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The Polish press is
absolutely enthusiastic about David Toscana. The prestigious
newspaper Wprost just stated:
“Gabriel García Márquez and Carlos Fuentes have a worthy successor: David
Toscana”.
Claudia Piñeiro has just been awarded
the renowned German LiBeraturpreis for her novel Elena sabe (“Elena Knows”), which
is voted by the readers themselves. The prize is destined for female authors
from Latin America, Asia and Africa and has already been given to prestigious
authors like Andrea Blanqué, Carmen Boullosa, Assia Djebar, Mayra Montero, Zoé
Valdés and Yvonne Vera. The ceremony will be held on October 3rd in Frankfurt,
and on October 5th, a reading will take place in the House of Literature
Frankfurt.
We have great news: For
the second time,
You are also welcome to
visit the Frankfurt Book Fair’s web site: https://en.book-fair.com/fbf/
José Saramago's novel A viagem do elefante ("The
Elephant's Journey") has just been anounced in
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please visit:
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The renowned literary
magazine Transcript just published an
excerpt of the English translation of Rui Zink’s novel O destino turístico (“The Tourist
Destination”) by the famous Margaret Jull Costa, as well as the German version
by Michael Kegler.
For more information
please visit:
http://www.transcript-review.org/en
http://www.transcript-review.org/de
Ondjaki has just been nominated
for the São Paulo Literature Award 2010,
together with Chico Buarque and João Ubaldo Ribeiro. The winners will be
announced on August 2nd in
He has also been
awarded the Juvenile-infantile Prize 2009 of
the Fundação Nacional do Livro Infantil e Juvenil with his book AvóDezanove e o segredo do soviético
(“Grandma Dezanove and the Soviet Secret”).
We have more good news:
Henry Trujillo's novel Tres buitres (“Three Vultures”) is
handled as the latest recommendation for German publishers in the Weltempfänger, the literary top list selected by litprom,
the Society for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin American Literature.
The jury consisting of Ilja Trojanow and Thomas Wörtche, among others, called Tres buitres "a very global
book" and praised its "incomplicated virtuosity."
We are proud to inform
you that José Saramago's novel Ensaio sobre a lucidez
("Seeing") has been selected as one of the top ten books dealing with
elections in literature by The Guardian. Next
to Saramago as the only author not writing in English are mentioned William
Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Henry James.
To read the whole
article, please visit:
More good news: Irene Vilar has just received
the Independent Publisher Book Award for her
memoir Impossible Motherhood. The
ceremony took place in
For more information,
please visit:
http://www.independentpublisher.com
We are happy to tell
you that Héctor Abad Faciolince has
just been awarded the Prémio Literário Casa da
América Latina/Banif 2010 for his novel El olvido que seremos (“Forgotten
We Shall Be”). The prize is destinated to the best Latinamerican work published
in
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please visit:
Good news: The short
film “The Slow Mirror” based on a short story by Richard Zimler has just been
awarded the Best
Drama by the New York Downtown Short Film
Festival.
For more information,
please visit:
http://www.constablerobinson.com
We are happy to tell
you that the movie inspired in Sergio Bizzio’s novel Rabia (“Rage”) will be released in
We have more great
news: Irene Vilar has just been
awarded a fellowship of one year in the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation! The
grant consists of $49,000 and is given to candidates who have shown a great
creative talent in the arts.
We are proud to inform
you that El Teatro Argentino de La Plata is
going to perform José Pablo Feinmann’s Timote as opera
in 2011, with Marcelo Lombardero as stage director and Oscar Golijov as
composer.
We would like to share
the great news with you that Impossible Motherhood
by Irene Vilar is among the
finalists for the 2009 Foreword Book of the Year Award, as well
as El último lector (“The Last Reader”) by David Toscana.
For more information,
please visit:
Irene
Vilar:
www.bookoftheyearawards.com/autobiography-memoir
David Toscana:
www.bookoftheyearawards.com/fiction-literary
We are proud to inform
you that Thursday
Night Widows (Las viudas de los jueves), the best seller novel by
Claudia Piñeiro, is
long-listed for this year's Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize! The film of the same name by Marcelo Piñeyro, after
counting with a record of spectators in
For more information, please visit:
http://www.independent.co.uk/books/
We are proud to inform you that Mario
Vargas Llosa has written a hymn of praise on Héctor Abad Faciolince's book El olvido que seremos (Forgotten We Shall Be) in El
País, calling it his “most enthralling reading experience of recent years.”
Vargas Llosa was equally smitten with Abad’s latest title, Traiciones de la memoria (Betrayal to Memory):
“It’s clear to me that I’ll spend the rest of my life getting into debt with
this Colombian writer.”
For more detail, please read the whole article: www.elpais.com
The Fundação Biblioteca Nacional has announced the
launching of the
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The generation 00 of Brazilian literature:
“Prosa & Verso”, part of the leading magazine Globo, organized an election of the eight best new Brazilian authors of the last decade,
starring a selected jury of well-known literary critics and cultural entities.
We are glad to announce
that our author Santiago Nazarian is among the
winners with his novel Feriado de mim mesmo
(“Holidays from Myself”), next to authors like Daniel Galera, Bruna Beber,
Tatiana Salem Levy, Michel Laub, Marilia Garcia, Ana Maria Gonçalves and Ana
Paula Maia.
We are glad to announce
that our agency represents the work by Augusto Boal and Graciliano Ramos, two classics
among Brazilian literature.
We also shall take care
of the work by Sergio Bizzio and Reynaldo Sietecase, both from Argentina, the
country which will be the guest of honour at this year’s Frankfurt Bookfair.
The prestigious Premio Nadal has been awarded to Clara Sánchez for her novel Lo que esconde tu nombre, which will be published
in February by Editorial Destino.
Congratulations! Eduardo Antonio Parra has been
awarded the Prix Antonin Artaud for his
story collection Sombras detrás de la ventana.
The prize includes the publication in
Parra's book was
praised by the jury as an exceptional narrative
masterpiece, creating a
world of its own, emphasizing the author’s capacity to give an acute insight into
peculiar human situations.
We are proud to
announce that the novel O Destino Turístico (The Tourist Destination) by Rui Zink has been awarded the Prémio Ciranda by Alma Azul. It was handed over
on November 13th as part of the Festival da Língua Portuguesa. With this
sharp-humored allegory on our little “paradisical territory”, Zink has achieved
a remarkable maturity.
Congratulations to Edgar Hilsenrath! He has been
honoured with the Prix Mémorables for
his novel Fuck Amerika (Bronsky’s Confession). The prize has been awarded
by the Association of Independent Booksellers in
We are very delighted
to announce that our author Moacyr Scliar received the Prêmio
Jabuti 2009 for his latest novel Manual da paixão solitária.
This is the fourth time
the Prêmio Jabuti, one of the most
important literary prizes in
Las viudas de los jueves (Thursday Night
Widows), the film based on the best
seller by Claudia Piñeiro, was released
September 10 in
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9W3MXRPc7w.
In the
We are proud that Gonçalo M. Tavares was
shortlisted for the Prêmio Portugal Telecom 2009
with his novel Aprender a rezar na Era da Técnica.
Tavares won this prize, which honours literature in Portuguese language, in
2007 with his novel Jerusalém.
The International Literature Prize – Haus der
Kulturen der Welt will be awarded, for the first time, for contemporary
prose fiction in the first German translation. Dos veces junio by Martín Kohan is
nominated for the shortlist. The
announcement of the winner will take place in
http://www.hkw.de/en/programm2009/literaturpreis/literaturpreis.php
Claudia Piñeiro and José Pablo Feinmann are among
the authors who shall attend this year’s Frankfurt Bookfair in order to
represent
The Mexican author Rogelio Guedea was awarded the Silverio Cañadas
Prize at the Semana Negra
in Gijón for his novel Conducir un tráiler. For more information on
the author and his work, please visit
www.mertin-litag.de/authors/Guedea
Together with other
associations, the UNESCO nominated Buenos
Aires World
Book Capital City 2011, which means a huge acknowledgment of the
best programme dedicated to books and reading. Following this nomination the Guest of Honour
role of
We are glad to take the
chance to remind you that the Argentine Government approved to support
translations of national literature with the sum of 250.000 Euros.
Please contact us for further details!
In it’s 11th
edition, the International Cooperation Prize Caja de Granada was awarded
to José
Saramago and Dario Fo. Since 1998 the prize goes to institutes and
personalities dedicating themselves to social justice. The panel considered
that both Nobel laureates have always been committed to “the search of peace,
development and understanding between nations”.
As first Portuguese
writer, at this year’s Salon du Livre in
Very good news from
“Jerusalém” by Gonçalo M. Tavares is nominated for the Cévennes Prize 2009, awarded to the best
European novel published in
The other nine
finalists are Manuel Rivas, Hanif Kureishi, Sandro Veronesi, Sasa Stanisic,
Jean Echenoz, Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Morton Ramsland, Vassili Golovanov and
Charles Lewinsky.
Las viudas de los
Jueves (“Thursday’s Widows”), the bestseller and
Clarín-Prize awarded novel by Claudia Piñeiro, with 130.
000 copies and translations in nine countries sold so far, will now be brought
to the big screen by the leading Spanish production outfit Tornasol Films. The
director is Marcelo Piñeyro.
We are pleased to
annouce that As mulheres do meu pai (“My Father’s
Wives”) by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by
Daniel Hahn, has been longlisted for the Independent
Foreign Fiction Prize 2009 in
Congratulations! This 18th of February 2009 Luis Sepúlveda was awarded the Primavera de Novela Prize for his
new novel
La sombra de lo que
fuimos
(“A Shadow of what we were”)
It is one of the most prestigious and valuable awards in Spain (200.000 Euro),
granted annually by the publishing house Espasa Calpe and the cultural section
of El Corte Inglés, Spain’s largest department store. With Ana María Matute as
president, the jury consists of Antonio Soler, Ángel Basanta, Ramón Pernas and
Ana Rosa Semprún.
Excellent news from
We are proud to announce that Insensatez (“Senselessness”) by Horacio Castellanos Moya was shortlisted for
Best Translated Book of 2008 (USA)
THE FISH CHILD, the latest film by Lucía
Puenzo based on her
novel of the same name, will be released at the Berlinale Film Festival
in February at the Panorama Section, in
the presence of Lucía Puenzo and the two main actresses, Mariela Vitale and
Inés Efron.
Our author José Eduardo Agualusa is invited by the prestigious British Baths Literature Festival in March.
We are glad to announce that Moacyr Scliar was awarded for his novel O centauro no jardim (“The Centaur in the Garden”) the special prize PRIX MINUIT MOINS UNE by the jury of O PRÊMIO NOCTURNE 2008 in
Richard Zimler has been awarded the Prix Benveniste in
In the
Insensatez (“Senselessness”) by Horacio Castellanos Moya as one of the
Best Foreign Fiction Titles of 2008:
Best Foreign Fiction Titles of 2008
The work by Gonçalo M. Tavares was
just presented in
Un Kafka
portugais. LE
FIGARO
Gonçalo M.
Tavares est une révélation. MAGAZINE
LITTÉRAIRE
In
Ondjaki has received the Grinzane Cavour Literary Prize for Africa in the category of young writers.
This is the first time that this prestigious prize is given to African
writers.
We are very glad and proud to announce the new novel by José Saramago:
A viagem do elefante. This is not a historic novel, even if based on history. It tells the
story of the elephant Solomon, travelling across half of
http://blog.josesaramago.org
Another book we have been waiting for is the volume of short stories by Luis Sepúlveda: La
Lámpara de Aladino y otros cuentos para vencer al olvido. Evoking the
We are very proud to announce that the movie Blindness, adapted by Don McKellar from José Saramago’s 1998 Nobel Prize-winning novel, has been selected to open the Cannes Film Festival on May 14th.
Directed by “City of
The $25 million epic -
about an unnamed city struck by a unique plague in which 90 per cent of the
population go blind - is a three-way co-production involving
Tropa de Elite (The Elite Squad) won the Golden Bear
at the Berlinale Film
Festival.
A compelling fictional
account, The Elite Squad reveals, for
the first time and viewed from the inside, the strenous training and dramatic
day-to-day life of the men sent to fight at the forefront of the guerrilla
warfare against drug lords in
The film is based on a
best-seller from
Please contact us for
further information.
We are glad to announce
that The Lady from Buenos Aires by John Lantigua has successfully been presented
at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The mystery novel has been published by arte público in 2007.
El olvido
que seremos (Forgotten We Shall Be) by Héctor Abad
Faciolince leads the Colombian bestseller list of 2007 with 69
points, followed by Cien años de
Renowned contemporary authors have expressed their enthusiasm for El olvido
que seremos in the following terms:
Not only is it a
beautiful and profoundly moving work, not only is it a necessary lesson on
current themes such as civic education and the relation between personal and
historical memory, but also an irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for
democracy and tolerance in countries that are so near and dear to us.
Fernando Savater, El País
A tremendous and
necessary book, with an overwhelming courage and honesty. At times I wondered
how he had the bravery to write it.
Javier Cercas
Rosa Montero
I store up what I have
read by Héctor Abad like spherical, polished, luminous little balls of bread,
ready for when I have to walk through a vast forest in the nighttime.
Manuel Rivas
The novel is excellent,
and I am greatly honoured by your generous dedication. The story is interesting
on its own account and it breathes – as do the best socially engaged novels –
with a critical vision that is more ethical and cultural than it is political.
The book is absorbing, full of suspense and, at times, reveals a humour that
breaks the unbearable and oppressive tension.
During the Guadalajara
Bookfair, the Tusquets
Prize for novels was awarded to the Mexican
author Elmer Mendoza
for his latest work Balas de plata (Silver Bullets). The winner
receives the sum of 20.000 Euros, and his novel will be published
simultaneously in
Congratulations to the
Argentine author and director Lucía Puenzo: Her film XXY,
already awarded at this year’s Cannes Film Festival the Grand
Prix de la Semaine de la Critique, has now been selected as the
Argentinian submission for the foreign-language Oscar nomination and the Spanish Goya Awards.
We are proud to
announce that Gonçalo M.
Tavares has been awarded the Prêmio Portugal Telecom de Literatura em Língua Portuguesa 2007! His
novel Jerusalém, which won the José
Saramago Prize in 2005, was published by Editorial Caminho in
Since it was created
five years ago, this is the first time that authors from different countries
than
Tavares as the winner
receives 100.000 Reais (about 39.000 Euros).
Congratulations
to Lídia Jorge
who has received the Grande
Prémio SPA/Millennium for her life’s work, particularly for
her latest novel Combateremos a sombra. Jorge, one of
Congratulations
to José Eduardo Agualusa!
The Angolan author has won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize!
The Prize
is awarded annually to the best work of contemporary fiction in translation and
aims to restore the prominence of translated fiction on the British scene.
Worth £10,000 (€15.000 or $17,500), divided equally between the author and his
or her translator, it counts as the most lucrative and wide-ranging translation
prize in the world.
Congratulations
also to Mia Couto from
This
prize was launched in 1990 by the Latin Union, the international organisation
founded by the
The World Book Capital and the Hay Festival –
the intenational cultural organization which held it’s annual celebration in
Bogotá this year – announced the Best Latin American Writers Under 39 years of age. After having been selected by the audience
and by the jury members Piedad Bonnet, Oscar Colazos and Héctor Abad, they are
considered the most representative Latin American writers and shall be invited
to visit Bogotá in August.
The XX Semana Negra in
We are very glad to
announce that Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta,
is the winner of the Espartaco Prize
for the best “historical novel” in Spanish with his title El gabinete de las maravillas (The Cabinet of
Marvels).
Amir Valle is the winner of the Rodolfo Walsh Prize in the “non fiction police
genre”, published in 2006, with his journalistic approach to prostitution in