Panels are usually formed by six industry experts, amongst which there are publishers, translators, critics, booksellers, and a permanent representative from the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT). Panellists change every edition 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 reader’s reports. Members of the panel take their decisions with total independence.
The 2015 Edition panel was formed by: Nick Caistor (BCLT), Simon Smith (Peter Owen Publishers), David Mantero (Stanfords Bookshop), Lorenza Garcia (Translator) and Angel Gurria-Quintana , (Historian, journalist and literary translator). The following people have translated book summaries or/and written reports for this issue: Ana Fletcher, Alexander Ibarz, Catherine Mansfield,, Christina MacSweeney, Daniel Hahn, Isabelle Kaufeler, Jennifer Arnold, Jessica Johannesson Gaitán, Laura McGloughlin, Lindsey Ford, Lise Jones, Lucy Greaves, Mara Faye Lethem, Miranda France, Richard Mansell, Suky Taylor and Judith Willis.
A big thank you to all of them for their enthusiasm and invaluable contribution to the 2015 Edition of New Spanish Books
In 1979, a group of friendly families comment on the return of an old acquaintance who will disturb the life in their residential estate. They all know one another due to having been active in anti-Franco political parties.
A Spanish commercial traveller is working at his company's branch office in eastern Europe, where he had lived during the troubled years of the 80s.
Travel journalism returns. In the 21st century the planet has been mapped, measured, photographed and explained down to the last detail. Is finding Terra Incognito, savouring something approaching a discovery an impossible task?
Maria Roderich (The Old Lady), Maria Magí (The Mrs) and Maria Costa are three women who, throughout almost a century, have run La Principal, the most important house in the village of Pous, in the heart of the grape-producing region of La Abadia.
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and France, travels to Castile in the company of her friend and confidant, the Druid Blédhri, who wants to leave a written record of the queen's eventful life.
Melilla, the nineteen fifties. Faced with the decolonisation of Morocco, the Spanish inhabitants of the Protectorate are forced to return to the Iberian Peninsula.
Lives crossed in a fantasy country. An unforgettable journey to Iceland. A watchmaker who has never left Sabadell and has to go to Iceland to fix and old clock. A young Scandinavian in search of a band to play the music he likes.
Prince or imposter? The impossible story of the last descendent of Moctezuma.
Anna is the librarian in Húsavík, a small Icelandic fishing village.
Topography, the circumstances of its foundation and prejudices determine every provincial city, as well as its piously hidden sins. Manizales is situated at over 2000 m above sea level, among Colombia's coffee growing mountains.