We are happy to announce that A House Full of People (“Una casa llena de gente”) by Mariana Sández has been selected to be pitched for screen adaptations at Iberseries & Platino Industria 2026.

Iberseries & Platino Industria is the leading international meeting point for professionals in the Ibero-American audiovisual sector. It brings together platforms, television networks, creatives, production companies, distributors, buyers, investors, and other key industry players, as well as organizations linked to tourism, education, and new technologies applied to the audiovisual field.
Its objective is to boost the visibility and global reach of content in Spanish and Portuguese, foster connections between talent and industry, promote international co-production, and drive the financing and commercialization of projects, generating new business opportunities.

A House Full of People is one of 16 titles chosen to be presented during this year’s sixth edition running from 29 September to 2 October in Madrid.

For further information, please see also the reporting in The Hollywood Reporter.

“The Red Earth” by Morgana Kretzmann is recommended on CrimeReads‘ Best International Crime Fiction of July 2026 list. The English translation by Daniel Hahn has just been launched in the US by HarperVia.

“The Red Earth is an ecothriller with supernatural elements that packs a serious emotional punch. (…) A tour de force of righteous fury that demands to be reckoned with, and an insightful dissection of a community on the precipice of destruction.”

CrimeReads is dedicated to the world of crime, mystery and thrillers, and maintained by LitHub.

You can find the complete list of four titles here.

The Feltrinelli Anagrama Foundation and Formentor Foundation will publish together The Formentor Canon. A History of Literature, with prefaces by Jorge Herralde, Antoine Gallimard and Basilio Baltasar.

The volume recounts the history of the prestigious literary prize originally founded in Formentor (Mallorca) in 1961 and revived 50 years later. From Samuel Beckett to Jorge Luis Borges, Annie Ernaux, László Krasznahorkai, Hélène Cixous and Gonçalo M. Tavares, the writers awarded the Formentor Prize have had a decisive influence on the history of the European novel.

Each awarded author is presented by an essay from well-known contemporary essayists, critics, translators and writers.

The book will be published on 9 September 2026.

El canon Formentor. Una historia de la literatura
Fundación Feltrinelli/Anagrama
Barcelona, 2026
Páginas: 736
Medidas: 20×26 cm.
ISBN: 978-84-339-5051-2

The two most important Portuguese newspapers have listed their Best Books of 2025 and the novel “The End of the United States of America. An Epic” by Gonçalo M. Tavares was ranked 1st place by Público and 2nd place by Expresso.

Both newspapers’ literary sections, Público Ípsilon and A Revista do Expresso, have published cover stories about Gonçalo M. Tavares in their latest issues, including interviews with the author.

The New York Times has published an extensive feature on Angolan author José Eduardo Agualusa, on occasion of Archipelago Books’ launching of The Living and the Rest in the USA on 27th May, in the English translation of the author’s longtime translator Daniel Hahn.

Agualusa states that his novel is “inspired by the real-life charms of Mozambique Island”, a small island on the northern coast of Mozambique which he has made his home almost ten years ago by marrying a local filmmaker.

Kenyan author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor is convinced that “Agualusa is one of the prophets of our African ‘marvelous’ complexity”, a complexitiy which Agualusa himself likes to describe as “African realism”. According to Anderson Tepper, reading The Living and the Rest “you have entered Agualusa’s world, where the boundaries between the real and imaginary are porous, and dreams become their own reality.” And indeed, dreams are essential in Agualusa’s life and work. “We must start dreaming again, in a collective way. That’s the only way to transform the world: to dream together”, he says.

You can find the whole article here:

> New York Times Feature

We are delighted to share that Adriana Fernández‘s children’s book “Dear Giant” has been included in the list of ALIJA’s 2024 recommendations. ALIJA is the Argentinian Section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). IBBY is a non-profit organization which represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together. It is based in Switzerland. Since its founding in 1953, IBBY has grown in the number of awards and projects it supports and in their geographical spread. All these awards and projects share the goal of encouraging quality children’s literature and upholding the right of every child to become a reader. Every year, ALIJA awards one of the most renowned prizes in Latin America: the ALIJA Highlights, for which a federal and multidisciplinary jury honours the best works for children and young people of the period.

> ALIJA 2024 Recommendations

We are excited to announce that our author Mia Couto will receive the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature at the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards.

At the award ceremony on May 8—called the “Oscars for books”— PEN America will confer the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature to Mozambican author Mia Couto for his body of work. The PEN/Nabokov jury cited him for probing his homeland’s fraught history “as well as essential riddles of identity and existence. Couto has held “a singular place in the landscape of both African and world literature,” the judges wrote.

The PEN America awards are juried by panels of esteemed, award-winning authors, editors, translators, and critics. These authors are committed to recognizing their contemporaries, from promising debut writers to those who have already had a continuous and lasting impact on the literary landscape.

> Press release for the 2025 PEN America Literary Awards

Our author Eugenia Almeida has been nominated for the Prix Violeta Negra Occitanie 2025 for her novel “Scrapyard”, published in French by Éditions Métailié.

The jury of the Prix Violeta Negra Occitanie consists of booksellers, librarians, journalists, and members of Toulouse Polars du Sud. This year it will be chaired by Gilles Souillés, journalist for La Dépêche du Midi, the regional newspaper of Toulouse. The winning novel will be announced during the 17th edition of the Toulouse Polars du Sud Festival, on Saturday 11th October 2025.

The winners of previous editions have been Claudio Fava (2024), Miguel Szymanski (2023), Carlo Lucarelli (2022), Alessandro Robecchi (2021) and Rosa Montero (2020).

> Toulouse Polars du Sud