Carla Simon
Winner of the Golden Oso 2022 for her film Alcarrásthe Catalan director Carla Simón (Barcelona, 1986) completed the trilogy begun with Summer 1993 with the beginnings of Romeria in official competition in Cannes last spring.
Children’s literature
Alexander Zambra
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Unfortunately, we are increasingly consumed with reporting on motherhood, but not so much on fatherhood. There are few references to the authorships that we now explore. children’s literature, by Alejandro Zambra, offers a new perspective, tender and gentle, with many questions, intentions and errors. And let’s talk about stories, what we tell and how we tell them. And that’s why I identify so much with the book.
Read Carlos Pardo’s review
Aimar Bretos
The Basque journalist animates the nighttime fringe of Spanish radios with a firm voice. Your program Hour 25 It reaches 1,137,000 viewers daily and is the only one to gain viewers after 2025.
The accident
Blanca Lacasa
Asteroid Books
The accident It’s a little emotional bomb with devastating power. A soap opera sigh which plunges us into the effervescence of seduction and this type of infatuation so concrete, saved but ephemeral, which ends up dying suddenly. Without parts or carrying bags; Just the deep scar of love that makes him whole and farting, lift me up if you can. I was surprised and delighted. I won’t stop giving it to you.
Read the interview with Blanca Lacasa. By Carlos Megia
Fernanda Trias
The Uruguayan writer born in Montevideo in 1976 has just received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz prize at the recent edition of FIL in Guadalajara. Moreover, at the beginning of the year he published his latest novel: The Mount of Furias (Random House).
The shit
Maria Moreno
Random House
María Moreno turned a personal tragedy – a stroke that paralyzed one side of her body – into a literary feat. Written with a single finger, La merma hace del corpo diminuido living poetic material. His brutal honesty, irreverent humor and renewed style transform pain into narrative urgency, and in every sentence confirms that we are before one of the most powerful writers of our language.
Leiva
Always immersed in the whirlwind Giantsinger and composer Leiva (Madrid, 1980), recently released as a documentary Until I leave speechlesswhere he speaks without filters about psychological and physical problems.
Maybe you’ll live if I’m here
Jorge Egocheaga
Plaza & Janés
Sometimes a book will cause you to revisit some of your own ruins and focus on them. In this case, the austerity with which Jorge Egocheaga looks at life inspired me a lot. Enviable management of the soledad and the UN hate al general public mountain which suits me particularly well. A successful punk journal from the top of the world written with mastery.
Read the article by Pedro Zuazua
Alberto Rodriguez
The director, born in Seville in 1975, was considered a fashion director at the end of the year. Al debuts his film at the final San Sebastian festival Tigers Enjoy the popular Moviestar series now Anatomy of a momentbased on the book of fences
Leonera
Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Seix-Barral
“You like it,” said the friend who gave it to me. Fernando León de Aranoa is not only a great director, he also has a great writer in him. This book is both unique and unclassifiable; along the path of Juan de Mairena, but also along one of the Stateless prose by Ribeyro. It’s full of irony and a sense of humor, intelligence and sharp, cynical thinking. Among so much exuberance, a delicate and brief cuento caught my attention: “Light equipment”. Share how someone shares their blessings before their destiny reaches them. It embraced my soul. I lost a lot of important people this year. I still have some of the books I loved.
Carles Francino
Carles Francino (Barcelona, 1958) also leads his radio group, in this case in the afternoon, with his program La Ser. La Ventanawhich totals 1,170,000 daily viewers
Moderate
Diego S. Garrocho
Debate
I argue against polarizing boredom. Denounce the identity confusion that infects coexistence. An invitation to think – and act – without tribal bandages and without being dragged along the river. If the tiburones want to send, Garrocho bets for the salmon. And the horde of dynamites who sabotage moderation is well represented. “Behind these behaviors there is only fear and insecurity. I fear that the ideologies we despise may have some reason.” Essential.
Read Ignacio Urquizu’s review
Miguel Rellán
Born in Tetuán in 1943, Miguel Rellán had an eventful year with the release of two films based on his presence, The Cautivoby Alejandro Amenábar, and Good luckby Gracia Querejeta.
Cervantes’ summer
Antonio Munoz Molina
Seix-Barral
He is a great writer who creates literature in periodicals. You have the magical power to approach everyday life with attentive reading, that is to say, to put a microscope on everyday life and beyond. When you read El Quijote, it’s the same. And, what’s more, it offers a poetic reading. I sound pedantic, but it’s true: there is an infinite allegory of life. This seems like a wonderful book to me. Reading it made me better.
Lucie Carballal
The famous Spanish playwright, director and screenwriter Lucía Carballal (Madrid, 1984) made her debut this year Our Nuestros at the National Drama Center
Thank you totally
Marc Caellas and Esteban Feune from Colombi
La Uña Rota
A brilliant reflection on the act of thanking. I hope this book was written because I am obsessed with practicing gratitude, I believe that grateful people will be better at life. These authors are very cool and fun and thank from every possible angle, even in their most performative dimension, with this great social ritual of giving public thanks.
Gonzalo Celorio
The 2025 Cervantes Prize, the Mexican writer (1948), also professor of literature at UNAM and director of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua, has just been published This pile of broken mirrors (Tusquets), some memories that pay tribute to their teachers.
Peninsula, Peninsula
Hernan Lara Zavala
Alfaguara
The best book I reread this year is called Peninsula, peninsula, by the Mexican writer Hernán Lara Zavala, who died in March 2025. It is a long-form novel that addresses the complex theme of the so-called caste war, which shook the Yucatán Peninsula in the 19th century, a war fought between the Spanish criollos and the Mayan Indians who survived the conquest.
Paco Cerda
The transfer from Alicante to the Escorial at the end of 1939 of the corpse of the founder of the Falange José Antonio Primo de Rivera is centered on the last book by Paco Cerdà (Genovés, Valencia, 40 years old). Gifts He deserved the last National Narrative Award.
Europe. An intimate journey
Jan Morris
Gallo Black
Jan Morris is one of the greatest travelers of the 20th century. Gifted for evocation, Europe is a feat of strength intimate by a mosaic of cultures steeped in History. How to resist this jolt: “On a hot summer day in 1946, when I was twenty years old, I found myself writing an essay on nostalgia sitting on a moor by the sea at Molo Audace in Trieste”. Deep, fragmentary, sensitive, gentle. An exquisite one.
Candela Sierra
Winner of the 2025 National Comic Award for her volume titled You know but I’m not telling you (Astiberri), the author of Malagueña (Ronda, 35 years old) continues to look for new ways to create humor from everyday life.
Do it again
Xavi Puig
Debate
This essay on humor, written by the co-director of El Mundo today, succeeded, in just a few pages, in giving depth to my thoughts. In my head, I continue to resonate with a number of ideas that I approach with lucidity, familiarity and erudition. It is a text which offers, based on experience, a clear analysis of current society according to its relationships, nothing anecdotal, with humor. You will continue to laugh, but you will not laugh in the same way.
Juan Usle
A major exhibition highlights the career of this Cantabrian abstract painter (Santander, 1954). Without a doubt, forty years of artistic excellence deserve the retrospective dedicated to him by the Reina Sofía Museum until April 20.
Autobiographical stories
Álvaro Pombo
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Always so exquisite and authentic, so subtly biting and eccentric, Pombo is always recognized in these very singular stories. He emerges on a whim into the territories of his childhood and his maturity with this extreme naturalness, both documentary and fantastic. Personas, places, successes and spaces made aware; A mountain of experiences expressed from a distance are so light and suggestive that they support your prose. The journey speaks in disorder from his first moments of consciousness as a writer to his current experiences as a mature, exotic, genius and urban author and, perhaps, “something fantastic”, as he himself ironically suggests.
Your writing is capable of painting a portrait of its author without makeup, with ingenuity and honesty. Very recommendable.
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