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Javier Cercas was officially inducted as a member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) in a ceremony held on Sunday, November 24, 2024, in Madrid. Cercas has now taken over the 'R' chair, a prestigious seat in the academy that was previously held by the late novelist Javier Marías. During the ceremony, Cercas honored Marías, his predecessor, paying tribute to the renowned writer's literary contributions and his legacy....

Mempo Giardinelli has received the XIII Caccuri Literary Award, granted by the Italian Chamber of Deputies, in recognition of his literary career and ties to Italian culture.

In 2007, he had already won Italy's Grinzane-Montagna Award from the Grinzane-Cavour Foundation for the Italian version of Final de Novela en Patagonia, and two years later he was honoured with the Giuseppe Acerbi Award for "best travel...

The writer and dear friend Antonio Skármeta passed away on 15th October 2024 in Santiago, Chile. He was the author of Ardiente paciencia (El cartero de Neruda), a story of love and friendship that brought him international fame, as well as novels, short stories and plays, which gave rise to great films, and which have made him one of the most widely read and loved Chilean authors in the world.

His literary work has...

Carme Riera has received the 2024 José Luis Sampedro Award from the city of Getafe. She will collect the award as part of the Getafe Negro Festival, which will take place this year from October 19 to 27.

The José Luis Sampedro Award was established by Getafe Negro in 2009, with Sampedro himself as its first recipient in a tribute held during the festival's third edition. Since then, it has been awarded to authors...

Teresa Muñoz wins the 39th Ramon Muntaner Prize for Young Adult Novel with Bereshit, a fantastical and striking story in which witches take center stage. 

Bereshit deals with adolescent grief through Greta, a seventeen-year-old girl who loses her sister in a traffic accident.  

With this work, the author also seeks to honor the role of "healers," who were tortured and burned. "As authors of young adult literature,...

Els nostres autors a La Setmana del Llibre en Català.
Lloc: Passeig Lluís Companys, Barcelona.

21 de setembre
RAMÓN GENER
Presentació del llibre Història d’un piano, amb Glòria Gasch.
13:00 h. Escenari 1

DAVID CIRICI
Taula rodona de novel·la distòpica sobre Estimat avatar, amb Aniol Florensa i Ricard Ruiz Garzón
17:30 h. Escenari 1

CARME SOLÉ VENDRELL
Signatura dels llibres Un dia de pluja i flors i Fab, el monstre groc
17:30...

By the Rivers of Babylon (Sôbolos Rios Que Vão) by António Lobo Antunes, translated from Portuguese into English by Margaret Jull Costa and published at Yale University Press, has been longlisted for the 2024 National Translation Awards (NTA) in Prose.

Established in 1998, the NTA, which is administered by American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), is an American national award for translated fiction, poetry,...

Delicates by Wendy Guerra, translated from Spanish by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder and published at Seagull Books, has been longlisted for the 2024 National Award Translation in Poetry in the U.S..

Established in 1998, by American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), the NTAs are awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to...

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...