Javier Molea (Montevideo, 1969) is the Foreign Languages Manager at McNally Jackson Books in Soho, New York.
Javier Molea attended UDELAR in Montevideo where he specialized in Literary Theory. He worked at McGraw Hill Co., Alfaguara and owned a bookstore. Over the years, he collaborated with literary magazines and participated (Editor) in several poetry anthologies.
Since moving to New York in 2004, Javier Molea has been developing the Spanish Section in McNally Jackson Books that now includes over 2000 titles written originally in Spanish -not translations- from different countries in Latin America and Spain. In this period the bookstore has emerged as one of the main references in the market for Spanish books and translations from the Spanish. This process has been founded in the regular events hold in Spanish or bilingual. The bookstore has hosted more than 150 events in Spanish only, including a free weekly workshop and a monthly book club.
The project expanded in 2013 with the launching of a publishing company, DíazGrey Editores, focused in bilingual books and the on going writing school in Spanish Universidad Desconocida. In 2015 the bookstore added a webpage, Traducidos, to keep track of the Spanish translations published every year in the United States and it's starting a distribution program with other bookstores in the country.