Panels are usually formed by six industry experts, amongst which there are publishers, translators, critics, booksellers, and a permanent representative from the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT). Panelists change every edition to allow as many people as possible to be part of the project. The panel meets twice and decisions are based on their knowledge, experience and intuition, as well as on reader’s reports. Members of the panel take their decisions with total independence.
The 2013 Edition panel was formed by: Bill Swainson (Editor–Bloomsbury), Jason Cooper (Publisher- Faber&Faber), Jessica Graham(Primrose Hill Books), Lucy Popescu (Journalist), Nick Caistor (BCLT) and Thomas Bunstead (Translator). The following people have translated book summaries or/and written reports for this issue: Christina MacSweeney, Lucy Greaves, Margaret Jull Costa, Martin Schifino, Kit Maude, Peter Bush, Jennifer Arnold, Jessica Johannesson, Ana Fletcher and Catherine Mansfield.
A big thank you to all of them for their enthusiasm and invaluable contribution to the 2013 Edition of New Spanish Books
Argentina, the 1970s.The unions are overwhelmed by the radical left, and the CEO of a steel plant dies after falling from the helicopter he was travelling in. The briefcase full of money he had with him disappears without trace.
'Una familia ejemplar' is a hilarious satire, a tragicomedy that takes a look at the disproportionate ambition that sometimes makes reasonable people lose their heads, and also a searing critique of great family sagas.
23rd February, 1981. A village in Castille surrounded by mountains. Every Monday, seven-year-old Elena goes to her catechism class.
A new girl, Felisa Wilmer, joins a religious school for girls in the north of Buenos Aires.
After several years living in Paris, Alfredo Gastiasoro returns to Bilbao when he learns that Izarbe has died.
Hidden Truth Chronicles is a key work in Calders' writing and represents the discovery, for postwar readers, of an extraordinary storyteller.
Investigating their respective family histories, Gloria and Marcel meet in Riofrío, a small mountain town which in the past was not spared the turmoil of civil war.
Spain, winter 1939. AMong the hundreds of thousand of people crossing the bordering seeking refuge in France, the Lamana family get separated, hoping to be reunited in the neighbouring country.