Uk Panel´s Choice

Panels are formed by five or six industry experts, among them publishers, translators, academics, critics and booksellers. Panellists change every edition to allow as many people as possible to be part of the project. The panel meets twice, and decisions are based on their knowledge, experience and intuition, as well as on readers´ reports commissioned by this office to readers previously selected. Members of the panel reach their decisions with complete independence.

The panel for the 2019 edition was formed by Ka Bradley (editor at Granta Books), Nick Caistor (translator from Spanish, Portuguese and French), Ruth Clarke (translator from Spanish, Italian and French and a founding member of the Sterling Bureau), Maria Camila Correa (picture book author and editor at Little Tiger Press) and Julie Ward (co-owner of the children´s bookshop The Book Nook). The following people have translated book summaries or/and written reports for this issue: Anne McLean, Beth Fowler, Catherine Mansfield, Cristina Macsweeney, Hebe Powell, Isabelle Kaufeler, Laura McGloughlin, Miranda France, Peter Bush, Rahul Bery, Richard Mansell and Tim Gutteridge.

We greatly appreciate the work they have done in making this edition of New Spanish Books a great success. Thank you!