2010 The first young vintage of 'Granta'
Granta
, the literary magazine founded in London in 1889, today presented its selection of the best 25 writers under 35 in the Spanish language at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid.
The list, which appears glossed in the April issue of
Granta
in Spanish
, is the second it has published in its history.
10 years ago, the publication directed by the publisher Sigrid Rausing made the same bet: Alejandro Zambra, Elvira Navarro, Pola Oloixarac, Santiago Roncagliolo, Andrés Neuman, Samanta Schweblin, Antonio Ortuño and Rodrigo Hasbun were some of those selected in 2010.
The committee that has chosen the 25 names has been chaired by the American editor
Valerie Miles
, director of
Granta
in Spanish.
At his side, the poet Aurelio Major, the novelists Rodrigo Fresán, Chloe Aridjis and Horacio Castellanos Moya and the director of the Booker Foundation, Gaby Wood, have debated.
200 names were candidates to enter the list.
A statistical summary: the selection of
Granta
, which will be disseminated in the international editions of the magazine, has 14 men and 11 women, six
Spaniards, four Mexicans, three Cubans, three Argentines
, two Chileans, and a representative from Equatorial Guinea. Uruguay, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru, Nicaragua and Ecuador.
Cristina Morales
(Granada, 1985).
It is the best known name on the list based on
Easy Reading
and its Herralde Prize and its National Narrative Prize.
Later, Anagrama recovered its first texts,
Introduction to Teresa de Jesús
and
The fighters.
Two simple keys to understand
Easy reading
: the corporal and the education in ballet is mixed with a very corrosive political vision.
Michel Nieva
(Buenos Aires, 1988).
Books like
Do gauchoides dream of electric rheas?
and
Rise and Peak of the Argentine Empire
are presented as a cyberpunk reading of the history of their country.
Paulina Flores
(Santiago de Chile, 1988).
What a shame
, the book of stories that made her known is a
collage
of stories about life in the contemporary city.
Mateo García Elizondo
(Mexico City, 1989).
Gabriel García Márquez's grandson debuted with
Citas con la Lady
(Anagrama), a suicidal journey to the interior of his country.
Eudris Planche
(Guantanamo, 1985).
Sisters of exchange,
the book that made him known, starts from the field of youth storytelling and initiation and ends up becoming a book about books.
Camila Fabbri
(Buenos Aires, 1989).
The stories in
The Accidents
are sentimental young people with a tendency to hurt themselves.
The day they turned off the light
is a novel / chronicle about a concert that ended in fire and tragedy.
Estanislao Medina Huesca
(Malabo, 1990).
The albino Mico
is one of the first literary chronicles of the Guieno-Ecuadorian emigration in Spain.
Monica Ojeda, SANTI COGOLLUDO
Monica Ojeda
(Guayaquil, 1988).
It is another name already almost consecrated.
The novel
Mandíbula
and the stories of
Las voladoras
coincide in an atmosphere of gothic and tropical terror and a very intense carnality.
Munir Hachemi
(Madrid, 1989).
Son of Andalusian and Algerian, his first novel of wide circulation,
Living Things
, narrates the initiatory journey of four friends to the south of France and is a nexus between literature in Spanish and Arabic.
Miluska Benavides
(Lima, 1986).
After translating Rimbaud and publishing his first stories, he prepared his first book,
The Facts
.
Andrea Abreu
(Tenerife, 1995).
Donkey
belly was one of the narrative surprises of last year: a story of initiation, sex and friendship that is very poeticized and very innovative in the use of language.
Gonzalo Vaz
(Montevideo, 1989).
Editor, short story writer and author of the novel
The Common Passages
, memory of a brutal youth in a burning city.
José Ardila
(Chigororó, Colombia, 1985).
Writer of two books of stories already published, editor, film producer and screenwriter and author of a novel still in progress.
David Aliaga
(L'Hospitales de Llobregat, 1989).
In his first books he has placed himself on the border between research and literature to address issues such as Freemasonry or the Jewish culture buried in Spain.
José Adiack Montoya
(Managua, 1987).
His novel
Lennon Under the Sun
uses the apparent anecdote of ancient rock culture and
Beatlemania
in a country outside of world tours to tell the story of Nicaragua.
Martín Felipe Castagnet
(La Plata, 1986). Another of the most recognizable names.
The bodies of summer,
his first novel, was a joking fable that went from life to death, from science fiction to reflection.
Andrea Chapela
(Mexico City, 1990).
Author of a book of essays and two sets of stories ranging from fantastic to science fiction in the style of JG Ballard.
Carlos Fonseca
(San José, Costa Rica, 1987).
His novel
Animal Museum
imagined a world between dystopia, the most transgressive art and classical tragedy.
Aura García Junco
(Mexico City, 1988).
Antikythera, Jagged Artifact
, his first novel, is a set that spins fictions of classic fantasy, mythological legends and intimacy.
Dainerys Machado Vento
(Havana, 1986).
He has spent his adult life between Mexico and Florida, but his first book of stories (
Noventa habanas
) is a puzzle of intimate images of his hometown.
Alejandro Morellón
(Madrid, 1985).
Author of four books and finalist for the Nadal Prize in 2015 with
Caballo be la noche
, the story of a son and his mother locked in a surreal and claustrophobic world.
Diego Zúñiga
(Iquique, Chile, 1989).
Author of four titles, including a book of football devotion, and known, above all, by
Racimo
, the chronicle of a succession of crimes against women and girls between 1998 and 2001 in the Alto Hospicio neighborhood, in his city.
Irene Reyes Noguerol
(Seville, 1997).
One of the authors to discover on the list.
In his bibliography there are two books of stories published by small labels and that dialogue with classical literature.
Aniela Rodríguez
(Chihuahua, Mexico, 1992).
The problem of the three bodies
, his best known work, is a set of nine stories that represents a stagnant and putrid vision of current Mexico.
Carlos Manuel Álvarez
(Matanzas, Cuba, 1989).
Journalist retaliated by the dictatorship of his country, his literary texts, included in the collections
The afternoon of the definitive events and The tribe, portraits of Cuba
are steeped in his craft.
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