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US Panel´s Choice

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 and the authors, 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 2020 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 being a year where we all had to deal with quarantine due to the COVID-19.

Thank you!

  • Algún día, hoy
    Someday, today
    Author:
    Ángela Becerra
    Publisher: Editorial Planeta S.A.
    Read report: Algún día, hoy
    On a night of storm and mud, a bastard girl is born and, believing her to be still-born, they baptise her with the name Betsabé. Nobody realises the strength she has within her - the power of her femininity, her magic and her rebellious spirit which will enable her to overcome all obstacles.
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  • Conciencia
    Conciousness
    Author:
    Teresa Colom
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    Read report: Conciència
    What happens when a human mind is transferred into a machine? In a world where humanity has had to regroup in order to survive in the wake of an environmental catastrophe, it is possible to buy immortality by transplanting a human consciousness into an information system. Laura Verns decides that, once dead, she would like to have such a "continuing life" for an indefinite time period.
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  • Esta bruma insensata
    This Foolish Haze
    Portada Esta bruma insensata
    Author:
    Enrique Vila-Matas
    Agent: MB Agencia Literaria S.L.
    Read report: Esta bruma insensata
    Based in a ramshackle house on the outskirts of Cadaqués, Simon Schneider works for a highly successful author who goes by the name Gran Bros and lives hidden away in New York. Simon is a Hokusai, that is to say a distributor of quotes for other writers, among whom, although he has no idea of it, is the great Thomas Pynchon.
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  • Goya. Lo sublime terrible
    Goya: The Terrible Sublime
    Goya. Lo sublime terrible
    Author:
    El Torres y Fran Galán
    Publisher: DIBBUKS S.L
    Read report: Goya. Lo sublime terrible
    Francisco Goya is in Cádiz recovering from a terrible illness that has left him deaf, with horrible fevers, headaches, and hallucinations. He is experiencing terrible visions, things from another world that beset him, intimations of death that will later become a reality in the blood-soaked fields of the War for Independence. Perhaps those monsters aren't real..
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  • Kingwood
    Kingwood
    Author:
    Antonio López Ortega
    Publisher: SILVIA PRATDESABA LAFUENTE (EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS)
    Read report: Kingwood
    A group of young friends cross a highway to Oriente at night not knowing if they will reach their destination, a leathery critic who no longer recognizes his own life is stranded at an airport, a beautiful you woman with a terminal illness reaches the end of life with her companions, an artist commissioned with a work travels to Panama and acknowledges another's destiny, a vague individual resp
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  • La Forastera
    The Stranger
    Author:
    Olga Merino
    Agent: AGENCIA LITERARIA CARMEN BALCELLS
    Read report: La forastera
    After a life of extravagance, Angie has retired to a secluded village in the south. The locals call her the madwoman with the dogs, and her existence plays out in the old family home, where there are only ghosts and the memory of a love affair with an English artist in the forgotten London of Margaret Thatcher.
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  • La grieta
    The Crack
    La grieta
    Author:
    Carlos Spottorno
    Publisher: Astisendo grupo editorial Sl
    Read report: La grieta
    After three years of work starting in December 2013, several covers, dozens of pages published in magazine and a World Press photo, the photographer Carlos Spottorno and the reporter Guillermo Abril propose to give a different narrative form to the 25,000 photos and 15 notebooks they have accumulated, in order to recount what happens at the borders of the European Union.
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  • LA MITAD DE LA NOCHE
    The Middle of the Night
    LA MITAD DE LA NOCHE, Mayra Montero
    Author:
    Mayra Montero
    Publisher: TUSQUETS EDITORES, S.A.
    Read report: La mitad de la noche
    In August 1926 the wealthy Laparra family are enjoying a day on the beach in Biarritz. Magdalena Laparra takes her two children and walks into the sea with the intention of drowning herself. Her seven-year-old daughter, Elsa, realises something is wrong and manages to escape, but her little brother is drowned.
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  • La Moneda, 11 de septiembre
    La Moneda, September 11
    La Moneda, 11 septiembre
    Author:
    Francisco Aguilera
    Publisher: Drácena Ediciones SL
    Read report: La Moneda, 11 de septiembre
    La Moneda, September 11 is, above all, a collection of testimonies. Four characters: a waiter, a policeman, a recruit and a fireman tell us how they lived and what they did that morning of September 11, 1973 - the day when the Chilean Army decided, following an attempt in June, to depose, the Popular Unity government, presided over by Salvador Allende, with any violence necessary.
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  • Las batallas silenciadas
    Silenced Battles
    Las batallas silenciadas
    Author:
    Nieves Muñoz
    Publisher: EDITORA Y DISTRIBUIDORA HISPANO AMERICANA,S.A (EDHASA)
    Read report: Las batallas silenciadas
    Verdun, 1916. When the Great War breaks out, Irene Curie wants to be as close to the front as possible. Convinced that she will help save many lives, she sets out to teach radiology to surgeons in field hospitals using portable devices devised by herself and her mother, Marie Curie.
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  • Lota, la cachalota
    Lota the Sperm Whale
    Lota la cachalota
    Author:
    Roser Rimbau y Rosa Sardina
    Publisher: Takatuka SL
    Read report: Lota, la cachalota
    There is more and more waste in the sea. Lota the sperm whale wants to know where all the rubbish is coming from. She and her friend Malacu the crab decide to carry out their own investigation, which takes them first to a ship, then to the harbour, and finally to the city, where they see that humans have plastic everywhere.
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  • Nacimientos bestiales
    Beastly Births
    Nacimientos bestiales
    Author:
    Aina Bestard
    Publisher: Zahorí de Ideas SL
    Read report: Nacimientos bestiales
    How many species inhabit our planet, how many ways to be born, grow and live! Each new life is a small miracle.A delicate book where transparency reveals this journey where everything begins.
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  • pequeñas mujeres rojas
    Little Red Women
    Author:
    Marta Sanz
    Publisher: Editorial Anagrama S.A.
    Read report: pequeñas mujeres rojas
    Paula Quiñones arrives in Azafrán to locate graves from the civil war era. As soon as she sets her lame foot in the town she feels as though the sky is growing heavy above her and an invisible elastic is pulling on her body, keeping her away from her destination, the Beato family's hotel beside a billboard displaying the word 'Azufrón'.
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  • SEIS FORMAS DE MORIR EN TEXAS
    Six ways to Die in Texas
    Author:
    Marina Perezagua
    Agent: Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency S.L.
    Read report: Seis formas de morir en Texas
    This novel is about two families and two continents. A man is executed in a Chinese prison and his organs are sold on the black-market. His heart ends up inside the chest of a North American and this transplant shapes the future of the next generations.
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  • Sinfín
    UNENDING
    Author:
    Martín Caparrós
    Agent: Casanovas & Lynch Literary Agency S.L.
    Read report: Sinfín
    "Sinfín" begins in small town in the Patagonian jungle, a remote place stopped in time where disease, old age and death still exist.
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