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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This magnificently narrated historical novel which tells of the Civil War and anarchism is now in its fifth edition.
Bilbao-New York-Bilbao takes place over the course of a flight between the airports of Bilbao and JFK in New York, and, bit by bit, reveals the story of three generations of the same family.
Constantino Augusto de Moreas has received an invitation to visit Zaragoza University, after having spent his entire life in Cuba devoted to the scholarly investigation of the poet José Martí.
It takes great courage to go on when the map of life has been torn. It takes great courage to love again. A SURPRISING LOVE STORY THAT CAME OUT OF MADRID’S TERROR ATTACKS OF 11 MARCH 2004. A REALISTIC STORY WITH A HINT OF FANTASY.
Tochtli likes hats, dictionaries, samurais, guillotines and the French. But Tochtli is a child, and what he wants now is a new animal for his private zoo: a dwarf Liberian hippopotamus.
Awarded the XIV José María de Pereda Short Novel Prize, this work is the unfathomable banned story of a Serbian pianist, told by a man called Eduardo Halfon.
A book which combines the history of art with images, spectacular pop-ups and enjoyable activities to help readers discover the most celebrated works of Velázquez.
A fish called Yorick and a kitten called Montaigne. A young philosophy student who corners her old professor in the corridors of the faculty.
The night was black And I slipped away Down the road With the stolen star in my pocket’ At the top of a skyscraper, in the vastness of the night, someone takes hold of a star; the moment they put it in their pocket, their odyssey begins.
A novel work which, in a readable form, compares the meals of the great media chefs with everyday dishes from our own cuisine in order to show the similarities between the science and methods of both worlds.