Sergio Pitol Deméneghi was a Mexican writer, translator and diplomat. In 2005, he received the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world.
Luisa Castro is a Spanish writer and journalist who has published in Galician and Spanish. She has lived in Barcelona, New York City, Madrid and Santiago de Compostela. She is currently Director of the Instituto Cervantes in Bordeaux, France.
Eduardo Berti (1964) is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires. He has been living in Paris, France, since 1998. He also works as a cultural journalist.
Enrique Vila-Matas is a Spanish author. He has authored several award-winning books that mix genres and has been branded as one of the most original and prominent writers in the Spanish language.
Andrés Neuman is a Spanish-Argentine writer, poet, translator, columnist and blogger.
Daniel Sada Villarreal was a Mexican poet, journalist, and writer, whose work has been hailed as one of the most important contributions to the Spanish language.
Juan Pablo Villalobos is a Mexican author.
Alberto José Barrera Tyszka is a Venezuelan writer. In 2006, he received the Herralde Prize for his novel La enfermedad.
Claudia Amengual Puceiro is a Uruguayan writer and translator. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
Mariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer.
Guadalupe Nettel is a Mexican writer. She has published four novels, including The Body Where I Was Born (2011) and After the Winter (2014). She won the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero and the Premio Herralde literary awards. She has been a contributor to Granta, The White Review, El País, The New York Times, La Repubblica and La Stampa. Her works have been translated to 17 languages. She is the editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México, the oldest cultural magazine in Mexico.
The Premio Herralde is a Spanish literary prize. It is awarded annually by the publishing house Anagrama to an original novel in the Spanish language. Established in 1983, the prize takes its name from Jorge Herralde, founder of Anagrama. Accompanied by a cash prize, the award is announced every year in November.
Adelaida García Morales was a Spanish writer.
Paloma Díaz-Mas is a Spanish writer and scholar.
Sara Mesa is a Spanish writer. Born in Madrid, she has lived in Seville since childhood. As a poet, she won the Premio Nacional de Poesía Miguel Hernández in 2007 for Este jilguero agenda. Since then, she has published the novels Un incendio invisible and El trepanador de cerebros, and the short story collections No es fácil ser verde and La sobriedad del galápago. Her novel Cuatro por cuatro was nominated for the Premio Herralde.
José Morella is a Spanish writer. Born in Ibiza, he studied literary theory and comparative literature at university. Among his published work are the novels La fatiga del vampiro, Como caminos en la niebla and the poetry collection Tambor de luz. His novel Asuntos propios was nominated for the Premio Herralde. West End, his last piece of fiction, was awarded with the Premio Café Gijón in 2019. He has also translated the work of the Brazilian poet Ferreira Gullar and Scottish poet Douglas Dunn.
Alberto Olmos is a Spanish writer. Born in Segovia, he studied journalism. He published a total of eight novels to date; his debut novel A bordo del naufragio was nominated for the Premio Herralde. Other notable works include Trenes hacia Tokio, El Estatus and Ejército enemigo.
Anagrama is a Spanish publisher founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde. In 2010 it was sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli.
Miguel Ángel Hernández is a Spanish writer. He teaches art history at the University of Murcia, and has published several books on art and visual culture. He is best known for his fictional works, among them the novels Intento de escapada (2013), which won the Premio Ciudad Alcalá de Narrativa and was translated in five languages, and El instante de peligro (2015), which was a finalist for the Premio Herralde de Novela. His latest novel is El dolor de los demás (2018), selected among the books of the year by El País and The New York Times en Español.
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade is a Spanish writer and translator of partial English descent. In 2004 she won the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her work Ya no pisa la tierra tu rey. Her 2014 novel Las Inviernas was a finalist for the Premio Herralde, and in translation won two English PEN awards.
