We have already started 2019 and another awaits us promising literary year. There will be many titles published and we hope to read them all. Or almost all. I take a look at some national and international names who will release their new stories in all genres (narrative, black, fantasy, romantic, short story, poetry and graphic novel) and for all tastes.
Narrative
What comes national and Latin American
We will have the latest from Soledad Puértolas, Jesús Ferrero, Luis Landero, Carlos Zanón or Ray Loriga, for example. It resurrects a classic name of the black genre as recognized and recognizable as Pepe Carvalho with Carlos Zanón en Identity issues. The Puértolas it will come to us Opera music, Landman a Fine rain and Ferrero The abysmals, which was the Café Gijón Novel Prize in 2018. And of short a weekend, Saturday and Sunday.
From Latin America, two examples are in Claudia Pineiro who publishes Who does not or the new of Jaime Bayley with Cold chest. Or Leonardo Padura, his Living and writing in Cuba.
What is coming more international
Nothing comes out Serotonin, the latest and very secret of a writer as particular as the French Michel Houellebecq, which takes off with another story in its usual style. And the second part or Book 2 of The death of the commander, Haruki Murakami. Will also appear The black box, the last title you sign Amos Oz, the Israeli writer who died just a few days ago, another of the great losses of literature that 2018 left us.
Two of the great contemporary literary French names like Pierre Lemaitre and the Nobel Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio They present us their two new titles. Clézio publishes Bitna under the Seoul sky and from Lemaitre comes The colors of the fire, the second part of the trilogy started with the celebrated See you up there, which earned him the 2014 Goncourt Prize.
From the north, the Swedish Jonas jonasson returns with a surely crazy and very funny story in The grandfather who came back to save the world.
The blackest
Time-honored names of the genus promise another good dark harvest. The eternal Andrea Camilleri brings us another eternal, his curator Salvo Montalbano en The merry-go-round of confusion. And the american Michael connelly has a new Harry bosch en The two faces of the truth. And continuing with more classic characters too Donna leon presents us the new case of his commissioner Brunetti, In the name of the son.
Other heavyweights are mary higgins clark that shows The last Dance. The gaul Bernard minier leaves his commander Martin Servaz parked to go to Seattle with the investigation of the death of a teenage girl in A damn story. By the way, Minier will be at the next festival BCBlack. And in summer comes another long-awaited title, Knife, still without translation in Spanish, and starring the Norwegian commissioner Harry hole, from the master of the genre Jo Nesbø.
Romance novel
Another ever-trendy genre with many prominent names like Nora roberts, with The bay of sighs, or Nicholas Sparks with Every Sigh. They also post new stories Jennifer Armentrout with Like fire, Mercedes Galician, that shows Defying destiny: Corinne michaels with tell me you Love Me.
In fact, the supposed best-sellers of the year are predicted in this genre with Sarah lark with The year of the dolphins or the fireproof Danielle steel with The Duchess. We'll see.
Historical novel
Some relevant titles will be Tyll, de Daniel Kehmann, Venezia Blue, Marina G. Torrus o The world in which we live, Anthony Trollope. They sound good too The last Neanderthal, Claire cameron, and The son of the sun, Morgan scott.
Fantasy novel and short story
The many fans of Margaret Atwood They are in luck because they will have their novelty, Nine wicked tales. And the full stories of Evelio Rosero and Edith Wharton.
Fantastic readers will have The best thing about going is coming back, the new title of Albert Espinosa. And a classic like Philip K. Dick with The world that Jones created, reissue of an almost unfindable novel, published for the first and only time in Spanish by Cénit in 1960.
Poetry
This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Walt Whitman, so the reissue of his Leaves of Grass. Also published Complete poetry de Raymond Carver.
Graphic novel
The year opens with Sabrina, Nick Drnaso, the first graphic novel nominated for the prestigious Man Booker Award. And to highlight the call for the Comic and Graphic Novel Award from the publisher Heath, the legendary label that Random House has recovered and that will allow the winner to publish their work with them. Will also be released new editions of original comics and updates of classics like Mortadelo or Filemón or Zipi and Zape.
Hello, I'm Alfonso Ortiz, soon my new literary work of fiction son of the wolf will be on the main platforms. Happy 2019.