This is not a Western

This is not a Western

Xavier ALIAGA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 280 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter The Neons of Sodom and Two square meters of young blood (crims.cat 12), Xavier Aliaga returns with a new installment of his peculiar policeman of Guinean origin. With the same load of irony and social criticism, but with a much more poignant and violent story, in what could be considered the...

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What only happens to others

What only happens to others

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 332 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe new novel from Barcelona’s master of the Crime Novel. Tricky and revealing of the problems of Barcelona and Catalan society. Marc Olván is a lawyer in a bad situation, in love and an alcoholic, who is not exactly going through a great time. Lidia Pedralba is a mother...

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Women without Name

Women without Name

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2020, 250 p. FICTION, Thriller Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe novel that begins the trilogy featuring Inspector Araceli Lavila In a flush on the outskirts of Valencia appears the body of an unidentified young woman with the phalanges of her fingers cut off and obvious signs of rape. When Inspector Araceli Lavila begins the investigation, she...

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Vienna, 1912

Vienna, 1912

Antoni ROCA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 214 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Agustí Vehí-Vila de Tiana Memorial Prize 2023 In 1912, Vienna was a seemingly quiet city, the center of a continental empire that has survived the uprisings of the nineteenth century. It has more than two million inhabitants and the Universal Exposition has given it an unquestionable prestige,...

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Angels of Death

Angels of Death

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 290 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter Women without Name and Suburbs of Paradise, Silvestre Vilaplana completes with Angels of Death the trilogy of detective Araceli Lavila, three crime novels with a strong social denunciation that have corruption and abuses of power as a background. Death seems to have taken over the...

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Suburbs of Paradise

Suburbs of Paradise

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 268 p. FICTION, Crime’s novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA novel denouncing the darkness of factual powers set against the backdrop of political crimes, the rise of fascism and abuses of power. After Women Without a Name, Inspector Araceli Laula returns. Removed from the body while battling health problems, her life is disturbed by the...

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Quasi-poetic justice

Quasi-poetic justice

Jordi CERVERA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2021, 380 p. FICTION, Thriller, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants A wood, a park and a courthouse. What can these three places have in common? Well, more than you think, especially if we also take a look at the protagonists who move there. Because it’s hard to imagine the things that might unite a media philosopher, a respected judge woman, a young woman...

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Turned into soup

Turned into soup

Pere FIGUERAS CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA dark book full of humour IX ex-aequo Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 The protagonist of this story is Avel·lí Baldoví, a psychopath convinced that the world works against him and who does not hesitate to eliminate anyone who offends his dignity. He...

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The Fourth Girl On The Left

The Fourth Girl On The Left

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 480 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants World War I. While the main European cities are bleeding into conflict, Barcelona is one of the great pearls of the Mediterranean. Despite its status as a neutral territory, no one ignores the fact that on the coast there are ports where they can illegally stock up on fuel...

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A Lighthouse at the End of the World

A Lighthouse at the End of the World

Gerard GUIX Winner of the most important children’s literature prize in Catalonia: Joaquim Ruyra 2022 Illustrations by Cristina Bueno ELASTIC BOOKS ( Grup Enciclopèdia ), 2023, 240 p. Teen Novel, Catalan They say that adolescence is the age of discoveries and anguish. Max knows this well. At the age of fourteen he has just seen how his life takes an unexpected turn: his father has been commissioned to renovate a lighthouse on a remote...

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Suicides Company

Suicides Company

Mariló ÀLVAREZ CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 Queralt, a psychologist by training, works at the Suicide Assistance Center (C.A.S.) number twelve, an agency attached to the Social Security that regulates suicide requests from her patients. Their task is to assess...

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Don’t be so sure

Don’t be so sure

Lluís LLORT CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2016, 296 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Monday morning. The week begins for Mossos d’Esquadra sergeant Jaume Fuentes and his colleague, Santi Planes, with the case of the corpse of a young man snuggled up in a small office in the center of Barcelona. Over the next seven days, what initially seemed like a routine case...

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Everything You Should Know Before You Love Me

Everything You Should Know Before You Love Me

Gerard GUIX Les FORGES de VULCAIN, Tout ce que tu devrais savoir avant de m’aimer, 2022, 384 p. FICTION, French (trad. Carole Fillière)COLUMNA, Tot el que hauries de saber abans d’estimar-me, 2011, 250 p. FICTION, Catalan Novel eligible for translation grants for Catalan novels from the Institut Ramón Llull Pin i Soler de Novel.la awards 2001 A novel, with a very personal poetic style that opens up to the fantastic, therefore has a...

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The List of Impossible Things

The List of Impossible Things

Laura GONZALVO Book eligible for translation Grants offered by the Institut Ramón Llull for books in Catalan Premi Carlemany 2021 Crossover literature /Young Adults / Fiction Original TitleLa llista de les coses imposibles Complete Spanish Translation availableRights sold : Galician (Costa Oeste) and Spanish (Plataforma) Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book...

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Death of the Forests

Death of the Forests

Francisco LLORET ARPA, 2022, 272 p., ESSAY, ECOLOGY, spanish Forests around the world are collapsing.Some of them are primary, of incalculable value. It is a current phenomenon, very serious and still little known. Original TitleLa muerte de los bosques English Sample available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

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Gastrosophy

Gastrosophy

Eduardo Infante, Cristina Macía Rosamerón, 2022, 272 p., ESSAY, Philosophy and Gastronomy, spanish A vegan Pythagorean menu, a Kantian menu served on the hour, a medieval meal with a background of Carmina Burana or a Banquet worthy of the best Socrates. An entertaining journey through what some of the most illustrious philosophers thought about food -and what they ate or drank-. Original TitleGastrosofía English Sample available Territory of...

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The World Begins

The World Begins

Marià Veloy Bromera, 2022, 327 p., Novel, catalan Grants Ramón Llull for translation available Original El món comença Long spanish sample available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

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Everything You Should Know Before Loving Me

Everything You Should Know Before Loving Me

Gerard GUIX COLUMNA, 2011, 424 p. FICTION, Catalan Awarded with the XXI Pin i Soler Prize A somewhat fantastic road movie that takes us from Catalonia to London to the centre of Europe, punctuated by flashbacks and music. Five years ago in London Gerard and Anastasia meet casually. Soon after, the girl goes to live with him in Barcelona, ​​where the young boy had tried to turn her in someone other than the Russian student who attracted him, as...

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The Cemetery

The Cemetery

Gerard GUIX COLUMNA, 2013, 176 p. FICTION, Catalan The perfect adaptation of his play Genesi 3.0, a success at the 2003 GREC Festival.Gerard Guix is inspired by the dystopian worlds of three works of science fiction, George Orwell’s 1984, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, to locate its futuristic fable, although the atmosphere, the characters and the story more approach the...

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My Season at the Hell

My Season at the Hell

Gerard GUIX FANBOOKS, 2021, 276 p. CROSSOVER, Catalan A story that seems simple at the beginning and ends up taking us into a spiral of facts and emotions that will shake us and reveal the darker side of our society. A novel that echoes an adult novel he wrote ten years ago, Hunting Day, set in the same mountain and snowy village, Vic. For ages 14 and up. 13 years ago, in a mountain village where nothing ever happens, a teenager died during a...

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You’re Going To Say I’m Crazy

You’re Going To Say I’m Crazy

Ara direu que estic boig Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2021, 236 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants “Now I fall asleep, now I wake up, now I fall asleep”. This is the life of Francesc Ascás, an extravagant young man who hears voices and says strange things, who draws comics and is hooked on the predictions of a television magician, and all of this...

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TRILOGY The Prodigy, The Wit, The Talent

TRILOGY The Prodigy, The Wit, The Talent

Gerard GUIX   ESTRELLA POLAR 2011, 2011, 2012 Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. THE PRODIGY His name is Axel because their parents liked Guns’n’Roses and this was the name of the leader. His name is Axel, but he could have called Odin, the guy from Sweden he has never seen but that each year sends him a birthday gift. Odin is a mysterious and improbable character, and...

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Black Secret Society

Black Secret Society

Andreu MARTIN RBA, LA MAGRANA, 2013,  304 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants V Crims de Tinta Award in 2012 “Soong, Dona, Home i Nen, Señora, Caballero y Niño, Lady, Gentleman and Child Fashions, Wholesale Only”. This is how it appears on the business poster of some Chinese businessmen that camouflages the secret bank that is robbed before the macabre...

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The Fair Violence

The Fair Violence

Andreu MARTIN RBA, LA MAGRANA, 2016,  448 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The murder of two partners in a financial consulting firm triggers a major police operation involving Germán Rojo, a powerful man who believes he is untouchable and far above the other mortals, those annoying cockroaches he can crush whenever he wants. However, it has a weakness. Melba, a young woman, who...

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The cockroach sputum does not reach the seventh basement of the pedestal from which my statue rises

The cockroach sputum does not reach the seventh basement of the pedestal from which my statue rises

Andreu MARTIN BROMERA, 2014, 336 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan CIENTO CUARENTA EDITORIAL, 2014, 384 p., spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The murder of two partners in a financial consulting firm triggers a major police operation involving Germán Rojo, a powerful man who believes he is untouchable and far above the other mortals, those annoying cockroaches he can crush whenever he wants. However, it has a...

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Everyone Will RememberYou

Everyone Will RememberYou

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2019, 290 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Vila-Real town Novel Award 2018 A few months after the Jihadist attack on Barcelona’s Ramblas, and with days to go before controversial regional elections, the lifeless body of National Police inspector Santiago Ortuño appears in the port, between concrete blocks and a raging dark...

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The Tibidabo’s Harem

The Tibidabo’s Harem

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2018, 355 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Up there, on Tibidabo Avenue, where the old Blue Tramway runs, among the modernist and imposing villas is “El harem”, an exclusive brothel, which was already very popular during the Franco era. The most luxurious in the city: golden doors, coloured stained glass windows,...

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The Harem’s favorite

The Harem’s favorite

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2020, 256 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish The art of intrigue, of shaping spectacular characters, the truculent language in the dialogues, all the qualities found in Andreu Martín’s novels, are particularly remarkable in this novel. Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The Tibidabo Harem is back, the most luxurious Modernist brothel in Barcelona, with its oak...

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In Chopin’s heart

In Chopin’s heart

Mònica BATET   Editorial Empúries, 2020, 141 p., FICTION, Short stories, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. In Chopin’s heart is fruit of the fascination that exerts Poland on the writer Mònica Batet. Since the 2007, the notebooks of the writer collect histories of every type related with this country of cosy persons, sentimental and wound for the History. The reader will...

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Snow, Polar Bears and some Braver Men than the Others

Snow, Polar Bears and some Braver Men than the Others

Mònica BATET METEORA, 2015, 184 p. LITERARY FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. A 10-year-old girl is left at home with her paternal grandfather when her parents have to flee, for political reasons, from an Arctic country that is currently experiencing a climatic phenomenon called the Great Snowfall. Paris is the destination of fugitives. Time passes and the little girl and then the...

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Nine Islands in the North

Nine Islands in the North

Mònica BATET   BROMERA, 2019, 224 p., FICTION, catalan Book eligible for TRANSLATION GRANTS from the RAMÓN LLULL INSTITUTE in Barcelona. Can I tell a story that doesn’t belong to me? What can I talk about and what can I keep quiet about? These are some of the questions raised by the six narrators of this story, which tells the story of a past that may also be the present. In any case, we are talking about certain islands that...

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