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...

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...

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...

Rabia AHMED FEROZSONS,  2022, 200 p. FICTION, Novel, English (Pakistan) A story of the ongoing struggle between power and poverty in Pakistan’s town. It’s an investigative novel because the author is a journalist, at times a social novel, but also an intimate novel, and always in a simple and elegant writing. Pakistan, with its social and urban problems, has so much to tell us. “Set within the framework of a family coming to...

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...

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. Territory of representationFrench language More...

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...

Ivan BAIDAK VIVAT Publishing, 2020, 155 p. FICTION, Novel, UkranianGUERNICA Editions, 2022, 150 p. FICTION, Novel, English translation by Hanna Leliv and Isaac Wheeler The most recent bestseller of Ukrainian author Ivan Baidak and Best Book of 2020 according to PEN Ukraine Keywords: Disability Fiction, Friendship, Inclusive and Social Novel, self-confidence, Ukrainian, Tourette’s, Visible disabilities Diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome as...

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...

En négociation avec une maison d’édition Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION /Polar, français Ainsi Gilles del Pappas introduit-il son roman : “En plein confinement, j’ai entendu une journaliste prouver que les agressions contre les femmes, au foyer conjugal, avaient été augmentées de 35%. J’en fus horrifié. Comment cela était-il possible. Que mes collègues, les hommes pouvaient être capable de telles ignominies me surprenait. Pourquoi ?...

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...

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

Pepe Ribas Altamarea, 2022, 272 p., Novel, spanish Original Encuentro en Berlín, muerte en Ukrania English sample available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Isabel-Cristina ARENAS SEPULVEDA CANDAYA,  2022, 240 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish (Colombia) A first novel that explores the mysteries of family, death and the debts of the past. Isabel is a living memory and, although everything that surrounds her causes deep sadness in those who knew her, loving her seems to be obligatory. Fearful of the possibility of repeating a life, the narrator, who is named after her grandmother, needs at the same...

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...

Daniela ALCÍVAR BELLOLIO CANDAYA,  2022, 288 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish (Ecuador) “A luminous and illuminating work, furiously tender” María Bastarós. What The Future Was is the story of a disintegration, the chronicle of a devastating crisis that threatens a marriage, a house, sanity, and unleashes in the narrator an intimate and profound reflection in which writing and life, landscape and affection, memory and future...

David Cabrera Libros del KO, 2022, 256 p., NON-FICTION, LITERARY JOURNALISM, spanish After years of painstaking interviews and research, David Cabrera has produced an absorbing psychological and police drama, which reads like a high tension novel. Original La sombra Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

The Distracted Condition is a vast journey that traces, throughout history and culture, the value, the human weight of absent-mindedness, carelessness or distraction. This book will be of interest to readers of the essay genre, but also to readers of history, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, etc. Jesús GARCIA CIVICO CANDAYA,  2022, 376 p. ESSAY, spanish The Distracted Condition is a fascinating invitation to a cultural journey...

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

Pablo Herrán de Viu Altamarea, 2020, 208 p., Novel, spanish Original Mientras pudimos Sample in english available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Gildas Girodeau Horsain, 2022, 246 p. FICTION, Detective Novel, french When Alfons Duru discovers a decapitated illegal immigrant in his vat of Banyuls wine, his world is swept away by a veritable tsunami. Paul Feder gets involved in the old man’s affairs, comes across mafiosi from La Jonquera, unscrupulous thugs from Collioure, and a not-so-gentleman who organises parties in a château in Saint Jean Lasseille; not forgetting the cliffs of...

Marta APONTE ALSINA CANDAYA, 2022, 208 p., NOVEL, spanish National Novel Prize of the Pen Club of Puerto Rico 2007 Marta Aponte Alsina is considered the great contemporary master of Puerto Rican narrative. Cristina Rivera Garza included her in a selection of 12 must-read Latin American women authors, published in Publisher’s Weekly magazine in 2018. At once a novel of family saga, a travelogue, a story of initiation and growth, a hybrid...

Gustavo FAVERÓN PATRIAU CANDAYA 2021, 352 p. LITERARY ESSAY, spanish An essay written by a bookish detective: an investigation into the origins and meanings of one of the most important short stories in world literature, The Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges. The Order of the Aleph is an exploration of Jorge Luis Borges’s aesthetics based on his most famous short story, in a reading that weaves together filology, cartography, filosophy and history...

NOVEL published the 26th of January 2022 David JIMENEZ A formidable docufiction. A mixture of Graham Greene and Kapuscinski, reminiscent of films like Missing or The Year of Living Dangerously Original Title El corresponsal. Una novela inspirada en hechos reales English Sample available Territory of representationFrench language Rights soldPortuguese (Minotauro) More about the rights available for this book...

Álex CHICO CANDAYA, 2021, 256 p. NOVEL / ESSAY, spanish Álex Chico is one of the 10 authors chosen in the second edition of Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation’s “10 out of 30″ project, 2020.A narrative about the blurred margins of identity and a suggestive literary exercise. Sometimes a story begins with a single sentence or the mention of a name. Here it begins when the film director Tomás Acosta meets...

Armella Leung (Art-mella) POURPENSER, 2017, 2019, 2020, 19 x 29,5 cm. Self Help, Youth, Comics, French ALMOST 200 000 COPIES SOLD IN TOTAL FOR THE SERIES #1 Welcoming an emotion : Having a lot of trouble with her emotions, between periods of emotional turmoil and aridity, Art-mella decides one day that it can’t go on any longer, and begins her investigation of emotions in order to feel better. After having participated in many courses,...

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...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS et Emmanuel PETIT RAMSAY, 2021, 243 p. CRIME FICTION, french Second opus of the Trilogy of football polars, with the Commissioner Clémentine Paccini Tignes, November 97, oxygenation course for the French national team, a local FIFA representative is found with his throat cut and his hands hanged. Casablanca, May 98, Hassan II competition, a young FIFA representative is found dead, with her throat cut. At the scene, in the...

Miguel SERRANO LARRAZ CANDAYA, 2020, 288 p. Fiction, spanish A novel about lost illusions and a disappearing people, about the possibility of changing the past.A unique tribute to science fiction, horror, sentimental novels and other genres of popular literature. Sonia is a girl obsessed with death. Berta’s obsession is the passage of time. Their friendship is inevitable in the Pyrenean village where they spend the summer, a small town...

Fernando PARRA NOGUERAS CANDAYA, 2021, 288 p. Fiction, spanish A novel about identity and hidden desires. About the conflict between what we are, what we want to be and what others expect of us. Eduardo, the son of a powerful publisher, is removed from the family business because of an obscure affair. Banished to a provincial town, he is taken in by his uncle, the editor of a local newspaper, where he first works as a spellchecker and...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI CANDAYA, 2021. Essay, travel book, spanish The discovery, amazement and fascination of an ancient culture. Book eligible for translation grants from the Balearic Islands Lost Notebooks of Japan is the chronicle of a traveller who crosses interior and exterior geographies to recognise herself and assert her voice, to investigate writing as a record of the past, the fragility of women who travel alone and memory as a family...

Andreu MARTIN Literatura juvenil, novela negra, castellano Adrià, estudiante de historia e historiador vocacional, verá cambiar su vida cuando encuentre las pistas para encontrar tres cuadros de Vermeer que están escondidos en alguna parte. En el camino, conocerá a Diana, la chica más intrépida, hermosa e inteligente que ha encontrado en su vida. Pero siempre podrá contar con Sonia, su amiga del alma, la que en definitiva habrá de sacarle las...

Andreu MARTIN, ilustraciones de RUI CAVALEIRO INFÁNTIL ILUSTRADO, Castellano ILUSTRACIONES y lectura del manúscrito por Rui Cavaleiro : aquí Los monstruos dan miedo a los demás, de manera que no deben de tener miedo. Por eso Luis quería ser un monstruo. Rui Cavaleiro Rui Cavaleiro Rui Cavaleiro Territory of representationWorld Wide What only happens to othersThe Fourth Girl On The LeftEl libro de los tesoros_manuscritoEl niño que quería ser un...

Fernando CLEMOT PRE-TEXTOS, 2021, 280 p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish “Fiume de Fernando Clemot: preludio poético del fascismo”, José Ovejero A political novel, exhilarating and disturbing, which works on the memory of the past century to better understand our present. In which we experience the fascination that fascism and providential men can produce, and the destruction that they ultimately engender. Fiume September 1919. Two...

Agustín COMOTTO Original Title El peso de las estrellas Foreign rights soldEnglish (AK press) Territory of representationFrench languageAgent for all other language : Oh!Books agencia literaria More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@1jardin2livres.com

Miguel PAJARES RAYO VERDE , 2021, 236 p. NON FICTION, Social Sciences and Politics, Spanish An atlas of the impacts and migrations resulting from the ecological crisis.An appeal on the urgency of changing global policies. The issue of climate refugees is one that demands to be explored in greater depth. Climate change or global change will irreversibly transform the planet, and the most severely affected areas will witness massive human...

Enrique Gracián Original Title Construir el mundo Foreign Rights sold China and Russia Territory of representationFrench languageAgent for all other language : Oh!Books agencia literaria More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@1jardin2livres.com

Miguel Angel MARTÍN REINO DE CORDELIA, 2020, 160 p. Black and white, Graphic Novel, 17×22, spanish Preface by Rubén Lardín Twelve years after Playlove, Miguel Ángel Martín returns to comics with a new graphic novel, a very particular and sophisticated history of gastronomy. As soon as he got out of prison, Sandoval accepted a temporary job as a security guard in a semi-abandoned industrial estate. That’s how he met Belasco,...

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...