Uk Panel´s Choice - Autumn 2012

Panels are usually formed by six industry experts, amongst which there are publishers, translators, critics, booksellers, and a permanent representative from the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT). Panelists change every edition to allow as many people as possible to be part of the project. The panel meets twice at our offices in central London. Their decisions are based on their knowledge, experience and intuition, as well as on reader’s reports. Members of the panel take their decisions with total independence.

The Autumn/Winter 2012 panel was formed by: Michal Shavit (Editorial Director – Harvill Secker), Geoffrey Mulligan (Head of Clerkenwell Press), Gary McKeone (representing BCLT), Frank Wynne (Translator), Guy Ramage (Head of Sales, Belgravia Books) and Michael Prodger (Journalist).  The following people have translated book summaries and/or written reports for this issue: Catherine Forrest, Christina MacSweeney, Lise Jones, Rosalind Harvey, Lucy Greaves, Margaret Jull Costa, Chris Moss, Izzie Kaufeler, Martin Schifino, Judith Willis, Ollie Brock, Anne McLean, Suky Taylor and Miranda France.

A big thank you to all of them for their enthusiast and invaluable contribution to the Autumn/Winter 2012 edition of New Spanish Books.

  • De Papel
    About Paper
    About Paper - De Papel
    Author:
    Àngels Navarro
    Publisher: Building Books (IMC Agencia Literaria)
    Agent: IMC Agencia Literaria
    Did you know that cutting paper helps children to think, aids the reading-writing process and encourages creativity? In this book, you will find 28 projects to choose from, each more surprising and amusing that the next. All cut out techniques gathered in a single book: kirigami, origami, finger puppets, masks and accordions… they turn, move, do magic and make your jaw drop.
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  • EL AMANTE URUGUAYO. Una historia real
    The Uruguayan Lover. A True Story
    Author:
    Santiago RONCAGLIOLO
    Publisher: ALCALA GRUPO EDITORIAL Y DISTRIBUIDOR DE LIBROS
    Did Federico García Lorca’s lover Enrique Amorim steal his corpse? Did he disguise himself as Jean Paul Sartre to attend a secret meeting between Chaplin and Picasso? Did he sabotage Pablo Neruda’s efforts to win the Nobel Prize?
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  • El misterioso caso de la peste negra
    The mysterious case of the Black Death
    Author:
    Eduard Mira
    Publisher: Ediciones Noufront SL
    Europe, XV Century: the Black Death epidemic is devastating the continent. Godofredo Chaucer, his servant Corbino, Argentina and Eleazar de Caballería embark on a écheme of espionage to unravel the mystery behind the  unknown disease.
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  • Elocuencias de un tartamudo
    The Eloquence of a Stutterer
    Author:
    Eduardo Halfon
    Publisher: EDITORIAL PRE-TEXTOS
    Years ago I heard about a programme Paul Auster had on the American public radio station NPR called ‘The National Short Story Project’. Auster came on air the first night and asked American listeners to send in their stories. The only two conditions, he said, were that the stories should be true and short.
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  • La luz difícil
    Difficult Light
    Author:
    Tomás González
    Publisher: Alfaguara
    Jacob has decided to die. A car accident has left him paraplegic and in such pain that his life is unbearable. His father David faces the hardest of tests: witnessing the event.
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  • LOS NIÑOS DE LA LATA DE TOMATE
    The Tomato Can Kids
    Author:
    CECILIA DOMÍNGUEZ LUIS
    Publisher: Alfaguara
    Agent: R.D.C Agencia Literaria
    On returning from Burkina Faso, Patricia shows her writer friend her travel snaps. The picture of two children who silently approach tourists with a tomato can round their necks and a smile on their faces spurs the writer on to create a story with one of them, Essein, as the main character.
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  • Natura quasi morta
    Almost Still Life
    Naturaleza casi muerta
    Author:
    Carme Riera
    Publisher: Edicions 62 S.A.
    Natura quasi morta is an astute and brilliant novel of intrigue, which grips us from the first page. With immediate and contemporary characters, sophisticated crimes and everyday settingswhich the author knows at first hand, Carme Rieara successfully maintains the suspense with just the right dose of irony and reality.
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