Congratulations to Cynthia Rimsky, whose novel Clara y confusa (represented on behalf of @anagramaeditor) was awarded the 2024 Herralde Prize! 🎉 On his way to visit a plumbing client who swears he hears water in one of the walls of his house—a phantom leak, because there is no trace of humidity—the narrator stops in front of the window of a cultural center. An artist taking down one of her paintings does something unexpected. Her name is Clara, and the narrator is enraptured by that action, which will become the start of a story of love and codependency with torturous limits. At the same time, the protagonist discovers the shady dealings at the top of the plumbers’ guild, to which he has just been admitted. Light and profound, elusive and solid, hilarious and serious, this completely one-of-a-kind novel that displays a slippery and delightful sense of humor throws us some transcendental questions: what is art? What is its mission? How can we give meaning to life? What is love? Is what happens to us due to destiny or coincidence? Is there logic to chance? The author, a fascinating literary rara avis, presents us with a game that is in no way innocent that begins from the novel’s paradoxical title. All foreign rights are free so far. More information: https://www.anagrama-ed.es/premios/herralde-de-novela

We’re thrilled to welcome Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib to the agency! 🎉 Born in Buenos Aires in 1981, Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib writes, translates, teaches, and takes photographs. His most recent books are 50 estados: 13 poetas contemporáneos de Estados Unidos, a novelized anthology of poetry from the United States, and El camino, his modern versions of the Tao Te Ching. He has translated Mark Strand, Ben Lerner, Anne Carson, Weldon Kees, Robin Myers, Joseph Brodsky, Mary Ruefle, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Logan February, Heather Christle, Denise Levertov, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brenda Hillman, Kay Ryan, and Emily Dickinson, among others. He compiled and wrote the prologue for the Argentine poetry anthology Penúltimos (UNAM, 2014). He sends daily translated poems via his email newsletter El poema de hoy. He is a founding member of the collective “Como un lugar,” a public culture collective, and lives in Brooklyn. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/ezequiel-zaidenwerg-dib

NIÑOS DEL PÁJARO AZUL by Karina Pacheco Medrano—winner of the 2022 National Literature Prize in Peru—is out this month with Alfaguara! 🎉 Set in rural areas, lush jungles, and remote villages where indigenous traditions still live on, these stories reflect how political forces—whether state-sponsored or insurgent—condition the lives of their protagonists: children who are surrounded by all kinds of violence and hardship. Through profoundly human stories, the author confronts us with the search for truth in the midst of suffering, inequality, and the fight to survive. A truth that allows the healing memory of those sentenced by injustice to emerge from oblivion. With subtle touches of magical realism and clear, poetic prose, these stories by Karina Pacheco invite us to reflect on a past that, although distant, resonates in the Latin American present in an unsettling way. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/ninos-del-pajaro-azul

¡La FILNYC 2024 es esta semana! Magalí Etchebarne, Fernanda Trías, Andrea Montejo, Felipe Restrepo Pombo, Dolores Reyes y Amaury Colmenares (Premio Las Yubartas) participarán en los eventos del 9 al 11 de octubre 🎉 The 2024 FILNYC is this week! Magalí Etchebarne, Fernanda Trías, Andrea Montejo, Felipe Restrepo Pombo, Dolores Reyes, and Amaury Colmenares (Premio Las Yubartas) will be participating in the events from October 9-11 🎉

Camila Gutiérrez’s new book REGGAETÓN, RELIGIÓN—a backstage look into the world of reggaeton, the 21st century’s most important urban genre and Spotify’s most played genre—is out now with @planetadelibroscl! 🎉 In Reggaetón, religión, Camila Gutiérrez embarks on a journey that begins in Santiago, Chile and passes through multiple locations in America, from Puerto Rico to Colombia, including “polos del perreo” that hosted recitals, gatherings, and parties for the 21st century’s most important urban genre. The characters that parade through the pages of this book begin with the first generation of reggaeton artists that includes Daddy Yankee, Tego Calderón, Don Omar, Ivy Queen, and Wisin y Yandel, among others, and end with the latest generations where we can find J Balvin, Rauw Alejandro, or Bad Bunny, passing through Karol G, Anitta, Rosalía, and other internationally recognized proponents of the genre. The author also reviews the national scene in Chile that includes musicians such as Polimá Westcoast, Cris MJ, and Pablo Chill-E, in each instance revealing anecdotes and lyrical analyses that connect the stars that make up this large constellation in a story about Spotify’s most-played genre. Reading this book is walking into a true party, a mind-blowing journey through the peaks and depths of a popular, rebellious culture that has conquered the world. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/reggaeton-religion

We’re excited to welcome Chilean author, playwright, and screenwriter Alejandra Moffat to the agency! 🎉 Alejandra Moffat has written the novels EL HACEDOR DE CAMAS (Sangría, 2011) and MAMBO (Montacerdos, 2022), which was awarded second place in Chile’s 2023 Ministry of Culture Prize for Best Published Novels. As a playwright, she has won Chile’s National Playwriting exposition twice, and she has co-written several films that have premiered and received awards at the Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight, Berlinale, London’s BFI, and elsewhere. Her stories have been included in several anthologies. Her latest novel MAMBO (out with Montacerdos in Chile and forthcoming with Hachette in Latin America) follows a young girl who grows up during the violent 80s in Chile as her enormous curiosity is confronted with an inhospitable landscape: a world where a single misstep could ruin everything; the price of living clandestinely. According to Revista Santiago, the novel “has a voice that submerges itself in childhood and presents a perspective charged with horror during the dictatorship, but its beauty lies in how the protagonist never seems to lose her innocence and continues to be a girl while living in an encapsulated world, like in fairy tales.” More information about the author and her work: https://www.indentagency.com/alejandra-moffat

Thrilled to share that PINK SLIME [MUGRE ROSA] by Fernanda Trías, published in the US by @scribnerbooks and translated by @_heathercleary, has been longlisted for the National Book Award for translated literature—congratulations! 🎉 In a port city reminiscent of Montevideo that is ravaged by a mysterious plague, a woman tries to understand why her world is falling apart. It isn’t only the looming plague and death, the algae and poisonous winds, or the pink paste that is the only thing available to eat—but the collapse of all of her emotional ties, the uncertainty, and the emergence of a radical solitude. With disquieting prose that is rich with poetic discoveries, Fernanda Trías creates an extraordinary world that uncovers the immense beauty and pain in the fragility of human relationships. According to the @latimes, “In writing about the ways folks hold together during difficult times, Trias untangles the myths and realities of resilience.” Among other awards, PINK SLIME has won the National Uruguayan Literature Prize, a PEN Translates Award, and the 2021 Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award. So far, Spanish (Literatura Random House/Mantis), English (@scribe_uk/Scribner), Italian (@edizionisur), Brazilian Portuguese (@editoramoinhos), Danish (@auroraborealeditorial), Swedish (@prosak_forlag), French (@actessud), Arabic (@darathar), German (@ullsteinbuchverlage), Turkish (Kultur), Georgian (@sulakauri_publishing), Polish (@wydawnictwo_pause), Greek (@ediciones_carnivora), Albanian (OMBRA CVG), Korean (PIPIBOOKS/Pinkwhale), and Film (Panorama Entertainment) rights have sold. More information: https://www.indentagency.com/mugre-rosa

We’re delighted to share that we now represent award-winning, internationally recognized journalist Alma Guillermoprieto! 🎉 Mexican journalist Alma Guillermoprieto is one of the most internationally recognized Latin American reporters. From 1978 to 1984, she covered wars in Central America for The Guardian and The Washington Post. Alongside Raymond Bonner from the New York Times, she told the story of the El Mozote massacre, the largest massacre of the 20th century in Latin American history. Later, she was Newsweek’s head correspondent for South America. As the author of several articles for the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, and National Geographic, she has become an obligatory point of reference for those interested in Latin America. Her many prizes and honors include a MacArthur Grant (1995), the Cátedra Julio Cortázar (2008), the International Women’s Media Foundation Life and Work Award (2010), El País’s Fundación Ortega y Gasset prize (2017), and the George Polk Awards Foundation (2024). In 2018, she received the Humanities Prize from the Princesa de Asturias Foundation. She is the author of several books including La Habana en un Espejo (Random House/Mondadori, translated as Dancing with Cuba); Looking for History (Vintage, 2001), The Heart that Bleeds (Knopf, 1994), Samba (Knopf, 1991), and ¿Será que soy feminista? (Random House, 2020). Various compilations of her texts have been published, including Desde el país de nunca jamás and Los placeres y los días. For more information about her work and awards: https://www.indentagency.com/alma-guillermoprieto