US PANEL'S CHOICE

The US panel is formed by industry experts, which may include translators, agents, authors, professors, 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, as well as by the readers’ reports commissioned by this office to readers previously contacted and selected. Members of the panel reach their decision with absolute independence.

The panel for the 2023 edition was formed by:

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

Katie King, journalist, literary translator with a PhD in Hispanic Studies. Her translations of Spanish poetry and prose have been published in Words Without Borders, Columbia, etc.

Katie Whittmore, translator of the 10 of 30: New Spanish Narrative anthologies for 2019 and 2020 in collaboration with Spain’s AECID, and Instructor of English for Speakers of Other Languages.

Lawrence Schimel, literary translator, primarily between Spanish and English. He is also an award-winning writer (in Spanish and English) and anthologist.

Marta Lopez-Luaces, Ph. D. in Spanish and Latin American Literatures from NYU and Associate Professor at Montclair SU. She is also a published author.

We greatly appreciate their work in making this edition of New Spanish Books an immense success.

Thank you!