Granta 113: The Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists

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Granta Books, Nov 25, 2010 - Literary Collections - 256 pages

From Borges to Garca Mrquez, Vargas Llosa, Maras or Bolao , the Spanish language has given us some of the 20th century's most beloved writers. But as the reach of Spanish culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and the US tilts towards a majority Hispanic population, the time is right to ask who and what is next in Spanish-language fiction?

In this, the first translated issue of Granta's Best of Young Novelists, a distinguished panel of six judges - Edgardo Cozarinsky, Isabel Hilton, Francisco Goldman, Mercedes Monmany, and Granta en Espaol's publishers, Valerie Miles and Aurelio Major - looks to new writing across the Spanish-speaking world and asks, 'Who are the most promising novelists telling the stories from the old and new worlds today?'

Granta 113, published simultaneously in Spain as Los mejores narradores jovenes en espaol, will showcase the work of 22 promising new writers. Granta's previous 'Best of Young Novelists' issues have been startlingly accurate crystal balls - first calling attention to the work of writers from Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen to Zadie Smith. Here, for the first time in translation, we will again attempt to predict the stars of the future.

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Contents

Title Page
AFTER EFFECTS Oliverio Coelho
THE PLACE OF LOSSES Rodrigo Hasbún
CONDITIONS FOR THE REVOLUTION Pola Oloixarac
THE HOTEL LIFE Javier Montes
GIGANTOMACHY Pablo Gutiérrez
EVA AND DIEGO Alberto Olmos
THE SURVIVOR Sònia Hernández
SELTZ Carlos Yushimito

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About the author (2010)

John Freeman's criticism has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Between 2006 and 2008, he served as president of the National Book Critics Circle. His first book, The Tyranny of E-Mail, was published in 2009.

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