Indent Literary Agency

09/09/2025

Delighted to share that LA REINA DE ESPADAS [THE QUEEN OF SWORDS] by Jazmina Barrera, forthcoming in English with Two Lines Press in November and translated by Christina MacSweeney, has been longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Lliterature—congratulations! 🎉

“We meet the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1998), whose life is stitched together through archival research into a work of nonfiction by Jazmina Barrera. Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney, The Queen of Swords paints the portrait of an influential writer, mother, socialite, and activist who—despite troves of photographs, journals, letters, and published works—might never be fully known to her loved ones, or her readers.”

Jazmina Barrera’s previous works have been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize, the NBCC Autobiography Prize, and the Premio Gregor von Rezzori in Italy. LA REINA DE ESPADAS was published in Spanish with Penguin Random House, and World English rights are with Two Lines Press/ The Center for the Art of Translation. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/la-reina-de-espadas

https://www.nationalbook.org/2025-national-book-awards-longlist-for-translated-literature/

09/05/2025

¡Lunes en CDMX! Tamara Tenenbaum presenta UN MILLÓN DE CUARTOS PROPIOS (Ediciones Paidós) en El Desastre. Café + Libros junto a Aura García-Junco

09/04/2025

"A timely callback to Peruvian political bloodletting that blurs the line between victims and perpetrators."

THE YEAR OF THE WIND by Karina Pacheco Medrano (out with Graywolf Press in November, tr. Maya Faye Lethem) in Kirkus Reviews!

A Peruvian woman seeks a cousin lost to the siren call of political violence.

09/03/2025

El Hay Festival ESP Querétaro comienza esta semana! Nuestros autores Tamara Tenenbaum, Aura García-Junco, Elisa Díaz Castelo, Javier Lafuente, Piedad Bonnett y Juan Villoro estarán participando en eventos hasta el 7 de septiembre 🎉

The Hay Festival Queretaro starts this week! Our authors Tamara Tenenbaum, Aura García-Junco, Elisa Díaz Castelo, Javier Lafuente, Piedad Bonnett, and Juan Villoro will be participating in events through September 7 🎉

09/01/2025

LOS NUEVOS—a moving portrait of the path from adolescence into adulthood and Pedro Mairal’s highly anticipated return to the novel after his bestselling LA URUGUAYA—is out today with PlanetadeLibros Argentina! 🎉

LOS NUEVOS is a coming-of-age novel following three young friends in Buenos Aires who create their own family when the adult world fails them. Thiago, haunted by his mother’s death and his father’s neglect, channels his grief into music and reckless behavior. Bruno, abandoned by his family’s expectations, discovers his true calling among Mexican immigrants in Wisconsin. Pilar, left homeless by her mother’s departure, survives through fierce independence and an endless ability to hustle. When they move in together in a shared house in Buenos Aires, they form a band and live as chosen family—three young people raising themselves in a world that is crumbling around them. But as adult responsibilities and romantic entanglements intrude, even their carefully crafted paradise begins to fall apart.

Pedro Mairal constructs a moving, authentic, and powerful novel about abandonment and about the abyss that forms when you leave childhood and its certainties behind. A tender and fierce portrait of three friends who try to carve their own paths in a volatile environment where the only thing that remains firm is the bond that ties them together.

Pedro Mairal’s work has been published in over fourteen languages. LA URUGUAYA has been adapted into film and won the 2017 Tigre Juan Award for Fiction. World Spanish rights are with Planeta and all other rights are available so far. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/los-nuevos

08/27/2025

"A mesmerizing novel out of vignettes featuring characters who left Castro’s Cuba only to experience more dispossession and indignity. (...) It’s a challenging and deeply satisfying work."

And read a starred Publishers Weekly review of FALSE WAR here:

Cuban writer Álvarez (The Fallen) constructs a mesmerizing novel out of vignettes featuring characters who left Castro’s Cuba on...

08/27/2025

Read a review of FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, out with Graywolf Press in November (tr. Natasha Wimmer) in The Guardian!

"Carlos Manuel Álvarez’s second novel is a hugely rewarding, polyphonic narrative of migration from Cuba. Through its characters’ rich and eccentric interior worlds, it gives articulation to people whose lives are often reduced to stereotypes and offers a new vision of migration."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/26/false-war-by-carlos-manuel-alvarez-review-a-new-vision-of-migration?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAadBoIL7s4-wK_4xiyGKhm5XieI4_Sn7Z34_QCZ5ZreOJTvRiFaYnWvsQNBRjg_aem_hbKy5vcA2aPH8MYmh_sODA

A novel of interlocking stories captures the ordinary lives and interior worlds of Cuban exiles seeking sanctuary in Miami

08/26/2025

¡Mañana en CDMX! Alejandra Moffat presenta MAMBO junto a Yol Segura y Jazmina Barrera

08/19/2025

¡Jueves en CDMX! Fernanda Trías presenta EL MONTE DE LAS FURIAS junto a Andrea Chapela y Aura García-Junco

08/18/2025

Poet Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib’s EL VERSO DESREGULADO, a work of literary criticism in which he expands the ways of thinking critically about what poems are and can become, was published this year with LASApress. The ebook can be downloaded for free via LASApress, and it is also available in paperback form.

You can also sign up for Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib’s daily poetry newsletter El poema de hoy at https://zaidenwerg.substack.com/

More information about the book and author: https://www.indentagency.com/el-verso-desregulado

08/08/2025

EL PLANETA DE LOS HONGOS by Naief Yehya () is a history about the use of psychedelic mushrooms and L*D, from the Stone Age to Silicon Valley 🎉

They appeared (arrived?) here millions of years before us. Hundreds of thousands of species exist, of which we are only aware of a small percentage. Their strategy consists of creating close relationships of coexistence, predation, and cooperation with their ecosystems. They possess an unsettling, disembodied mind that can communicate across great distances; they understand their environment and make plans on how to occupy it. They are fundamental for flora and fauna: if it weren’t for them, our ground wouldn’t be fertilized and dead matter wouldn’t decompose, meaning the accumulation of waste would be uncontrollable. Without them, we wouldn’t have alcoholic beverages or penicillin, or hundreds of indispensable medications. And as if this wasn’t enough, some of them produce—without anyone understanding why—substances with no apparent function that possess psychedelic properties capable of crossing the rigid blood-brain barrier: which is to say that when they are ingested, they alter our perception and mental function.

El planeta de los hongos is an essay about our history with these organisms. It is believed that before the appearance of Homo sapiens, hominids had visions, mystical experiences, pleasures, terrors, and revelations upon consuming them. If this is the case, mushrooms could be responsible, at least in part, for the expansion of the mind and the development of culture, technology, and religions.

This is an account of their unusual journey, their apparent disappearance and “rediscovery,” the cultural explosion they caused in the second half of the 20th century, and the impact of their recent resurgence.

Foreign rights handled by Indent on behalf of Anagrama. More information: https://www.anagrama-ed.es/foreign-rights/book/argumentos/el-planeta-de-los-hongos/9788433924353/A_609