{"id":12920,"date":"2021-05-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2021-05-17T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T14:48:37","slug":"la-espanola-riveting-writing-from-spain-with-alice-banks-may-contemporary-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2021\/05\/10\/la-espanola-riveting-writing-from-spain-with-alice-banks-may-contemporary-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"LA ESPA\u00d1OLA: Riveting Writing from Spain with Alice Banks. May: Contemporary Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romancerobooks.co.uk\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/files\/2021\/05\/romancero.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12923\" width=\"571\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/files\/2021\/05\/romancero.png 733w, https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/files\/2021\/05\/romancero-300x248.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The end of April was a very exciting time for Spanish-language literature, with Granta naming their \u2018best of young Spanish-language novelists\u2019, each published in English translation in their latest issue<em>:&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/granta.com\/products\/granta-155-best-of-young-spanish-language-novelists-2\/\"><em>Granta 155: Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2<\/em><\/a>. This issue \u2013 the second of its kind \u2013 brings together twenty-five of the best young voices from thirteen different Spanish speaking countries. I\u2019m keen to get my hands on a copy and see whether Granta has discovered any new literary gems! This announcement got me thinking: who would be on my current \u2018best-of\u2019 list? Who are the contemporary Spanish writers that I\u2019m reading and enjoying at the moment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Read more at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurolitnetwork.com\/la-espanola-riveting-writing-from-spain-with-alice-banks-may-contemporary-fiction\/\">European Literature Network&#8217;s website<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of April was a very exciting time for Spanish-language literature, with Granta naming their \u2018best of young Spanish-language novelists\u2019, each published in English translation in their latest issue:&nbsp;Granta 155: Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists 2. This issue \u2013 the second of its kind \u2013 brings together twenty-five of the best young voices from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,36],"tags":[623,306,152,182],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12956,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions\/12956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}