Spanish Literature

Authors

"Love Me Like a Dog But Love Me": Cela's Secret Letters to Javier Marías's Mother

The newly discovered love letters of a young Camilo José Cela to the woman who would become Javier Marías's mother have come to light. A correspondence that rewrites the prehistory of two giants of Spanish letters.

News

Camila Cañeque and the Novel That Was Waiting on Her Computer

Camila Cañeque died in February 2024, one month before her debut novel was published. Her second novel, Anuncios, has now been found on her computer and published by La Uña Rota.

Authors

Sofía Balbuena Wins the Ribera del Duero Prize and Talks About Women's Inner Torment

Spanish author Sofía Balbuena has won the Ribera del Duero Prize for short fiction. Her work explores the inner lives of women — not as a sociological exercise, but as the only territory she seems interested in mapping.

Literary Prizes

The Almudena Grandes Prize Is Awarded for the First Time and Something Shifts in the Chest

The first prize bearing Almudena Grandes's name has been awarded. Dani Carrasco thinks about what it means to put someone's name on a prize — and what Grandes meant.