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). Panellists 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 2014 Edition panel was formed by: Alessandro Gallenzi (Founder - Alma Books),Anne Meadows (Junior Editor – Granta & Portobello Books), David Lea (London Review Bookshop), Christina MacSweeney (Translator), Gary McKeone (BCLT) and Laurence Laluyaux (Literary Agent - Rogers, Coleridge & White). The following people have translated book summaries or/and written reports for this issue: Christina MacSweeney, Rosalind Harvey, Jennifer Arnold, Peter Bush, Martin Schifino, Margaret Jull Costa, Jessica Johannesson Gaitán, Catherine Mansfield, Ana Fletcher, Annie McDermott, Judith Willis, Richard Mansell, Lindsey Ford and Isabelle Kaufeler.
A big thank you to all of them for their enthusiasm and invaluable contribution to the 2014 Edition of New Spanish Books
The author reconstructs the life of his great grandfather, Francisco Oller, who, at the age of sixteen, decided to leave Cassà and travel to France in search of a better life. And he found it.
The massacre of a family of farm labourers in Carreu in 1943 shakes the local community and surrounding villages of this corner of Pallars Jussà, Catalonia. But news of the mass murder did not get much further.
In January 2011, Leila Guerriero travelled to a small town in the interior of Argentina to tell the story of a dance competition: the Laborde National Malambo Festival.
'Solitud' was an immediate success with readers and was translated into various languages. One hundred years after its publication, this modern, startling novel is still just as relevant today.
Arcadia returns to Barcelona in 1949, accompanied by her aunt Inés, a viola and a suitcase full of memories.
A group of young people decide to construct a "dark room": an enclosed space into which light never enters.