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10 De 30
10 de 30 is a literary project conducted by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), with the goal of identifying and promoting the best young writers in Spain. Ten writers are chosen in each edition of "10 de 30", all between the ages of 30 and 40. The project began in 2019, and an anthology featuring the works of the ten selected authors was published, in both Spanish and English. The featured authors in this first edition were: * Aroa Moreno * Almudena Sánchez * Alejandro Morellón * Inés Martín Rodrigo * Miguel Barrero * Pablo Herrán * Inma López Silva * Marina Perezagua * Natàlia Cerezo * Cristina Morales The judges were Ernesto Pérez Zuñiga, Luisgé Martín, Cristina Sánchez Andrade, Laura Revuelta and Javier Serena. A second anthology was published in 2020, featuring a second group of 10 writers. The judges this time were Marcos Giralt Torrente, Clara Obligado, José Ovejero, Nuria Barrios and Javier Serena. They were: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Agency For International Development Cooperation
The Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) ( es, link=no, Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo) is a Spanish autonomous agency responsible for the management of the Government international development cooperation policy. Its original name was Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI), but Royal Decree 1403/2007, of 26 October, amended its Statute and gave AECID its current name. AECID is a public body under the aegis of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, via the State Secretariat for International Cooperation and for Ibero-America and the Caribbean (SECIPIC). The Agency is in charge of designing, implementing and managing development cooperation projects and programmes, whether directly, with its own resources, or through collaboration with other national and international bodies and non-governmental organizations. According to the OECD, 2020 official development assistance from Spain decreased 1.8% to USD 3 bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Obligado
Clara Obligado Marcó del Pont (born 1950) is an Argentine-Spanish writer. Biography Clara Obligado holds a licentiate in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. Since 1976 she has lived in Madrid, a political exile of the Argentine regime known as the National Reorganization Process, and has Spanish citizenship. She was one of the first people who began to give creative writing workshops, both independently and at the National University of Distance Education, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, and the bookstore Mujeres de Madrid, among many other institutions. In 1978 she founded the Creative Writing Workshop of Clara Obligado, one of the centers of this discipline with the longest standing in Spain and which she currently directs, teaching courses both live and at a distance. According to Juan Casamayor, editor of Páginas de Espuma (a publishing house specializing in the genre), Clara Obligado was the introducer of the micro-story in Spain, through her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valerie Miles
Valerie Miles (New York, 1963) is a publisher, writer, translator and the co–founder of ''Granta en español''. She is known for promoting Spanish and Latin American literature and their translation in the English speaking world, at the same time as bringing American and British authors to Spain and Latin America for the first time, working with main publishing houses on the sector. She is currently the co-director of ''Granta en español'' and The New York Review of Books in its Spanish translation. On 2012 she co-curated a Roberto Bolaño exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. In addition, she is a professor in the post-graduate program for literary translation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Biography Born in New York, she grew up in Pennsylvania; before moving to Spain in 1990, where she began writing about British and American literature in ''La Vanguardia'' newspaper in 1994. Since then, Miles has published articles, interviews and rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Gómez Bárcena
Juan Gómez Bárcena (born 1984) is a Spanish author and literary critic. He was born in Santander, and studied literature and history at the Complutense University of Madrid. He also studied philosophy at the National University of Distance Education (UNED The National Distance Education University, known in Spanish as ''Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia'' (UNED), is a public research university of national scope. The university was founded in 1972 under the Ministry of Universit ...). His first volume of stories ''Los que duermen'' (''Those who sleep'') was published in 2012. His acclaimed debut novel ''El cielo de Lima'' appeared in 2014, and has been translated into German. The story recounts the famous incident from 1904 when the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez engaged in correspondence with an imaginary female admirer in Lima, who in reality were two Peruvian literary pranksters. In 2017, Bárcena published the novel ''Kanada''. He has received a number ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabina Urraca
Sabina Urraca is a Spanish writer. She was born in San Sebastian in 1984, and grew up in Tenerife. She is a proponent of the immersive gonzo style in Spanish prose, and writes for outlets such as ''Vice'', ''Tentaciones'', ''Eldiario.es'', ''El Comidista'', ''Notodo'', ''Ajoblanco'', ''El Estado Mental'', ''Bostezo'' and ''Madriz''. She courted notoriety with her account of a BlaBlaCar BlaBlaCar is a French online marketplace for carpooling. Its website and mobile apps connect drivers and passengers willing to travel together between cities and share the cost of the journey. The company does not own any vehicles; it is a bro ... ride with Álvaro de Marichalar in 2017. In 2020, she was named as one of the most promising young writers in Spain by the 10 de 30 project run by the AECID.https://www.hayfestival.com/p-20710-sabina-urraca-in-conversation-with-violeta-gil-aida-gonzalez-rossi-and-margaryta-yakovenko.aspx Selected publications * ''Tus faltas de ortografía hace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriela Ybarra
Gabriela Ybarra (b. 1983) is a Spanish writer. Her novel, ''The Dinner Guest'', was nominated for the International Booker Prize in 2018. Life Ybarra was born into a politically active family in Vizcaya, in Spain. Her grandfather, Javier de Ybarra y Bergé, was a former mayor of Bilbao, and fought on the side of the Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. In 1977 he was kidnapped and murdered by members of the Basque separatist group, Eta. Ybarra lives in Madrid, works as a social media analyst, and has one son. Writing Ybarra's book, ''The Dinner Guest'', is a work of autofiction, based on her own family's history. She has drawn on her grandfather's kidnap and murder by Basque separatists Basque nationalism ( eu, eusko abertzaletasuna ; es, nacionalismo vasco; french: nationalisme basque) is a form of nationalism that asserts that Basques, an ethnic group indigenous to the western Pyrenees, are a nation and promotes the poli ... in 1977, as well as her family' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristian Crusat
Cristian Crusat Schretzmeijer (born 1983, Marbella) is a Spanish-Dutch writer. His father was Spanish and his mother Dutch. He studied literature at the Complutense University of Madrid and applied linguistics at the International University Menéndez Pelayo of Santander and the Cervantes Institute. He completed his doctorate in comparative literature at the University of Amsterdam. His books include: * ''Estatuas'' (Pre-Textos, 2006) * ''Tranquilos en tiempo de guerra'' (Pre-Textos, 2010) * ''Breve teoría del viaje y el desierto'' (Pre-Textos, 2011). He has translated the writings of Marcel Schwob. He won the EU Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ... for ''Breve teoría del viaje y el desierto''. References 1983 births Living people Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Vallejo
Irene Vallejo Moreu, born in Zaragoza in 1979, is a Spanish philologist, historian, and writer. Career A doctor of classical philology from the universities of Zaragoza and Florence, much of her work focuses on the investigation and exploration of classical authors, particularly their connection and intersection with the present day. Her first published book was a scholarly investigation into literary terminology in the Roman poet Martial. Other work has consisted of articles published in the Spanish newspapers ''Heraldo de Aragón'' and ''El País'', in which she mixes discussion of ancient writers and current events. Some of these articles were eventually collected into two books, published under the titles ''El pasado que te espera'' and ''Alguien habló de nosotros''. In 2020 she was awarded the ''Premio Nacional de Literatura en la Modalidad de Ensayo'' (the National Prize of Literature in the Manner of the Essay) for her book ''El Infinito en un Junco'' – Infinity in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jordi Nopca
Jordi Nopca (born 1983, in Barcelona) is a Spanish journalist, writer and translator. He is a current editor of '' Ara'' newspaper and the editor-in-chief of ''Ara Llegim''. Biography Jordi Nopca studied Journalism and Literary theory and Comparative literature. Since 2006 he has published articles for '' Mondosonoro'', ''Benzina'', ''Sortim'', ''Què fem?'', ''Go Mag'' and ''Time Out Time-out, Time Out, or timeout may refer to: Time * Time-out (sport), in various sports, a break in play, called by a team * Television timeout, a break in sporting action so that a commercial break may be taken * Timeout (computing), an enginee ... Barcelona''. In 2012 he published his first novel, entitled ''El talent'', with the publishing house Labreu Edicions. It narrates the experiences of a young couple who travels to Lisbon with a stolen prototype that can detect litarari talent. Thanks to this invention they are able to discover the hidden talent of several people, publish their w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florencia Del Campo
Florencia del Campo (born 1982) is an Argentine-Spanish writer. She was born and raised in Buenos Aires. She moved to Madrid in 2013, and has since pursued her literary career in Spain. She was named by the 10 de 30 10 de 30 is a literary project conducted by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), with the goal of identifying and promoting the best young writers in Spain. Ten writers are chosen in each edition of "10 de 30", all ... project as one of the best young writers in Spain.https://editorialbarrett.org/autoras/florencia-del-campo/ Selected works * La huésped (2016) * Madre mía (2017) * La versión extranjera (2019) * ¿Y si no entro en este libro? (2014) * A los saltos (2014) * Animanzas (2015) References Writers from Buenos Aires 21st-century Argentine women writers 1982 births Living people Date of birth missing (living people) {{Spain-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katixa Agirre
Katixa Agirre Miguelez (born October 27, 1980) is a Spanish writer of Basque origin. Born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Agirre studied at the University of the Basque Country, receiving a bachelor's degree in audiovisual communication in 2003, a master's degree in screenwriting, then a doctoral degree in audiovisual communication in 2010. Her thesis analyzed the representations of the Lolita myth in Hollywood films. She then did postdoctoral work, including stints at Queen Mary University of London and the University of East Anglia. Since 2013, she has taught at the Universidad del Pais Vasco. Agirre is also an accomplished writer, who publishes mainly in her native Basque language. Her books include the short story collections ''Sua falta zaigu'' (2007) and ''Habitat'' (2009) and the children's books ''Paularen seigarren atzamarra'', ''Ez naiz sirena bat, eta zer?'' and ''Patzikuren problemak''. She writes for media outlets such as ''Diario de Noticias de Álava'', ''Deia'', ''Aizu! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
