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UK PANEL 2020

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Federico Andornino
Gary McKeone
Rahul Bery
Laura McGloughlin
Claire Storey
Federico Andornino

Federico Andornino is Editorial Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, the literary imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, where he commissions literary fiction with an edge, LGBTQ+ literature, graphic novels and fiction in translation. Recent novels in translation include ROLLING FIELDS by David Trueba (translated byRahul Bery), HEAVEN AND EARTH by Paolo Giordano (translated by Anne Milan Appel) and OLGA by Bernhard Schlink (translated by Charlotte Collins).

Gary McKeone

Hispanophile Gary McKeone is one of the two representatives nominated by BCLT who rotate to sit on the panel, so he knows the project well. He has worked in literature at London's South Bank Centre, with Field Day Theatre Company in Ireland and as Literature Director at Arts Council England. He has been a Board member of various literature organisations and currently works as Programme Director at St George’s House, Windsor Castle.

Rahul Bery

Rahul Bery translates from Spanish and Portuguese into English and is based in Cardiff. He was the British Library's translator in residence for 2018-2019, and his debut full-length translation, of David Trueba's Tierra de Campos is out with Weidenfeld and Nicolson in 2020.

Laura McGloughlin

Laura McGloughlin has been a freelance translator from Spanish and Catalan since completing a Masters in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. She has translated novels, plays, short stories, poetry and children’s literature by authors including Lluïsa Cunillé, Maria Barbal, Flavia Company, Maite Carranza, Joan Brossa, and Antonio Hill Gumbao. She is a reader for various UK publishing houses and an occasional assessor for English Pen’s Pen Translates programme, as well as a commercial manager for Waterstones Booksellers.

Claire Storey

Claire Storey is a literary translator based in the UK working from Spanish and German into English. She has a particular interest in children's and YA books and co-edits the World Kid Lit Blog, highlighting the importance of translated books for children. She was shortlisted for the 2020 Goethe-Institut Award for New Translation and in 2019 she received a Special Commendation from the Institute of Translation and Interpreting in the ITI Award category for Best Newcomer.

2020 UK Panel’s choice

La Perla de Sanzio Amaryllis Portada Esta bruma insensata Buenas Hermanas viaje del calígrafo Portada Aprende ajedrez por ti mismo El marinero y el mar La Moneda, 11 septiembre
La Perla de Sanzio
JUAN RAMÓN BARAT

Andrés is fifteen and has just lost his father, Fernando. A respected police inspector, Fernando was found dead of a barbiturate overdose in the...

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Lucero
Aníbal Malvar

The lives of the poètes maudits are subject to the caprices of whoever wants to interpret them. 'Shining Light' both is and is not a novel about...

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Amaryllis
Germán Machado y Anna Aparicio

Amaryllis is a small plant who likes to go for a walk once summer is over. She makes all kinds of friends in the woods and encounters adventure...

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Catalina y la isla del cíclope
Miguel B. Núñez

This is the story of how a girl-rat and a boy-chicken ended up in a great big mess through no fault of their own. Well, they may have had a teeny...

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Esta bruma insensata
Enrique Vila-Matas

Based in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of Cadaqués, Simon Schneider works for a highly successful author who goes by the name Gran Bros and...

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Pequeñas mujeres rojas
Marta Sanz

Paula Quiñones arrives in Azafrán to locate graves from the civil war era. As soon as she sets her lame foot in the town she feels as though the...

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Buenas Hermanas
Costa Alcalá

What if the March sisters, the beloved protagonists of the classic Little Women, had been born into a totalitarian society? In the ideal city of...

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El funeral de Lolita
Luna Miguel

"I don't know if you've been told, but Roberto has passed away," begins the message from Rocío, an old school acquaintance; Helena's heart skips a...

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La Forastera
Olga Merino

After a life of extravagance, Angie has retired to a secluded village in the south. The locals call her the madwoman with the dogs, and her...

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El viaje del calígrafo
Arianna Squilloni

The Calligrapher was sure that beyond the valley and the mountains there were other valleys and other mountains and he dreamed of telling each the...

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Aprende ajedrez por ti mismo
Julio Rivera y Luis Álvarez

They call Brandon "Brains" because he decides his moves faster than anyone else in town, Linda's nick-name is "Amazon" since her speciality is...

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El marinero y el mar
Carlos Comendador

The unsuspecting sailor sets out in his boat in search of fish to catch. The sea appears to be calm today, but he is about to discover that...

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La Moneda, 11 de septiembre
Francisco Aguilera

La Moneda, September 11 is, above all, a collection of testimonies. Four characters: a waiter, a policeman, a recruit and a fireman tell us how...

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New Spanish titles: 2020 UK

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    La pandilla Cola de Milano - Aventuras para salvar el planeta
    Luz Orihuela
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    Alexandra Roma
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  • Familias
    Familias
    Verónica Sánchez
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