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← Back to all issuesGranta 113: The Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists
Winter 2010
From Borges to Bolaño, the Spanish language has given us some of the most beloved writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. But as the reach of Spanish-language culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, it is time to ask who is next in this exciting tradition. Granta and Granta en español present twenty-two literary stars of the future.
From this Issue
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The Place of Losses
Rodrigo Hasbún
‘I’m getting a divorce, I’m considering a divorce, I think I want a divorce.’
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The Hotel Life
Javier Montes
‘The room was outside almost everything, certainly outside the law.’
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After Helena
Andrés Neuman
‘What can damage us more? The blunt honesty of hatred, or the thwarted objective of reconciliation?’
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Scenes From A Comfortable Life
Andrés Ressia Colino
‘That nothing that’s consumed is real; what’s real is expensive, and gets consumed slowly.’
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Seltz
Carlos Yushimito
‘I thought I’d found the answer to many of life’s mysteries, but I had no words to share with the world.’
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In Utah There Are Mountains Too
Federico Falco
‘No one had ever spoken her name in a foreign language.’
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Small Mouth, Thin Lips
Antonio Ortuño
‘This circumstance, death, will not detain my evolution.’
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Gerardo’s Letters
Elvira Navarro
‘The last thing I feel like doing now is going in search of the gnome.’
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The Bonfire and the Chessboard
Matías Néspolo
‘I’m not a snob, it’s just that down here we take chess seriously.’
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The Cuervo Brothers
Andrés Felipe Solano
‘I was Mister Average, right on the borderline.’
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Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra
‘It was hard for me to understand how someone could live alone.’
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A Few Words on the Life Cycle of Frogs
Patricio Pron
‘I wasn’t going to abandon the dream of literature, I was going to keep dreaming.’
