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Publishers of award-winning literature from contemporary Latin American authors.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined November 2016
Out today - this beautiful, thoughtful journey into the effects of guilt and trauma on the human psyche, set in post WW2 Switzerland. Haunting prose by Antônio Xerxenesky, in a superb translation by Daniel Hahn. Available now: https://t.co/ZEbKvF3i3Q
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DIE, MY LOVE in cinemas in just a couple of weeks! https://t.co/0r6E1wZFol
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New on the blog today, I've written about DIE, MY LOVE by Ariana Harwicz (tr Sarah Moses & Carolina Orloff), which captures the horror, claustrophobia & mind-numbing existence of a woman caught in the maelstrom of postpartum psychosis in blistering style. https://t.co/C9bR2AE5Lh
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Ten titles have been announced for the longlist of this year’s Translation Prize, an annual prize with a $10,000 award for the best English translation of a work originally written in Spanish. Congratulations to all of the translators! 🎉 https://t.co/EPjLCzqyHE
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TIME OF THE FLIES has been longlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize which aims to recognize the fundamental role of translators in making relevant and topical literary works accessible to a global audience. https://t.co/rac8Us6TvG
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5 stars on publication day for LA LUCHA, from the wonderful @theskinnymag! Read the full review below.
"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon" LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas https://t.co/mC0p7AJ8DE
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Timely. Vital. Some of the region's leading voices share their thoughts, stories and ideas, bringing new perspectives to an old struggle. La Lucha. Out today. Get it at your local bookstore, or direct from ours: https://t.co/Id9Vn49cH8
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🥁 Announcing the 2025 Cercador Prize finalists — Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you to this year's bookseller committee! 🎉 The winning work of literature in translation will be announced on November 17, 2025.
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The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here! Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: https://t.co/He7X5EL5E6
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We are very proud to announce that both RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones & Robin Myers) and CHILCO by Daniela Catrilaeo (tr. by Jacob Edelstein, in FSG's lovely edition) are finalists for the 2025 Cercador Prize! Thanks to the judges, and congrats to all the finalists.
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🦥 Thank you beanfield.books over on Instagram for the lovely photo and review of Roque Larraquy's THE NATIONAL TELEPATHY (translated by Frank Wynne). https://t.co/BrMctIwwhA
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RESTORATION is a "masterful - a ghost story where the ghost is capitalism’s oldest accomplice: patriarchy." - @M_Star_Online
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morningstaronline.co.uk
“I REMEMBER the first time Zuri showed me the house. He took my hand as we crossed the street, stopped on the corner, then said suddenly: This is it.” So begins Ave Barrera’s masterful ghost story...
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Team @CharcoPress last night at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, with outstanding Colombian writers Velia Vidal and Cristina Bendek. Thank you to Curator in Residence Cristina Rivera Garza for the invitation. 💙💚
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Lovely to see Velia Vidal, author of TIDAL WATERS, with our own @elusiveword at the ILB this past weekend. TIDAL WATERS is an epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Colombia’s Pacific coast: https://t.co/hJx1Z2VC3Z
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Another beautiful Charco rainbow stack, this time from booknerd37 over on Instagram. Thank you to everyone who builds their collections and shows them off!
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CHILCO: "This book fosters collective awareness of the destruction of indigenous people from the hands of capitalism and colonialism...masterpiece" says frogbooknook over on Instagram, with this beautiful photo! Get CHILCO now: https://t.co/gNfHpa7Iwi
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Our own @elusiveword will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia. Tix:
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A woman named Velia writes letters about returning to her homeland, Chocó – blurring the line between author and character. Vidal writes about the impact of community, the power of storytelling, and...
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Author Ave Barrera gives us a wonderful introduction to her novel RESTORATION. Check it out! Out now in two editions - Spanish and English (in a beautiful translation by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers). Get them here: https://t.co/PbFQBh407R
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"I've never read a bad book from Charco Press, ever." We've been blushing all weekend...
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