Indent Literary Agency

03/03/2022

Punto de cruz, de Jazmina Barrera | Alejandra Costamagna

Read Alejandra Costamagna's review of PUNTO DE CRUZ by Jazmina Barrera in Revista Universidad - UNAM!

https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/2366f4ac-e26d-483a-b461-029ff7edfb2e/punto-de-cruz-de-jazmina-barrera

En la página cincuenta de Punto de cruz, la narradora que ha aprendido a leer y escribir al mismo tiempo que aprendió el punto de cruz, confiesa que nunca ha leído ni leería un manual para escribir novelas. Pero advierte que —por qué no— se podría escribir a partir de las instrucciones de ...

03/02/2022

“Beauty Can Be Found in Everything”: An Interview with Fernanda Trías

Read an interview with Fernanda Trías in the latest issue of Latin American Literature Today! 🎉

https://www.latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/en/2022/february/%E2%80%9Cbeauty-can-be-found-everything%E2%80%9D-interview-fernanda-tr%C3%ADas

With her 2020 novel Mugre rosa, (to be published in English by Scribe as Pink Slime, translated by Heather Cleary), Uruguayan author Fernanda Trías (Montevideo, 1976) won the 2021 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize, which has been awarded annually since 1993 to a novel written by a female author in S...

02/25/2022

The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century

THE BEAST by Óscar Martínez is on GQ's list of the Best Literary Journalism Books! 🎉

https://www.gq.com/story/50-best-literary-journalism-books

From garbage recycling in a Mumbai settlement to shocking murders in France, these are incredible feats of reporting and storytelling.

02/25/2022

Santiago Auserón habla de su recién publicado libro "Arte sonora. En las fuentes del pensamiento heleno".

02/24/2022

"The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America" author Javier Sinay at Yiddish Book Center — Restless Books

Tonight at 7pm! Author Javier Sinay discusses his book THE MURDERS OF MOISÉS VILLE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE JERUSALEM OF SOUTH AMERICA at the Yiddish Book Center

Restless Books
https://restlessbooks.org/events/javier-sinay-at-yiddish-book-center

Join us for a virtual author talk with award-winning journalist Javier Sinay, author of The Murders of Moisés Ville: The Rise and Fall of the Jerusalem of South America in collaboration with the Yiddish Book Center. This live event will be presented via Zoom and space is limited. If you’d like

02/16/2022

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Éditions Dalva

02/15/2022

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez is one of the finalists for the VII International Ribera del Duero Prize! 🎉

https://paginasdeespuma.com/especial/vii-premio-ribera-del-duero/

02/14/2022

Mauro Libertella's new novel UN FUTURO ANTERIOR—at once a feral investigation about one's own past, a requiem for lost friendships, and a letter tossed into the future—is out now with Editorial Sexto Piso España! 🎉

They meet at a party in Buenos Aires. They're young, they go out every night, and the future is an unknown land of promises and light. However, things will quickly become complicated. She starts dating a friend of his and they find themselves forced to have a secret relationship that reaches dramatic peaks and threatens to ruin it all.

Do they dare take one step further, to be together without hiding even if they have to reveal their betrayal? How will he be able to withstand the guilt? Could the attraction they feel transform into something real? Narrated throughout the course of a decade, at the border of the end of youth, UN FUTURO ANTERIOR opens a couple's black box to understand how they became who they are. It's also a story about the people and the things that were left behind during the journey, about what we're willing to sacrifice for the illusion of happiness.

In his new book, Mauro Libertella combines narration and essay writing with astonishing ease and crystalline prose, walking across the abyss that separates literature from life and giving voice to a masculinity that is crossed by emotions. More information: http://www.indentagency.com/un-futuro-anterior

02/11/2022

"Un futuro anterior" de Mauro Libertella llega hoy a las librerías españolas en una preciosa edición de Sexto Piso España.

✨ Esto llega hoy a librerías ✨

Se conocen en una fiesta en Buenos Aires. Son jóvenes, salen cada noche y el futuro es para ellos una tierra incógnita de promesas y fulgor. Sin embargo, muy pronto las cosas se complican, porque ella comienza a salir con un amigo de él y entonces se ven obligados a llevar una relación secreta que alcanza picos dramáticos y amenaza con destruirlo todo.
¿Se atreverán a dar un paso más, a estar juntos sin esconderse aunque eso implique revelar la traición? ¿Cómo logrará él sobrellevar la culpa? ¿La atracción que sienten podrá transformarse en un verdadero proyecto? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que sobrevuelan esta novela, que aborda una historia de amor pero también una transformación afectiva. Narrada a lo largo de una década, al filo del fin de la juventud, Un futuro anterior abre la caja negra de una pareja para tratar de entender cómo llegaron a ser lo que son, con todos los errores que cometieron y también con todos sus aciertos. Es, además, un recuento de las personas y las cosas que fueron quedando por el camino, de aquello que estamos dispuestos a sacrificar para alcanzar el espejismo de la felicidad.

Y como sabemos que os gustan las segundas opiniones:

«Pocas cosas resultan tan emocionantes como ver surgir un gran talento literario. Pocas cosas resultarán más emocionantes que sumergirse en las páginas de Mauro Libertella por primera vez» Leila Guerriero 💥

#UnFuturoAnterior #MauroLibertella

02/04/2022

When I Sing, Mountains Dance, by By Irene Solà. | Booklist Online

A starred Booklist review for WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE by Irene Solà (tr. Maya Faye Lethem), out with Graywolf Press in March! 🎉

"Solà’s immersive and memorable novel has the deceptively simple elegance and depth of a folktale."

Editorial Anagrama
https://www.booklistonline.com/When-I-Sing-Mountains-Dance-Irene-Sol/pid=9756842

Booklist Online Book Review: When I Sing, Mountains Dance. By Irene Solà. Tr. by Mara Faye LethemMar. 2022. 208p. Graywolf, paper, $16 (9781644450802). REVIEW. First published February 1, 2022 (Booklist). Adult Books - Fiction - General Fiction

02/03/2022

Nonfiction Book Review: Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes by Jazmina Barrera, trans. from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney. Two Lines, $21.95 (184p) ISBN 978-1-949641-30-1

A starred Publishers Weekly review for LINEA NIGRA by Jazmina Barrera (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out with Two Lines Press in May!

“Barrera (On Lighthouses) offers a moving study of pregnancy, family, art, and loss in this showstopping essay. (…) This beautiful meditation is thick with profound insights.”

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-949641-30-1

Barrera (On Lighthouses) offers a moving study of pregnancy, family, art, and loss in this showstopping essay. Told in small fragments that cover the arc of her pregnancy, birth, and nursing

02/02/2022

We're thrilled to welcome author Mario Martz to the agency!

Born in León, Nicaragua in 1988, Mario Martz has a Creative Writing master’s degree from the University of Texas in El Paso. He is the author of Viaje al reino de los tristes (2010) and Los jóvenes no pueden volver a casa (2017), which was selected by BBC Mundo as a literary reference to understand Central America today. The International Guadalajara Book Fair also included him as one of the most important authors of the region. Work he has written has been translated into English, French, and Italian, and he has published poetry, interviews, stories, and non-fiction pieces in different journals and magazines, including Rio Grande Review, Eñe, The New York Times, The Offing Magazine, and others. He currently lives in Mexico.

Los jóvenes no pueden volver a casa, published by anamá Ediciones is a collection of nine interconnected stories were the protagonists are witnesses to the absences, exiles, abandonments, and strangeness present in today's Central America. More information about the book and author: http://www.indentagency.com/mario-martz

01/30/2022

¡Hoy en el Hay Festival ESP Cartagena!

01/29/2022

¡Hoy en el Hay Festival ESP Cartagena!

01/28/2022

Fernanda Trías: "Siento que en la naturaleza humana hay una necesidad de ser ciegos a una cantidad de cosas" - BBC News Mundo

Read an interview with Fernanda Trías about MUGRE ROSA [PINK SLIME] in BBC News Mundo:

https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias-60145698?utm_campaign=later-linkinbio-bbcmundo&utm_content=later-24161186&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkin.bio

Poco antes de que comenzara la pandemia, la escritora uruguaya creó la novela "Mugre Rosa" y con ella se anticipó a mucho de lo que iba a suceder.

01/28/2022

¡Hoy en el Hay Festival ESP Cartagena!

01/26/2022

Los eventos del Hay Festival Cartagena 2022 serán del 27 al 30 de enero. ¡Nuestros autores Juan Cárdenas, Fernanda Trías, Patricio Fernández, Vanessa Londoño, Gloria Susana Esquivel y Felipe Restrepo Pombo estarán presentes, y Andrea Montejo será parte de la programación de Talento Editorial!

The 2022 Hay Festival Cartagena will take place from January 27-30th. Our authors Juan Cárdenas, Fernanda Trías, Patricio Fernández, Vanessa Londoño, Gloria Susana Esquivel, and Felipe Restrepo Pombo will be present, and Andrea Montejo will be participating in the Editorial Talent portion of the festival!

Más información/More information: https://www.hayfestival.com/cartagena/inicio

**CORRECCIÓN: El evento de Fernanda Trías y Mario Mendoza será a las 18:30 el 28 de enero**

01/18/2022

Votación | Premios Luces 2021 | El Comercio Peru

¡EL AÑO DEL VIENTO de Karina Pacheco Medrano y ALGO NUESTRO SOBRE LA TIERRA de Joseph Zárate fueron nominados para los Premios Luces 2021!

Puedes votar aquí: http://premiosluces.elcomercio.pe/votacion/letras?fbclid=IwAR1IqZYc8dzrKnbDwMfrEQl9_BobRpyn8nuzHiC9SxhhG3QHC0pnpAMNO-o#opciones

Los Premios LUCES de El Comercio reconocen lo mejor del Talento Peruano

01/17/2022

CANCIÓN by Eduardo Halfon is the winner of the 2021 Premio Cálamo Extraordinario—congratulations! 🎉

On a cold January morning in 1967, in the midst of a civil war in Guatemala, a Jewish and Lebanese merchant is kidnapped in a dead-end alley in the capital city. Everyone knows that Guatemala is a surreal country, he had declared years before. A narrator named Eduardo Halfon will have to travel to Japan and revisit his childhood in Guatemala during the war-torn 70s and attend a mysterious meeting in a dark, working-class bar to finally uncover the details of the life and kidnapping of a man who was also named Eduardo Halfon—his grandfather.

In the newest installment of his fascinating literary project, the Guatemalan author dives into his country's brutal and complex history in recent years, where it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate between victims and aggressors. In this way, he adds an important piece to his literary universe on the subtle exploration of origins and the mechanisms of identity.

Rights have sold to Libros del Asteroide (Spanish), Éditions La Table Ronde (French), Uitgeverij Vleugels (Dutch), Editora Dom Quixote (World Portuguese excl. Brazil), Editora Mundaréu (Portuguese, Brazil), Solum Bokvennen (Norwegian), and Scribd (Spanish Audio) so far.
http://www.indentagency.com/cancion

01/14/2022

Most Anticipated: The Great First-Half 2022 Book Preview - The Millions

LINEA NIGRA by Jazmina Barrera (tr. Christina MacSweeney) is on The Millions' list of Most Anticipated 2022 Books! 🎉

https://themillions.com/2022/01/most-anticipated-the-great-first-half-2022-book-preview.html?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com

In this, our first preview for Pandemic Year Three, we offer up nearly 200 books.

01/07/2022

24 Must-Read 2022 Books in Translation | Book Riot

LINEA NIGRA by Jazmina Barrera, WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE by Irene Solà, and BAD HANDWRITING by Sara Mesa are on Book Riot's list of 2022 Must-Read Books in Translation! 🎉

https://bookriot.com/2022-books-in-translation/

Don't miss these 2022 books in translation including books from 18 different countries, published by 17 different presses.