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!
In Berlin, in exile, that is where these characters find themsleves, like bubbles dancing in the air. A similar atmosphere surrounds all the stories, each in its particular setting.
Beaches used to be places for relaxation. In these times of extreme tourism, travellers seek other thrills.
Natura quasi morta is an astute and brilliant novel of intrigue, which grips us from the first page.
On returning from Burkina Faso, Patricia shows her writer friend her travel snaps.
Jacob has decided to die. A car accident has left him paraplegic and in such pain that his life is unbearable. His father David faces the hardest of tests: witnessing the event.
Years ago I heard about a programme Paul Auster had on the American public radio station NPR called ‘The National Short Story Project’. Auster came on air the first night and asked American listeners to send in their stories.
Europe, XV Century: the Black Death epidemic is devastating the continent. Godofredo Chaucer, his servant Corbino, Argentina and Eleazar de Caballería embark on a écheme of espionage to unravel the mystery behind the unknown disease.
Did Federico García Lorca’s lover Enrique Amorim steal his corpse? Did he disguise himself as Jean Paul Sartre to attend a secret meeting between Chaplin and Picasso? Did he sabotage Pablo Neruda’s efforts to win the Nobel Prize?
Did you know that cutting paper helps children to think, aids the reading-writing process and encourages creativity?