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!
Art is now within range of even the youngest readers with this magnificent collection of books combining different aspects: information, history, pictures, activities, pop-ups, etc.
Writers Ola Yevguènieva, Véra-Margarita Abansèrev, Vitali Kroptkin, Aleksandr Vòlkov and Iosif Bergxenko were unbeknownst to me before Anastàssia Maxímovna sent me their short stories. To me, they are part in the fictionalization of fiction.
São, a girl who, like everyone in her village, was born to work, decides one day to try and build a better life for herself in Europe.
Isaac is spending the summer studying on his own in the city. His life changes when he meets Yam-Mey in a Chinese restaurant.
Slow movements offer an alternative to the fast pace of modern life: eating, travelling, personal relationships… Everything happens at such a breakneck speed that it’s impossible to get a real taste of things and we get swallowed up by a neurotic
An old friends’ reunion in a mountain lodge gathers a dozen men and women with nothing in common, except an obscure episode in the past in which they were all involved.
This is the story of María Margarita, a girl with the strange gift of telling movies.
The fast-paced, hallucinatory lives of the outsiders in a city torn asunder by violence. A world populated by armed beggar children planning to seek revenge and get rich quick.
La nit de les papallones is a novel that portrays the colourful Barcelona nightlife of the 1970s, and at its centre is Carla, a burlesque dancer who turns heads with her aesthetically dazzling and emancipated performances.
Two strangers meet on a train that has no specific origin or final destination. It is the year 2024 and two thousand wagons make up this enormous iron serpent.