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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...