I’ve recently learned
about a new publisher based in Madrid, Hispabooks. I’m currently reading some
of their first publications and hope to report back on them soon, but for now I
thought I’d just give some information about the publisher.
Hispabooks aims to
translate Spanish literature to English and to promote it abroad. Here is some
information I was sent:
“Here in Spain around 30%
of what's published every year is in translation, very specially from English,
but as you may well know, the English book market has a much lower rate of
books in translation, with their infamous 3% rate. Within that, books from
Spain are only in the fifth place, behind titles from German, French or
Italian. With our deep knowledge of our own literature we were dismayed to see
how very few of our literary fiction writers managed to get a translation into
English of their work and how sometimes English or American publishers seem to
make a somewhat strange selection of the Spanish titles to translate, taking on
some minor works/authors and leaving out others, to us, more distinctive of
what contemporary Spanish fiction from Spain has to offer nowadays. We have
also seen a trend from publishers abroad to translate more Latinamerican
authors than Spanish ones. All that gave us the feel there was some work to do
there, and we decided to go ahead with Hispabooks!
We released our first titles last summer and have published 10 so far. All books are by the best literary fiction writers in Spain (most of them multi-awarded authors such as Marcos Giralt Torrente) and our translations are by the best native English-speaking translators (Margaret Jull Costa, Peter Bush, Nick Caistor, Thomas Bunstead, Jonathan Dunne, Rosalind Harvey and so on) and thoroughly copyedited, if I may say, to great effect. Anyway, I hope you like how all this sounds and I invite you to visit our web (www.hispabooks.com) and facebook page (www.facebook.com/Hispabooks), where you may get a first hand feel of what we do. In our web there are samples of the first pages of all the books and in our facebook page a somewhat messy track record of our past events and collaborations, namely taking our authors abroad to literary festivals.
Also, here is the direct link to our catalog: http://www.hispabooks.com/Catalog.html.”
We released our first titles last summer and have published 10 so far. All books are by the best literary fiction writers in Spain (most of them multi-awarded authors such as Marcos Giralt Torrente) and our translations are by the best native English-speaking translators (Margaret Jull Costa, Peter Bush, Nick Caistor, Thomas Bunstead, Jonathan Dunne, Rosalind Harvey and so on) and thoroughly copyedited, if I may say, to great effect. Anyway, I hope you like how all this sounds and I invite you to visit our web (www.hispabooks.com) and facebook page (www.facebook.com/Hispabooks), where you may get a first hand feel of what we do. In our web there are samples of the first pages of all the books and in our facebook page a somewhat messy track record of our past events and collaborations, namely taking our authors abroad to literary festivals.
Also, here is the direct link to our catalog: http://www.hispabooks.com/Catalog.html.”
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