Every year, France, Japan, Brazil and more crown their best book. Spin the globe to see which ones you can read in English, and which are still waiting.
4,667 books · 44 prizes · 39 countries
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Villaurrutia 2021 · Winner
El invencible verano de Liliana
Cristina Rivera Garza · 57 when first published
Nonfiction · 320 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:The author returns to the death of her younger sister Liliana, an architecture student of twenty killed in July 1990 by a boyfriend from her school years who refused to let her go.
Villaurrutia 2018 · Winner
El lector a domicilio
Fabio Morábito · 63 when first published
Novel · 240 pages
AI-generated summary:Sentenced to a year of community service for a minor offence, Eduardo has to read novels aloud to sick and retired people in a provincial city, though he hardly grasps the words he reads.
Villaurrutia 2012 · Winner
Tela de sevoya
Myriam Moscona · 57 when first published
Novel · 221 pages · Family
AI-generated summary:Hoping to find the homes her parents left behind, their story and the Ladino tongue that Sephardic Jews carried out of medieval Spain, a Mexican woman journeys to Bulgaria.
Villaurrutia 2009 · Winner
Muerte en la rúa Augusta
Tedi López Mills · 50 when first published
Poetry · 190 pages
AI-generated summary:A narrative poem: after years as an office clerk, Gordon Smith loses his reason and his job and spends his days by the pool of his house outside Fullerton, California, or perhaps walking down a street in Lisbon.
Villaurrutia 2007 · Winner
Cuaderno de Amorgós
Elsa Cross · 61 when first published
Poetry · 61 pages
AI-generated summary:A sequence of forty poems set on Amorgos, an island of the Greek Cyclades, where the poet's gaze on light, sea and stone turns into meditation and the landscape becomes a portrait of the inner life.
Villaurrutia 2007 · Winner
Santo y seña
Pura López Colomé · 55 when first published
Poetry · 176 pages
AI-generated summary:Poems that treat words as passwords, things among other things that open onto what they name: the stiff images of childhood, a bodily journey through the landscape of the spirit, the mind's lonely fire.
Villaurrutia 2001 · Winner
Flores
Mario Bellatin · 41 when first published
Novel · 117 pages
AI-generated summary:Linked stories turn around a single centre: among their people are a scientist whose medicine left children born with malformed bodies and a writer who studies people with unusual sexual lives.