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The novel The Weasel and the Whore, by the Cuban author Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas receives the 2024 English PEN Translates Award in the UK. The novel will be translated to English by Julia Sanches and Jennifer Shyue and published by Héloïse Press in 2025.

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

Eva Piquer has won the 18th El Setè Cel Award of Salt (Girona) for the best novel published in Catalan during 2023 for Aterratge (Touchdown). The award is promoted by the Salt City Council in collaboration with the Library Service of the Girona Provincial Council and is the only Catalan literary prize that includes readers and librarians in its final decision.

The other two finalist works were: Et vaig donar ulls i...

The Plenary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) elected, in its session on Thursday, June 13, the writer Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) to occupy chair R, vacant since the death of Javier Marías on September 11, 2022. His candidacy was presented by the academics Pedro Álvarez de Miranda, Clara Sánchez, and Mario Vargas Llosa.

Javier Cercas is one of the most prominent Spanish writers of recent times. He...

ÀFRICA ALONSO
31 de mayo 
18:00 - 20:00 Librería Mujeres (caseta 44 - bloque 5)

SANTIAGO BERUETE
08 de junio
19:00 - 21:00 Librería Olavide, Bar de Libros (caseta 49 - bloque 6)

CUCA CANALS
31 de mayo
19:00 - 21:00 Librería Camelot (caseta 25 - bloque 3)

RAMON GENER
31 de mayo
19:00 - 21:00 Girasol Librería (caseta 140 - bloque 22 A)
01 de junio
13:00 - 15:00 El Argonauta, La librería de la Música (caseta 75 - bloque 13)
19:...

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...

CUCA CANALS
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
19 a 20h: Libelista, Pg. Gràcia/Gran Via
20 a 21h: Casa del Libro, Pg. Gràcia/Aragó

RAM...

'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...