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The 2024 Booker Prize has been awarded to a British writer who has made a qualitative leap in the literary world with a unique work from an altered state of perception. A state of insomnia that led her to a disconcerting lucidity. We could imagine that man who is left alone in his …
With Ragnar Jónasson we would already have the perfect shortlist of black literature coming from the remotest part of the Nordic world. The other two would be Arnaldur Indridason and Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir. All three come from that ship-shaped Iceland that seems to sail between the Norwegian seas and the North Atlantic. ...
Japanese literature will always owe its irruption into current Western literature to Haruki Murakami, beyond manga for entertainment or monogatari with autochthonous historical themes. Because the arrival of this writer meant a break with the trend of literature for domestic consumption, opening the…
Sometimes the recognitions are a success. When Paul Pen won the New Talent Fnac 2011, it was possible for a new voice with personality and outstanding narrative proposal to emerge strongly from the ocean of writers in which many other good storytellers dive, others more mediocre ...
God listens to Manuel Vilas. In fact, he talks to him about a thousand and one pending issues. And social media bears witness to this. Vilas is the dream of any ascetic far from the madding crowd (except for recent successes that include the Nadal 2023 award), with the comparative grievance that Vilas …
To speak of the writer Chufo Llorens is to approach the genre of historical fiction in its widest range. Because in authors like José Luis Corral or Santiago Posteguillo (to name two references of the genre) we usually find passionate historical novels that address always surprising aspects from the informative point of view. But in …
The enemy at home thing always works. The thing about the housekeeper as a sinister threat that you as a reader soon glimpse, but that the characters don't seem to sense, is even more engaging. The most tenacious restlessness wins us over to the cause of morbidity in the face of imminent disaster. About Shari...
The literary glory of the Hungarian Imre Kertész, who won the Nobel Prize in 2002, has its roots in the literary legacy of his compatriot Sándor Márai. Only in the case of Márai, his coincidence with who would be one of the most complete European narrators and chroniclers of the first ...
The best idea not to succumb to the phagocytic trend of the crime novel about the detective genre is to have a policeman as a solid character that passes through most of your novels. Come on, that's my impression in the case of good old Michael Connelly. Is not that …
Discuss Javier Sierra It means entering the bestseller phenomenon made in Spain. This author from Teruel has become a bestseller of his books in Spain and around the world. all the books of Javier Sierra they offer that typical bill of the great mystery works, with intriguing …
The Chilean writer Isabel Allende he manages as he wants one of the main virtues or gifts that every writer yearns to achieve throughout his entire career: empathy. The characters of Isabel Allende they are vivid images from the inside out. We connect with all of them from the soul. And from …
The example of the writer Dolores Redondo It ends up being the dream of any budding writer. Dedicated to other professional tasks, Dolores always found that space for her little great stories that would end up leading to monumental works such as her Baztán trilogy ... Origins like those of so many and so many ...