Spanish Literature

Authors

Vila-Matas Wins the Premio Zenda de Honor and Literature Gets a Little Stranger

Enrique Vila-Matas receives the Premio Zenda de Honor for the 2024-2025 cycle. Recognition for a writer who has spent decades building a body of work that refuses to fit anywhere neatly.

Genres

Spanish Literature Has a New Witch Problem — and It's More Interesting Than You Think

El Cultural identifies a new current in contemporary Spanish fiction: Alana S. Portero, Nerea Pallarés and Roser Cabré-Verdiell are rewriting the witch as a literary space of their own.

News

Manel Loureiro's Impossible Assassination: Kill Every EU President on a Galician Island

Manel Loureiro's new thriller 'Antes de que todo cambie' (Planeta, May 2026) imagines a plot to assassinate every EU president simultaneously on La Toja island in Galicia. The research behind the premise makes it more unsettling than the premise itself.

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.