This incredibly witty and carefully crafted short-story collection is divided into two parts. The first, ‘Blood, Guts and Love’ begins…
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When we think of Spanish language literature, perhaps what first comes to mind is the magnificent magical realism of Gabriel…
Set in contemporary Spain, Rabbit Island offers readers a recognisable world, subtly twisted by Navarro’s dark prose. This somewhat nightmarish…
The short story has long been a staple in Spanish literature, with renowned Spanish language writers such as Julio Cortázar…
The Things We’ve Seen, Mallo’s latest novel to appear in English translation by Thomas Bunstead, is an incredible triptych, in…
The end of April was a very exciting time for Spanish-language literature, with Granta naming their ‘best of young Spanish-language…
Wow!… what a busy, but incredibly heart-warming five weeks it has been for the European Literature Network team! On 23rd…
In Andrea Víctrix, first published in 1974, Villalonga speculates on a future that now doesn’t seem too far away. In…
My new monthly column for the European Literature Network will explore Spain’s exciting literary landscape, and April is the perfect…
Perhaps it was the same for you? My first introduction to Spanish literature in translation was Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Years later,…
The Silent Letter, by Jaume Subirana, translated by Christopher Whyte, the latest release from Fum d’Estampa press, is a collection…
This collection of short stories cleverly and comically uses the mundane format of the job interview to expose the failings…
