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The US panel is formed by industry experts, which may include translators, agents, librarians, professors, authors, editors and publishers. Sometimes the panelists change, allowing more professionals to participate in this project. Our panel of experts meets twice a year for each edition, and their decisions are based on their knowledge of the market, the authors, and the books themselves, as well as their experience and also the readers’ reports commissioned by this office to readers selected beforehand. Members of the panel reach their decision with absolute independence.

The panel for the 2021 edition was formed by:

Andrea Montejo, Founder of the Indent Literary Agency, where she represents Spanish, Portuguese and English-language authors throughout the world.

Chad Post, Director of Open Letter Books and Managing Editor of Three Percent.

Esther Allen, translator from Spanish and French, Associate Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Javier Molea, Foreign Languages Manager at McNally Jackson Books in Soho, New York.

Marta Lopez-Luaces, Ph. D. in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from NYU and Associate Professor at Montclair SU.

Susan Harris, editorial director of Words Without Borders and coeditor of The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.

We greatly appreciate their work in making this edition of New Spanish Books a huge success, in spite of this year and a half being a time where we all had to deal with face masks, quarantine and vaccination due to COVID-19.

Thank you!

  • CIEN NOCHES
    A Hundred Nights
    CIEN NOCHES de Luisgé Martin_Premio HERRALDE 2020
    Author:
    Luisgé Martin
    Agent: Agencia Dos Passos (MUNARRIZ MARQUEZ DOS PASSOS S.L.)
    Read report: Cien Noches
    Half of all human beings admit to being unfaithful to their partner. But is the other half telling the truth? There's only one way to find out: spy on them with detectives or through digital media.
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  • El abrecartas
    The letter opener
    Author:
    Vicente Molina Foix
    Agent: Alt autores editorial
    Read report: El abrecartas
    The letter opener begins with the letters that a childhood friend wrote in the 1920s to García Lorca, the distant inspiration of his hopes and dreams. From that first moment of what was perhaps a one-way correspondence, the reader discovers this “novel in letters”.
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  • El sueño de la razón
    The Dream of Reason
    Author:
    Berna González Harbour
    Agent: Agencia Dos Passos (MUNARRIZ MARQUEZ DOS PASSOS S.L.)
    Read report: ¡A comer sano!
    Can death be a form of art? Comisario Ruiz is on leave from the force. It's the festival in the capital and everybody is having fun by the Manzanares river. But the discovery of animal corpses killed by ritualistic methods is the first sign of an anomaly that will soon lead to another morbid event, the apparently ritual execution of a young art student at one of the river's weirs.
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  • El valor de la memoria. De la cárcel de Ventas al campo de Ravënsbruck
    The Value of Memory. From Ventas Prison to Ravënsbruck Camp
    Author:
    Mercedes Núñez Targa
    Publisher: Libreria y Editorial Renacimiento, S.A.
    Read report: El valor de la memoria
    From Franco's prisons to Nazi extermination camps, Mercedes Núñez Targa, a twentieth-century woman of conviction, (Barcelona 1911-Vigo 1986), tells her incredible odyssey. The story is told in the first person with sincerity and talent, mixing autobiography with sociological analysis, and her testimony is made especially interesting by the female perspective of the narrative.
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  • El Violeta
    The Violet Guy
    Portada El Violeta
    Author:
    Publisher: Editorial Drakul, S.L.
    Read report: El violeta
    Valencia, 1955. Bruno falls into a trap set by the police at the Ruzafa movie theater to arrest homosexuals under the umbrella of the social danger law. He goes to jail at only eighteen years of age, and the pressure of his family forces him to make decisions that will mark the rest of his life.
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  • Gordo de feria
    The fat man at the fair
    Author:
    Esther García Llovet
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Read report: Gordo de Feria
    A surreal, outrageous and terrifying black comedy. A unique version of Madrid is once again the setting for the author’s story. This time the protagonist is a comedian with the nickname Beaver, famous for his television monologues. Beaver's life is governed by luck and chance. And just by chance, he meets his doppelganger, a waiter named Julio.
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  • Historia de Sara
    Sara's story
    Author:
    Ana Alonso y Javier Pelegrín
    Publisher: Oxford University Press España, S. A.
    Read report: Historia de Sara
    The year is 2055. Huge multinational companies dominate a globalised world and the symbols of a person's identity can be sold on the market through sophisticated advertising techniques. Education is not aimed at producing effective workers but rather perfect consumers.
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  • Invisible
    Invisible
    Author:
    Eloy Moreno
    Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GRUPO EDITORIAL SAU
    Read report: Invisible
    The new novel from Eloy Moreno, an icon of more than 110,000 sales and twenty editions! This special 2020 edition includes a bonus chapter, El Dragón (The Dragon). Exciting, moving, different... Through the eyes of a child, Invisible tells a story that could be any of ours.
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  • Los prisioneros del paraíso
    The Prisoners of Paradise
    Los prisioneros del paraíso
    Author:
    Publisher: Galaxia Gutenberg
    Read report: Los Prisioneros del Paraíso
    Prague, August 10, 1942. Hans Krasa, a Czech composer and orchestra conductor of Jewish origin, is arrested by the SS and sent to the concentration camp at Theresienstadt. A good number of other musicians, composers, and singers have been imprisoned with hi.
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  • MI INFINITO
    MI INFINITO
    MI INFINITO PORTADA
    Author:
    JESÚS LÓPEZ MOYA
    Publisher: FUN READERS
    Read report: Infinito
    What does the word INFINITE mean? Claudia is worried because she can't find the definition of this mathematical concept. Thanks to the support of her parents, she comes to understand that a world of emotions hides behind this number. This book is a picture book that combines the emotions and mathematics.
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  • Mi Lazarilla, Mi Capitán
    My Guide, my Captain
    Author:
    Gonzalo Moure
    Publisher: Kalandraka Editora
    Read report: Mi Lazarilla, Mi Capitán
    Emotion and beauty, the profound love between a father and a daughter, and the ability to see beyond the visual limitations are all part of this book.
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  • Nada que declarar. El libro de Diana
    Nothing to Delcare: Diana's Book
    El libro de Diana
    Author:
    Publisher: Ginger Ape Books & Films, S.L.
    "And the silence of its dignity will be placed with a final period in burning oil colors." In these verses by César Vallejo, verses that she's not even sure she understands, Dianette finds the force to free herself from the bitter prison that her life in Germany has become.
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  • Paisajes perdidos de la Tierra
    Lost Landscapes of Earth
    Author:
    Aina Bestard
    Publisher: Zahorí Books
    Read report: Paisajes Perdidos
    The fascinating history of the formation and evolution of Earth is explained using changes in the landscapes of our planet. The book uses the captivating illustrations of Aina Bestard and short texts that focus on significant events. It contains pages on vegetable parchment with illustrations of the flora and fauna of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic.
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  • Turno noche
    Night Shift
    Turno noche
    Author:
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    Read report: Turno Noche
    While traveling to Buenos Aires, passing through the vast geography of Argentina, Lucía recalls her childhood in a provincial town and the private school where she was the poor girl. One day, Lucía was bitten by a venomous snake. Her friends managed to get her to a healer who, after saving her life, cast a terrible spell over her.
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  • YA SOY MAYOR
    Now I'm Bigger
    Author:
    Susanna Isern
    Publisher: LA GALERA
    Read report: Ya soy mayor
    This picture book is ideal to help little people learn about independence. Little Elephant is a big boy, and he has an extremely important mission: to go ON HIS OWN to buy some of the finishing touches for Tortoise's hundredth birthday. What could go wrong? He only has to buy candles, chocolate, balloons... and he knows where he needs to go to get it all.
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