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Alicia Giménez Bartlett has been awarded the 2024 International Costa Smeralda Prize, Italy, for her literary career.

Founded in 2018 by the Costa Smeralda Consortium in Porto Cervo, Sardinia, this award aims to promote culture and literature and 'recognize the most original talents, who raise debates on the major current issues'. Previous recipients of the international category include Orhan Pamuk and Emmanuel...

Carme Solé wins the 45th Illustration Award for Children's Books of Cento (Italy) 2024 for The Children's Crusade.

Founded in 1979 and organized by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, the Premio Letteratura per Ragazzi di Cento is an international competition aimed at authors and illustrators of children's books in Italian, both original and translated.

The Children's Crusade, with text by Bertold Brecht...

El martes 30 de abril Santiago Posteguillo fue condecorado con la Orden de la Democracia ‘Simón Bolívar en el grado Cruz Gran Oficial por el Congreso de la República de Colombia, "por su reconocida y prominente vocación hacia la literatura universal contemporánea".

La Orden de la Democracia Simón Bolívar es un honor y distinción oficial del orden civil concedida por la Cámara de Representantes de Colombia y fue...

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15 a 16h: Edebé, Pg. Gràcia/Parada 21-23

MARIA CLIMENT - A casa teníem un himne / Mai és una paraula molt lletja
10 a 11h: Diari Ara, La Rambla/Canaletes
12 a 13h: Documenta, Pg. Gràcia/Mallorca
13 a 14h: La Impossible, Pg. Gràcia/Provença

16 a 17h: La Central, Mallorca/Rbla. Catalunya
18 a 19h: Abacus, Pg. Gràcia/Diputació
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'Simpatía', by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated from the Spanish by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn and published in the U.K. by Seven Stories Press, has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024. 

A suspenseful novel with unexpected twists and turns about the agony of Venezuela and the collapse of Chavismo, Simpatía has been translated into French, Russian, Portuguese and English. Blanco...

Happy publication day to 'En agosto nos vemos', by Gabriel García Márquez, on the anniversary of his birth!

To be published in 45 languages.

"Volvió a la isla el viernes 16 de agosto en el transbordador de las tres de la tarde. Llevaba pantalones vaqueros, camisa de cuadros escoceses, zapatos sencillos de tacón bajo y sin medias, una sombrilla de raso, su bolso de mano y como único equipaje un maletín de playa. En...

Belén López Peiró wins the English PEN Translates Award 2024 for Why Did You Come Back Every Summer, translated to English by Maureen Shaugnessy and published by Charco Press.

Books from 11 regions and 10 languages have won English PEN’s flagship translation awards. The awards include novels, short story collections, poetry, non-fiction and autofiction.

Will Forrester, Translation and International Manager at...

Imma Monsó wins the Òmnium Prize for Best Novel of the Year 2023 for La mestra i la bèstia (The Teacher and the Beast).

Established in 2017, the award aims to promote the best Catalan literature and is inspired by similar awards such as the French Goncourt and the British Booker.

La mestra i la bèstia is a novel that portrays the story of a special person, a woman who grows up in the silence of the Franco regime...

Ramon Gener has been awarded the 2024 Ramon Llull Novel Prize, one of the most prestigious literary award in the Catalan language, for his novel Història d'un piano (History of a Piano).

Following a career as a baritone spanning various years, Ramon Gener (1967)  began a new stage of his life as a music promoter and writer, giving conferences on classical music and opera. He is best known for his international TV...

Muere Miguel Barroso (Zaragoza, 1953 - Madrid, enero de 2024), periodista, escritor y secretario de Estado de Comunicación durante los años 2004 y 2005.

Fue autor de dos libros que retratan dos momentos clave de Cuba, antes y después de la Revolución. Por un lado, Amanecer con hormigas en la boca (1999), una novela negra ambientada en La Habana efervescente de los años 50. La dictadura de Batista y sus relaciones...