Spotlight on Catalan Culture
Selected by the Bookshop
This spring, the Institut Ramon Llull and Catalan Arts are showcasing the best of Catalunya’s writers, illustrators and translators in events across the UK, including a series of panel events at the London Book Fair: Irene Solà, Sergi Pàmies, Eva Baltasar, Aina Bestard, Raül Garrigasait, Borja Bagunyà, Marta Orriols and Josep Maria Esquirol will be paired with award-winning British literary figures, including Max Porter, Jay Griffiths, Daisy Johnson, David Constantine, Yara Rodrigues Fowler, Vassiliki Tzomaka, Rupert Thomson and Christopher MacLehose for panels on (among other things) classics, poetry, loss, genre, gender, cities and myths. Find out more about the line-up here.
Browse our selection of the best contemporary Catalan literature in translation below.
From the publisher:
Translated by Mara Faye LethemWhen Domenec – mountain-dweller, father, poet, dreamer – dies suddenly, struck by lightning, he leaves behind two small children, Mia and Hilari, to grow up wild among the looming summits of…
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Translated by Matthew ClarkeA large format, beautifully designed book that opens a wonderful window onto the prehistoric worldCome on a fascinating journey through millions of years of history to discover the ancient history of our planet!…
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Translated by Julia SanchesThe #1 Catalan bestseller and winner of the Llibreter booksellers prize.Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get…
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Translated by Tiago Miller“The streets offered Wielemann nothing but silence and stares. Now there were no more foreigners left, he felt more conspicuous than ever when he crossed paths with a local. His gut feeling was that he had no…
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Edited by Zoe Turner & Manel OlléFeaturing Borja Bagunyà, Carlota Gurt, Empar Moliner, Jordi Nopca, Marta Orriols, Jordi Puntí, Llucia Ramis, Francesc…
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Translated by Mara Faye LethemPaula’s partner has died in a car accident – but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro revealed that he was leaving her for another woman.Paula guards this secret and…
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Translated by ADRIAN NATHAN WESTWorld Literature Today: Notable Translation of the YearA baker’s dozen of intertwined stories that brilliantly evoke the ups and downs of relationships between strangers, spouses, parents, and…
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Translated by Douglas SuttleThe Intimate Resistance is a keen, deeply beautiful reflection on the human condition in which Esquirol draws on philosophers such as Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, and Nietzsche as he develops his theory of how…
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