It has come round again this ishas been running since 2012 which actually I had chosen Enrique vila matas as a featured writer so it seems nice to return to him and also Javier Marias. Then in August we have Three trapped tigers by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. and recounting by Luis Goytisolo.
Here is a collection of links to do with Spanish lit
I promised a few links for Spanish lit month –
El Mundo the best 25 books from Spanish 1989 (thanks Arcadia books for link their Blind sunflowers is on the List ,plus two books by Juan Marse that Maclehose is publishing soon .
Scauffi has a longer list here in Spanish a lot of Marquez on this one
The telegraph has ten best Latin American novels here,Not all Spanish but mostly
Flavourwire has another list without Marquez of best Latin American fiction
and there is a few more links and lots of Spanish fiction on my co-host Richards Blog
You can also find many books here from Spain ,Chile ,Argentina and many others in my books read section.
Look forward to seeing what you choose !!
While searching for something to read for this I found this short story https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/01/survivor-sonia-hernandez-short-story
I’m going to read something by Javier Marais as soon as Indigenous Lit Week (8-15 July) is finished on my blog!
Here it is, Stu: my review of A Heart So White https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/07/22/a-heart-so-white-by-javier-marais-translated-by-margaret-jull-costa/
Would love to join in, I have The Island by Ana Maria Matute waiting to be read…
You have made a good choice, they are both very good writers!
I will do my best to come up with something for this wonderful challenge, Stu. I must say, I fancy a little Jose Saramago right now and will probably pick up The Cave. Thanks for hosting again, as always.
I have just read The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. My review comes out on the blog tomorrow. I also have Hurricane Season and The Fallen from Fitzcarraldo books tbr, can’t remember the authors but I believe one is Mexican and one is Cuban.
Oh dear, Stu…I seem to have made a huge faux pas. I chose Saramago, who is Portuguese, not Spanish, and therefore would not qualify. Right?
no that’s ok we did have spanish and portuguese books for a few years so still be ok
Phew! I was afraid I had gone all wrong…xo
I’ve just spent a very enjoyable hour or so looking at various Spanish language writers, some on your list and some not/ I’ve had María Gainza’s Optic Nerve on my own TBR list for some time now and this seems like the perfect occasion to get around to it; on the other hand, Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream looks very interesting! Decisions, decisions . . .
Vishy and I will read Nada along.
Thanks for organizing this event again this year.
Thank you for hosting and for the links you shared. I hope I can at least get one book in for this reading event.
Coming to this a bit late, having seen Ali was doing it – is it permissible to read a very easy book in Spanish for young children … I’ve been learning Spanish from an app for 479 days and I’m just about ready for my first book … ?
Done! I’ve read a book in Spanish all the way through and talk about it in this blog post: https://librofulltime.wordpress.com/2020/07/31/book-review-jon-bloomfield-our-city/
A glance, if that, at Miguel Hernández and Pablo Neruda and the Spanish Civil War, newly posted. Not much, but something.
Thanks, as usual, for running this event.