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Javier Cercas won the Planeta Prize 2019 for his novel Terra Alta. This is the most valuable literary award on the Spanish-language market.

With Terra Alta, Cercas begins a series of crime fiction books and returns to the purest fiction, more in line with the stories of The Motive or his first title, The Tenant, than in the non-fiction novels he wrote since the publication of Soldiers of Salamis, 2001.

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The author will receive the award on February 6 at the BCNegra festival.

The jury for the 15th Pepe Carvalho Prize, made up by Antonio Iturbe, Marta Sanz, Xon Pagès, Daniel Vázquez Sallés and Sergio Vila-Sanjuan, with Carlos Zanón as president, has decided unanimously to award the 2020 Pepe Carvalho Prize to the writer Juan Madrid.

The jury highlighted “the literary, political and ethical commitment of Juan Madrid,...

Lamentamos profundamente la muerte de Miguel Catalán, filósofo, escritor y amigo querido. Autor de más de veinte títulos y traducido a varios idiomas, desde el año 1998 elaboraba un tratado sistemático en torno al engaño y la mentira titulado Seudología, del que publicó varias entregas y por el que fue galardonado con diversos premios.  

Desde la agencia expresamos nuestro más sentido pésame a su familia y amigos.

I Detest Mozart, one of the short-stories by Teresa Solana gathered in the collection The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories (Bitter Lemon Press), has been shortlisted for the prestigious CWA Short Story Dagger Award 2019. 

The ten Daggers awarded annually by the CWA are regarded by the publishing world as the foremost British awards for crime-writing. 

The Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) Daggers ar...

Lorenzo Silva signs a deal with The Mediapro Studio (Globomedia) for the adaptation of his novels. The first two projects will be a TV series based on his latest book, Si esto es una mujer (Destino), written in collaboration with Noemí Trujillo, and the long-awaited series about his two characters, Rubén Bevilacqua and Virginia Chamorro, protagonists of nine novels and two short stories.

Loop, by Brenda Lozano, translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott and published in the UK with Charco Press, has been awarded the English PEN Translates on the basis of outstanding literary quality and contribution to literary diversity in the UK alongside 15 other book.

"These awards go to seventeen books of outstanding merit and...

Rodrigo Blanco Calderón (Caracas, 1981) has been awarded this Thursday, May 30^th, the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize for his novel The night (Alfaguara, 2016), a portrait of the city of Caracas after the electric power cuts that occurred in 2010 and that showed the decline of the Venezuelan capital during the Chavismo. The jury has decided to give the award to Blanco Calderón for displaying so many voices in...

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At the beginning of the Transition, two young girls see how their world folds at their feet. One, Sandra Mozarowski, starts acting in movies, appears in magazines and receives the King's attention in person. The second, Clara, sees how the gray world of the dictatorship that squandered the aspirations of his mother gives way to a time of debauchery and freedom for which she will have to pay a high price.

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The Spanish writer Javier Cercas has won the Sicilian Prize 2019, which this year celebrates its third edition, and it has previously been awarded to Isabel Allende and Luis Sepúlveda. This award was created to pay tribute to the best literary voices of our time, to recognize their excellent personal, civil and artistic commitment.

The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, May 25 at 6.30 pm at the Platamone...