Ecran Total collective Éditions La Lenteur, 2026, 96 p. NON-FICTION Essay, French Technological outpouring is one of the main political issues of our time. Almost everyone now thinks of digitalisation as a ‘natural’ process, as the mere background of everything happening to us, with its own advantages and drawbacks. Apart from a few exceptions, no political movement is challenging digitalisation. Instead, most of today’s...

Aurélien Berlan Éditions La Lenteur, 2021, 15 x 21 cm , 224 p. NON-FICTION Essay, Philosophy, French Western modernity has defined itself through its project of extending freedom to everyone, whereas earlier civilisations reserved it for a privileged minority. But at a time when inequalities are rising as rapidly as restrictive measures multiply, the obvious fiasco of this project leads one to question the underlying concept of freedom. This is...

Matthieu Amiech, Gary Libot and Valentin Martinie Éditions La Lenteur, Septembre 2026,  10.5 x 14.8 cm, 40 p. NON-FICTION Essay , Politics. French A manifesto which sold 4,000 copies in France and has been reprinted this autumn at the request of booksellers. This text follows on from and develops the editorial “Not only should one leave X, but rebuild political communities outside the network”, from the paper Le Chiffon (The...

Thomas Jodarewski Éditions La Lenteur, 2026, 190 p. NON-FICTION Essay, French There is a fundamental misunderstanding surrounding the concept of ecology, and this book reveals it. It shows that two different political movements claim the same label whilst their aims are incompatible: one is a technocratic movement aiming to steer the “Spaceship Earth” through ever more science, measurement, bureaucracy, and calculation; the other is...

Pierre Bourlier Éditions La Lenteur, 2021, 15 x 21 cm, 208 p. ESSAY NON-FICTION, French Pierre Bourlier offers a fresh look and overview of Wilhelm Reich’s thought (1897-1957). Reich, a seminal influence on the student rebels of 1968 and founder of a political movement for sexual emancipation, was a psychoanalyst but also a biologist. Bourlier captures Reich’s original conception of life, spontaneity and sensitivity, whilst...

Nahuel Gallotta., 2026, 317p., Libros Del KO. Non Fiction,Journalisme littéraire. Langue espagnole. Original TitleBiografía de un gramo Détail des chapitres et échantillon en anglais disponibles Droits vendus Portugais ( Portugal, Zigurate; Brésil, Matrix Editora ) Matrix Editora ) Territoires représentésLangue françaiseAutres droits : Oh!Books agency, juanjoboya@ohbooks.es More about the rights available for this book...

Anne-Laure Amilhat-Szary LE CAVALIER BLEU,  2020, 216 p. NON-FICTION, french A brilliant, original and committed essay on a major geopolitical issue, borders. Paradoxical geographical objects, borders have criss-crossed the world since modern times and form the basis of international relations, presupposing on the one hand the equality of law between the territories they delimit and on the other hand an exclusive distribution of...

Armella Leung (Art-mella) POURPENSER, 2015, 2018, 19 x 29,5 cm. Self Help, Youth, Comics, French Till 14 years old to any age of life ALMOST 50 000 COPIES SOLD IN TOTAL FOR THE SERIES Tome #1 30 000 copies sold in France Art-mella is a young woman who likes to look for answers to the questions she asks herself. Curious and quick-witted, she observes, goes out to meet people and tries things out. In these pages, Art-mella shares some of the...

Pablo Batalla Cueto., 2025, 296p., Capitán Swing. Non Fiction, Essai politique et sportif. Langue espagnole. Original TitleLa bandera en la cumbre Echantillon en anglais disponible Territoires représentésLangue françaiseAutres droits : Oh!Books agency, juanjoboya@ohbooks.es Droits vendus Italie (Einaudi) More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Eduardo RUIZ SOSA Eduardo Ruiz Sosa’s most personal novel. Migrants, North Mexican Desert and Border, contemporary social collapse, Struggle. ‘Eduardo Ruiz Sosa’s novels are ambitious and hypnotic, overflowing, rebellious.’ Nadal Suau, El Cultural, El Mundo ‘An amazing book. The work with language, the constant crossing of genres (from prose to verse to drama), the desedimentation of landscapes, its ethical relevance:...

Estela SANCHIS CANDAYA, 2025, 192 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish A reflection on the drive towards violence, cruelty and the limits of intimacy. A powerful and uncompromising debut novel that delves into the desire to live a life that is not banal, that dares to cross boundaries. A young woman arrives at an artist residency to escape a creative block or, perhaps, to escape herself, her life, her surroundings. What should have been a creative,...

An inquiry into the nature of time, the political dimension of the grotesque, and eroticism as an antidote to anxiety. ‘Her discourse is poetic and deeply political. And from that almost oracular place, with a veiled sense of humour, she exposes the complexities that make us more human.’ Adriana Bertorelli, El Cultural, El Mundo. ‘The most unusual and original narrator in contemporary Argentine literature, fierce, radical and comical in her...

Pilar FRAILE CANDAYA,  2025, 224 p. LITERARY, Rural Thriller, Spanish (Espagne) An inquiry into hyper-consumerism in the contemporary world, institutional indolence, and the spectacle of tragedy. ‘It is difficult to write about the disillusionment of our times without falling into cynicism, but Pilar Fraile manages it,’ Isaac Rosa. ‘An intelligent book. An accurate diagnosis of our reality told in the only style possible to make that...

Anaëlle Théry Terre vivante, April 2024, 160 p. 21×29,7 cm. Practical Ecology, FrenchNew edition in 2025. The only book to date written on Syntropic Agriculture for temperate environments, emerging concept all over the world.After Permaculture, the new revolution in your garden!This book, based on the field experiments of Anaëlle Théry, a pioneer of syntropy in France, provides methods adapted to temperate latitudes, for vegetable...

Diego SÁNCHEZ AGUILAR CANDAYA, 2025, 128 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish A novel that transcends genres to explore guilt, otherness and degeneration in times of war.”Diego Sánchez Aguilar is the most ambitious of today’s Spanish novelists”, — Gustavo Faverón Patriau An official is sent to a mountain village to investigate two suspicious events: the burning of the church and the tragic death of the organist. Through a series of...

Blanca Lacasa Carralón., 2024, 272p. Non Fiction, Essai. Langue espagnole. Original TitleLas hijas horribles Echantillon en anglais disponible Territoires représentésLangue françaiseAutres droits : Oh!Books agency, juanjoboya@ohbooks.es Droits vendus Chine (Beijing Imaginist Time Culture), Russie (Atticus) More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Pablo MARTIN CARBAJAL Mar editor, 2024, 344 p. Fiction, Novel, Spanish A meeting between Camille Claudel, the famous French sculptor and a Spanish woman, desperated and combative.French 1968 revisited through the eyes of an author fascinated by the vitality of this rebellion. As always in Pablo Martín Carbajal’s novels, we see that Art and Life always go hand in hand. Four years have passed since Dori made the most important decision of...

Francisco Martorell Campos, La Caja Books, 2025, 256 p., Non Fiction, Essai. Espagnol (Espagne) Original TitleContra la distopia. La cara B de un género de massa. Territoires représentésLangue françaiseAutres droits : Oh!Books agency, juanjoboya@ohbooks.es More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Plus qu’un journal de voyage, un album souvenir, un récit d’amitié et une enquête journalistique, Rezwana est l’histoire humble et héroïque de toutes ces personnes anonymes qui, ensemble, rendent le monde moins sombre. Mariangela Paone & Rezwana, 2023, 168 p., Non Fiction, Journalisme d’investigation. Langue espagnole. Original TitleRezwana. Un expediente europeo. Territoires représentésLangue françaiseAutres droits...

Robert Juan-Cantavella CANDAYA   2024, 432 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish A brilliant satire on madness, literature, and the transformative power of fiction. Piatkun is a “novel” actor who sends letters to dead writers. Without Piatkun, Russian literature would be incomprehensible; it is his fault that the second part of Dead Souls never saw the light of day. Piatkun wrote with his body the missing pages of a host of seminal...

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 328 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Mediterranean Literature Award 2024 Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The death of Rafael Larraz, a renowned journalist specialising in crime stories, leads his daughter to discover an unfinished novel among his belongings. Curiosity drives her to read it, although she soon realises that this manuscript is much...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI CANDAYA, 2023. Fiction, Spanish A story of gardens, migration, exodus and women in search of a place of their own. In Spain and Iran. The lives I did not live is a book that oscillates between the intimate and the public in a conversational, everyday, fragmentary and delicate language. Book eligible for translation grants from the Balearic Islands Anna and Pari are two women who meet in Menorca, around an abandoned and...

Matías Néspolo CANDAYA,  2024, 192 p. LITERARY UPMARKET, Spanish, Argentine ‘The true novel is always an art of human knowledge. And Néspolo’s novel certainly is’, J. Ernesto Ayala-Dip, Babelia, El País ‘A novel without frills by an author who, slowly but surely, is building a work charged with depth’, Alvaro Colomer, La Vanguardia Behind the mask of a crime plot, this novel tells the story of a few days in...

Un roman-balade poétique, intime et socio-écologique dans la ville mythique. Les yeux du narrateur sont du nord, son cœur du sud. Par l’auteur du très remarqué Vies déposées (Seuil, 2018) relatant le quotidien de trois personnages vivant dans la rue dans le nord de Paris.Une belle écriture, imagée et finement humoristique. Tom-Louis TEBOUL Étienne, consultant en risque climatique et jeune parent, se retrouve bloqué à Marseille, une...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION / Adultes, Jeunes adultes, Français Un roman plein de générosité, avec des personnages émouvants et truculents, un roman où la cuisine est omniprésente et met l’eau à la bouche. La vie d’un quartier populaire de Marseille, le Panier, sa solidarité, la beauté du partage, la vie belle et cruelle des personnes aux vies décalées (réfugiés, marginaux). Une famille de réfugiés est chassée de son appartement au...

The stories that make up Theory of Touch are snapshots of the many senselessnesses of the contemporary world. Trapped characters, confused between redemption and sinking, are entangled between surrogacy, pornography, prostitution, madness, death, social networks, bereavement and illness, social networks, grief and illness. “A delicate and at the same time savage book, of dark light and painful humour and mournful humour.A devastating look...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS Editions d’Avallon (réédition),  2024, (Librio, 2000; CLC édition, 2004), 94 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, French One of the Best Sellers by Gilles del Pappas, Marseilles’ Crime and Adventure Novels Master. Gilles del Pappas. Massilia Dreams, New edition in French by Editions d’Avallon. Before a middle-aged woman claimed to have lost her jewels in Loule’s taxi, life was pretty quiet for him in...

Mario Vargas Llosa : Talking about The weight of Living on Earth (“I think David Toscana has written one of the best novels in Spanish language”. José Manuel Fajardo: “David Toscana is one of the major voices of the current Latin American narrative”, EL Cultural, El Español, 15 enero 2023 “David Toscana is one of the most innovative contemporary Mexican storytellers.” Eduardo Espina, El Observador. A...

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...

Massimo di Ricco, 2019, 286 p., Non Fiction, Journalisme littéraire/Reportage Original TitleLos condenados del aire Territoires représentésLangue françaiseAutres droits : Oh!Books agency, juanjoboya@ohbooks.es Droits vendus Colombia (Icono)Netflix (série en avril 2024, sous-titrée en 26 langues et doublée en anglais, russe, français, portugais et italien) : trailer More about the rights available for this book...

David JIMENEZ ARIEL (Planeta), 2023, 269 p., Non Fiction, Journal de voyage littéraire, Espagnol 7500 copies sold, fifth print Original TitleLos diarios del opio English Sample available Territory of representationFrench languageOther languages : contact Juanjo Boya (Oh!books literary agency) juanjoboya@ohbooks.esRights sold : Russian (Alpina) More about the rights available for this book...

Mario Vargas Llosa : “Acabo de leer esta novela del escritor mexicano David Toscana que ha ganado el Premio Bienal de Novela que lleva mi nombre, celebrado en Guadalajara, y creo que es uno de los textos más originales publicados en los últimos años”. “Lo que está en juego en este texto notable es el humor. Un humor extraño e incandescente”. “Uno de los aspectos originales de este libro es ese juego mediante el...

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...

Diego SÁNCHEZ AGUILAR CANDAYA, 2023, 544 p. LITERARY FICTION, Spanish In Those who listen, Diego Sánchez Aguilar explores all the forms of Anxiety and Fear that define our contemporary society. “A thoughtful novel that avoids sermons: the best way to be a political novel” José María Pozuelo Yvancos . A novel that reminds us Thomas Pinchon, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, and the Bulgarian Guéorgui Gospodínov. And something to do...

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...

Abraham JIMENEZ ENOA Libros del KO, 2023, 296 p., Non Fiction, Espagnol “Quitter Cuba pour la première fois n’est pas la même chose que de quitter n’importe quel autre pays. Sortir de Cuba c’est tomber dans le monde, c’est se rendre compte que Cuba est une île prise en otage par un système politique qui fait que le pays est encore au XXe siècle.” Original TitleLa isla oculta. Historias de Cuba. Foreign rights soldEnglish (Galley) English...

Paz Velasco de la Fuente, Rosamerón, 2023, 386 p., Non Fiction, Criminologie, langue espagnole Titre original Muertes nada accidentales Territoires représentésLangue françaiseOther rights : Oh!Books agency, juanjoboya@ohbooks.es More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Adaia Teruel LKO, 2023, 338 p., Non Fiction, Sujet féminin, Sexologie, Espagnol Original TitleMujeres que follan Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

A novel about survival and the ruins of our time.In the end, although everything went wrong, everyone thought they were heroes. David Toscana reinvents a wounded city where reality is overcome with imagination, nostalgia, rebellion and a good dose of alcohol. “David Toscana is one of the most innovative contemporary Mexican storytellers.” Eduardo Espina, El Observador.José Manuel Fajardo: “David Toscana is one of the major...

Eight chronicles on the idea of the great life journey and the different typologies of the postmodern traveller.As Stendhal or Vila-Matas did. A urban Wanderer, a walking thinker. Aitor ROMERO ORTEGA CANDAYA,  2023, 160 p. NON FICTION, Travel chronicle, Spanish The Art of Writing Standing up is a travel book that, through eight chronicles with a clear guiding thread, traces a personal history of the travelling illness, from the Rome of the...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION / Jeunesse à partir de 13 ans, français Un roman tendre et au langage direct, où une jeune adolescente et un vieil homme fantôme urbain se rencontrent. Des personnages complexes, sûrement pas unichromes qui se heurtent et se connaissent à Marseille, troisième personnage du roman. C’est dans le décor antique de Marseille que se passe cette histoire. Sous le signe du Mistral, le Maitre des vents, gansaillé par sa force,...

Agustín COMOTTO Co-édition prévue pour fin 2023 Espagne (Nórdica)/ Allemagne (Bahoe ), 170 p. Roman graphique, 24 X 30.5 cm, couleur, espagnol. Subvention de l’Institut Ramón Llull pour financer l’avance (aux illustrateurs vivant en Catalogne). Autobiographie, Mémoire politique, anarchisme, Argentine. Barcelone, 2020. Un homme de la quarantaine, auteur, cherche à comprendre son passé : l’engagement politique de son père,...

The story of a migrant mother and daughter, both of them together, working as prostitutes in Barcelona. And the life of Laureano Debat sharing a flat with them. Laureano DEBAT CANDAYA,  2022, 296 p. NOVEL, spanish Shortly after arriving in Barcelona, Laureano Debat went to visit a flat in the Eixample district with the intention of renting a room. The women who showed him around, a mother and daughter, seemed very nice and the room was...

Mia is 20 years old. She takes care of almost everything in her family now, her little brother, her absent mother, her mentally disturbed father.A novel about the essence of family relationships and the almost always confusing web that shapes them. Guilt is one of the primary themes of the novel and family secret. There is also a special focus on violence in relationships, abuse, intimate partner violence, especially between young people. What...

With The Natural State of Things, originally published in 2016 by Caballo de Troya, Alejandro Morellón became the first Spaniard to win the prestigious Gabriel García Márquez International Short Story Prize (the so-called Oscar of short stories), making him one of the most relevant voices of the new Spanish narrative, as evidenced by his inclusion in the first selection of 10 out of 30, the anthology of the AECID and Acción Cultural for the...

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...

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...

Eduardo RUIZ SOSA CANDAYA,  2022, 464 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish (Mexico) A journey through the scenes of the disappeared people in contemporary Mexico. “Estado Crítico awards in 2022, in its Narrative section, the work by Eduardo Ruiz Sosa El libro de nuestras ausencias (Candaya, 2022). For its daring formula for telling the story of the violence of disappearances in Mexico. For its atrocious lyricism. For maintaining the pain in...

Documentary poetry that reflects on memory, history and the limits of language.In the line of books like Anne Carson’s The Beauty of the Husband, Wallace Stevens’ Notes for a Supreme Fiction, William Carlos Williams’ Patterson, or Raúl Zurita’s Zurita, Hospital del aire adds to the tradition of poetry books that transcend the conventional barriers of genres and propose to re-signify registers that seem irreconcilable. An...

Pablo MARTIN CARBAJAL Mar editor, 2022, 444 p. Fiction, Novel, spanish A journey to the west of the Maghreb, in Mauritania and Morocco, with two protagonists we already met in Maybe Dakar, Álvaro and his sister Carol. A socio-historical and adventure novel. Álvaro and Cárol are two brothers who have a difficult relationship with each other, both working in the family business located in the Canary Islands. For business reasons they have to...