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Foreign rights - Frankfurt 2015
Silvia Bastos Literary Agency
Foreign rights - Frankfurt 2015
Silvia Bastos Literary Agency
about the agency… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Nuria Gago . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
contact us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Ian Gibson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Salvador Gutiérrez Solís . . . . . 18
Almudena de Arteaga . . . . . . . . . 4
Tània Juste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Enric Balasch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fernando J. López del Oso . . . . 20
Mauricio Bonnett . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Jesús Maeso de la Torre . . . . . . . 21
José Calvo Poyato . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Miguel Pasquau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
José Enrique Campillo . . . . . . . . 8
Edmundo Paz Soldán . . . . . . . . . 23
Joan Carreras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Alejandro Pedregosa . . . . . . . . . 24
Jordi Cervera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
José María Pont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
David Cirici . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Santiago Roncagliolo . . . . . . . . 26
Edmundo Díaz Conde . . . . . . . . . 12
Diego Trelles Paz . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Antonio J. Durán . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Mariano F. Urresti . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Jorge Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Juan Eslava Galán . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
List of Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Nombre Autor
about the agency…
Javier Aparicio Maydeu (Barcelona, 1964) has a PhD in Spanish
and teachesfiction,
contemporary,
comparative
Spanish
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Spanish universities, he has worked as literary critic for the
as well as foreign agencies and publishing
of the best-selling authors in Spain, both in
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of literary, historical, and commercial
contact us
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Catalan rights
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(The Scrap Yard of Tradition. Inside the Workshop of Twentieth
Century Fiction) This book is, in reality, a practical, interdisciplinary
and interactive course on universal fiction of the twentieth century
through which the reader can move as if he were browsing
the internet.
It is also a stimulating visit to the workshop of contemporary fiction,
the place where all the creative mechanisms activate just as the writers
themselves understand them. In this way the reader will observe the
details of the creative process of some of
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Almudena de Arteaga
© Víctor Pérez de Óbanos
Almudena de Arteaga, historian and lawyer, is one the most
read Spanish authors of historical novels. After her acclaimed
La princesa de Éboli, she has published various novels including
La vida privada del emperador, Catalina de Aragón, reina de
Inglaterra, María de Molina, El marqués de Santillana or Capricho,
which was awarded the Premio Azorín de Novela in 2012.
www.almudenadearteaga.com
La estela de un recuerdo
(The Trail of a Memory)
April 1931. After the declaration of the Republic, the
family of the Duke of Infantado is watched closely by
the republicans, and yet its members keep fighting
for King Alfonso XIII’s return to Spain. The lack of
political and social stability that defines this period in
Spanish history is the backdrop for a moving love story
between Borja, the Duke’s youngest son, and Rafaela,
sealed in two letters of farewell written by Borja and
found by his niece sixty years later.
other titles…
La princesa de Éboli
S pain – Planeta, 2009
Spain – Planeta, 2015
300 pages
Historical Fiction
Capricho
Premio Azorín
de
El desafío de las damas
Novela
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Enric Balasch
Enric Balasch (Barcelona, 1955) has travelled to over a hundred
countries and has published many articles in national and
international magazines and newspapers. He is the author of many
travel books and guides, as well of four novels.
¡Malditos viajes!
(Damn Trips!)
The reasons people set out on trips are very varied and sometimes
even twisted. This is why these trips are often far from pleasant
experiences and turn into real nightmares instead. In this book, Enric
Balasch analyzes eleven different types of travel (incentive, adventure,
pilgrimage, solidarity tourism, war, sexual…) with an acid sense of
humor and a critical spirit. He points to the fine line that separates the
accidental tourist from the responsible traveler. Tourism is a form of
business as well as an excellent way to acquire culture, but the tourist
must first become aware, assimilate what he sees with an open mind,
inform himself about the culture, art and architecture of the place
visited and, more importantly, pass by without leaving a trace.
S pain – Aguilar, 2015
210 pages
Travel
other titles…
El secreto de la creación
S pain – Suma, 2011
La cruz de Tau
Germany – Blanvalet, 2010
Libélula
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Mauricio Bonnett
Mauricio Bonnett (Colombia, 1961) is a writer, scriptwriter and
film director, and he has lived in England since 1987. He has
worked on documentary and fiction projects in the U.K., Canada
and Spain. He currently works on several fiction projects and
prepares a documentary about the Latin American literary boom
of the sixties and seventies. His first novel, La mujer en el umbral,
published in 2006, was critically acclaimed, as was his second
novel, El triunfo de la muerte, published in 2010.
Cinco versiones de Adriano
(Five Versions of Adriano)
Is it possible that, on a warm summer day in London,
Sebastian has seen his old friend Adriano, presumably dead
twenty years ago in his native Colombia? Distressed by a
difficult personal situation, Sebastian will follow Adriano’s
double the second time that he spots him, thus starting a
sort of detective investigation that will inevitably bring him
to recall his youth, his formative years, and all the loose
ends that someone as complex as Adriano left in the lives of
Sebastian and his group of friends.
Five Versions of Adriano is a novel that is both intimate
and generational, a detective and a sentimental story, as
delicious as it is disturbing, a convergence of virtues that
only the best writers can achieve.
S pain – Literatura Random House, 2015
332 pages
Literary fiction
other titles…
El triunfo de la muerte
S pain – La otra orilla, 2010
La mujer en el umbral
Spain – Alfaguara, 2006
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José Calvo Poyato
José Calvo Poyato is a university professor of history and one of
the best known Spanish authors of historical novels with more
than 15 novels published –several of them translated– as well as
other historical non-fiction books. With the thriller La orden negra
he was a finalist for the Premio de Novela Ciudad de Torrevieja,
after which came several titles of historical fiction set in different
periods.
www.josecalvopoyato.com
El Gran Capitán
(The Great Captain)
After his great success in the war of Granada and the Italian
campaigns, Gonzalo de Córdoba, known as the Great Captain,
is sent by Ferdinand the Catholic into a masked exile as the
warden of Loja. After the defeat of the Holy League by the
French in the battle of Ravenna, however, Spain’s allies will
claim the presence of the Great Captain at the head of their
armies in order to change the course of the conflict.
José Calvo Poyato uses what could be Gonzalo de Córdoba’s
last campaign as a backdrop to narrate the fascinating life of a
man who was an example of loyalty and exceptionally gifted for
warfare, who managed to break with the Medieval war tradition
and make a place of honor for himself in European history.
Spain – Plaza & Janés, 2015
576 pages
Historical fiction
other titles…
El sueño de Hipatia
S pain – Plaza & Janés, 2009
Mariana, los hilos de la libertad
Spain – Plaza & Janés, 2013
Sangre en la calle del turco
S pain – Plaza & Janés, 2011
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José Enrique Campillo
José Enrique Campillo Álvarez (Cáceres, 1948) is a doctor and
an expert in food and nutrition, and he is currently Professor
of Nutrition and Diet at the Universidad de Extremadura. His
research focuses particularly on the study of diabetes, human
nutrition and physical exercise. He regularly collaborates with
specialist publications and is the author of various works, among
them the acclaimed El mono obeso.
Razones para correr: un poderoso remedio para la salud
(Reasons for Running: A Powerful Health Remedy)
The new book by Doctor Campillo shows us how to run in
a healthy fashion and without the risk of injury, what to eat,
and how to prepare for different types of races.
“Razones para correr is the reflection of my experience as a doctor,
a researcher and a runner. It is a simple and practical manual that I
want to share with those interested in running. I trust that practicing
this sport will help them to increase their health and happiness.
This is not a book with training plans to obtain athletic records,
although there are pages dedicated to this goal. I only expose the
concepts that are strictly necessary to learn to run healthily. In the
end, the goal is to add running efficiently and safely to our daily
activity and thus win the battle of health and happiness.”
Dr. José Enrique Campillo.
other titles…
Comer sano
para vivir más y mejor
S pain – Destino, 2010
El mono estresado
Spain – Crítica, 2012
Spain – Ediciones B, 2015
224 pages
Running
¡Adelgaza!
S pain – Temas de Hoy, 2012
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Joan Carreras
Joan Carreras (Barcelona, 1962) is the author of the critically
acclaimed novels Qui va matar el Floquet de Neu (Empúries, 2003)
and La gran nevada (Empúries, 1998). He made his name at the
beginning of the Nineties with two collections of short stories,
before publishing L’home d’origami, Carretera secundària and
Café Barcelona. L’àguila negra is his latest novel.
www.janquim.cat
L’àguila negra
(The Black Eagle)
Mario Solvell is about to turn sixty and is free of work and
family obligations, so he decides to make up for lost time.
He decides to go for a few days to a nudist village, free himself from
all the worries he has had and get what’s left of his life back: the
dentist dedicated to repairing bad fillings, the young man trapped in a
tumultuous sexual relationship and the boy who could not imagine the
changes that would happen in his life in the 60s and 70s,
just when Barcelona was waking up.
The Black Eagle is not an epic tale of heroes who are against the
Franco dictatorship, but a novel about normal people: it is the novel
that they will try to live with enthusiasm and satisfaction in a country
that is accommodating like them Joan Carreras offers us an emotional
journey that goes from surprise to surprise, from the tram strike in 1951
to the aftermath of the huge demonstration for independence in 2012.
other titles…
L’home d’origami
Catalan – Amsterdam, 2009
Café Barcelona
Catalan – Proa, 2013
Premi Ciutat de Barcelona
356 pages
Literary fiction
Premi Sant Jordi
Carretera secundària
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Jordi Cervera
Jordi Cervera (1959) is a journalist and writer. He is the author of
Serial Chicken, the first novel written in Europe through Twitter.
For Mosques he got the Ferran Canyameres award (2005) and the
Best Crime Novel Award by Brigade Group 21. In 2009 he won
the Children’s literature prize from Edebé for La mort a sis cinc
i cinc. He has published several books of fiction like Ànima de
Benzina or El triangle blau, as well as several children books like
La capsa dels tresors or Llepafils.
La música dels camaleons
(The Music of Chameleons)
When her mother’s murder is still very recent, Montserrat must also
live through the horror of her sister’s death, thus becoming the
unwilling main character of a dreadful episode that pulls her away
from her world. Artur -the best sniper of the elite police force– is
going through a rough time. He experiences a personal descent into
hell and does not know whether he is the victim of a bad twist of fate.
Whatever the case may be, he needs to clear his name and, most
importantly, to find the culprits. Jordi Cervera has created a novel
similar to a jigsaw puzzle that carefully plots a captivating mystery.
Catalan – Bromera, 2015
448 pages
Literary fiction
other titles…
La pilota Japler
Catalan – Edebé, 2013
S pain – Edebé, 2013
Llepafils
Catalan – Stonbeng, 2012
La mort a dos-cents deu
Spain – Edebé, 2011
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David Cirici
David Cirici i Alomar (Barcelona, 1954) has a degree in Catalan
Philology and is a writer. He has written novels for adults and
for young readers as well. His most recent among the first are
Els errors and I el món gira, winner of the Premi Prudenci Bertrana
2011. Among his novels for young adults, special mention should
be made to L’esquelet de la balena, with over 25 editions that has
found a sort of continuation with Prohibited Zone, an exciting
trilogy that has deserved some prices, as well as Molsa, winner of
the Premio de Literatura Infantil Edebé 2013. His latest novel,
The thief of the Guernica, a literary thriller, is based on real facts.
davidcirici.blogspot.com.es
El lladre del Guernica
(The Thief of the Guernica)
The pavilion of the Spanish Republic exhibits two large mural
paintings: the Guernica, by Pablo Picasso, and El Segador
(The Reaper), by Joan Miró. The Nazi German secret
service wants to seize the first work which it considers to be
“degenerate art”, but the work that ends up disappearing
is the second one. Seventy years later, an art expert and
gallerist discovers the truth behind the disappearance of
El Segador, the impressive and ambitious painting by Miró
of which a few black and white pictures still survive. The
gallerist has many reasons, mostly personal,
to try to forge this great mural, which is a cry of protest
whose reappearance would mean a revolution
in the contemporary art world.
A painter’s ambition, an art gallerist’s vengeance, the force
of desire, failed love affairs, the competition between
Picasso and Miró and the mystery behind the possible
recovery of the legendary El Segador succeed in creating a
dynamic and moving novel, El lladre del Guernica.
372 pages
Literary fiction
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Edmundo Díaz Conde
Edmundo Díaz Conde (Orense, 1966) graduated in Law at the
Universidad de Sevilla. In 1999 he won the III Premio de Novela
Ciudad de Badajoz for his work Jonás el estilita and his following
novel, La ciudad invisible, short-listed for the Premio Ateneo de
Sevilla. Finalist for the Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X el
Sabio with El veneno de Napoleón, after El príncipe de los piratas he
has recently won the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla with El hombre que
amó a Eve Paradise.
El hombre que amó a Eve Paradise
(The Man Who Loved Eve Paradise)
Eve Paradise, a famous Hollywood star who is not amorously
involved with anyone, thinks that a woman is desirable in the
eyes of those looking at her. She attends a hypnosis show in
the city of Chicago, an event coinciding with the disappearance
of the young tycoon Mike W. Murdoch. The investigation of
his disappearance will reveal a series of horrific crimes with a
common pattern. With the backdrop of the turbulent Chicago
of the 1920s, the transition from silent to talking films, and the
exploration of erotic passion between a mature woman
and a young man, El hombre que amó a Eve Paradise, written
as a crime novel, tells the story of the case’s scrupulous
investigation and the subsequent judicial process,
starring the greatest diva of silent film.
S pain – Algaida, 2015
other titles…
500 pages
Fiction
Premio Ateneo
El veneno de Napoleón
S pain – MR Ediciones, 2009
Russia – Ast Release, 2010
de
Sevilla
El príncipe de los piratas
Spain – Algaida, 2013
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Antonio J. Durán
Antonio J. Durán (1962) is professor of Mathematics Analysis at
the University of Seville and has written different scientific works,
as well as two novels. His latest popular science titles are Pasiones,
piojos, dioses y matemáticas (Destino, 2009), El ojo de Shiva,
el sueño de Mahoma, Simbad… y los números and El universo
sobre nosotros.
El universo sobre nosotros
(The Universe above Us)
2015 is the year of two important cultural ephemerides: 100 years
since Einstein’s first publication on general relativity and 400 since the
publication of the second part of the Quixote. A scientific episode
as important as the one involving Einstein’s theories necessarily has
a humanist interpretation. Science and the humanities are not in vain
two sides of the same reality. It is the intention of this book to show
that in general relativity those two sides of culture are as interrelated
as the delirious face that traditionally has been assigned to Don
Quixote and the icon of modernity that is Einstein with his long hair.
Spain – Crítica, 2015
384 pages
Popular Science
other titles…
El ojo de Shiva, el sueño
de Mahoma, Simbad…
y los números
Spain – Destino, 2012
Pasiones, piojos,
dioses y matemáticas
La piel del olvido
Spain – MR Ediciones, 2007
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Jorge Edwards
Jorge Edwards (Santiago de Chile, 1931), one of the most relevant
writers in the Spanish language, was awarded the National
Literature Prize in 1994 and the Cervantes Prize in 1999. He is the
author of short stories, novels, essays and memoirs and also writes
as a columnist in newspapers all over the world. After La muerte
de Montaigne (2011), Edwards has published the first volume of his
autobiography, Los círculos morados (2013).
Historia de María
Historia de María
María Edwards de Errázuriz, a member of Chile’s high society,
lived in Paris between the 1930s and the 1960s, where she was
known as Madame Errázuriz. She frequented the literary and social
circles of the time, and during the German occupation of Paris,
she worked as a social assistant in the Rothschild Hospital. When
she discovered that the Gestapo paid regular visits to the hospital
to take away the Jewish women and their children, María decided
to save as many Jewish children as she possibly could, putting
her own life at risk. The French Resistance helped her, but one of
her contacts was discovered and shot dead. Soon after, she was
arrested by the Gestapo and brutally tortured. Admiral Wilhelm
Canaris, head of German Military Security and a personal friend
of the Edwards de Errázuriz family after a long residence in Chile
during the war of 1914, was able to save María. Years after the war
María returned to Chile, impoverished, and died forgotten during
the years of Salvador Allende’s revolution. Her name, however,
appears in the Wall of the Righteous in Israel.
Provisional cover
(The Story of María)
Spain – Acantilado, 2016
Literary fiction
other titles…
Persona Non Grata (1973)
S pain – Alfaguara, 2006
La Muerte De Montaigne
S pain – Tusquets, 2011
Los Círculos Morados
S pain – Mondadori, 2012
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Juan Eslava Galán
Juan Eslava Galán (1948) is one of the most celebrated Spanish
authors of historical novels and essays with more than sixty books
published, some of them already considered classics, including
En busca del unicornio, awarded the Premio Planeta in 1987,
El comedido hidalgo, winner of the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla in
1994 and Señorita, which won the Premio Fernando Lara in 1998
and the Premio de la Crítica Andaluza in the same year.
www.juaneslavagalan.com
Misterioso asesinato en casa de Cervantes
(Mysterious Murder at the Home of Cervantes)
The corpse of the nobleman Gaspar de Ezpeleta, who has been stabbed
to death, is found in front of the home of Miguel de Cervantes.
A sanctimonious neighbor accuses the writer and his happy sisters, the
Cervantas, of being implicated in the crime, and they end up imprisoned.
The Duchess of Arjona, a great admirer of the writer, calls on the young
Dorotea de Osuna to investigate the case, aware of her abilities in this
field. As Dorotea’s investigation to defend the innocence of the author
of the Quijote develops, we become immersed in the Golden Age of
Spain, a country worn out by wars and weighed down by its idle and
unproductive social classes, nobles and clergymen, as well as by a large
impoverished population, that too often resembles our day and age.
S pain – Espasa, 2015
288 pages
Historical fiction
Premio Primavera
de
Novela
5th edition
La Segunda Guerra Mundial contada para escépticos
(The Second World War told for Skeptics)
The reader will find in this peculiar chronicle of the most devastating
conflict of the twentieth century many stories that are not told in the
books, such as the ones about the Jewish dancer who did a striptease before the gas chamber; the German submariner who sunk
his vessel by flushing the toilet; the pilot who helped his wounded
enemy find his way back to the base; Hitler’s possible homosexuality;
Mussolini’s four daily lovers; the search by Himmler and the SS for the
Holy Grail in Spain; the orgies in the Fuehrer’s bunker; the Japanese
man who survived both atomic bombs; the unbelievable adventures
of the cat on the Bismarck battleship, and many others.
Club – Círculo de Lectores, 2015
750 pages
Popular History
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Nuria Gago
Nuria Gago (Barcelona, 1980) is an actress. She studied in the
Col·legi del Teatre in Barcelona and began her acting career
in the successful television series El Cor de la Ciutat (2003).
Her cinematographic work continued in television series such as
Noviembre, by Achero Mañas; Mis adorables vecinos; MIR; KMM
and Amar es para siempre; as well as on the big screen in movies
such as Héctor, by Gracia Querejeta, for which she was nominated
for a Goya Prize as best breakout actress; Tu vida en 65’, by
Maria Ripoll; Primos, by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and No tengas
miedo, by Montxo Armendáriz. She is currently about to premier
Requisitos para ser una persona normal, by Leticia Dolera and
Incidencias, by Juan Cruz and Jose Corbacho. Quan tornem a casa
is her literary debut.
www.nuriagago.es
Quan tornem a casa
(When We Get Home)
Paula is trying to get control of her life, but it’s not easy when you’re
walking hand in hand with fear. Luckily she can rely on Manu who,
apart from being angry with the world, always has a place in his bed
for her, and also Sergio, although he’s got enough on his plate trying
to decide what to do with his own life. Susanna has spent years living
with a time bomb inside her –a bomb that will explode in Robert’s
face when he tries to find out what is wrong with the woman he
loves. Álvaro refuses to fall in love, refuses to be loved, like a selfpunishment, but Raquel tries to change that. And Salva… Salva would
be happy just to travel in time. But this is no science fiction.
Here, I am afraid, we’re talking about love.
Catalan – Planeta, 2015
221 pages
Contemporary fiction
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Ian Gibson
other titles…
Ian Gibson (Dublin, 1939, naturalized Spanish citizen) is one of
the most prestigious Hispanists of his generation. He specializes
in Spain’s Second Republic and Civil War and has written decisive
books about Federico García Lorca, such as Federico García
Lorca; Vida, pasión y muerte de Federico García Lorca; Lorca y el
mundo gay. He is also the author of books on Salvador Dalí (La
vida desaforada de Salvador Dalí; Dalí joven, Dalí genial), Antonio
Machado and Luis Buñuel. He is also a novelist –in 2012 he won
the Premio Fernando Lara de Novela for La berlina de Prim–
and a frequent contributor to newspapers such as El País and El Periódico.
Poeta en Granada. Paseos
con Federico García Lorca
(A Poet in Granada. A Walk with
Federico García Lorca)
Luis Buñuel
Spain – Aguilar, 2013
S pain – Ediciones B, 2015
304 pages
Biography
La berlina de Prim
To talk of Federico García Lorca is
to talk of Granada. His life, work
and death are intimately related
to the spirit of the city and its
surroundings. In this book, essential
for those who admire Lorca or
love Granada, Ian Gibson brings
the reader on a walk through the
most emblematic spots in the
city and its surroundings, while
shedding light on the relationship
of the poet with each one of them.
Gibson – probably the biggest
expert on Lorca – evokes the writer’s
childhood in Vega, Granada, the
visits to the Alhambra with Manuel
de Falla, and the gatherings at
his favorite cafés and taverns. He
recreates the aspects of the Albaicín
that are portrayed in Lorca’s poetry
and the caves of Sacromonte that
inspired Romancero gitano.
And he does it all without forgetting
customs, folk songs and legends
from Grenadian tradition that
Lorca used in his lyrical and
theatrical creations.
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Salvador Gutiérrez Solís
Salvador Gutiérrez Solís (Córdoba, 1968) published his first
novel when he was 28 years old, Dictando al cojo. After that came
several titles, with several awards that recognized Gutiérrez Solís as
one of the most original –and funny- writers of his generation.
After El orden de la memoria and El escalador congelado, his latest
novel is Biografía autorizada.
salvadorgutierrezsolis.blogspot.com.es
Biografía autorizada
(Authorized Biography)
Carlos J. is a peculiar rock star who has little to do with the clichés
and legends of the genre. In truth, Carlos J. is a rock star regardless
of himself. He was first the lead singer in a hugely successful band
and later a solo star. The trajectory and personal experiences of
Carlos J. are the perfect excuse to rummage through the darkest
drawers of the forever untidy closet of fame in order to discover
the B-sides of the music industry and, above all, to remember the
songs, bands and styles that have accompanied us for the last fifty
years, from Bob Dylan to Lady Gaga. The life of Carlos J. is not
always what it seems and has its dark sides.
Biografía autorizada is a fun, ironic and intriguing
tribute to contemporary music, to those melodies
that make up the soundtrack of our lives.
Spain – Isla de Siltolá, 2015
Literary fiction
other titles…
El orden de la memoria
El escalador congelado
Escritores
S pain – El olivo azul, 2011
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Tània Juste
Tània Juste (Barcelona, 1972) participated in the volume of short
stories Veus, which included the best of new Catalan writing.
In 2009 she published her first novel, A flor de pell, after which
came Els anys robats. Her latest novel is L’hospital dels pobres.
L’hospital dels pobres
other titles…
(The Hospital of the Poor)
Hospital de Sant Pau is now
an internationally recognised
cultural heritage site and one
that few of the tourists miss off
their itinerary when they visit
Barcelona. But what was the idea
behind the hospital and how did
it immediately become one of
the most modern hospitals in
Europe at the beginning of the
20th century?
Els anys robats
Catalan – Columna, 2012
Catalan – Columna, 2014
300 pages
Historical Novel
3rd edition
English
sample available
That is the starting point for
Tània Juste in her recreation of
all the principal and secondary
characters in this great novel. It
is a portrait of a society divided
by social class but which is
beginning to notice the cracks
that appeared with the force of
the 20th century which would
break with conventionalism and
social differences.
This is the story of a love
of ideals, a conception of art
and a woman who, since she was
small, has lived through
the construction of some
of the greatest modernist
gems in the world.
A flor de pell
Catalan – La Magrana, 2009
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Fernando López del Oso
Fernando J. López del Oso (Madrid, 1974) graduated in biology
from the Complutense University in Madrid, and is the author
of two non-fiction titles Un viaje mágico por Egipto and
La Sexta extinción. He participated in the volume of short stories
20 Historias Inquietantes, and was awarded the Premio Minotauro
2009 for his first novel El Templo de la Luna. After Yeti, his latest
title is Asesino de políticos.
www.lopezdeloso.com
Asesino de políticos
(The Murderer of Politicians)
Once upon a time, there was a country whose politicians had
become strong in Congress, the administration and the courts
were untouchable and dedicated themselves to political scams.
One luminous morning, a minister of transportation involved
in a murky process of privatization is murdered. Regardless of
the police’s confusion, the press is quite clear: the minister is
the third on the list of the Murderer of Politicians. And he will
not be the last… In a country where spirits are fiery and whose
citizens do not seem to worry excessively about the murder of
their democratically elected leaders, inspector De Soto
tries to set the case straight.
A thriller, a vengeance. No guilt. No limits. Big time.
other titles…
El templo de la luna
S pain – Minotauro, 2009
Premio Minotauro de Novela
Spain – Stella Maris, 2015
223 pages
Thriller
Yeti
Spain – Minotauro, 2011
Russia – Olma Media Group, 2012
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Jesús Maeso de la Torre
Jesús Maeso de la Torre (Úbeda, Jaén, 1949) has become one of the
most important Spanish authors of historical novels in recent years.
He frequently writes in the press and in history magazines, and he
is the author of a large body of work with classic titles such as Al-Gazal, el viajero de los dos orientes; El papa luna; Tartessos or El auriga de Hispania. After La profecía del Corán, El sello del
algebrista and El lazo púrpura de Jerusalén, he won the II Premio
Caja de Granada de Novela with La cúpula del mundo, which was
followed by En una tierra libre.
La caja china
(The Chinese Box)
After the unjust execution of his father, Rodrigo Silva must
postpone his desire for revenge in order to carry out the
orders of Philip II, who names him secret emissary on Oriental
territory. Rodrigo, a cartographer by profession, will thus set out
on a fascinating voyage that will provide him adventures and
knowledge but that will put his life at risk. Conspiracies, spies,
secret missions, barbarians, friends who are not such, power
and its battles, and Rodrigo Silva, at the heart of the sixteenth
century’s great adventure: the conquest of China.
other titles…
En una tierra libre
S pain – Grijalbo, 2011
Spain – Ediciones B, 2015
592 pages
Historical fiction
La cúpula del mundo
Spain – Grijalbo, 2010
El lazo púpura de Jerusalén
S pain – Grijalbo, 2008
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Miguel Pasquau
Miguel Pasquau Liaño (Úbeda, 1959) is a Judge and a Law
professor in the University of Granada. A writer of articles and
short stories, he published his first novel, Recuerda que yo no
existo, in 2014. Cuando siempre era verano, finalist for the XXII
Premio de Jaén, is his second novel.
Cuando siempre era verano
(When It Was Always Summer)
During a summer course, Professor Juan Zaldaña is
approached by an attractive woman wrapped in a halo of
mystery. On the night of San Lorenzo, they end up gazing
up at the stars together while Zaldaña recalls episodes
from his life, from his summers spent in Pinos de Duero
during the sixties and seventies, from his family history
and from the rupture that the civil war meant in the core
of a family that always got along. Cuando siempre era
verano gives the reader the chance to approach the
political and generational context of Spain which appears
in this novel without the usual oversimplifications.
Spain – Ediciones Miguel Sánchez, 2015
328 pages
Literary fiction
other titles…
Recuerda que ya no existo
S pain – Arcopress, 2014
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Edmundo Paz Soldán
Edmundo Paz Soldán (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 1967) teaches
Latin American Literature at Cornell University, Ithaca (USA). He
is author of several novels and short-stories books, some of them
translated to several languages. He is unanimously considered an
essential author in the current Latin American literary scene.
Iris
In a not too distant future, in a contaminated and secluded region
called Iris, there is an enclave called the Perimeter, home to colonizing
forces. In the Perimeter lives Xavier, a soldier who must deal with a
traumatic combat wound, and captain Reynolds and his unit, who, tired
of the advances of Irisin rebels led by Orlewen, decide to start their own
particular ruthless war by killing innocent people. The Perimeter is also
the home of Yaz, a nurse searching for jün, a sacred plant which offers
psychedelic visions and spiritual transcendence.
IRIS is an extraordinary novel, a step forward not only in Edmundo Paz
Soldán’s career but a tour de force as well in the novelistic tradition
in Spanish. From the first lines onwards, it takes readers into the dark
world of Iris and it submits them to its perverse logic, its delirium, its
languages in conflict, its violence and anguish. IRIS is a sweeping and
hypnotic dystopia about the way individuals reinvent themselves in
times of war, a bleak fable about the excesses of power and, ultimately,
a hopeful tale about the struggle for freedom.
other titles…
Billie Ruth
S pain – Páginas de Espuma, 2012
Norte
Spain – Mondadori, 2011
F rance – Gallimard, 2014
Brazil – Companhia das Letras, 2014
USA – University of Chicago, 2016
376 pages
Literary dystopia
Los vivos y los muertos
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Alejandro Pedregosa
Alejandro Pedregosa (Granada, 1974) graduated in Hispanic
Philology and Literary Theory. His literary output began with
two books of poetry, Postales de Grisaburgo y alrededores (2001)
and Retales de un tiempo amarillo (2002), after which came En la
inútil frontera (2005) and Los labios celestas, with which he won the
Premio Arcipreste de Hita. After Un extraño lugar para morir, he
published Un mal paso. Hotel Mediterráneo is his latest novel.
Hotel Mediterráneo
The Hotel Mediterráneo is not a normal hotel. It was
built in a remote place to offer shelter to women in
danger. It has an odd restaurant where Francesc, a
young musician, livens up the evenings playing old
songs by Joan Manuel Serrat on the piano. Life goes
on peacefully at the hotel until Tamara, a newcomer,
causes an incident that sets off all of the alarms.
Hotel Mediterráneo is a chant for liberty by those
who have chosen to get away from it all.
Alejandro Pedregosa guides the reader through
this story full of wit, humor and sensitivity with a
wonderful narrative pace.
184 pages
Mystery fiction
other titles…
Un mal paso
A pleno sol
Spain – Temas de hoy, 2013
Un extraño lugar para morir
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José María Pont
José María Pont Viladomiu has ended up in the publishing
world due to a series of mistakes. When his main interests were
women and the music of Frank Zappa, his family pressured him
to study business administration. His goal in life was to develop a
new line of philosophical thought under a palm tree in a Caribbean
island, but he ended up working for multinational companies
instead. Against his will, he has climbed the corporate ladder
(or has plunged through it, in his own words) to end up becoming
an important director. This disaster has brought him to write,
and he now debuts with a thriller as nonsensical as the reality
in which it is set.
Banderillas negras
(Black Banderillas)
S pain – Kailas, 2015
232 pages
Contemporary fiction
A popular nationalist
representative has been killed
under strange circumstances in
the mountain of Montjuic. The
murder unleashes an absurd
whirlwind of events against
the backdrop of the so-called
Catalan process. The police, the
courts of law and the political
class become involved in a
mess as big as the recently
closed bullring in Barcelona:
Monumental.
A fun thriller that is corrosively
funny, where the grotesque
and the absurd resemble quite
closely the reality of the country.
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Santiago Roncagliolo
Santiago Roncagliolo (Peru, 1975) was the youngest author to win
the Premio Alfaguara de Novela with Abril rojo in 2006, which
rapidly transformed him into one of the most prestigious authors
of his generation. His novels are translated into more than twenty
languages and he is considered a significant literary and
journalistic reference in the Hispanic world.
other titles…
Óscar y las mujeres
Abril rojo
Club – Círculo de Lectores, 2006
UK – Grove Atlantic, 2010
USA – Pantheon Books, 2009
Germany – Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008
F rance – Seuil, 2008
Italy – Garzanti, 2008
Netherlands – Signature, 2007
Greece – Kastaniotis, 2008
Brazil – Objetiva, 2007
Portugal – Teorema, 2007
Poland – SIW Znak, 2008
Turkey – Dogan Kitap, 2007
Bulgaria – Uniscorp Publishers, 2008
Rumania – Minerva, 2009
S lovenia – Modrijan, 2010
China – Shanghai 99, 2011
Thailand – Sanskrit Book, 2012
India – Olive Publications, 2012
Vietnam – Phuong Dongbooks, 2012
Croatia – Edicija Bozicevic, 2013
Denmark – Turbine, 2014
Premio Alfaguara de Novela
Independent Foreign Fiction
Prize 2010
La pena máxima
(Maximum Sentence)
La cuarta espada
S pain – Debate, 2007
Brazil – Objetiva, 2010
F rance – Editions du Cerf, 2011
Germany – Suhrkamp Verlag, 2011
A man is murdered and a baby
stolen in broad daylight although
without any eyewitnesses. But
everyone’s attention is turned to
a soccer game. The year is 1978
and Latin American dictatorships
handle an international brigade of
kidnappings and tortures. But in
Peru no one has eyes for anything
but the World Cup. That is, until
people start disappearing.
France – Métailié, 2016
Netherlands – Meridiaan, 2016
392 pages
Literary crime fiction
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Diego Trelles Paz
Diego Trelles Paz (Peru, 1977) debuted with the collection of short
stories Hudson el redentor, followed by his acclaimed novel El
círculo de los escritores asesinos. He is also the author of one of the
most celebrated anthologies of Latin American literature of recent
years, El futuro no es nuestro (2009), which is published in ten
countries. With Bioy, winner of the Premio de Novela Francisco
Casavella 2012, his place was confirmed as one of the most
powerful and innovative narrative voices of his generation.
other titles…
www.diegotrellespaz.com
Adormecer a los felices
(To Lull the Happy)
Bioy
F rance – Buchel-Chastel, 2014
Premio Francisco Casavella
Finalista Premio Rómulo
Gallegos, 2013
El futuro no es nuestro
S pain – Eterna cadencia, 2009
Each one of these short stories
causes a jolt. The eleven stories
that make up Adormecer a los
felices are all tough and have
the soul of the frontier, be it
geographic, emotional or literary.
The characters are apprentices to
pornographers, museum guards,
vile writers, eloquent gangsters
and other flâneurs who wander
around the world in search of a
revelation or a hot dish of lentils,
whatever comes their way
first. On this journey, where
we find echoes of Bolaño
and Arlt, something is lost: a
certain deceiving calmness
which disintegrates piece by
piece, along with melancholy
and dark humor, before the
reader’s very eyes.
Peru – Planeta, 2015
Spain – Demipage, 2016
140 pages
Short Stories
Adormecer a los felices is the
return of Diego Trelles Paz to
short fiction and his first book
after Bioy, the novel awarded
with the Premio Francisco
Casavella in 2012 and finalist for
the Premio Rómulo Gallegos
one year after.
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Mariano F. Urresti
Mariano F. Urresti is the author of almost twenty books on
historical enigmas including Los Templarios y la palabra perdida,
La vida secreta de Jesús de Nazaret and Felipe II y el secreto de
El Escorial. Among other awards, he won the third edition of the
Premio Finis Terrae de Ensayo Histórico with his work La España
expulsada. Agatha escribía con sangre is his third novel.
www.marianofernandezurresti.com
Agatha escribía con sangre
(Agatha Wrote in Blood)
Santos Alsina, owner of the October publishing house, could not
possibly imagine that the trip to the birthplace of Agatha Christie to
present a book about the famous writer could end up in scandal and
tragedy. The presentation meant to reveal the whereabouts of Agatha
Christie during the eleven days that she disappeared in 1926, is not
only treated as a sham, but it is also tarnished by the murder of Colin
Lloyd, one of the biggest experts in Christie’s work.
A vibrant tribute to one of the greatest writers of twentieth century
literature, masterfully written and prodigiously documented. Agatha
escribía con sangre recalls the particular structure of stories such as
And Then There Were None, giving the reader a precise portion of
suspense that does not run out until the last page.
other titles…
La tumba de Verne
Suma de Letras, 2013
S pain – Suma de Letras , 2015
523 pages
Crime fiction
Las violetas
del Círculo Sherlock
S pain – Suma de Letras, 2012
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List of Authors
Alonso, Javier
Amat, Nuria
Ares, Nacho
Arias, Javier
Arteaga, Almudena de
Balasch, Enric
Balbás, Yeyo
Barat, Juan Ramón
Basil, Carlota
Batlle, Carles
Bayo, Emili
Benavides,
Jorge Eduardo
Bigas, Joan M.
Bonnett, Mauricio
Bortagaray, Inés
Calcagno, Elisa
Calvo Poyato, José
Campillo,
José Enrique
Campos Navarro, Eva
Carol, Màrius
Carreras, Joan
Cernuda, Gemma
Cervera, Jordi
Cintora, Enrique
Cirici, David
Coca, Jordi
Colanzi, Liliana
Comas, Oriol
Cortès, Jordi
Cremades, Ferran
Díaz Conde,
Edmundo
Domínguez, Mari Pau
Durán, Antonio J.
Edwards, Jorge
Escobar, Mario
Eslava Galán, Juan
Espar, Marta
Faner, Pau
Freixa, Carme
Fuentes, Norberto
Gago, Nuria
García-Albi, Inés
Gibson, Ian
Gómez Pin, Víctor
Gutiérrez Solís,
Salvador
Harris, Peter
Hernández Chambers,
Daniel
Ibáñez, José Luis
Irurzun, Patxi
Iwasaki, Fernando
Jardí, Enric
Jordá, Eduardo
Juste, Tània
López del Oso,
Fernando J.
Lorente, Miguel
Llobera, Fernando S.
Macip, Salvador
Maeso de la Torre,
Jesús
Manuel, Jordi de
Manzanera, Laura
Marqués, Quim
Martín, Cristina
Martín, Adam
Mata, Jordi
Méndez Guédez, Juan
Carlos
Migoya, Hernán
Nel·lo, David
Olid, Bel
Olivet, Mercedes
Paz-Soldán, Edmundo
Pedregosa, Alejandro
Peramo, Carlos
Pérez Campos, Javier
Pérez, José Antonio
Perpinyà, Núria
Pomés, Leopoldo
Pont, Jose Mª
Pradera, Máximo
Roig, Sebastià
Roncagliolo, Santiago
Rosales, Guillermo
Rus, Rebeca
Salinas, Javier
Sánchez, Siqui
Sánchez, María Jesús
Sánchez Ruiz, Leticia
Sánchez Vidal, Agustín
Sánchez, Jordi
Schwartz, Fernando
Sebastián, Javier
Serrano, José Luis
Sierra Serra, Esperança
Subirana, Jaume
Tahoces, Clara
Tello, Antonio
Torner, Carles
Torras, Carme
Trelles Paz, Diego
Urresti, Mariano F.
Vallès, Tina
Van Olmen, Peter
Vilas, Albert
Vilaseca, Laia
Quintana, Josep M.
Ribó, Carmela
Roca, Elisenda
Roca, Maria Carme
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