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"Un amor", la adaptación de la extraordinaria novela de Sara Mesa dirigida por Isabel Coixet, ganó el Premio Feroz Zinemaldia, al ser la más votada de la Sección Oficial entre los periodistas que informan del Festival de cine de San Sebastián.
"I’m a huge fan of novels that hint that they’ll fall somewhere in the realm of detective fiction before heading in a very different direction. (...) Juan Cárdenas’s The Devil of the Provinces is very much in this vein, with a biologist at its center who’s prone to distraction even as he reckons with violence both subtle and overt around him."
THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES by Juan Cárdenas (Coffee House Press, tr. Lizzie Davis) is on the Words Without Borders September Watchlist! 🎉
Tobias Carroll recommends new books you won't want to miss from Canada, Colombia, France, the Republic of the Congo, and Russia.
¡Este jueves en CDMX! Elisa Díaz Castelo presenta EL LIBRO DE LAS COSTUMBRES ROJAS junto a Martín Solares y Olivia Teroba
Elefanta Editorial Librerías Gandhi Eventos Gandhi
Huge congratulations to Juan Cárdenas and translator Lizzie Davis—THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES, just published in the US with Coffee House Press, has been longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature! 🎉
After a series of failures, a biologist returns to his hometown to live with his grieving mother. But in this gripping crime novel that upends the genre’s conventions, strange events unravel what he thought he knew of his past, his present, and himself.
When a biologist returns to Colombia after fifteen years abroad, he quickly becomes entangled in the trappings of his past and his increasingly bizarre present: the unsolved murder of his brother, a boarding school where girls give birth to strange creatures, a chance encounter with his irrevocably changed first love. A brush with a well-connected acquaintance leads to a biotechnology job offer, and he’s gradually drawn into a web of conspiracy. Ultimately, he may be destined to remain in the city he’d hoped never to see again—in The Devil of the Provinces, nothing is as it seems.
A starred kirkus review called the novel “Briskly paced, thoughtful, and truly weird: a whodunit that takes on the very idea of blame.”
Rights have sold to Coffee House (English, NA), L’atinoir (French), and Storytel (Spanish Audio) so far. More information: http://www.indentagency.com/el-diablo-de-las-provincias
National Book Foundation
“È il quinto libro di Guadalupe Nettel che leggo ed è il quinto di cui scrivo, eppure all'intensità e all'intelligenza della scrittrice messicana non ci si abitua tanto facilmente. Ogni volta è una rivelazione e una sorpresa perché Nettel conosce e racconta la macchina umana meglio di chiunque altro. E sempre lo fa con parole precise, mai una di troppo: con La vita altrove, l'autrice torna al suo genere letterario preferito, quel racconto che maneggia con talento ed esattezza assoluta. […] La vita altrove è un libro incandescente come non se ne leggono spesso, verissimo, perfetto.”
Correte a leggere le bellissime parole di Andrea Marcolongo a proposito del nuovo libro di Guadalupe Nettel! Oggi, su TuttoLibri La Stampa
¡El Hay Festival Querétaro comienza hoy! Greta García, Aura García-Junco y Paula Canal participarán en los eventos del 7 al 10 de septiembre. 🎉
The Hay Festival in Queretaro starts today! Greta García, Aura García-Junco, and Paula Canal will be participating in the events from September 7-10. 🎉
LOS DIVAGANTES, a new short story collection by Guadalupe Nettel, is out today with Editorial Anagrama! 🎉
In one of the stories, the protagonist describes her encounter with an albatross: that lonely, majestic bird to whom Baudelaire dedicated a poem. She and her father come across what they call “lost albatrosses” or “wandering albatrosses”—birds that, due to overexertion from a lack of wind, go mad, become disoriented, and wind up in places far from their natural habitats. The protagonists of these eight stories are, in their own way, “wanderers.” Some unexpected event has interrupted their routines, forced them to leave their normal space and move through strange territories. These stories, that move between realism and fantasy, confront their characters with that obsession with success and failure that our society has carefully crafted and prove the level of mastery that Guadalupe Nettel has achieved when it comes to this genre.
“Nettel is free. She has fought fiercely, from her very first book, to eliminate overused dogmas and inherited truths, and her merit is notable: under the most overcast skies, she has managed to push forward a unique narrative discourse, a one-of-a-kind and audacious way of inhabiting the world.” —Enrique Vila-Matas
World Spanish rights are with Anagrama, and collection is also out now in Italian (tr. Federica Niola) with La nuova frontiera. More information: http://www.indentagency.com/los-divagantes
THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES by Juan Cárdenas (tr. Lizzie Davis)—"Briskly paced, thoughtful, and truly weird: a whodunit that takes on the very idea of blame"—is one of Kirkus Reviews's 8 Big New Fiction Books from Small Presses! Out next week in English with Coffee House Press 🎉
This fall, some of the most exciting fiction on the market is not coming from the Big 5.
"This would be just another book about motherhood, advice, and self-help were it not for the devastating honesty with which the author—a successful and well-recognized editor and journalist—writes about the experience that keeps humanity alive, almost without a filter."
Read an interview with Ana Wajszczuk about FANTASTICLAND:
La periodista, editora y escritora argentina acaba de publicar “Fantasticland”, su primera novela de no ficción. En su libro, se mete de lleno con la maternidad, la crianza y educación en red y los obstáculos de quienes atraviesan tratamientos de fertilidad.
Aura García-Junco's latest novel DIOS FULMINE A LA QUE ESCRIBA SOBRE MI is out now with Editorial Sexto Piso! 🎉
H. Pascal—the eccentric teacher, writer in the margins and cultural promoter —died abruptly in July of 2019 surrounded by approximately 10,000 books and the overwhelming smell of to***co. This hybrid book—somewhere between an essay and a novel—begins with this event: his daughter spends the nine months after his death trying to answer the questions that haunt her. Why did the “gandalla angel,” as he called himself, end up becoming so distant from her? When did their relationship break? Is there such a thing as reconciliation after death? Generational change, feminism and the tension it creates between fathers and daughters, inheritance, personal libraries, self-publishing, and the peripheral all parade through these pages that oscillate between distance, fury, happiness, humor, and reconciliation.
Spanish rights are with Sexto Piso and English rights have sold to MTO Press so far. More information: http://www.indentagency.com/dios-fulmine-a-la-que-escriba-sobre-mi
¡Mañana en CDMX! Aura García-Junco presenta DIOS FULMINE A LA QUE ESCRIBA SOBRE MÍ junto a Jazmina Barrera y Emiliano Monge
Editorial Sexto Piso
¡Este miércoles en CDMX! Dolores Reyes presenta MISERIA junto a Jazmina Barrera
Librerías Gandhi Eventos Gandhi Alfaguara Alfaguara México
The film adaptation of Sara Mesa's bestselling novel UN AMOR will premiere first at the San Sebastian Film Festival and later in theaters on November 10th!
After escaping city life, Nat (Laia Costa) finds refuge in the small town of La Escapa, deep in rural spain. She is determined to rebuild her life in the rustic, run-down house she rents. After being faced with hostility from her landlord and distrust from the people in town, she finds herself accepting an unsettling sexual proposal from her neighbor Andreas (Hovik Keuchkerian). This confusing and strange encounter will lead to an obsessive and all-consuming passion that will make Nat question the kind of woman she believes she is.
Originally published in Spanish with Editorial Anagrama, rights to UN AMOR have sold to Open Letter Books (English), Editions Grasset (French), Verlag Wagenbach (Germany), Ikaros (Greek), Uitgeverij Wereldbibliotheek (Dutch), Relógio D'Água (Portuguese, Portugal), La nuova frontiera (Italian), Dar Athar (Arabic), Skjødt Forlag (Danish), The Writer's Publishing House (Chinese), Autêntica Editora (Portuguese, Brazil), Wydawnictwo GlowBook (Polish), and Locus (Hebrew) so far and are available in all other territories. Foreign rights are with Indent Literary Agency.
More information: https://www.anagrama-ed.es/foreign-rights/book/narrativas-hispanicas/un-amor/9788433999030/NH_651
Bestselling author and illustrator Amalia Andrade's long-awaited new book NO SÉ COMO MOSTRAR DÓNDE ME DUELE is available for preorder worldwide today! 🎉
About the book, Amalia says, "This is a book that I didn’t want to write at times about that emptiness we carry in our stomach, and about how behind photos, drawings, poems, and songs we can find the most accurate tool to talk about where that thing that hurts us is hurting."
Out in September with Planeta de Libros México and available for preorder now:
Mexico: https://www.planetadelibros.com.mx/libro-no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele/383726
Colombia: https://www.planetadelibros.com.co/libro-no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele/385315
Argentina: https://tienda.planetadelibros.com.ar/products/no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele
Peru: https://www.planetadelibros.com.pe/libro-no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele/384536
Chile: https://www.planetadelibros.cl/libro-no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele/383880 /385657
USA: https://www.planetadelibros.us/libro-no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele/383880
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/no-se-como-mostrar-donde-me-duele
¡Arrancamos el jueves con una gran noticia!
Puedes adquirir Dios fulmine a la que escriba sobre mí, de Aura García-Junco, desde el día de hoy hasta el 31 de agosto y recíbelo firmado en la puerta de tu casa:
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"Nettel writes intimately of the women’s lives — their choices, their concerns, and ultimately their community — in prose that is compelling and complex, bracingly honest and yet heartrending in another thoughtful translation by Harvey."
STILL BORN by Guadalupe Nettel (Bloomsbury Publishing USA, tr. Rosalind Harvey) is on Book Riot's list of Hot Summer 2023 Releases by Women in Translation!
Celebrate Women in Translation Month with this exciting list of new summer releases by women in translation!
LA URUGUAYA, the film based on Pedro Mairal’s bestselling novel, is out today in theaters in Argentina and Uruguay! 🎉 The film has already received recognition at film festivals, including Best Directing at the Mar del Plata Festival, Best Film at the Ibero American Film Festival in Miami, and Audience Choice Award at the Punta del Este Festival.
Lucas Pereyra is a writer going through a midlife crisis who searches for relief from his everyday frustrations—his partner, fatherhood, his financial situation—with a long-awaited getaway to Montevideo. He dreams of reuniting with a free-spirited young girl he met on a previous trip. This is the surprising, moving story of an unexpectedly transformative day in his life.
Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WarfKv4fxb4
LA URUGUAYA has been published in fourteen languages so far. More information: http://www.indentagency.com/la-uruguaya
Lucas Pereyra is a married writer who travels to Montevideo to collect the money for his next novel and avoid the exchange rate. But above all it is an excus...
Hoy en CDMX, Fernanda Melchor y Emiliano Monge conversando.
Happy UK pub day to PINK SLIME by Fernanda Trías (tr. Heather Cleary)! 🎉
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize, and a PEN Translates Award, the novel offers profound reflections on motherhood, marriage, and caregiving, set against the backdrop of a crumbling city.
According to The Scotsman, “This is not a dystopia, but a full-on, Technicolor apocalypse. (...) Pink Slime kept me guessing; but the guesswork is far less important than the emotional heft of it. What caused this chaos, this heartbreak? The pink slime was never the algae or the wind or the rendered meat. The pink slime is us.” Morning Star calls the novel "A chilling tour-de-force by one of the most exciting and subversive voices writing today in Latin America."
Originally published in Spanish with Literatura Random House and Editorial Mantis, the novel is out now in the UK and AU/NZ with Scribe Publications UK / Scribe Publications and will be published with Scribner Books next year. Rights have also sold to edizioni sur (Italian), Editora Moinhos (Portuguese, Brazil), Editorial Aurora Boreal (Danish), Prosak Förlag (Swedish), Actes Sud (French), Dar Athar (Arabic), Ullstein Verlag (German), Kultur Yayinlari (Turkish), Sulakauri Publishing (Georgian), Wydawnictwo Pauza (Polish), Panorama (Film/TV), and Audible (Spanish Audio) so far.
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/mugre-rosa
"This is not a dystopia, but a full-on, Technicolor apocalypse."
A rave review for PINK SLIME by Fernanda Trías (tr. Heather Cleary) in The Scotsman! Out now in AU/NZ with Scribe Publications and out next week in the UK with Scribe Publications UK 🎉
Unsettling and unpredictable, Fernanda Trías’s novel doesn’t describe a dystopia but a full-on, Technicolor apocalypse, writes Stuart Kelly
Guadalupe Nettel's STILL BORN (tr. Rosalind Harvey) is in The New Yorker! 🎉Out in the US next week with Bloomsbury Publishing USA
In her novel “Still Born,” Guadalupe Nettel blurs the lines between family members and strangers.
LO LLAMARÉ AMOR, Pedro Carlos Lemus's beautiful debut novel, is out now with Literatura Random House! 🎉
This is a novel about a young man who is well-versed in sadness. His parents—flawed, like everyone—immersed him in a sea of abandonment, frustration, and spite from early on. And that is where—much like the soap opera heroines he loves and the lyrics of the songs that have hurt and healed him—he learned how to swim freely. That is also where he learned how to fall in love. The young man he loved abandoned him too, although perhaps he wouldn't put it that way. He would put it in a way that was more suggestive, and, therefore, more painful.
To find poetry in suffering, in opacity, in incomprehension, in the melancholy observation of the fabled "completeness" of others, is one of this novel's greatest merits. Like someone who slowly dissects himself in order to study his own fragility and later translate it into images that are as beautiful as they are unforgiving, LO LLAMARÉ AMOR offers a sophisticated and scandalously moving perspective.
Pedro Lemus has written for multiple publications and has been an editor at Laguna Libros since 2018. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/lo-llamare-amor
Penguin Colombia
PODRÍA SER PEOR, a new illustrated book created by Pictoline, is here to remind us that when something goes wrong...it could always be worse.
Impossible tragedies, like being struck by seven rays of lightning. Monumental embarrassments, like appearing in front of the world with a cat filter you can’t get rid of. Epic screwups, like causing the company you work for to lose over 200 million dollars. Errors that became inventions, like Play-Doh, the microwave, and penicillin. Misfortunes, like that of the producer who rejected The Beatles. What all of these situations have in common is that they are REAL, and they confirm that when something goes wrong…it could always get worse.
If you’re having a bad day, this book is for you.
Spanish rights are with Planeta de Libros México. More information: http://www.indentagency.com/podria-ser-peor
Nos complace anunciar que desde hoy queda abierta la convocatoria para el Premio Anagrama de Crónica/Fundación Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, un galardón que buscar estimular el periodismo narrativo y premiar el trabajo de los mejores cronistas en castellano.
Se constituye así una nueva etapa para este premio que comenzó en 2019 bajo el nombre de Premio Anagrama/UANL de Crónica Sergio González Rodríguez. La memoria del gran periodista y escritor mexicano Sergio González Rodríguez, en cuyo recuerdo iniciamos el premio, sigue muy presente en la casa y su extraordinario trabajo continuará animándonos a promover e impulsar las nuevas voces de la crónica.
Contará con el apoyo de la Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli y tendrá alianza con el Hay Festival.
📌 Lee más sobre el premio y las bases para participar aquí: https://ow.ly/XE1H50PqytE
Ana Wajszczuk's first novel FANTASTICLAND is out now with Editorial Sudamericana! 🎉
How many times can you try something for the last time? The mother in FANTASTICLAND is a stubborn powerhouse. She doesn't stop, not even when she can't go on. The ship of her willpower is in transit, and confusion reigns in the control cabin. What does she want? Simply put, she wants a daughter in the midst of love—a fruit, so to speak. But she doesn't want to find herself over a bed of clovers. The Biblical threat associated with childbirth has an early variation: she gets pregnant with pain. A complete plain, full of biological and mental torment that unfolds like a pact with the devil.
With resonances to a terrifying amusement park, Fantasticland is the name of a universe forcibly made by hand and the beauty of obsession that unfairly goes unnoticed, without which this world would be nothing.
"This isn’t just another book about maternity. It is an introspective journey from which Ana Wajszczuk emerges with this unforgettable novel, full of belligerence, love, and poetic beauty." —Josefina Licitra
World Spanish rights are with Penguin Argentina. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/fantasticland
Journalist Laura Ardila Arrieta talks with Rey Naranjo director John Naranjo about the publication of LA COSTA NOSTRA, an investigation of Colombia's most powerful political family:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZO7Rs0Xts
Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa - FLIP La Silla Vacía Liga Contra El Silencio
Preorder the book here: https://www.reynaranjo.net/lacostanostra/
La Costa Nostra
We're delighted to welcome journalist Laura Ardila Arrieta, whose first book LA COSTA NOSTRA is available for preorder now, to the agency! 🎉
After years of investigative work by the author, LA COSTA NOSTRA—which investigates one of the most powerful families in Colombia—was pulled from publication by one of Colombia's major publishing houses days before it was scheduled to go to print, and later rejected by others despite having gone through rigorous fact-checking and legal review.
Laura Ardila has held several journalism, editorial, and investigative positions for over a decade and has worked at places like La Silla Vacía, El Tiempo, and El Espectador. She is the winner of three national journalism prizes, including the Simón Bolívar journalism prize for Journalist of the Year in 2017. She has co-authored three books.
You can preorder the book here: http://reynaranjo.net/lacostanostra
Rey Naranjo Fundación para la Libertad de Prensa - FLIP Liga Contra El Silencio
El próximo jueves 10 de agosto a las 7:00 PM en Books and Books, Coral Gables, Miami, se presentará "Los intrusos" de Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Premio Anagrama de Crónica.
En Español/ En Persona: Una noche con Carlos Manuel Álvarez happening at Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States on Thu Aug 10 2023 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
"Stitches, secrets, shame: When Jazmina Barrera’s first novel translated into English, Cross-Stitch, hits shelves in November, read it. Barrera stitches a female coming-of-age story together with a feminist history and theory of embroidery, and it consumed my entire day."
Chicago Review of Books calls Jazmina Barrera's CROSS STITCH (Two Lines Press, tr. Christina MacSweeney) one of the Best Books of 2023 So Far. Out in November!
The Center for the Art of Translation
2023 has been a great year for readers so far! With so many books that deserve attention and praise, we asked our Chicago Review of Books team members to share their favorites high school superlati…
Guadalupe Nettel speaks to El País about her personal library in Mexico City:
EL PAÍS visita la biblioteca personal de la autora de ‘La hija única’ y conversa sobre el espacio donde lee y escribe en su casa del mítico barrio de Coyoacán.
A starred Kirkus review for THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES by Juan Cárdenas (tr. Lizzie Davis), out in September with Coffee House Press! 🎉
¡Feliz cumpleaños, Paula Canal! 🎉
THE DEVIL OF THE PROVINCES by Juan Cárdenas (Coffee House Press, tr. Lizzie Davis) and CROSS STITCH by Jazmina Barrera (Two Lines Press, tr. Christina MacSweeney) are on The Millions' Most Anticipated of 2023 list! 🎉
Six months. 179 books. Here's what we can't wait to read in the second half of 2023.
Ya se encuentra disponible el programa del Hay Festival de Querétaro que esperábamos con emoción. Entre otros invitados participarán Greta García, Aura García-Junco. y Eliezer Budasoff. Podéis consultarlo aquí: https://www.hayfestival.com/queretaro/inicio
Read a profile of Leyner Palacios by Silvana Paternostro in The New York Times:
Leyner Palacios’s push for dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation has made him the face of peace in Colombia — and subjected him to death threats.
Guadalupe Nettel’s STILL BORN, out in the US this August with Bloomsbury Publishing (tr. Rosalind Harvey), is one of Literary Hub’s Novels You Need to Read This Summer! 🎉
However many years it’s been since you signed up for the summer reading contest at your local children’s library (just me?), summer reading still has a special sort of feeling. Summer r…
Snapshots from last night’s The Booker Prizes ceremony ♥️ Congratulations again to Guadalupe Nettel & Rosalind Harvey, to the winners, and to the other finalists! 🎉
Jazmina Barrera’s LINEA NIGRA (tr. Christina MacSweeney) will be out in paperback with a beautiful new cover this November thanks to Two Lines Press! 🎉
LINEA NIGRA is an intimate exploration of motherhood that was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Award and the NBCC Barrios Book in Translation Prize, and was named one of the best books of 2022 by Kirkus and Words Without Borders.
More information: https://www.indentagency.com/linea-nigra
Jessica Brown Findlay reads from Guadalupe Nettel's STILL BORN (Fitzcarraldo Editions, tr. Rosalind Harvey) for The Booker Prizes:
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