Narrative, essay, poetry, comics, theaters, television series ... More than 50 culture experts choose the most relevant of the year for The Paper Sphere :

1. The best novel in Spanish: 'Lluvia fina', by Luis Landero

The grudge grudged in a family and the limits of the truth mark the last novel of the Extremaduran writer, chosen by the critics of 'The Sphere' as the most outstanding of 2019. [SEE THE FINALISTS]

2. The best novel in other languages: 'Sound Desert', by Valeria Luiselli

The Mexican writer denounces the very delicate situation of migrant children between the Rio Grande and the US in 'Sound Desert'. [SEE FINALISTS]

3. The best history book: 'Red famine', by Anne Applebaum

Built in 2004 with the Pulitzer for her work on the Gulag, the historian is consolidated as a guarantor of rigor in her latest book on the USSR: 'Red famine' [SEE THE FINALISTS]

4. The best book of poetry: Possibilities in the shadow, by Mariano Peyrou

In the form of a spiral and under the appearance of the whim, the writer offers in 'Possibilities in the shadow' a shrewd perception of those parts of reality that we can only approach through the conjecture. [SEE FINALISTS]

5. The best international films: 'The Irish' and 'Story of a marriage'

The encumbramiento of the films of Scorsese and Baumbach point to Netflix like unexpected savior of the cinema of author. [SEE FINALISTS]

6. The best Spanish films: 'Pain and glory' and 'What burns'

Pedro Almodóvar and Óliver Laxe trace in the past the traces of a time that vanishes. From his two triumphs in Cannes, a consecrated director and another way of being it raise the consensus of his colleagues. [SEE FINALISTS]

7. The best international album: 'Magdalene', by FKA Twigs

The British singer and producer fuels a swarm of emotions about her breakup with Robert Pattinson in a sensual series of experimental electronic ballads. [SEE FINALISTS]

8. The best Spanish album: 'La granfera', by La Casa Azul

'The great sphere' is the record that leaves the most posed in the career of Guille Milkyway, the one that best explains his vital conflicts [SEE THE FINALISTS]

9. The best television series: 'Chernobyl'

This series, based, among others, on the stories of the Belarusian Nobel Prize Svetlana Aleksievich, impeccably reflects the story of the sleeping nuclear monster that ended up devouring its guards. [SEE FINALISTS]

10. The best exhibition: 'Balthus', in Thyssen-Bornemisza

The exhibition of the Franco-Polish artist in the Thyssen-Bornemisza was an event a year after an American collective requested the withdrawal of one of his 'Thérèse' from the New York Metropolitan because it was too sexual for visitors. [SEE FINALISTS]

11. The best comic: 'Rusty Brown' by Chris Ware

The Nebraska artist is dedicated as a reference of the experimental graphic novel with a work to which he dedicated 16 years. [SEE FINALISTS]

12. The best theater: 'Shock (the Condor and the Cougar)', by Anne Applebaum

The documentary theater reached a peak this year with Shock (the Condor and the Puma), which focused on the economic theories of the Chicago School and its fierce application in the Southern Cone. [SEE FINALISTS]

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