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 2016 Edition panel was formed by: Daniel Hahn (editor and translator), Gary McKeone (Literary consultor), Jane Harris (Bonnier Publishing/Hot Key Books), Kathlyn Crocker (Bookshop: Tales on Moon Lane), Madeleine O’Shea (Head of Zeus) and Richard Mansell (Exeter University). The following people have translated book summaries or/and written reports for this issue: Annie McDermott, Catherine Mansfield, Chris Moss,, Christina MacSweeney, Isabelle Kaufeler, Jennifer Arnold, Judith Willis, Laura McGloughlin, Lindsey Ford, Lise Jones, Mara Faye Lethem, Margaret Jull Costa, Peter Bush and Suky Taylor.
A big thank you to all of them for their enthusiasm and invaluable contribution to the 2016 Edition of New Spanish Books
In a beautiful, desolate place, the death of a grandfather brings together all the members of a family.
A branch manager of a bank from the east of Spain who has sold preferred stocks. A young soldier, Fermín Galán, who decides to put his republican ideals into practice and bring about a revolution in Jaca, in 1930.
On the night of the 1-2 November 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on the beach at Ostia.
Who now remembers Sara Amat? She was just thirteen when she disappeared one summer night and was never again heard from. There was a single news item the following day in the Diario de Terrassa, and a great deal of speculation and many rumours.
Lola lives a life filled with books and café conversations, languid siestas and projects for constructing a better Spain, but in 1936 the day comes when life is pure resistance.
Professor Ueno buys a puppy for his daughter. The relationship between the Professor and Hachiko, the dog, soon turns into something special..
Thirteen-year-old Narnel Mozart is the older sister of the brilliant composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Like any boy his age, he loves playing and mischief, and what he finds most difficult to understand is adults.
Uncle Theodosius has returned from one of his journeys around the world and has brought back a most peculiar specimen: a dodo bird, which everyone believes to be extinct.
The Winter We Took Things Into Our Own Hands, literal translation but the Spanish title involves a play on words involving 'cartas' (letters) which are both a key feature of the book and part of the Spanish expression for taking things into yo
Mónica — known to everyone as Minimoni — likes painting thousands things in colour: blue skies, penguins, gorillas… but she's never painted a kiss. Because… what colour is a kiss? Red like the tomato sauce for spaghetti?