Patricia ALMARCEGUI FÓRCOLA EDICIONES, 2019, 312  p. Non-fiction, essay, spanish An essay, in short, erudite and entertaining, which reformulates the traveller’s imagination from the perspective of the genre. Book eligible for translation grants from the Balearic Islands Since Antiquity, travel has been one of the preferred ways of representing human beings. Getting to know new places and new people is a form of culture and describes...

Álex CHICO CANDAYA, 2017, 256 p. ESSAY/FICTION, spanish. The last hours of Walter Benjamin’s life in Portbou The end of an european cross-border village Recommended by Enrique Vila-Matas (blog enriquevilamatas.com, enero 2018) In September 1940, a group of refugees left France through a clandestine passage in the Pyrenees. They hoped to cross Spain and follow their route to America, fleeing the barbarism that had taken over Europe. Their...

Álex CHICO CANDAYA, 2019, 256 p. NARRATIVE NON-FICTION, 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 sharp reflection on language, memory and emigration During the 1960s, many Spanish workers left their place of origin and sought employment in Europe. Some time later, with the oil crisis and the rise of...

Fernando CLEMOT PARALELO SUR, 2008, SHORT STORIES, spanish Distinguished and terrible characters, echoes of childhood, looks of yearning and of disgust at life run through ‘Estancos del Chiado’, a volume that brings together the best stories by the Barcelona author Fernando Clemot, all written before 2005. Disappointment and irony go hand in hand in all the stories here, in a less than idyllic vision of a time that, in a journey to...

Fernando CLEMOT BARATARIA, 2009, LITERARY FICTION, spanish The protagonist and narrator, Leo Carver, is a perceptive figure who takes a tragic approach to life through an excess of alcohol, sex, and parties, even though he knows his struggle against the void is condemned to failure. Looking for something to give meaning to his life, he sets off on a journey in search of lost memories: the clues he needs to clear up the death of a young woman...

Fernando CLEMOT MENOSCUARTO, 2016. SHORT STORIES, spanish. The most ambitious and rounded book of stories by Fernando Clemot, one of the best authors of the current Hispanic short story. Tragic memories, visceral reactions, equivocal geographies, absurd situations, lost battles and meager revenges, spectral visions, infidelities and blackmail, indiscreet rooms … In the sixteen stories that make up The Language of the Drowned the reader...

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...

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...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI Universitat de Barcelona, 2016, 172 p. NON-FICTION, spanish. Very little is still known about Central Asia in the West; travel books written by a woman about these regions are rare. In 2007, Patricia Almarcegui travelled alone through Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan for two months. Tashkent, Samarkand, Bujara, Jiva, Fergana, Osh, Biskek, Karakol…, magical names that invite you to dream and fantasize. This trip was seen...

Patricia ALMARCEGUI FÓRCOLA EDICIONES, 2017, 192  p. LITERARY FICTION, spanish A feminine novel, very personal, yet universal. The origin of this novel is a question by Patricia Almarcegui: what would have happened if, instead of continuing her studies in Zaragoza, she had gone to Russia and become the first Spanish dancer to enter the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the most important ballet in the world? This experience, she...

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