“There’s a whole, flourishing microcosm of independent editors working in small houses that are not only in the capital but in smaller towns,” she said. Miles said technology and the groundwork laid by the previous collection had allowed Granta to look beyond the major cities and publishing houses. She called it “an extremely diverse list – much more than the first list, where there was a large amount of Spaniards and a large amount of Argentinians, and there were many more men than women”. “We were looking for originality, for people who were doing things that were unique and who didn’t seem to be following a trend,” said Valerie Miles, who edited the collection and announced the 25 authors at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid on Wednesday. The list includes 11 female writers and 14 male writers from Spain, Nicaragua, Cuba, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Equatorial Guinea, Chile, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica and Ecuador. A mystical murder story set to the rhythms of Inca ritual dancing, a tale of quotidian corruption in Equatorial Guinea, and a psychedelic musing on exile in outer space are among the stories in an eclectic new collection intended to showcase the best young writers of Spanish-language fiction.Įleven years after publishing its first collection of the finest up-and-coming authors in Spanish, Granta magazine is releasing a second volume that brings together 25 writers aged under 35 and now at work on four continents.
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