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.
We greatly appreciate the work they have done in making this edition of New Spanish Books a great success. Thank you!
"There are words that fall slowly, drop by drop, in a constant assault on the heart.
Ten stories in which music, wit and lyricism combine to create a dreamlike atmosphere that will create in the reader a sensation similar to that evoked by the stories of Clarice Lispector.
Violeta's family has an age-old secret they have managed to hide until now. Jules Verne, the famous writer, has disembarked in the port of Vigo with a suitcase and a whole load of questions. He wants to know all about the plant women . . . .
1938. Barruelo. 13 year old Miguel believes that his father, a Republican miner, died at the Front. Then, unexpectedly, comes the news that he is in a prisoner camp close to Oviedo.
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Fidel Centella is twentysomething and lives in Barcelona.
Situated on the border between life and death, High Heaven is an unusual site of pilgrimage, an abandoned town which holds a mysterious attraction for the suicidal.
A semi-autobiographical novel, stirred by the stigma of an amour fou for an older, alcoholic man, The Prodigy Girls is also a comedy in several acts, and a tale with hints of gothic horror.
Richard O'Hara is waiting in a hotel in Shanghai for a contract to be signed between the Government of China and western pharmaceutical companies that will make him a wealthy man.