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The writer Clara Usón  won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel The Shy Assasin. The award is given within the framework of the International Book Fair of Guadalajara and its purpose is the dissemination of literature written by women (unlike many mixed awards, which are intended to contribute literature written by men).

The jury, composed of Ana García Bergua, Claudia Piñeiro and Daniel Centeno,...

Santiago Posteguillo (Valencia, 1967) won the Planeta Prize 2018 for his novel Yo, Julia. This is the most valuable literary award on the Spanish-language market (€601,000).

Yo, Julia is a historical novel based on the life of Julia Domna, one of the most relevant, fascinating, and unknown female characters in the history of Rome.

Wife and mother of emperors, Julia Domna (170-217), of Syrian origin, was an outsider...

Javier Cercas’ recently released novel, El monarca de las sombras (Actes Sud, with translation by Aleksandar Grujicic) has received exceptionally enthusiastic reviews in France.

Hailed by the French critics as one of the great literary events of the autumn, El monarca de las sombras has been longlisted for the awards: André-Malraux, Médicis étranger and Fémina étranger, and has also been included in the list of the...

“Nunca hablo de dinero con los editores y los productores de cine, porque tengo un agente literario que habla por mí mejor que yo; primero, porque es mujer, y después, porque es catalana. Muchos editores la detestan por la ferocidad con que defiende los centavos de los escritores, sobre todo de los jóvenes y más necesitados, y el día que no la detesten empezaré a sospechar que se pasó al bando contrario.” 

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The writer Marilyn Bobes (Havana, 1955) has been awarded the first Guantanamera Award for Cuban Literature for her book, Alguien tiene que llorar otra vez.

The award is given by Editorial Guantanamera, specialized in current Cuban narrative, and integrated into the Lantia group, and has the support of Carmen Balcells Literary Agency.

"I feel a tremendous happiness for this award, I trust that it will help all my...

Jesús Ferrero (Zamora, 1952) has been awarded the Café Gijón 2018 Prize with his novel Las abismales. The jury of the 68th edition of the award has highlighted "the courage of the author to pose a story that, with a solid anchorage in the most pressing reality, and with accurate philosophical and symbolic references, builds an apocalyptic plot with fantastic dyes, immersed all in an atmosphere of intrigue and...

Luis Goytisolo has been awarded the Carlos Fuentes International Prize for Literary Creation in the Spanish Language 2018, granted by the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico and the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

The Jury mentioned “the irrenunciable and persistent commitment of Luis Goytisolo with literature and his desire to renew the traditional novel through the plurality of perspectives,...

The World Cup in Russia is an excellent opportunity for commemorating Osvaldo Soriano and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Unlike other intellectuals, these writers found prime literary material in football, which they used to portray dignity in the face of defeat. Football, taken to the epic heights seen only in the world of sports, could represent the moral character of a time and country.

Osvaldo Soriano (1943-1997) had...

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We love the initiative to name the month of May as the short story month. Who has come up with this? We don’t know; but in any case, hooray for his great idea. To celebrate this, here is an account of some of the most important short story books published by our authors in recent times.

In Mouthful of Birds, Samanta Schweblin, finalist of the Man Booker International Prize 2017, brings together twenty stories...