on the “case” of the death of Marta Jiménez Serrano on Salman Rushdie’s trip to India

2026 scramble full of interesting news. It will be appropriate to reveal that we are not including a new item in the list of the most anticipated books of the first month of the year. Julian Barnes(Farewell. Anagrama, January 28), we can find it in the cultural agenda of the year.

Among the selection, particularly different, we encounter only two fiction novels: the Esther Garcia Hunt y de Cristina Araújo (by the way, the authors are obliged for the first time in general cooking).

Two thoughts as different as one Constantino Bertolo y Sara Torres if you look at the contents of the book Maryse Conde y Salman Rushdieand the surprising autobiographical testimony of Marta Jiménez Serrano. Plus, the fascinating stories we learn Claudio Magris y Hervé Le Tellierand unclassifiable text Camila Sosa Villada.

Marta Jiménez Serrano (Madrid, 1990) from El Salto to Alfaguara translated his successful journey into the narrative collection Sexto Piso. The new novel is the story of the current dramatic episode until he dies of carbon monoxide inhalation in her own home—but the freshness of her prose remains serious to her.

Interesting day Oxygen There is no time to pass out, you can’t remember until the angels are there. His sentimental relationship with another writer, the precariousness of his 30s, the crisis of life, the thought of death… The most hopeless Spanish book of the end of the year.

The history editor is returning to the headquarters he managed from 1990 to 2003. The Endebate Collection is toasting Bertolo (Navia de Suarna, Lugo, 1946) an opportunity to reflect on the office and specifically on one of its most loathsome pastimes: reading manuscripts.

In addition, the text is a discussion of the Spanish editorial panorama in which they publish more than 90,000 books annuallybut also related to the emotion of creating a great work from its embryonic stage.

Cristina Araújo is establishing herself as one of the great storytellers of our country Escape distanceset in northern Italy. Ganador del Tusquets Prize de amendment en 2022 p Check out the aces chicacurrently lives in France.

In his new book, he explores the intricacies of a love relationship, in this case mediated by the social conflict of its protagonists: a young man who is preparing a thesis and a girl who is destined to become a TV star.

Always going back and forth with your sexual identity, Sara Torres (Gijón, 1991) builds on the work over the stone of desire. “Lovers are hearts that sleep before they come, that look in the eyes before the bear,” we read in his new book.

Historically, “racial and patriarchal heterosexual system” I project violence because in its new thinking it proposes the alejamiento of the heteronormative imagination. Despite the deep reflection of the physical and the ethical, Torres turns to resolution with the always poetic intent of his prose.

Women supported by society are the banner of literature Maryse Conde (Guadeloupe, 1937 – France, 2024), alternative Nobel Prize in 2018. Mixed country It is a compilation of stories about what happens in everyday life and the consciousness of development.

A teacher who takes care of a deranged child, a young man who finally knows his father, a doctor who faces the death of his child, three women in front of the New York sun, a man looking for a voice that calls him… Stories of quiet stories captured by his compassionate gaze, always comforting.

Seasoned Italian writer Claudio Magris (Trieste, 1939) uses real characters to write a fascinating book. This time I hit the edge of town “three real and improbable lives”as the subtitle says, which originated in Patagonia and Araucanía.

By the author El Danube she saved the deeds of a Slovenian anthropologist and linguist who fell in love with the Mapuche, a French lawyer prone to delirium, and a Piedmont nun who sacrificed herself for the persecuted indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego.

Hervé Le Tellier (Paris, 1957) acomete la biografía novelada de André Chaixthe Maquis of the French Resistance during the Nazi occupation. Please note that the Spanish maquis has its origin in the word gala.

Le Tellier, one of the greatest figures in French literaturehe was edited by Raymond Queneau or Georges Perec, among other authors. At 70, he felt the need to acknowledge the life of someone who died so young, reached middle age and defended freedom.

An entire emotional and literary universe Camila Sosa Villada (1982, Córdoba, Argentina) is published on 112 pages. evocative name, The tradition of my languageit refers to a memory that is close to the act of demystification. “It’s the most treacherous affection there is,” we say.

By the author Las malas It is about dealing with the madness of memories that plagues her in this fragmentary book, in which we feel, as always, a poetic darkness. A font in a border, created in the conflict of language. Erotica and confession, pure Camila Sosa.

The plan of this novel does not allow us to engaño. Esther Garcia Hunt (Málaga, 1963) introduces us to a new fauna in the resort of Villajoyosa, we seem to be doing it, but we know that everything will soon blow up.

The writer has an obsessive tendency towards satire, incongruity and finally the literature of excess. Las jefas maintains a playful motivation for all work. It won’t be a surprise that surprises us again.

No less than a return to the author’s fiction The Satanic Versesa book that says she received a terrorist attack that nearly cost her her life. Salman Rushdie (Bombay, 1947) brings together en Penultimate hour Five stories set in three countries where he lived: India, England and the United States.

Visit some people’s work Hijos de la midnightreleased in 1981. In the end, there is always an allegory about freedom of speech, based on what life was about.