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!
“Black Bread is an exceptional novel.
“Filled with original touches and surprising twists and turns, the book is a both a gloomy but playful metaphor for Argentina’s recent history, delving into themes such as the continually thwarted aspirations of the middle classes, corruption
Tomás' adolescent tension reaches a point of no return when he travels with his family to the small holiday town where they usually spend their holidays.
How did the great thinkers love? The stoics, patiently; the vitalists, enthusiastically; the nihilists, pesimistically. For a philosopher, love is as exciting and as painful as it is for the rest of us mortals.
In telling the story of the death of our loved ones, we can discover something about the meaning of their lives.
A book of quiet games about night which helps you to gain a more in-depth knowledge of the world of dreams.
The difficult relationship between father and son: the burden of inheritance.
As is well-known, in the Middle Ages the Way of St James provided the perfecct conditions for the greatest, most continual concentration of people from different countries, and for rich cultural exchange.
Combel presents a selection of the best board games in the world. You'll find new ways of enhjoying yourself in this game-book for the whole family. It includes the boards, counters and dice: everything you need to discover a world of games!
The country where M lives is not like yours. M lives in a kingdom of metal criss-crossed by a thousand million pipes, in a metal house whose garden has a shiny grey lawn. In this country, in this house, on this lawn, a meteorite is about to fall.