño’s 2666 and McCarthy’s The Crossing.” Tom Bunstead, Times Literary Supplement "Imagine the possibility of reading a text that joins the silent violence of Cormac McCarthy, the destructive solitude of Malcolm Lowry, the uneasiness of Roberto Bolaño, the icy despair of Juan Carlos Onetti, the sinuous style of Juan Benet and the unbounded ambition of James Joyce.” Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico “A powerful and original voice.”
Patricio Pron, Letras Libres
Las tierras arrasadas / The Devastated Lands
Novel
320 pages *English sample available* Spain and Latin América: Random House Mondadori, 2015 • Italy: La Nuova Frontiera In the depths of the forest and of the night, car lights turn on and a group of immigrants are attacked by another group of men and women, and left hostage to the homeland they live in and their own stories. This is how this road novel begins, crossing through a nation where humans are reduced to smuggled goods, where violence is the stage where all the stories take place and where Emiliano Monge pierces into the essence of a savage Latin America. Through the kidnappers and the massive bundle of immigrants whose individuality falls into pieces, Monge leaves horror and solitude bare, and also the loyalty and hope that beat in the human heart. LAS TIERRAS ARRASADAS ambitiously tells the holocaust of the 21st cenutry but also a love story between Estela and Epitafio, leaders of the group of kidnappers. A story of high stylistic voltage and shuddering pace, where fiction and reality – testimonies of immigrants who make up the interludes in the novel – weave an unexpected mosaic that is moving, disturbing and impossible to forget. “I am sure that there is no other journalistic text that honours the voices of the migrants as much as this novel does. A writing that confronts. Poetry in the carrion.” Lydia Cacho “Once again, Orozco has painted the man in flames!”
Juan Villoro
EL CIELO ÁRIDO (2012) XXVIII Premio Jaén de Novela 2012 • Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2012 • Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek Bv, 2014 • Italy: La Nuova Frontiera, 2013 • Turkey: Yapi Kredi, 2015 • Brazil: Bertrand MORIRSE DE MEMORIA (2010) • Spain and Latin America: Sexto Piso, 2010 • Italy: La Nuova Frontiera, 2011 INSECTOS NINVISIBLES • Spain and Latin America: Sexto Piso ARRASTRAR ESA SOMBRA (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Sexto Piso, 2008
Manuel Mujica Láinez Argentine writer and native of Buenos Aires, Manuel Mujica Láinez (1910-1984) was a contemporary of other renowned narrators of the Río de la Plata area such as Juan Carlos Onetti, Silvina Ocampo and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Mujica Láinez began his literary career writing biographies and historical works; it wasn’t until the 1940s that he defined the first literary style for which he would become known, a style that might be termed porteño, that is, particular to Buenos Aires. In two books of short stories (MISTERIOSA BUENOS AIRES and AQUÍ VIVIERON) and a series of novels with a number of recurrent characters (LOS ÍDOLOS, LA CASA, LOS VIAJEROS, and INVITADOS EN EL PARAÍSO), Mujica Láinez recreates the resplendent, decadent world of Argentina’s aristocracy- grand old families on the decline; people clinging to their faded glory and falling prey to delirium, phobias and morbid sexuality. His world is reminiscent of the great literary traditions and models of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Eça de Queirós. Mujica Láinez's so-called ‘cosmopolitan’ novels comprise the second style or literary phase for which he is known. All these novels revolve around specific moments, environments and characters taken from history or legend. BOMARZO (which was adapted into an opera by Alberto Ginastera and commissioned by the Washington Theatre) is a colourful and diabolical evocation of the Italian Renaissance. EL UNICORNIO is inspired by fables of the Golden Legend and unfolds against a medieval background of courtly love and tales of chivalry. EL LABERINTO takes us to the splendid, violent and deliriously mystical Spain of Felipe II, and to the beginnings of Spanish America. DE MILAGROS Y MELANCOLÍAS is a saga about the history of an imaginary South American country, from its colonisation to the present day, written in an ironic and often absurd tone, not unlike García Márquez's saga of the Buendía family. The final fifteen years of Mujica's career embrace a kind of synthesis of his previous tendencies. In some novels, such as SERGIO, LOS CISNES and EL GRAN TEATRO, he returns to the Buenos Aires ‘café society’ atmosphere, with its heady mixture of grandeur and decadence, but at this phase in his life, Mujica Láinez also tinges his narrative with a melancholy sense of farewell. In EL ESCARABAJO and EL VIAJE DE LOS SIETE DEMONIOS, he brings different historic periods and territories together with a unifying element that displays an ironic vision of human passions and ambitions. CECIL is a peculiar and unique autobiographical text in which the writer's daily life is narrated by his dog, a technique that adds distance and irony to this typically intimate confessional genre. Mujica Láinez is one of the more intriguing and legendary Argentine personalities of the period between the 1940s and 1970s. He is as biting and colourful as Jean Cocteau was in the Paris of the 1920s or Truman Capote in the New York of the 1950s. “At first sight BOMARZO seems like a novel of resistence, a novel of survival, a historical novel, a thriller, a big guide. Perhaps it is all of those things. But it is also more than that: it is a novel about art and a novel about decadence, it is a novel about the luxury of writing a novel and a novel on the exquisite uselessness of the novel.” Roberto Bolaño
AQUÍ VIVIERON (1949) • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1949; Spain & Latin America: Sudamericana (ppbk), 2008 LOS ÍDOLOS (1953) • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1953; Spain: Seix Barral (cxl), 1991; Cátedra LA CASA (1954) Full English translation available • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1954; Spain & Latin America: Sudamericana (ppbk), 2008 Misteriosa Buenos Aires (1951) • Argentina: Sudamericana • Spain: Planeta deAgostini, 2011; Ediciones Folio, 2004; Belacqua, 2008
INVITADOS EN EL PARAÍSO (1957) • Argentina: Planeta, 1957 (cxl) BOMARZO (1962) • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1962 • USA: Simon and Schuster, 1967 • Spain: Círculo de Lectores, 1997 (cxl); Seix Barral, 1985; Bibliotex, 2001 • Italy: Rizzoli, 1963; Sette Città, 2000 • Brazil: Martin Fontes (cxl), 1996• Netherlands: Menken Kasander, 1996• Greece: Dione, 2000 • Germany: Klett-Cotta (cxl) • Portugal: Sextante Editora, 2008 EL UNICORNIO (1965) • Argentina: Planeta, 1965 (cxl); Sudamericana, 2004 • Spain and Latin America (ppbk): Seix Barral, 1984, 2011 • UK: Chatto and Windus, 1983 • Germany: Klett Cotta, 1993; DE MILAGROS Y MELANCOLÍAS (1968) • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1968 (cxl) CECIL (1972) • Latin America: Planeta Argentina (cxl), 1994 • Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori, 2010 • Spain: RBA, 2010 EL LABERINTO (1974) • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1974 • Spain: RBA, 2011 • Spain & Latin America: Sudamericana, 1994 (ppbk) • Germany: Klett Cotta, 1994 • Canada: Lester and Orpen, 1989 EL GRAN TEATRO (1996) • Spain: Espasa Calpe, 1996 (cxl) • Argentina: Sudamericana, 1978; • Latin America: Sudamericana (ppbk) EL ESCARABAJO (1982) • Argentina: Planeta, 1982 • Spain and Latin America: Plaza y Janés; Belacqua, 2006 • Italy: Piemme Edizioni (cxl), 1999 • Germany: Klett-Cotta, 1995 • Latin America: Sudamericana, 2009 (ppbk) UN NOVELISTA EN EL MUSEO DEL PRADO (1984) • Spain: Seix Barral, 1984 (cxl); • Latin America: Sudamericana (ppbk); Belacqua, 2007 EL RETRATO AMARILLO (1984) • Spain: Julio Ollero, 1984 • Mexico: Planeta, 1994 (cxl) CUENTOS INÉDITOS (1994) • Spain: Julio Ollero, 1994 • Mexico: Planeta, 1995 (cxl) CUENTOS (1999) • Latin America: Alfaguara, 1999 • Spain: Alfaguara, 2002; • Latin America: Sudamericana (ppbk)
Elvira Navarro Elvira Navarro (Madrid, 1978) graduated in Philosophy. In 2004 she won the Contest of Young Artists of Madrid City Council, and between 2005 and 2008 benefited from a scholarship for creative writing granted by the Residencia de Estudiantes. In 2007 she published her first book, LA CIUDAD EN INVIERNO (Caballo de Troya), which was warmly received by critics and distinguished as New Talent by FNAC. Her second novel, LA CIUDAD FELIZ (Mondadori, 2009), won the Premio Jaén XXV de Novela and was highlighted by the newspaper Público as one of the literary revelations of the year. Her articles and stories have appeared in the magazines Ínsula, Turia, Calle 20, El Duende de Madrid, Crítica and El Perro, and the newspapers Público and El Pais. She also works as a literary critic for the magazine Qué Leer, in addition to teaching creative writing in workshops. “Literary talent is a natural gift for this author, who has written a first book as classic as fiercely and admirably trangressive: the subtle, almost hidden, true avant-garde of her generation." Enrique Vila-Matas, El Pais “As with a text by Mario Vargas Llosa, the author creates a text with various registers that screams for an active reader. No one should be tempted into calling her a young promising writer, but rather point out that what we have here is an firmly established writer.” Roberto Valencia “She holds virtues difficult to come across in Spanish literature and which are only found in the best Iberoamerican authors.” Recaredo Veredas
La trabajadora
Novel
160 pages Spain and Latin America: Penguin Random House, 2014 Elisa, far from the ideals of being a young professional, tries to make ends meet with countless freelance jobs which she cannot say no to despite their dismal compensation. Having completed a masters in Publishing, and not having her internship renewed but excused with petty external collaborations, she is forced to move into a tiny and somewhat more affordable apartment in Madrid. With no social life whatsoever and a dying creativity, she finds some release in her nightly runs and observing how her roommate Susana plays the cards she is dealt. Following a break-up and her decision to leave Holland and move back to Spain, Susana, with no studies beyond high school, discovers a new artistic path that she might be able to make a living from. The counterpoint between these two main characters brilliantly builds up the novel’s tension and opens a surprising number of doors for reflection. Not only does it allude to different forms of exploitation and alienation in society today but it directly touches upon mental illness and whether it can be escaped. • Turkey: Dedalus Kitap “What makes this novel so exceptional is the narrative voice which destils both conviction and doubt with such precision, as well as the Baroja-like depiction of a 21st century Madrid.” Fernando Valls, Babelia’s Book of the Week, El País LA CIUDAD FELIZ (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Mondadori, 2009 • English world electronic rights: Hispabooks Publishing, 2014 • Turkey: Dedalus Kitap, 2014 • French Electronic Rights: Éditions Orbis Tertius • Arabic: The General Egyptian Book Organization LA CIUDAD EN INVIERNO (2007) • Spain and Latin America: Caballo de Troya, 2007; Debolsillo, 2009 • Film rights: Alicorn Films
Jordi Nopca Jordi Nopca (Barcelona, 1983) is one of the most promising writers in Catalan and Spanish literature. After completing his degree in Journalism and Literary Theory, he became a translator and a fulltime journalist. His first novel EL TALENTO was published in 2012, followed by his critically acclaimed short story collection VENTE A CASA, which was awarded with the Premio Documenta, the most prestigious recognition for up-and-coming Catalan writers. He has been compared to writers like Etgar Keret and Raymond Carver, and is known for his humour, acidity and ability to portray the absurd reality of modern life. Currently an editor at the newspaper Ara and editor-in-chief of the supplement Ara Llegim, he is also working on a new novel. “Nopca’s corrosive humour and fine European talent have put dynamite and dynamism to the literature in this country.” Enrique Vila-Matas “With humour and tenderness, Jordi Nopca’s stories are read as a chronicle of the existential and amorous doubts of the younger generation that somehow survives in Barcelona. Just read them and see for yourself.” Jordi Puntí
Vente a casa / Come Over
Stories
232 pages Premio Documenta 2014 Spain: Libros del Asteroide, 2015 • Catalan: L’Altra Editorial, 2015 An Art History graduate who works in a fancy shopping mall and flirts with a client. A dog groomer trying to get over a break-up. A writer and his translator dining at a restaurant, unable to hide their disputes. A middleaged couple planning a trip to Switzerland that will have a surprise ending. A young Chinese man who manages a neighbourhood bar feels strangely moved by the life of one of his female clients. A student waiting for the right moment to ask out a friend. These are the some of the ten stories that make up this book. Set in 21st century Barcelona, VENTE A CASA explores relationships in a crisis-stricken society. Its characters, tenderness and truth are at the center of these exciting stories that exalt rawness and humour. “Nopca’s talent lies in surprising us with stories that never go as predicted, his wisdom of bringing comic tension to situations and of bringing the reader to explosive zones, always in favour of perplexity and the always unexpected ending.” Ponç Puigdevall, El País “It’s an eclectic and unpredictable book, a hive in which the wasps aren’t animals put to sleep by the smoke. Buy this book and become human bullseye’s your flesh won’t regret it, neither will your heart.” Sonia Fides, Heraldo de Aragón “The game among thirty year olds who haven’t grown up, their crazy parents (…) and the grandparents that are always last, is the heart of this book. Each person creates the reality that is most convenient for them. In the hands of Nopca, it becomes an attractive and well written fresco of our times.” Julià Guillamon, Cultura/s - La Vanguardia EL TALENT (2012) • Catalan: La Breu Edicions, 2012
Estela Ocampo Estela Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires in 1950, and graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires with a degree in Art History. She moved to Spain 1976 and is currently a professor in Theory and Art History at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. With a long time commitment to the art scene, she has been the leading organiser of various exhibitions and has written numerous articles in newspapers and magazines which specialise in art and its theory. Highlights among her published works include EL IMPRESIONISMO, APOLO Y LA MÁSCARA, EL ARTE PRECOLOMBINO, DICCIONARIO DE TÉRMINOS ARTÍSTICOS Y ARQUEOLÓGICOS, EL INFINITO EN UNA HOJA DE PAPEL, and TEORÍAS DEL ARTE.
El fetiche en el museo. Aproximación al arte primitivo
Essay
326 pages Spain and Latin America: Alianza, 2011 Until very recently, primitive art had not been considered part of the realm of art history. Connected to colonialism and the “discovery” of the Other, it was studied through the lens of anthropology, more as a testimony of a past way of living than as a vehicle of aesthetic value. The avant-garde perspective, through primitivism, played a significant role in changing this perception. Constituted as an aesthetic object in the West, in a complex process encompassing everything from the cabinet of curiosities to the art museum of our time, the study of primitive art has become increasingly appreciated in wider circles by artists, scholars, and art collectors. Nevertheless, much of the original debate persists. To some degree, primitive art is uncomfortable, impossible to fit neatly within the categories of art history in the west, yet it is undeniably a part of the aesthetic realm. From a critical perspective, this text poses a number of compelling questions, open to different answers and controversies that by no means have been settled.
Cinco lecciones de amor proustiano
Essay
220 pages Spain: Editorial Siruela, 2006 (ppbk) As a result of Estela Ocampo’s personal, passionate and intelligent reading of Marcel Proust’s literary work, this book stands as a brilliant reconstruction of his characterisation of the phenomenon of love. Passionate love is one of the fundamental themes to appear throughout Proust’s writing. In Proust’s insightful vision of love, whether it is defined as madness or as suffering, love is inseparable from sensuality and desire and is the main complement to intelligence Like an imaginary dialogue between the author and the writer of IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME, Estela Ocampo organises Proust’s ideas within five important themes: falling in love, desire, homosexual love, jealousy and falling out of love. Ocampo guides the reader through Marcel Proust’s deconstruction of love, analysing the whole unitary of his writings, not only his literature but also his private writing and some of his personal correspondence.
Dolores Payás Dolores Payás was born near Barcelona but she soon broadened her horizons. She spent a few years in Mexico, where she wrote scripts for TV, worked as a piano accompanist at the school of music and dance, and interestingly enough, also went on tour with a mariachi band. She now divides her time between Beijing and Barcelona, also enjoying long sojourns in Greece, England and Switzerland. An autodidact in every sense with far-reaching interests, she is particularly passionate about languages, literature and music. She has written movie scripts and has also directed two feature films. She is also a translator and occasionally publishes cultural articles.
Drink Time! (En compañía de Patrick Leigh Fermor)
Biography
111 pages Spain and Latin America: Acantilado, 2013 Back in 2009, Dolores Payás paid her first visit to Patrick Leigh Fermor, who received her in his house in Greece. This first meeting spurred a friendship that would last until the author passed away in 2011. Those hours of conversation give rise to this intimate, soulful and striking biographical note of an English writer and traveller: fascinating due to his life and carisma, his generosity and his talent.
Adorables criaturas
Novel
432 pages Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2013 Late 19th century. León de Ubach, a company town owner, returns from England with a dazzling bride by his side: Inés is incredibly beautiful, educated and thirty years younger than León. Joining the newly weds is Inés’s sister Tessa, a veteran suffragette who already lived as an independent woman in London. Miss Lucy, the governess who raised and loves the sisters as if they were her own children, will be the family’s housekeeper. Life at the mansion is pleasant and uneventful until the birth of León and Inés’s first child changes everything. Doctor Samuel, a family friend, finds a wet nurse, a wench from a remote area who is uncivilised, primitive and does not talk. However, the young girl soon discovers that she has a powerful weapon: her milk, which can curdle or sour if she gets upset. Miss Lucy has to pander to her every whim and so the girl gets the best food, wine and plenty of time at her leisure. The other servants keep their distance because they think she may be a witch. Inés is repulsed by the newcomer and cannot bear to watch her breastfeed her baby. It is around this time that Inés starts to be afflicted with strange nervous breakdowns. The family doctor quickly diagnoses her with acute hysteria and she is confined and subjected to a series of experimental treatments that will threaten her life. León does not fully understand the situation but trusts his doctor blindly. Plus, he has other serious issues to attend to: a general strike has been called. There is war in Cuba, the colonial economy is crumbling and León is forced to spend most of his time in the capital tied up in endless meetings. Miss Lucy writes desperate letters to Tessa and begs her to come to her sister’s aid but the indomitable militant has troubles of her own. Tessa’s lover, an anarchist she is deeply in love with, has abandoned her to marry an heiress. Miss Lucy is left to fend for herself as the household situation spirals out of control. What was once a placid home begins to fall apart and becomes a hellish space inhabited by disturbed characters until one night, under a full moon, tragedy strikes. The author’s ironic, at times caustic, writing takes us on a journey that starts with the impeccable recreation of a 19th century bourgeois world: as contrived and pleasant a universe as a Viennese operetta. This melodious front turns out to be deceiving and the journey becomes more eventful than expected. What starts out as a light waltz decays and disintegrates until it becomes an insidious nightmare that borders horror.
Marina Perezagua Marina Perezagua was born in Seville, Spain and graduated in Art History from the University of Seville. She obtained her PhD in philology in the United States and later on she became a taught language, literature, history and Latin American cinema at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She then worked for two years at the Instituto Cervantes de Lyon. Today she lives in New York and works as a teacher at New York University. Her first collection of stories CRIATURAS ABISALES was followed by LECHE in 2013, which was passionately received by cricis; Julio Ortega chose it as one of the best books of the year in El Boomeran(g) and so did María José Obiol in Babelia. It also won the Premio Sintagma for the ´best book of the year´. Her work has been featured in various anthologies and magazines, such as Ñ and Quimera. Now with her first novel YORO, she is one of the biggest promises of Spanish literary fiction to come.
“A voice that is unbreakable, with a stripped-down, precisce pace of someone who know where they are going, even if it means walking in the dark.” Ray Loriga “Unusual and lucid.”
Julio Ortega, Brown University
“These stories remind me of Karen Blixen.”
J.A. Juristo, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos
Yoro / Yoro
Novel
260 pages Spain: Libros del Lince, 2015 This novel is the unusual testimony of a woman who refuses to accept the tragic destiny that has been imposed on her, eventually converting that tragedy into a sort of salvation. We see her fight against the world, how she reaches her final victory and at what cost. H, the narrator and protagonist, confesses on the first page that she has commited a crime, and so challenges the reader who dares read her story. With tension building throught, H tells her story of love for Jim, an American soldier taken prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War, and her story as a survivor of Hiroshima. But H can’t leave out the story of her love for a girl, Yoro, who she doesn’t even know, a story of a search for what’s at the centre of human beings: sexuality, reproduction, folly, hate and love.
Leche / Milk 232 pages Spain: Libros del Lince, 2013 CRIATURAS ABISALES (2011) • Spain: Libros del Lince, 2011
Stories
Carmen Posadas Carmen Posadas (Montevideo, 1953) is one of the few contemporary authors to have been able to win over both critics and readers alike. She has written essays, film and television scripts, children’s books, short stories and many novels: CINCO MOSCAS AZULES (1996), PEQUEÑAS INFAMIAS (Premio Planeta, 1998), LA BELLA OTERO (2001), EL BUEN SIRVIENTE (2003), JUEGO DE NIÑOS (2006) and LA CINTA ROJA (2008). Her books have been translated into 23 languages and she has been published in more than 40 countries. PEQUEÑAS INFAMIAS received excellent reviews in both The New York Times and The Washington Post and has sold over 100,000 copies in France. In 2002, Newsweek magazine described Carmen Posadas as “one of the most prominent Latin American authors of her generation”. www.carmen-posadas.com “A mixture of Agatha Christie and Pedro Almodóvar… wonderfully funny and dark.” Le Figaro “Carmen Posadas introduces Borges to Agatha Christie—which is hardly child’s play—and the resulting conception is clever, sexy, and compelling.” John Banville
El testigo invisible
Novel
460 pages Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2013 Leonid Sednev, chimney sweep turned kitchen assistant, was fifteen years old on the night of July 17, 1918, when armed forces from the Bolshevik Revolution brutally assassinated the Russian imperial family. Leonid was left as the only survivor and unseen witness of the tragedy. Decades later and well into old age, Leonid decides to piece back together his memories and so begins the story in which he remembers the final years of the Russian Empire and its regime change. With her usual outstanding skill, Carmen Posadas brings us into a fascinating world of the imperial family as seen through the eyes of a servant. Not only does it reveal secrets of the palace but this tale also has us follow a parade of princesses and chimney sweeps, tsars and Bolsheviks, luxury and misery. “A clear show of literary integrity, keeping an almost neutral tone. It is an exceptional historical novel.” Juan Ángel Juristo, ABC • France: Éditions du Seuil, 2014 • Serbia: Laguna
INVITACIÓN A UN ASESINATO (2010) • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2010 • France: Éditions du Seuil, 2012 • Portugal: Quetzal • Germany: Bertelsmann, 2012 • Poland: Muza, 2012 • Italy: Marco Tropea, 2012 • Hungary : Kossuth HOY CAVIAR, MAÑANA SARDINAS (2011)
• Spain: Planeta, 2011 • France: Éditions L’Épure, 2015 LA CINTA ROJA (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Espasa Calpe, 2008 • Portugal: Quetzal, 2010; Circulo de leitores, 2010 • France: Éditions du Seuil, 2010
A LA SOMBRA DE LILITH (2004) • Spain: Planeta, 2004 JUEGO DE NIÑOS (2006) • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2006 • Brazil: Planeta Brazil, 2007• Portugal: Quetzal Editores, 2007; Circulo de Leitores, 2006 • UK: Alma Books, 2007• Italy: Frasinelli, 2007• USA: Rayo-HarperCollins, 2009 LITERATURA, ADULTERIO Y UNA VISA PLATINO (2005) • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2005 EL BUEN SIRVIENTE (2003) • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2003; Círculo de Lectores, 2003 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2004 • France: Éditions du Seuil, 2005 • Greece: Enalios Publishers, 2006 • Russia: AST publishers, 2006 • Netherlands: Uitgeverij Sirene, 2005 • Italy: Frassinelli, 2005 • Brazil: Planeta Brazil, 2007 LA BELLA OTERO (2001) • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2001 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2003 • France: Editions du Seuil, 2003 • Greece: Enalios Publications, 2002 • Germany: Europa Verlag, 2003 • Serbia: Draganic (cxl) • Russia: AST Publishers, 2005 UN VENENO LLAMADO AMOR (1999) • Spain: Temas de Hoy, 1999 (cxl) • Greece: Enalios Publications, 2000 • Brazil: Editora Objetiva, 2001 (cxl) PEQUEÑAS INFAMIAS (1998) Premio Planeta, 1998 • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2010 • France: Éditions du Seuil, 2000, (ppbk): Editions de Seuil, 2002; Book club: France Loisirs • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2004 (cxl)• Italy: Frassinelli, 2001 • Netherlands: Byblos, 2000 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 1999; Book club: Circulo de Leitores, 1999 (cxl) • Brazil: Objetiva, 2000 (cxl) • Greece: Enalios, 2000 • Turkey: Everest Yayinlari, 2001 • Poland: Muza, 2003 • USA: Random House, 2003 • UK: Transworld Publishers, 2003 • Russia: AST Publishers, 2004 • Slovenia: Mladinska Knjiga, 2004 • Romania: Fabulator, 2004 • Taiwan: Eurasian Press, 2007 (cxl) • Indonesia: PT Bentang Pustaka • Korea: Woongjin Think Bank, 2007 • China: People’s Literary Publishng, 2010 • Television World Rights: Pachil • Colombia: Planeta Colombia, 2009 • Israel: Kinneret, 2013 NADA ES LO QUE PARECE (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1997 (cxl) • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2001 (cxl) CINCO MOSCAS AZULES (1996) • Spain and Latin America: Planeta, 2006 • France: Editions du Seuil, 2001 • Germany: Piper Verlag, 1998 (cxl) • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2000¸Bookclub: Circulo de Leitores, 2001 • USA: Random House • Greece: Enalios, 2002 • Poland: Muza, 2003 • Italy: Frassinelli, 2003 • Russia: AST Publishers, 2006 • Brazil: Planeta Brazil, 2012 • UK: Alma Books, 2007 (cxl) • Hungary: Kossuth
Children’s books KIWI (2009) • Spain and Mexico: Ediciones SM DORILDA (2000) • Spain: Alfaguara Infantil, 2000 • Portugal: Temas e Debates, 2001 • Italy: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 2002 HIPPO CANTA (2007) • Spain: Ediciones Bruño
QUAC (2004) • Spain: Destino, 2004 LILIANA, BRUJA URBANA (1995) • Spain: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1995 MARÍA CELESTE (1993) • Spain: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993 QUIÉN TE HA VISTO Y QUIÉN TE VE (1991) • Spain: Temas de Hoy, 1991 EL SÍNDROME DE REBECA (1988) • Spain: Temas de Hoy, 1988 EL SEÑOR VIENTO NORTE (1983) • Spain: SM, 1983; Editorial Bruño, 2006 • Italy: Mondadori (cxl) EL MERCADER DE SUEÑOS (1990) • Spain: Alfaguara, 1990 (cxl) PADRES, PADRES (1993) • Spain: Espasa Calpe, 1993; Alfaguara, 2001 (cxl)
Gervasio Posadas Gervasio Posadas (Montevideo, 1962) completed his studies in Spain, the Soviet Union, Uruguay and England. He has worked at some of the most important advertising multinationals and he now lives in Madrid where he is devoted to other activities, such as training and consultancy.
Amor, clavos y alguna tuerca suelta
Novel
400 pages Spain and Latin America: Suma de Letras
La venganza es dulce y además no engorda
Novel
300 pages Spain: Espasa, 2009 (cxl) Victim to the current crisis, to past crises and to his own bad luck, Leandro Expósito takes a radical decision: he remortgages his mother’s house and enrols in a prestigious business school. There he intends to cozy up to other businessmen and get back on the road to success, hiding the previous downfalls of his career and his past life. But, much to his surprise, the school manager is the same man responsible for the desperate situation he currently finds himself in. In shock and rage, he sets out to avenge the wrongs this man has committed against him - forgetting though that he is infinitely richer, more powerful and more influential than this man is. After the success of EL SECRETO DEL GAZPACHO, Gervasio Posadas returns with a comedy about money, ambition and love in which millionaires, losers, mistresses, bankers, environmentalists and butchers, all seek to serve their own best interests. NIKI ZAS Y EL RETRETE NUCLEAR
• Spain and Latin America: Editorial Edebe, 2013 EL SECRETO DEL GAZPACHO (2007) • Spain: Editorial Siruela, 2007 • Italy: Giunti Editore, 2008
Paul B. Preciado Paul B. Preciado is the author of MANIFIESTO CONTRA-SEXUAL (2011), PORNOTOPIA (2001) and TESTO YONQUI (2008) which have been translated into many languages and also used as key international references for Queer Studies. A Fullbright Scholar and a student of Jacques Derrida and Agnès Heller, s/he obtained a Masters degree in Contemporary Philosophy and Gender Theory at the New School University of New York and is currently working towards a Doctorate in Architecture Theory from Princeton University. S/he is a member of the “Rayon Gay” group of writers, directed by Guillaume Dustan, who are involved in developing the emerging French Queer Theory. Beatriz Preciado has taught Gender theory at the University of Paris VIII, gives seminars at universities throughout the world, and is also the director of several research projects and a prolific essay writer. S/he is currently the director of the Independent Study Program at the Macba (Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona) and also teaches philosophy of the body at New York University and Princeton University.
“Intellectually compelling.” The Paris Review “Preciado’s prose is psychedelic, exciting, persuasive, consoling and with imaginative force.” Bookforum
Manifiesto contra-sexual
Essay
224 pages Spain: Anagrama, 2011 “In the beginning there was the dildo. The dildo came before the penis. It is the origin of the penis. Sexuality is a technology made up of machines, products, instruments, devices, protheses, networks, applications, programs, connections, currents of energy and information, interruptions, switches, keys, laws of circulation, logic systems, equipment, formats, accidents, detritus, mechanisms, uses, deviations... The time has come to enter the black box of the system and invent a new grammar.” Here we have it: a wild encounter between feminism and dildotechtonics, post-structural philosophy and manga comics, political action and science fiction. Philosophically exacting and absolutely hilarious, the MANIFIESTO CONTRA-SEXUAL has been acclaimed by the critics in France as a future classic of 21st century thought. This is no doubt an essential book for understanding the contemporary debates surrounding feminist, queer and transgender politics. • France: Au Diable Vauvert • Italy: Fandango • Germany: b-books Verlag, 2004 • Brazil: N-1 Ediçoes • World English: Columbia University Press PORNOTOPIA (2010) • Spain : Editorial Anagrama, 2010 • France: Éditions Climats, 2011- Le Prix Sade de l’essai, 2011 • Italy: Fandango Libri, 2011 • Germany: Wagenbach, 2012 • World English: Zone Books TESTO YONQUI. ENSAYO DE FARMACOPORNOGRAFÍA • Spain: Editorial Espasa Calpe, 2008 •France: Éditions Grasset, 2008; J’ai lu, 2014 (ppbk) • USA: The Feminist Press, 2013 • Italy: Fandango • Latin America: Paidós • Germany: b-books Verlag • Brazil: N-1 Ediçoes • Greece: Epekeina
Pablo Ramos Pablo Ramos (Buenos Aires, 1966) was born into a family of workers where books practically didn’t exist, and despite not finishing high school, he was a passionate reader at a young age of Carver, Cheever, Hemingway, McCullers, to name only a few. After trying out a few trades and starting two businesses, Ramos decided to wholly dedicate himself to writing; his first novel EL ORIGEN DE LA TRISTEZA (2004) made him a necessary voice within the new narrative in Argentina, where he sold 50,000 copies. His second novel LA LEY DE LA FEROCIDAD (Alfaguara, 2007) shows his character Gabriel Reyes in his adult stage and EN CINCO MINUTOS LEVÁNTATE MARÍA (2010) takes on the voice of the mother, this way completing this family trilogy in which each novel can be read independently. He also has two short story collections titled CUANDO LO PEOR HAYA PASADO (2005) y EL CAMINO DE LA LUNA (2012), and was awarded with both the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2003) and the Casa de las Américas de Cuba (2004). He was the first Argentinean writer to be given a grant for the DAAD Artist Program and lived one year in Berlin. His work has been translated into French, German, Portuguese and Russian. He lives in Buenos Aires where he writes TV scripts, plays in a band and teaches creative writing. “The best to come out of Argentina.”
Fogwill
“One of the most interesting writings I’ve read.”
Abelardo Castillo
“His literature condenses all of life’s pain and all of life’s happiness.”
Ignacio Martínez de Pisón
“An enormous talent, an intense life experience hard to come by, and a passion and dedication that make him bring language and form to their last standpoint, reformulating that experience into noteworthy stories and novels.” Liliana Heker “Making very subtle signs to John Cheever and Juan Carlos Onetti, avoiding both literary artifice and administering minimal resources with Franciscan meticulousness, Ramos claims his place in literature with capital letters and seems to have achieved this.” Rogelio Demarchi, Radar “Pablo Ramos exhibits his extraordinary gifts as a narrator: a luminous and precise writing, with breathless rhythm. Roberto Arlt’s inheritance shines for the first time in Argentinean literature.”
Elsa Drucaroff
“As if he were an alchemist, he works with pain and loss, transforming them into life, beauty and even redemption.” Miradas al sur “Ramos’ talent surprises and impresses. His imagination to sustain pages and pages of maximum emotional intensity is just as admirable as his ability to inhabit Bueno Aires’ geography on both sides of the Riachuelo river, to unite with a secrete thread a century of Argentinean history and, above all, to cut off that destructive vertigo with bursts of tenderness.” Quintín, Perfil
LA LEY DE LA FEROCIDAD (The Law of Ferocity) 288 p. Book of the Week in Babelia / Best Foreign Literature 2008 by Arcadia magazine
Novel
Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007 • Spain: Malpaso, 2015 A man receives news of the death of his father. A two-day wake awaits him, with its days, nights, the family, his reencounter with his ex-wives: the past that returns, the present that overwhelms. Not to forget the fearful grudges against a distant and inaccessible father. The man, who has stopped drinking, falls again into alcohol, cocaine and blind sex. But he also writes: he ferociously hits the keys of his typewriter to crush with pure words the enormous despair that is consuming him. Turning his life into literature, Pablo Ramos brings back Gabriel, the child in EL ORIGEN DE LA TRISTEZA who was born in El Viaducto, who many years later sinks back into the rotten waters of the stream in the neighbourhood where he grew up, to leave purified and to allow resentment and cynicism give place to compassion. From Hamlet to Paul Auster’s The Invention of Solitude and Philip Roth’s Patrimony, the theme of death travels through literature to make us reflect on how the dense and disturbing shadow of the father decides a son’s destiny. Here Pablo Ramos plays his stake with passion and ferocity, from the very title itself, which is maybe why the ending is so sweet. “A Great Novel in capital letters.”
Laura Restrepo
“A masterpiece.”
Rodolfo Fogwill
“One of the most intense novels in Argentinean literature, the narrative equivalent of the hearing or the vision of The Wall.” Marcelo Figueres “The gallop of the prose, on the verge of suffocation and overdose, gives the novel its necessary pace to sustain the protagonist’s voyage. The novel is not only a visceral plea of a wounded man, but also the fresco of an era and of a place. Ramos writes with the force and intensity of raging boxers, those who don’t leave the skin in the ring or on the keyboard.” Rolling Stone “It reads like a marathon with the huge breaths it takes.”
Quintín, Perfil
EL CAMINO DE LA LUNA (2012) • Latin America: Alfaguara, 2012 EN CINCO MINUTOS LEVÁNTATE MARÍA (2010) • Latin America: Alfaguara, 2010 • France: Métailié, 2013 • Spain: Malpaso CUANDO LO PEOR HAYA PASADO (2005) • Latin America: Alfaguara, 2005 EL ORIGEN DE LA TRISTEZA (2004) • Latin America: Alfaguara, 2004 • Spain: Malpaso. 2014 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2007 • France: Métailié, 2008 • Portugal: Quetzal, 2010
Emma Reyes Emma Reyes (Bogotá, 1919 – Bordeaux 2003) is the author of the unforgettable MEMORIA POR CORRESPONDENCIA. Hailed in Colombia as the best (or even the most beautiful) book published in 2012, it immerses the reader into a stunning and unusual narrative of a perplexing childhood which can only be told in first person. This string of twenty-three letters cannot be confined to a memoir, testimony or even a novel. Instead, together these letters represent a fine thread that sews a story from start to finish, fabling memories, speaking imagination’s truth, and masterfully evoking a socio-political context now quite distant and unrecognizible from the Colombia most people are familiar with. Written between 1969 and 1997, these texts formed part of an intimate correspondence she held with her dear friend and confidant Germán Arciniegas. This wellknown historian and diplomat made a seal of confidentiality which was only broken when he decided to show these letters to Gabriel García Márquez, who was astonished yet unsuccessful at convincing Emma Reyes to keep writing. They were only published for the first time in 2012, thanks to Laguna Libros, in co-edition with the Fundación Arte Vivo Otero. MEMORIA POR CORRESPONDENCIA tells of an illegitimate child growing up in conditions of extreme poverty in Bogotá, from the age of four to turning nineteen –an age at which she still had not learnt how to read or write. Far from falling into self-pity or making us feel sorry for her, she has us bask in awe and delight at her lucidity, courage, and picaresque in adverse situations. The first half of the book takes place in a room she lived in with her older sister and a woman assigned to watch over them to only eventually abandon them. This was a room without water, light, a toilet or windows, but also a place where ingenuity was forced to work its hardest and teaching yourself was the only option. The second half takes young Emma to another residence under lock and key, a convent that holds and enslaves more than 150 young orphan girls. Full of drawn-out anecdotes and remarkable episodes of bonding, injustice, tension and limitless imagination, this book closes with her escape from the convent and her plunge into a the real world that most people are born into. The oral tradition and the spirit of overcoming lie at the heart of MEMORIA POR CORRESPONDENCIA, which in turn drives us to want to know more about the author’s life. From her twenties onwards, she travelled wherever she could and dedicated most of her life to her paintings and drawings, slowly breaking through as an artist (more in Europe than in her native country) and brushing elbows and building long-lasting friendships with a generation of artists, writers and intellectuals of her time, such as María Zambrano, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Alberto Moravia. In a life that took her from cities like Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Jerusalem, Washington, Rome to eventually settle in Paris, she was a free-spirit and adventure seeker, and most of all a great conversationalist and storyteller, as everyone who knew or met her affirms. The same year she passed away, the French government paid their hommage to her by conferring on her Knight of Order of Arts and Letters. Emma Reyes’ book will be published in hardcover and as a Penguin Classic. MEMORIA POR CORRESPONDENCIA (2012) • Colombia: Laguna Libros, 2012 • Netherlands: Karaat • Brazil: Companhia das Letras • Spain: Libros del Asteroide • Mexico: Almadía • Italy: Sur • Israel: Zikit , 2014 • World English: Penguin Classics • France: Fayard • Norway: Cappelen Damm • Sweden: Norstedts • Portugal: Quetzal • China: ThinKingdom • Taiwan: Emily • Poland: Czarna • Denmark: Batzer • Germany: Eichborn “Fucking hell! Her poetic retelling of her childhood of grinding poverty is stunning. Every moment is beautifully drawn, subtle, strange, with a hint of anger.” Daniel Alarcón “Must be translated.” Philippe Lançon “Worthy of Dickens. A new classic, destined to last.” Dario Jaramillo “The most beautiful novel I’ve read in years.” Lisando Duque Naranjo "A dazzling revelation." El Cultural “A masterpiece of great literary standing.” El Tiempo “Emma Reyes captures and fascinates us with narrative skill that any experienced writer would envy.” Piedad Bonnett
Mercè Rodoreda Mercè Rodoreda (Barcelona, 1919) grew up in an educated and progressive family whose members were solid representatives of the Catalan petit-bourgeoisie. At an early age she was forced to leave school in order to help out at home, and it was during her adolescence, largely spent alone, that she began to read and write in earnest. Her first short stories, written when she was about twenty years old, were published in a number of the many newspapers and magazines that flourished during this fertile period of Catalan culture. The Spanish republican experience of the 1930s stimulated social, political and cultural progress in Catalonia, and Rodoreda dedicated herself to journalism and creative writing with great success. In 1937 she published ALOMA, which introduced a number of themes that would reappear in her later works: the world of childhood, feminine sensibilities and poetically crafted prose with its consequent symbolic capacity. When fascism stamped out democracy in Spain, Rodoreda, who was committed to defending the Republic, went into exile. At first she lived in Paris and Bordeaux, and in 1954 she settled in Geneva, where she was finally able to resume her literary activity, writing novels and short stories which were often marked by a concern for the existential difficulties of women. LA PLAÇA DEL DIAMANT (1962) evokes the experiences of a young Catalan girl during the Spanish Civil War. It received international acclaim and soon became the author’s most famous novel; it is now considered one of the masterpieces of Catalan literature. The world described in this novel reappears in EL CARRER DE LES CAMÈLIES (1962), which won the Sant Jordi Prize. LA MEVA CRISTINA I ALTRES CONTES (1967) represents a shift toward a deliberate mystification of reality, and searches for new narrative paths which come together in the extraordinary MIRALL TRENCAT (1974), a novel considered by many to be the high point of Rodoreda’s career. In 1979, Rodoreda returned to Catalonia and spent the last three years of her life in an isolated villa in the province of Girona. Now she is still considered to be the most important Catalan novelist of the 20th century. Great writers from around the globe have praised her work, including Gabriel García Márquez, who has professed his tremendous admiration for LA PLAÇA DEL DIAMANT. www.mercerodoreda.cat
"Rodoreda had bedazzled me by the sensuality with which she reveals things within the atmosphere of her novels. . . . A writer who still knows how to name things has already won half the battle, and Rodoreda knew how to do that as well as anyone who wrote in her mother tongue." Gabriel Garcia Márquez “It is a total mystery to me why [Rodoreda] isn’t widely worshipped. . . . She’s on my list of authors whose works I intend to have read all of before I die. Tremendous, tremendous writer.” John Darnielle (Mountain Goats) “Her work has gone to my heart.”
Michael Krüger
“Rodoreda plumbs a sadness that reaches beyond historic circumstances . . . an almost voluptuous vulnerability.” The Nation "Mercè Rodoreda is the writer I cannot stop talking about."
Alberto Ríos
"The greatest contemporary Catalan novelist and possibly the best Mediterranean woman author since Sappho." David H. Rosenthal
LA PLAÇA DEL DIAMANT (1962) • Catalan: Club Editor; Proa, 2007; Raval Edicions, 2009 • Germany: Suhrkamp (ppbk), 2007 • Denmark: Albatros (cxl) • Spain: Edhasa • USA: Taplinger • Finland: Otava• France: Gallimard, 1999 • Greece: Dorikos • Netherlands: De Bezije Bij (cxl); Meulenhoff, 2007 (cxl) • UK: Little Brown, 2013 • Iceland: Forlagid; JPV (ppbk) • Italy: Nuova Frontiera, 2009 • Norway: Gyldendal, 2009 • Portugal: Dom Quixote (ppbk), 1995 • Sweden: Norstedts • Romania: Editura Univers, 1996 • Galicia: Edicións Positivas, 1996 • Israel: Carmel Publishers • Lithuania: Charibde Publishers • Brazil: Planeta Brazil, 2003 • India: Confluence International; Harpen Collins India (ppbk) •Yugoslavia: Pomurska Zalozba •Euskadi: Elkar • Bulgaria: Narodna Koultoura • Hungary: Modernkonytvar • Poland: Pascal • Czech Republic: Editions Odeon • Vietnam: The Gidi • Japan: Shobun Sha • Russia: Khudogestuennaia • Argentina: Editorial Sudamericana • Turkey: Alef Yayinevi • Bulgaria: Ciela • China: People’s Literary Publishing House, 2010 • Sardinia: Papiros, 2009 • Macedonia: Antolog • Estonia: Loomingu • Ethiopia: Hohe Publishing • Croatia: VBZ EL CARRER DE LES CAMÈLIES (1962) • Catalan: Club Editor • Spain: Edhasa • Italy: Nuova Frontiera, 2009 • France: Les Editions Féderop (cxl) Tinta blava, 2006 (cxl) • Germany: Suhrkamp • USA: Graywolf Press (cxl) • China: China Hoy • Serbia: Laguna, 2009 • Netherlands: Menken, Kasander & Wigman, 2013 • Bulgaria: Ciela • Sweden: Bokforlaget Fischer & Co., 1992 (cxl) JARDÍ VORA EL MAR •Catalan: Club Editor • Spain: Edhasa • Italy: La Tartaruga; Baldini & Castoldi; La Nuova Frontiera, 2010 • Sweden: Bokforlaget Fischer & co. • USA: Graywolf Press (cxl) • Czech Republic: Slovenky Spisovatel • Netherlands: Menken Kasender & Wighman • Germany: Mare Verlag, 2014 • Israel: Carmel ALOMA (1937) • Catalan: Club Editor; Edicions 62 • Spain: Alianza (cxl); Circulo de Lectores; Proa • Germany: Suhrkamp • France: Jacqueline Chambon (cxl) • Italy: Nuova Frontiera, 2011 • Netherlands: De Bezije Bij (cxl) • Sweden: Bokforlaget Fischer & Co.(cxl) • Czech Republic: Editions Odéon LA MEVA CRISTINA I ALTRES CONTES (1967) • Catalan: Club Editor, Edicions 62 • Spain: Edhasa; Alianza (cxl); Hermes Editorial • USA: Graywolf Press • Netherlands: De Bezige Bij • UK: Arena • Italy: Bollati Boringhieri (cxl), 1993 • France: El Trabucaire, 2003 • Brazil: Instituto Brasileiro de Filosofia e Ciencia VIATGES I FLORS • Catalan: Edicions 62, 2011 • Spain: Edhasa • Italy: Bollati Boringhieri, 1995 (cxl) • Russia: Raduga Publisher House • Germany: Suhrkamp • Poland: Erakis • France: Éditions Federop, 2013 MIRALL TRENCAT (1974) • Catalan: Club Editor; Edicions 62; Gran Exits SL • Spain: Seix Barral; Debate; Mediasat, El Mundo; Hermes Editora; Bookclub: Circulo de Lectores • Germany: Suhrkamp • France: Verdier (cxl), Editions Autrement, 2011 • Italy: Nuova Frontiera, 2013 • Netherlands: De Bezige Bij (cxl), Meulenhoff, 2008 (cxl)• Norway: Gyldendal • USA: University of Nebraska Press, 2006 • Brazil: Planeta Brazil • India: Confluence International, 2007• Israel: Carmel Publishing, 2010 • Portugal: ASA, 1992 • Euskadi: Alberdania, 2013 • Hungary: L’Harmattan • Croatia: VBZ LA MORT I LA PRIMAVERA (1986) • Catalan: Club Editor • Germany: Suhrkamp, 1996 • France: Actes Sud (cxl); Gallimard (ppbk), 2008 • Italy: Sellerio Editore, 2004 • Portugal: Relogio d’Agua editores • Spain: Seix Barral (cxl)• Film rights: Enrich Producciones • USA: Open Letter, 2009 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff (cxl) VINT-I-DOS CONTES • Catalan: Club Editor; Editorial Selecta; Barcanova • Spain: Edhasa; Mondadori; CECISA (cxl) • Italy: Bollati Boringhieri (cxl)
QUANTA, QUANTA GUERRA (1980) • Catalan: Club Editor • Spain: Edhasa • Italy: Bollati Boringhieri (cxl)• France: Aralia Editions; Gallimard, 2008 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2007 (cxl) • USA: Triquarterly (cxl) • Portugal: Ediçoes Cotovia • USA: Open Letter, 2015 ISABEL I MARIA • Catalan: Club Editor • Spain: Edhasa • Italy: La Tartaruga; Baldini & Castoldi; Nuova Frontiera
Montserrat Roig Montserrat Roig (Barcelona, 1946-1991) is one of the best-selling authors on the Catalan literary scene and is considered to be amongst the most lucid and authoritative of her generation. Throughout her lifetime, Roig combined writing with journalism. Among her most important works is an extensive article, unique in its commitment and depth of research, titled ELS CATALANS ALS CAMPS NAZIS (1977). EL TEMPS DE LES CIRERES (1978) is a magnificent portrait of the Catalan middle classes at the time Spanish society was awaking from the long slumber of Franco’s dictatorship. It also anticipates the feminist preoccupations of her later novels. L’HORA VIOLETA (1981) made Roig the highest selling author in Spain. It is a generational study involving three women in relationships with men that are both antagonistic and submissive. The unique period in which it was written – towards the end of Spain’s transition to democracy– and the lack of stereotyping so common in more superficial treatments of these issues, give this novel an importance both as a historical record and as a work of literature. L’AGULLA DAURADA (1986) is the product of the two months Roig spent in Leningrad, where she was invited by the Progress publishing house in Moscow to document the Second World War siege, in which the Nazis condemned many thousands of Russians to death by starvation. Using historical documents, survivors’ testimonies and the author’s own moral sense, she interweaves the horrendous past of the war with the unique present of life in a large Soviet city, creating a fascinating portrait which works both as a narrative and a documentary report. LA VEU MELODIOSA (1987) marked Roig’s return to the novel. It is an explicit tribute to the great masters of modern Catalan literature: Mercè Rodoreda, Narcís Oller and Salvador Espriu. Set in post-war Barcelona, a claustrophobic environment marked by bleakness and defeat, it shows Roig at the peak of her form, and moves lightly between the colloquial and the exquisitely lyrical. In this novel, Roig’s style becomes an expression of a solid and mature vision of her own profession. EL CANT DE LA JOVENTUT (1990), her last book, collects eight narratives in which the author writes poetically and ironically of lost youth, sex, death, memory and oblivion and, ultimately, of language as the gift which gives shape and meaning to human experience.
Alejandro Rossi Alejandro Rossi was born in Florence, though he spent most of his life in México. He also lived in Germany and England where he studied Philosophy. Rossi was a professor in the Philosophy Department at the Arts and Philosophy Research Institute (UNAM) since 1958. He was a co-founder and co-director of the journal Crítica, Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía, member of the advisory board of the editorial office of Plural magazine as well as a founding member and acting director of Vuelta magazine. His most important works include LENGUAJE Y SIGNIFICADO (1968), MANUAL DEL DISTRAÍDO, (1978), SUEÑOS DE OCAMAN (1982), EL CIELO DE SOTERO (1987), LA FÁBULA DE LAS REGIONES (1997), CARTAS CREDENCIALES (1999) and UN CAFÉ CON GORRONDONA (1999). His last novel, EDÉN: VIDA IMAGINADA, a novelized autobiography, was published in 2007. He died in 2009 after a long battle with cancer. A cult hero among Latin America authors, his Complete Works has recently been compiled by the Fondo de Cutura Economica. The diversity of Rossi’s own life lies at the root of his literature. He offers a perplexed European outlook on a ruptured - "unravelled", as he puts it – Latin American reality. In the tradition of his mentor Borges, Rossi transcends the boundaries between genres, which seem to him as blurred or arbitrary as those that divide the nations of Latin America. Halfway between fiction and essay, MANUAL DEL DISTRAÍDO is a collection of pieces written for Rossi’s regular column in Plural, the magazine edited by Octavio Paz. With intellectual incisiveness and exquisite craftsmanship, he covers everything from Berkeley's doctrine to Kafka's characters, from the ideas of Croce or Ortega y Gasset to a series of fantasies in which imaginary maps merge into real geographical regions. With this book, Rossi reveals one of his greatest literary virtues: that of transforming the most seemingly austere, sober topics into literary gems that sparkle with intelligence and wit. LA FÁBULA DE LAS REGIONES is a volume of six short stories, fables or allegories about those sweet and violent regions which make America an unformed yet ancient continent. With their combination of squalor and utopia, Rossi's tales describe the age-old and also utterly contemporary vicissitudes of the continent's most anonymous regions because, as he himself notes, ‘the real homelands are the regions, not the borders created by political diplomacy.’
“His clear, transparent prose brings together, with devilish perfection, the most diametrically opposed qualities: clarity and mystery, melancholy and irony.” Octavio Paz “Alejandro Rossi has striven to maintain his eccentric position as an unparalleled intelligence, an unusual voice, going against the tide, with prose as brilliant and original as an unclassifiable metal.” Juan Villoro
EDÉN: VIDA IMAGINADA (2007) Latin America: Fondo de Cultura, 2007 • Spain: Lumen, 2007 • France: Gallimard, 2009 MANUAL DEL DISTRAÍDO (1987) • Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1978; FCE; Venezuela: Monte Ávila, 1987 • Spain: Anagrama, 1980; 1997 (cxl); Debolsillo, 2007; Mondadori • France: Gallimard LA FÁBULA DE LAS REGIONES (1997) • Spain & Latin America Random House Mondadori (ppbk)• Spain: Anagrama, 1997 (cxl) • France: Gallimard, 2000 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2000 • Italy: Le Lettere, 2002
Pedro Salinas Pedro Salinas was born in Madrid in 1891. He published his first book of poems, PRESAGIOS, in 1924, when he was a professor of Literature. It was followed by SEGURO AZAR, FÁBULA Y SIGNO, LA VOZ A TI DEBIDA and RAZÓN DE AMOR. He left Spain after the Spanish Civil War, and spent the rest of his life in exile in North America, where he continued to work as a university professor. He published two other books of poems in the United States, EL CONTEMPLADO and TODO MÁS CLARO. He also wrote critical analyses of the classics, including notable essays on Jorge Manrique and Rubén Darío. He also created a modern version of the poem EL CANTAR DEL MÍO CID. CARTAS DE AMOR A MARGARITA, published posthumously, is a collection of his love letters to his wife Margarita Bonmatí, to whom he dedicated his most renowned work, LA VOZ A TI DEBIDA. Salinas died in Boston in 1951. Pedro Salinas is one of the most important Spanish poetic figures of the 20th century. His teachings, along with those of Juan Ramón Jiménez, played a key role in the poetic revolution sparked by the ‘1927 Generation,’ which included such figures as Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Jorge Guillén and Luis Cernuda. His poetry, while modern in style and content, clearly manifests the influence of the great masters of the Spanish language, providing an indispensable bridge between the traditional and the avant-garde. Even today, so many years after his death, Salinas is recognised by many as one of the seminal poets of Spain and Latin America.
Eugenio Trías Eugenio Trías was born in Barcelona in 1942 and sadly passed away in 2013. He dedicated much part of his life to teaching Philosophy at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Trias was a prolific essayist, whose most important works include: TRATADO DE LA PASIÓN (1978), LO BELLO Y LO SINIESTRO (National Essay Prize 1983) and the trilogy composed by LÓGICA DEL LÍMITE (1991), LA EDAD DEL ESPÍRITU, (Premio Ciudad de Barcelona, 1995), and LA RAZÓN FRONTERIZA (1999). He has been one of Spain’s best-known philosophers and in 1995 he became the first Spanish intellectual ever to be awarded the prestigious Friedrich Nietzsche Prize. Previous winners of this prize, which recognises the full scope of a philosopher’s work, include Karl Popper, Jacques Derrida, Richard M. Rorty and Emanuele Severino. www.eugeniotrias.com
El hilo de la verdad
Essay
320 pages Spain and Latin America: Editorial Galaxia Gutenberg, 2014
De cine. Aventuras y extravíos
Essay
368 pages Spain and Latin America: Editorial Galaxia Gutenberg, 2013 Just like true art, music possesses that particular quality that makes it a vehicle between the intellect and the senses. It is a discipline that is always able to enrich spirituality with an intensity achieved by no other form of human expression. With LA IMAGINACIÓN SONORA, Eugenio Trías proposes a framework for the great musical creations of the western world which, for around the last thousand years, have been intimately linked to the JudeoChristian mentality. In the form of several very distinct essays, the authors take the reader on a journey, just as they did in EL CANTO DE LAS SIRENAS (THE SIRENS’ CHANT), through some of the most important achievements of that musical adventure, emphasizing those aspects that they find most interesting, underscoring their origins as sounds and considering the texts that brought them to life. The author revisits some of the most distinguished composers who were prominently featured in the previous volume, such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mahler, Schoenberg, and Ligeti, LA IMAGINACIÓN SONORA (2010) •Spain: Editorial Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2010 • Italy: Marco Tropea Editore EL CANTO DE LAS SIRENAS. ARGUMENTOS MUSICALES (2007) • Spain: Editorial Galaxia Gutenberg / Círculo de Lectores, 2007 • Italy: Marco Tropea Editore, 2009 LA POLÍTICA Y
SU SOMBRA (2005)
•Spain: Anagrama, 2005 EL ÁRBOL DE LA VIDA (2003) • Spain: Destino, 2003 VÉRTIGO Y
PASIÓN
(1998)
• Spain: Taurus, 1998 LA EDAD DEL ESPÍRITU (1994) • Spain: Destino, 1994 • Book club rights: Círculo de Lectores; Debolsillo, 2011 (ppbk)
PENSAR LA RELIGIÓN (1997) • Spain and Latin America: Destino, 1997 • Argentina: Altamira Editores • Sweden: Bokforlaget Thales, 2003 EL ARTISTA Y LA CIUDAD (1976) • Spain: Anagrama, 1976 • Italy: Le Lettere • Portugal: Editores Fim do Seculo TRATADO DE LA PASIÓN (1979) • Spain: Taurus, 1979 (cxl); Grijalbo Mondadori, 1988 (ppbk) (cxl) • Spain and Latin America: Debolsillo (ppbk) • Italy: Annanke Edizione • Brazil: Via Verita LO BELLO Y LO SINIESTRO (1997) • Spain: Taurus, 1997 • Spain and Latin America: Santillana, Ariel; Debolsillo (ppbk), 2011 • Portugal: Fim do Seculo; Debolsillo (ppbk) LA FILOSOFÍA Y SU SOMBRA (1995) • Spain: Destino, 1995 (ppbk) • Taurus, 1997 • USA: Columbia University Press, 1983 LÓGICA DEL LÍMITE (1990) • Spain: Destino, 1990 DICCIONARIO DEL ESPÍRITU (1996) • Spain: Planeta, 1996 (cxl) DRAMA E IDENTIDAD (1993) • Spain: Destino, 1993 (ppbk) • Taurus, 1997 LA RAZÓN FRONTERIZA (1999) • Spain: Destino, 1999 • Slovenia: Studenska Zalozba LOS LÍMITES DEL MUNDO (2000) • Spain: Destino, 2000 POR QUÉ NECESITAMOS LA RELIGIÓN (2000) • Spain: Plaza & Janés, 2000 (cxl)
Esther Tusquets Esther Tusquets was born in Barcelona in 1936 and studied Philosophy and Letters at the universities of Barcelona and Madrid, specialising in History. She served as the publishing director of Lumen for four decades. In addition to EL MISMO MAR DE TODOS LOS VERANOS, EL AMOR ES UN JUEGO SOLITARIO (winner of the 1979 City of Barcelona award), and VARADA TRAS EL ÚLTIMO NAUFRAGIO, an extraordinary fiction trilogy, she is also the author of the novels PARA NO VOLVER, CON LA MIEL EN LOS LABIOS, BINGO and the autobiographical CORRESPONDENCIA PRIVADA and of the short story collections SIETE MIRADAS EN UN MISMO PAISAJE and LA NIÑA LUNÁTICA (winner of the City of Barcelona award). Her work has been widely translated. She passed away in 2012.
Trilogía del mar / The Sea Trilogy
Novel
554 pages Spain and Latin America: Ediciones B, 2011 By the time Esther Tusquets’ second novel, EL AMOR ES UN JUEGO SOLITARIO , won the City of Barcelona Award for Literature in 1979, she had already received unanimous acclaim from readers and critics for her debut novel, EL MISMO MAR DE TODOS LOS VERANOS. Two years later, this original trilogy about relationships would culminate with VARADA TRAS EL ÚLTIMO NAUFRAGIO. Starting with Elia, the main character whose name remains the same but whose identity varies in each of the three novels, Tusquets builds a trilogy where love, sensuality and abandonment of pleasure are recurring themes. These subjects allow the author to explore and rebuild the female universe. “EL MISMO MAR DE TODOS LOS VERANOS is an intense story about incidental love. What matters is the revolutionary and daring rescue of all pleasurable feelings, the hymn to abolished sensuality. A hymn that only a truly rebellious girl could sing like this, ignoring and discarding all that is established and invented.” Carmen Martín Gaite, Diario 16 “Esther Tusquets’s best novel.”
Pere Gimferrer on VARADA TRAS EL ÚLTIMO NAUFRAGIO
“I would go as far as to say that EL MISMO MAR DE TODOS LOS VERANOS is one of the most beautiful books written in Spain in the last years, a lucid and desperate story, a piercing accusation of a certain social class.” Pedro Altares
TIEMPOS QUE FUERON (2012) • Spain: Ediciones B, 2012 PEQUEÑOS DELITOS ABOMINABLES (2010) • Spain: Ediciones B, 2010 HABÍAMOS GANADO LA GUERRA (2007) • Spain: Bruguera, 2007 • USA: Peter Lang, 2013 BINGO (2007) • Spain: Anagrama, 2007 • Portugal: Ediçoes 70, 2009 • Brazil: Almedina Brazil Ltd., 2010 CONFESIONES
DE UNA EDITORA POCO MENTIROSA
(2005)
• Spain: R que R editorial, 2005 • Spain and Latin America: Ediciones B, 2012 CORRESPONDENCIA PRIVADA (2001) • Spain: Anagrama, 2001 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2003 • English-World: Associated Univ. Press, 2008 CON LA MIEL EN LOS LABIOS (1997)
• Spain: Anagrama, 1997; Círculo de Lectores • Portugal: Pergaminho, 1998 EL MISMO MAR DE TODOS LOS VERANOS (1978) • Spain: Lumen, 1978; (ppbk): Anagrama, 1990; Castalia, 1997; Ediciones B • France: Robert Laffont, 1991 • Italy: La Tartaruga, 1979 • USA: University of Nebraska, 1990 • Germany: Rowohlt, 1980, Wagenbach, 2002 • Main Land China: Peoples Literary Publishing House, 2007 • Czech Republic: Dybbuk, 2013 EL AMOR ES UN JUEGO SOLITARIO (1981) • Spain: Lumen, 1981; (ppbk): Anagrama, 1996, Ediciones B • Germany: Rowohlt, 1982 • Netherlands: Meulenhoff, 1987 • Hungary: Magvetö Könyvkiado, 1991 VARADA TRAS EL ÚLTIMO NAUFRAGIO (1998) • Spain: Editorial Anagrama, 1998; Ediciones B • USA: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1991 SIETE MIRADAS EN UN MISMO PAISAJE (2001) • Spain: Editorial Anagrama, 2001 • Germany: Editions Erata, 2008 • USA: Host Publications, 2011 PARA NO VOLVER (2005) • Spain: Editorial Anagrama, 2005 • USA: The University of Nebraska Press, 2000
Fernando Vallejo Fernando Vallejo (Medellín, Colombia, 1942) is a writer, filmmaker and biologist. He studied Philosophy and Literature in universities in Bogotá, as well as film directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. He has spent most of his life in Mexico, where he directed three movies and wrote all his works, many of which have been translated to many languages. He is regarded as the first Latin American novelist to have broken with the tradition of “magical realism”. He has received many important acknowledgments for his works, including the Rómulo Galllegos Prize and the Premio FIL of Literature in Romance Languages. He distinguishes himself as a hard critic of the Catholic Church, the way of doing politics in Colombia, false morals, physics, formalities and the expresident Álvaro Uribe. Two of his novels –EL DESBARRANCADERO y LA VIRGEN DE LOS SICARIOS- appear among the top fifteen titles on the list made in 2007 by 81 writers and critics in Spain and Latin America, a list of the best 100 books in the Spanish language from the last 25 years. In 2012 he was recognized as one of the “10 most influential intellectuals in Iberoamerica in 2012” by readers of the magazine Foreign Policy. In 2000 his most famous novel EL VIRGEN DE LOS SICARIOS (OUR LADY OF THE ASSASINS) was made into a movie by the Iranian director Barbet Schroeder. In 2009 Vallejo was named Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. “His explosive rage is so brilliant, so resonant, real, sincere, funny at times, cruel almost always, that reading him is somehow enjoyable and invigorating.” Pedro Almodóvar “Fiction full of bite, colour and confidence that at the same time is rooted in heartbreaking experience and crackling with humour, insolence and diatribes.” Mario Vargas Llosa “An enraged, imprecatory, apocalyptical prose, with a desperation that reveals a deep tenderness.” Judith Steiner, Les Inrockuptibles “Vallejo’s work is unlike anything written today in Spanish. Vallejo is an authentic magician and master with language.” Miguel Sánchez-Ostiz, ABC Cultural
¡Llegaron! / They’re here!
Novel
171 pages Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2015 Vallejo is back, full of bite and funnier than ever in this return to his childhood and his días azules. The author himself sits on a plane ride back to Mexico from Colombia and tells the man beside him, a psychiatrist, all the nitty gritty that went down in his family country home named “Santa Anita”. Imagine the stampede of twenty brothers through the orange and lemon trees of rural Medellín! Every summer, like a plague of locusts, they arrive in their little Ford truck and bring their grandparents mayhem. In spite of them stealing dentures, making fun of atomic farts, playing all sorts of tricks, the author sings his ode to happier times in Colombia and professes his undying love for his grandmother. CASABLANCA LA BELLA (2013) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2013 EL DON DE LA VIDA (2010) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2010
MI HERMANO EL ALCALDE (2004) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2004 • France: Belfond, 2007 • Poland: Muza, 2007 LA VIRGEN DE LOS SICARIOS (2004) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2004 • France: Belfond, 1997 • UK: Serpent’s Tail, 2001 • Germany: Paul Zsolnay, 2000 (cxl) • Italy: Guanda, 1999 (cxl) • Holland: De Geus, 1999 • Poland: Muza, 2007 • Brazil: Companhia das Letras, 2006 • Portugal: Teorema, 2001 • Czech Republic: Editions Fra, 2013 • Russia: MITIN Zhurnal, 2004 • Slovenia: Skuç, 2014 • Serbia: Narodna Knjiga, 2005 LA RAMBLA PARALELA (2002) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2002 • France: Belfond, 2004 EL DESBARRANCADERO (2001) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2001 • France: Belfond, 2001 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2004 • Brazil: Objetiva, 2008 • Japan: Shorai-Sha, 2011 • Slovenia: Modrijan, 2014 • USA: New Directions EL RÍO DEL TIEMPO (1999) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 1999 LOS DÍAS AZULES (1985) • Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 1985 • Germany: Suhrkamp, 2008 • Poland: Muza, 2006 EL FUEGO SECRETO (1987) • Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 1987 • France: Belfond, 1998 LOS CAMINOS A ROMA (1988) • Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 1988 AÑOS DE INDULGENCIA (1989) • Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 1989 ENTRE FANTASMAS (1993) • Spain and Latin America: Santillana, 1993
Non-fiction: PERORATAS (2013) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2013 LA PUTA DE BABILONIA (2012) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2012 • Italy: Nuovi Mondi, 2012 • Slovenia: Ciceron, 2012 MANUALITO DE IMPOSTUROLOGÍA FÍSICA (2005) • Spain and Latin America: Taurus, 2005 LA TAUTOLOGÍA DARWINISTA Y OTROS ENSAYOS DE BIOLOGÍA (2002) • Spain and Latin America: Taurus, 2002 LOGOI UNA GRAMÁTICA DEL LENGUAJE LITERARIO (1983) • Spain and Latin America: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007
Biography: EL CUERVO BLANCO (2012) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2012 ALMAS EN PENA CHAPOLAS NEGRAS (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2008 BARBA JACOB EL MENSAJERO (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2008
Juan Gabriel Vásquez Juan Gabriel Vásquez, (Bogotá, 1973) is best known as the author of EL RUIDO DE LAS COSAS AL CAER, winner of the IMPAC, Premio Alfaguara and the English Pen Award, and also a finalist for the Médicis. Prior to that, he wrote the short story collection LOS AMANTES DE TODOS LOS SANTOS and the novels LOS INFORMANTES, and HISTORIA SECRETA DE COSTAGUANA , all of which were rapturously received by critics and readers alike. He studied Latin American literature at the Sorbonne in Paris, and made Barcelona his home for more than a decade. His short stories have appeared in anthologies in all over the world. He has translated the works of E.M Forster, Victor Hugo and John Hersey, among others, and his articles appear regularly both in Spanish and Latin-American publications. Ever since the publication of his first novel, Juan Gabriel Vásquez has consistently impressed readers and reviewers with his talent, wisdom and his astonishing narrative maturity. To date his books have received an incredible range of international acknowledgments. They have been published in 23 languages and 30 countries. He is the two-time winner of the Premio Nacional Simón Bolívar and more noteworthy, he won the Roger Caillois in Paris in 2012 for all of his works, an award also given to Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Ricardo Piglia and Roberto Bolaño. He was also the 2013 recipient of the Von Rezzori award. LAS REPUTACIONES is his fourth and most recent novel, finalist for the I Bienal Mario Vargas Llosa, the Prix Fémina and the Prix Médicis.
“Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most original new voices of Latin American literature.” Mario Vargas Llosa “What Vásquez offers us, with great narrative skill, is that grey area of human actions and awareness where our capacity to make mistakes, betray, and conceal creates a chain reaction which condemns us to a world without satisfaction.” Carlos Fuentes “For anyone who has read the entire works of Gabriel García Márquez and is in search of a new Colombian novelist, then Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a thrilling new discovery.” Colm Toibin
La forma de las ruinas / The Form of the Ruins
Novel
523 pages Spain and Latin America: Editorial Alfaguara, 2015 Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s anxiously awaited novel is here with a narrative that is simply impeccable and an innovative reflection on how the collective experience sneaks its way into the individual experience. Playing with autobiographical fiction and Colombia’s 20th century history, readers are driven into the two assassinations and conspiracies that marked its course forever: Rafael Uribe Uribe and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. Guiding us through the nation’s intricacies that parallel other experiences, such as JFK, we are taken along on a writer’s persistent search for more answers than one. This author’s most ambitious, brilliant and breatktaking novel yet. In 2014, a man is arrested for trying to steal a dead politician’s suit, the one belonging to Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the political leader assassinated in Bogotá in 1948. This man’s name is Carlos Caballo and he’s searching for signs to uncover the mysteries of a past that obsesses him. What connects the assassinations of the Colombian liberal senator Rafael Uribe Uribe in 1914, of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, whose death broke Colombia’s past in half, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy? How do these crimes come together? What secrets do their ruins hide? A chance encounter places Carballo on the same path as the writer of this novel, and his revelations lead him deep down into the darkest extremes of historical investigation. With the documentary pulse of a historian, the cutting and illuminating sight of an experimental novelist and the skill of a magnificent narrator, Juan Gabriel Vásquez explores the uncertain truths of a country that still doesn’t know itself.
LAS REPUTACIONES (2013) Finalist for I Bienal Mario Vargas Llosa, Prix Fémina and for Prix Médicis • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Alfaguara, 2013 • France: Seuil, 2014 • Germany: Schöeffling, 2014 • Italy: Feltrinelli, 2014 • Hungary: Ab Ovo, 2014 • English World: Bloomsbury • Netherlands: Signatuur, 2014 • Brazil: Bertrand • Turkey: Everest Yayinlari • China: Shanghai 99 • Poland: Foksal • Croatia: Vukovic & Runjic • Greece: Ikaros EL RUIDO DE LAS COSAS AL CAER (2011) XIV Premio Alfaguara de Novela, IMPAC Prize, English Pen Award, Finalist for Prix Fémina and for Prix Médicis • Spain and Latin America: Editorial Alfaguara, 2011 • English World Rights: Bloomsbury, 2013 • US: Riverhead, 2013 • Portugal: Santillana • Poland: Muza, 2013 • Germany: Schoeffling • Italy: Ponte alle Grazie, 2013 • Netherlands: Uitgeverij Signatuur, 2012 • Brazil: Objetiva, 2013 • France: Seuil, 2012 • Israel: Keter • Turkey: Everest Yayinlari, 2012 • Korea: Munhakdongne Publishing Corp.• Greece: Ikaros • Sweden: Brombergs, 2014 • Norway: Aschehoug • Czech Republic: Paseka • Denmark: Turbine Forlaget • Japan: Shorai Sha • Croatia: Vukovic & Runjic • China: Horizon Media • Taiwan: Thinkingdom • Romania: Polirom • Arabic: General Egyptian Book Organization • Serbia: Booka LOS AMANTES DE TODOS LOS SANTOS (2008) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2008 • France: Ed. Seuil, 2011 • Germany: Schöeffling & Co, 2013 • UK: Bloomsbury, 2015 • US: Riverhead HISTORIA SECRETA DE COSTAGUANA (2007) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2007 • Italy: Ponte alle Grazie, 2008 • Poland: Muza, 2009 • France: Ed. Seuil, 2010 • Germany: Schöeffling & Co, 2011; (ppbk) Fischer Verlag • World English Rights: Bloomsbury, 2010 • Netherlands: Uitgeverij Signatuur, 2010 • Turkey: Everest Yayinlari, 2010 • Brazil: L&PM Editores, 2012 • Japan: Kazeno • Japan: Shorai Sha • China: Horizon Media LOS INFORMANTES (2004) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2004 • France: Ed. Seuil • World English Rights: Bloomsbury, 2008 • Netherlands: Signature, 2008 ● Italy: Ponte alle Grazie, 2008 • Germany: Schöeffling, 2010; (ppbk) Fischer Verlag • USA: Riverhead • Israel: Keter, 2011 • Brasil: L&PM, 2010 • Norway: Livro Forlag, 2010 • Turkey: Everest, 2011 • China: Shanghai 99, 2012 • Bulgaria: Obsidian, 2010 • Hungary: Ab Ovo, 2012 • Israel: Keter Publishing House Ltd. • Brazil: L&PM Editores • Greece: Ikaros • Japan: Sakuhin Sha
Non-fiction: HISTORIA SECRETA DE COSTAGUANA (2009) •Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2009 • UK: Bloomsbury • US: Riverhead
Manuel Vilas Manuel Vilas (Barbastro, Huesca, 1962), like other authors of his generation, has the voice of a 21st century writer. He is the author of the short story collection ZETA (2002), and the novels MAGIA (2004) and ESPAÑA (2008), which was acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, and became a literary phenomenon quite rare to come across in Spanish literature. Vilas has published the following poetry anthologies: EL CIELO (2000), RESURRECCIÓN (2005), XV Premio de Poesía Jaime Gil de Biedma and CALOR (2008), which was awarded the VI Premio Fray Luis de León, was widely acclaimed by the critics and picked by Quimera magazine as one of the best books of 2008. He is also author of the novels AIRE NUESTRO (2009), LOS INMORTALES (2012), EL LUMINOSO REGALO (2013) and SETECIENTOS MILLONES DE RINOCERONTES (2015).
“What really sets the author apart from his generation of current innovate narrators is his distance from established cosmopolitan tendencies, as well as a Spanish innateness that is unabashed, lucid, critical and of universal reach.” Santos Sanz Villanueva, El Cultural (El Mundo) “Vilas is a great poet and as such, is inmortal, living within time. This condition allows him to have a closer relationship with artists who are also like that, such as Kafka, Van Gogh and Picasso.” Jordi Puntí, El Periódico de Catalunya “Manuel Vilas is probably the most dangerous writer there is right now in Spain. Dangerous in the sense that it is unique, independent and unyielding to all conventions.” Javier Calvo, Quimera “No one can deny that Vilas has the narrative pulse of an elite athlete and so much good humour and boldness to offer, all of which are well nourished by tradition.” Manuel de la Fuente, ABC
Setecientos millones de rinocerontes / Seven Hundred Million Rhinos
Novel
232 pages Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2015 A collection of mentally disturbed individuals who look at the world through veils of alcohol, heartbreak or exotic creativity, to bring forth an apparently delusional originality –a vision that reminds us of Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí and Francisco Umbral. Manuel Vilas brings his fantasies to the highest level and, parting from corruption in present day Spain, explores the mysteries behind a divorce. A song to party-goers, beings that populate this author’s universe, generally treacherous, desperate or manic. In this book Vilas dissects the psychology of the modern man and skillfully transmits the contagious joy of living. A manual of anti-psychiatry for those who truly feel and live passionately. A relaxing and unforgettable vacation in the fun and genuine galaxy of Manuel Vilas. EL LUMINOSO REGALO (2013) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara, 2013 • Turkey: Ayrinti, 2015 LISTEN TO ME (2013) • Spain: La Bella Varsovia, 2013 LOS INMORTALES (2012) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara • Italy: Atmosphere Libri
AIRE NUESTRO (2009) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara • France: Passages du Nord-Ouest, 2012 ESPAÑA (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Alfaguara MAGIA(2004) • Spain: DVD Ediciones CALOR (2008) • Spain: Visor RESURECCIÓN (2005) • Spain: Visor ZETA (2002) • Spain: Salto de Página EL CIELO (2000) • Spain: Visor
Gabriela Wiener Gabriel Wiener (Lima, 1975) is considered one of the most relevant voices in her generation of writers, particularly when it comes to first person narrative. Her writing first appeared in Etiqueta Negra, and she was the culture editor of the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio. She has published an anthology of her gonzo journalism, SEXOGRAFÍAS, a collection of chronicles, and NUEVE LUNAS, a nakedly honest book about her pregnancy. As a professional journalist and also as a critic, she has written for Latin American and Spanish publications including SoHo, Paula, Black Label, Caretas, Crossings, La Vanguardia, El Periódico de Cataluña, Letras Libres, Primera Línea, Quimera and El Pais. In 2012, she was featured in an anthology published by Anagrama and titled Mejor qué ficción: crónicas ejemplares. Also a published poet, she currently lives in Madrid and is finishing a novel. “Wiener writes her adventures as if she were an apprentice to a savage detective.”
Alejandro Zambra
“One of the sexiest voices of our times.”
Rodrigo Fresán
Llamada perdida 300 pages Spain and Latin America: Malpaso, 2015
Narrative
• Peru: Estruendomudo, 2014
Through her well-meditated ensemble of daring and witty autobiographical vignettes, Gabriela Wiener plunges us into the world and vision of a woman who fights her daily demons and who finds redemption in the small things. She describes to us all the first-persons she is able to capture: a politically incorrect yet so tender mother, a wife in a polyamorous marriage, a struggling journalist, a poet deep down, a devote reader of Didion and Bolaño, a nomad who left Lima opting for precariousness in Barcelona and later in Madrid. However, she simultaneously embarks us on a voyage of themes such as emigration, maternity, fear of death, the loneliness of hotel rooms, ugliness, threesomes, the mysterious number eleven, geographical distance from friends. Also included are reflections on two iconic female writers we have to admire in one way or another: the still bestselling Isabel Allende and the romance novelist Corin Tellado, the most read in Spain after Cervantes. With her eyes on the world around her, the author writes about who she is and what she lives, surprising us with her calmly seductive language and sincerity, as well as proving to us that the day to day is an infinite source of inspiration. “These stories are unsettling, on the one hand because they expose passions, fragilities, wounds that are both familiar and strange, and on the other hand because Gabriela Wiener addresses them with a language that doesn’t compare to any other.” Piedad Bonnett “She blurs the lines between journalist and explorer in search of herself, knowledge and experimentation. Readers can ask themselves if she is commissioned by some magazine or by her own soul.”
Juan Bonilla
“A book that sticks onto the reader like a tattoo, with that same insistent and abstract echo of missed calls.” Jorge Carrión NUEVE LUNAS (2009) • Spain and Mexico: Mondadori, 2009 • Peru: Editorial Planeta, 2010 • Latin America: Marea Editorial, 2012 SEXOGRAFÍAS (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Melusina, 2008 • Peru: Editorial Planeta, 2008 • Italy: La Nuova Frontiera, 2012 ANTOLOGÍA GONZO • Spain and Latin America: Random House Mondadori
Carlos Zanón Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, 1966) is a novelist, poet, lawyer, screenwriter, columnist and literary critic. His first poems were published during the 1980's and since then several of his compilations have been published and well received by renowned critics. He made his debut as a novelist in 2008 with NADIE AMA A UN HOMBRE BUENO, then in 2009 published TARDE, MAL Y NUNCA (The Barcelona Brothers) which won Premio Brigada 21 for Best Noir Novel of the Year. His next novel NO LLAMES A CASA was published in 2012 and also won the Premio Valencia Negra for Best Novel of the Year. His novel YO FUI JOHNNY THUNDERS (2014) won critics, readers and other writers over like never before, with six editions and winning the prestigious Dashiell Hammett. It was named one of the best novels in three of Spain’s most important newspapers. Widely considered a Manuel Vásquez Montalbán of his time, others draw comparisons to not only Juan Marsé but also to Jim Thompson, Philip Roth, Cormac McCarthy and even Junot Díaz. However, what sets him apart is his combination of a fast, penetrating prose with cliché free plots and fully drawn out characters who populate the parts of Barcelona a tourist will never see or imagine. Zanón now has his first collection of stories MARLEY ESTABA MUERTO to be published later on this year. “One of the greatest voices in contemporary narrative.”
David Morán, ABC Cultural
“Far from the habit of clichés, Zanón displays a rich set of virtues: sincerity, intensity, elegance.” Milo Krmpotic “The world offered by Zanón is sometimes as dry and precise as Cormac McCarthy’s, other times fresh and overwhelming as Junot Díaz’s, with Francisco Casavellas’s insight and Juan Marsé’s intuition. Chef Zanón is among us and has come to stay.” Lluís Llort, Avui “Carlos Zanón is a ruthless reporter of the new era.” “Zanón’s powerful prose builds and maintains teeth-clenching tension.”
Rosa Mora, El País Tzer Island
“Zanón is a poet at heart and has the soul of a rockstar in the body of a novelist. His work goes beyond your typical thriller, noir tale with a dead corpse in the closet joining together Jim Thompson with Juan Marsé. He turns life’s gorings into the authentic hand of a criminal.” ABC Cultural “Zanon’s unknown Barcelona beats with profound disquiet, a sort of fascinating abyss in which the reader willingly dives into, following events and characters that are as novelesque as they are real. The new Spanish noir is finally here.” Massimo Carlotto “The Spanish Jim Thompson.”
Lorenzo Silva
“With his hard novels of ghostly dead-end streets and of a city full of non-EU citizens, Zanón shows you can be a writer of Barcelona in many ways.” Javier Pérez Andújar “Zanón’s works recall the novels of new journalism, more those of Mailer than of Wolfe, with the defeatist bitterness of John Updike, and Philip Roth’s need to teach.” David Castillo, El Punt-Avui “The manner in which Zanon shows us the hearts and minds of the principals, set against the violence and mind-numbing hopelessness of the barrio, is absolutely wonderful.” Book Reporter “One of Spain’s best noir novel writers and the least predictable.”
Rolling Stone
Marley estaba muerto / Marley Was Dead
Stories
300 pages Spain and Latin America: RBA, 2015 Christmas time, bells are ringing and the children are singing in the plazas of Barcelona. Carlos Zanón’s collection of stories suggests that no time is better for facing individual and exterior truths. With characters crossing paths, reappearing in some stories and disappearing in others, affliction abounds: liver disease, a brain tumour, insanity, physical abuse, obsession, denial, decay. A wife killing herself after her kids were taken away from her in court, a man, stood up in Madrid, who can’t accept his lover didn’t leave her husband, a man who sneaks into his ex-wife’s house with very violent thoughts, and a boy being told too early on that Santa Clause is really his parents. Almost as if they were odes to Lou Reed, Morissey, John Donne, Ian Curtis, Carlos Zanón revamps the ideas of hope and longing without resorting to glitter and the expected clichés. With fluid, lyrical, enticing prose he hypnotizes us into these lives of familiar strangers and reluctant heroes, bringing impressive, multiscopic depth to the old idea of sex, drugs and rock’n roll. YO FUI JOHNNY THUNDERS (2014) Dashiell Hammett Prize 2015 • Spain and Latin America: RBA, 2014 • France: Asphalte; Le Livre de Poche, 2014 NO LLAMES A CASA (2012) • Spain and Latin America: RBA, 2012 • France: Asphalte; Le Livre de Poche, 2014 • Netherlands: De Geus, 2014 • Germany: Nagel & Kimche, 2014 TARDE, MAL Y NUNCA (2011) • Spain and Latin America: RBA, 2011 • France: Asphalte; Le Livre de Poche, 2012 • Italy: E/O, 2012 • USA: Other Press, 2012 • Netherlands: De Geus, 2013 NADIE AMA A UN HOMBRE BUENO (2008) • Spain and Latin America: Quadrivium, 2008
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