Panels are formed by five or six industry experts, among them publishers, translators, academics, critics and booksellers. Panellists change every year 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 readers´ reports commissioned by this office. Members of the panel reach their decisions with complete independence.
The panel for the 2023 edition was formed by Dr Cecilia Rossi (Associated Professor in Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia), Dr Denise Rose Hansen (writer, editor, and literary translator and publisher of Lolli Editions), Paul Engles (editor at MacLehose Press, specialising in bringing authors in translation to the English-speaking world), Sanchita Basu De Sarkar (owner of the Children's Bookshop in London) and Sidone Beresford-Browne (art director and designer at Raspberry Books). The ollowing people have translated book summaries and/or written reports for this issue: Alice Banks, Anne McLean, Beth Fowler, Catherine Mansfield, Chris Moss, Christina MacSweeney, Faye Williams, Hebe Powell, Jacob Rogers, Joe Williams, Judith Willis, Laura McGloughlin, Lindsey Ford, Mara Faye Lethem, Miriam Tobin, Nick Caistor, Peter Bush, Ruth Clarke, Suky Taylor, Victor Meadowcroft and Tim Gutteridge.
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Art is now within range of even the youngest with this magnificient collection that combines different aspects: information, history, pictures activities, pop-ups, etc.
Marga d’Andurain was born in Bayonne, France into a middle-class Basque family. Rebellious and transgressive, she married a distant cousin, Pierre d’Andurain, at the age of 17 and together they set off for Argentina to seek their fortune.
A woman arrives with her twelve-year-old daughter at the apartment where her husband wants them to live while he is away on his unusually long business trips.
An urban novel of criss-crossing lives that come together, written with a brilliant blend of registers ranging from the poetic to the humorous.
Towards the end of the XV century, Fernando de Rojas, a law student at the University of Salamanca, will investigate the murder of a theology professor. Thus begins a complex web in which the situation of the Jews and converts intertwine.
October 1977. In an old hardwood house situated on a secluded beach near Havana, the women of the Godínez family cover doors and windows and prepare for the arrival of a devastating hurricane that has been announced.
Sergio is an exceptional player both at tennis and football. But it’s time to make up his mind: he knows that, if he wants to go far, he’ll have to choose one and give up the other.
Tomás Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) is an exceptional artist who was forged by two decades as a photojournalist.
José Guadalupe Posada’s cavorting skeletons are for many people among the most emblematic images of Mexican art, representing a supposed mockery of and indifference to death that runs deep in Mexican culture.
An indispensable book about Flamenco, with 28 interviews, three authors dictionaries, more than 100 photographies and a CD with 20 tracks comprising a Century of Flamenco Art.