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Award-winning publisher of outstanding Latin American literature. Edinburgh. charcopress.com
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It's here. Our 2026 Bundle. Nine incredible titles - including new novels from faves Claudia Piñeiro and Ana Paula Maia, sci-fi from Puerto Rico, short stories and Oscar-winning inspirations. Direct to your door, throughout the year, ahead of publication.
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“Ambitious readers will find much to admire in Rosa’s vivid fever dream of a novel.”
www.publishersweekly.com/9781917260329
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Animal Spiral by Luis Othoniel Rosa
Rosa (Down with Gargamel!) spins a stimulating and experimental dystopian tale about a revolutionary telepathic network that for...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781917260329
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"a haunting novel and necessary read that demonstrates why Piñeiro has been called the Queen of Argentine noir. It’s a strong contender for crime novel of the year."
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Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro | Crime Fiction Lover
The death of a daughter 30 years ago has repercussions that roll on into the present for the family at the heart of Claudia Piñeiro's new novel, Cathedrals
https://crimefictionlover.com/2026/06/cathedrals-by-claudia-pineiro/
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Cait_onthe_luce
14 days ago
Friday book from the future recommendation for Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia; translated by Padma Viswanathan. Landing in August from
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Nairn Books
14 days ago
Take your brain to another dimension with Luis Othoniel Rosa’s timespacephysicalreality warping Animal Spiral!
@charcopress.com
#indiepublishing
#indiebookshops
#nairnbooks
#nairnbookshop
#readingisfundamental
#booksareforeveryone
#booksellerrecommends
#booksky
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics
13 days ago
Puerto Rican hybrid sci-fi/magical realism. *So* excited to dig in. Thank you,
@charcopress.com
. Favourite new publisher by miles.
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Mandy-Suzanne Wong
11 days ago
ANIMAL SPIRAL, a collaborative novel by Luis Othaniel Rosa and colleagues, translated by Katie Marya, is a mind-blowing read. My review is up in ASYMPTOTE.
@charcopress.com
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Laura
13 days ago
"The world she imagines do not hide her resistance, they do not surrender to being tactical" excerpt animal spiral
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For today's publication of ANIMAL SPIRAL, a lovely interview with Luis Othoniel Rosa!
www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an...
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An Interview with Luis Othoniel Rosa - Asymptote
I met Luis Othoniel Rosa (b. 1985) as a student of Latin American literature ten years ago. As a professor, and later on mentor and colleague, he showed me how academia might function as a creative la...
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-interview-with-luis-othoniel-rosa/
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Southwest Review
18 days ago
“Her novels are generally classified as crime fiction, but none of them are really whodunits; Cathedrals is as close as she’s gotten to one.” New review:
@coryoldweiler.bsky.social
on CATHEDRALS by
@claudiapineiro.bsky.social
out now via
@charcopress.com
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A Mystery of Murder and Memory | Claudia Piñeiro’s Cathedral
By Cory Oldweiler
https://southwestreview.com/a-mystery-of-murder-and-memory/
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Radz Pandit
20 days ago
My new blog post on Claudia Piñeiro's brilliant, engrossing tale of crime, religion, oppression, and dysfunctional families. Translated by Frances Riddle and published by
@charcopress.com
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readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/c...
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Cathedrals – Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle)
Cathedrals by Claudia Piñeiro is a brilliant tale that explores misogyny, religion, desire, and complex familial ties.
https://readersretreat2017.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/cathedrals-claudia-pineiro-tr-frances-riddle/
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The Madrid Review
19 days ago
Out today from
@charcopress.com
, Animal Spiral by
@luisothonielrosa.bsky.social
(translated by
@katiemarya.bsky.social
) is a bold, 2026 sci-fi epic tracing a collective consciousness born in Puerto Rico across 400 years.
#puertorico
#dystopia
#sci-fi
#Caribbean
#translation
#newbook
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The Skinny
18 days ago
"Careens through 400 years of human and post-human history" Told (and possibly read) in non-linear order, Luis Othoniel Rosa's expansive sci-fi novel gets ★★★★ from us 🐈 ANIMAL SPIRAL is out now via
@charcopress.com
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r...
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ANIMAL SPIRAL by Luis Othoniel Rosa (tr. Katie Marya) is out today! Get it at your lovely local bookstore, or direct from us. (También en castellano como EL GATO EN EL REMOLINO!)
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A warm, funny, and deeply moving story about the unexpected ways we care for one another. ONE HUNDRED GUINEA PIGS by Gustavo Rodríguez (translated by Daniel Hahn) arrives July 14th.
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The Portobello Bookshop
26 days ago
The
#IndieBookshopWeek
celebrations continue! We’re pleased to announce that we’re hosting a giveaway in partnership with
@charcopress.com
. Head on over to Instagram to find out more and enter:
www.instagram.com/p/DZmejkYCMs...
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This coming Saturday is an evening with, well, us! Join the Charco team at
@portybooks.bsky.social
in Edinburgh as we chat all things writing, translating and publishing:
www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/an-ev...
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An Evening with Charco Press at The Portobello Bookshop
Please come and join us for An Evening with Charco Press on 13th June, at The Portobello Bookshop
https://www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/an-evening-with-charco-press
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On CATHEDRALS by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle: “one of her strongest novels to date."
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Fiction in translation: ‘Chiquitita is a stunning achievement’
New from Agnes Lidbeck, Khalid Lyamlahy, Agnes de Clairville, Pedro Carmona-Alvarez, Fiston Mwanza Mujila and Claudia Piñeiro
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/05/24/fiction-in-translation-chiquitita-is-a-stunning-achievement/
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Voce Books
about 1 month ago
🗣 VOCE BOOK OF THE WEEK 📚 CATHEDRALS by CLAUDIA PIÑEIRO, trans. from Spanish 🇪🇸 by FRANCES RIDDLE, pub. by
@charcopress.com
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Big shout out to the fab folks at
@vocebooks.bsky.social
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Cory Oldweiler
about 2 months ago
This novel is, unsurprisingly, spectacular. I had quite a lot to say about it and Piñeiro more generally, coming soon (hopefully).
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CATHEDRALS, the new novel by Claudia Piñeiro (tr. Frances Riddle), is OUT NOW!!
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about 2 months ago
Some new arrivals: Claudia Pineiro's 2020 novel Cathedrals, translated by Frances Riddle and published by
@charcopress.com
- a new Pineiro novel is always an event!
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Matthew Francis
about 2 months ago
Book 48: Sara Torres' X Is Where I Am (from
@charcopress.com
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Translating Women
about 2 months ago
"With her characteristic edge-of-the-seat storytelling, Piñeiro exposes not only the monsters we live among, but also the society that produces them". My review for
@uk.theconversation.com
of Claudia Piñeiro's CATHEDRALS, tr. Frances Riddle and out this month from
@charcopress.com
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Tonight is the night! All fingers crossed for On Earth As It Is Beneath but what a wonderful shortlist all round. You can watch the winner of this year's International Booker Prize be announced live tonight:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxCX...
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The International Booker Prize 2026 ceremony livestream
Join us on Tuesday 19 May as we announce the winner of the International Booker Prize 2026. Tune in live to hear the news as it's announced at our ceremony in London. --- The Booker Prize and the In...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxCXqnpOsRY
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Ian Curtin
about 2 months ago
Hope many read her novels thanks to the prize. Both pack a punch, and kudos to Charco for championing her work in translation.
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Had a great mini London bookshop tour with author Ana Paula Maia yesterday! Such lovely folks at every single stop. A big shout out to the teams at @dauntbooks , @bookbaruk, @pritchardandure, @wearebardbooks and @stanfordstravel.
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John Self
about 2 months ago
Books lists? You want book lists? Here’s the only one you need today: my rundown of the International Booker Prize shortlist in today’s Guardian, ahead of Tuesday’s winner announcement. Accept no substitutes. In print (in abbreviated form) today, online soon.
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@thebookerprizes.com
's recent event celebrating 10 years of the International prize looked amazing, including Dua Lipa doing an excellent opening speech, seen here with this year's shortlist including our own On Earth As It Is Beneath 💙
charcopress.com/bookstore/on...
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Radz Pandit
2 months ago
Through the mail today, books from my
@charcopress.com
subscription. They all look great, but I'm really excited about the new Piñeiro.
#bookmail
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coopahcetic
2 months ago
Book 34: Cathedrals This is part of the 2026
@charcopress.com
box, that I got a little early, it comes out on the 28th of May. And I UGLY CRIED in public finishing this book, it’s probably as close to 5 star as you’ll ever get 😭 Where do I go from there?
#BookSky
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Cait_onthe_luce
2 months ago
Today's galley mail! Bury Your Dead by Ana Paula Maia; translated by Padma Viswanathan and One Hundred Guinea Pigs by Gustavo Rodríguez; translated by Daniel Hahn. Thanks to the always excellent
@charcopress.com
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"Piñen is a profound and harsh book, a narrative that at times strikes like a whip, yet threaded with moments of strange and haunting beauty." —Selva Almada, author of NOT A RIVER Piñen is out now!
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Piñen — Charco Press
Daniela Catrileo Translated by Jacob Edelstein A fierce, tender collection of stories about the lives, traumas, and dreams of Mapuche youth in modern-day Chile. Jesús, Valeska, ...
https://charcopress.com/bookstore/pinen
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Daniel G. Wilson
2 months ago
Highly reccomend for anyone who is in that part of the world to check this out Ana Paula Maia is one of the best writers working today and it's not often that she does interviews in the anglosphere/anglophone press
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Dave C
2 months ago
2021 #85 Missed yesterday so this is the first of two for this thread today. A father and daughter confine themselves to their apartment in a city in Uruguay with only the rooftop above to give them respite. Claustrophobic and dark, another excellent novel from
@charcopress.com
⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚
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Lucy Popescu
2 months ago
I'm looking forward to interviewing Ana Paula Maia about her International Booker shortlisted novel On Earth As It Is Beneath on 18 May
@waterstones.bsky.social
Islington, publ by
@charcopress.com
@thebookerprizes.com
www.waterstones.com/events/ana-p...
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Ana Paula Maia in conversation with Lucy Popescu | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Ana Paula Maia in conversation with Lucy Popescu today.
https://www.waterstones.com/events/ana-paula-maia-in-conversation-with-lucy-popescu/london-islington
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Monday 18 May, 6.30pm, Waterstones Islington: Join Ana Paula Maia to discuss On Earth As It Is Beneath - shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 - that asks timely questions about violence, indignation and the brutality of unchecked power.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ana-paula-...
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Ana Paula Maia and Lucy Popescu in conversation - Islington
Join us with Ana Paula Maia in conversation with Lucy Popescu, to discuss her latest book, On Earth As It Is Beneath.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ana-paula-maia-and-lucy-popescu-in-conversation-islington-tickets-1988553246290
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Liam Bishop
3 months ago
🧂SALT CRYSTALS by Cristina Bendek translated by Robin Myers. Legacied of colonialism and imperialism intersect a character’s experience of diabetes on a Colombian island from
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coopahcetic
3 months ago
Thank you
@charcopress.com
! I have my next two weeks ahead of me as I kick off the 2026 journey.
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The Booker Prizes
3 months ago
Watch Xelia Mendes-Jones read from On Earth As It Is Beneath, the
#InternationalBooker2026
shortlisted book written by Ana Paula Maia and translated by Padma Viswanathan.
youtu.be/m9OJhtvHs4E
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Xelia Mendes-Jones reads from On Earth As It Is Beneath | The Booker Prize
YouTube video by The Booker Prizes
https://youtu.be/m9OJhtvHs4E
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Dave C
3 months ago
2021 #69 An early find for me from
@charcopress.com
and what a wonderful find it is. Sagasti pulls together a heap of apparently unrelated characters from modern history and weaves a tale that connects them. There's more in the alt text, it's still a big favourite in this household ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🖋️📚
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Alex Paknadel from off of comics
3 months ago
Another urgent, life-changing banger from
@charcopress.com
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Jellybooks Ltd
3 months ago
Congratulations to
@charcopress.com
on the International Booker Prize shortlisting for 'On Earth as It Is Beneath' by Ana Paula Maia, tr. by Padma Viswanathan 📖 online book sample to peek inside and share
www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader...
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Sample of "On Earth As It Is Beneath" by Ana Paula Maia, Padma Viswanathan
Peek inside this book and discover another great read.
https://www.jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/excerpts/on-earth-as-it-is-beneath_9781917260114-ex/L3Leb
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Caroline Casey
3 months ago
@charcopress.com
is nine years old and has had FOUR Booker finalists which I think is a very big deal (also every Ana Paula Maia book rules; new one dropping in August)
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6 books named finalists for the 2026 International Booker Prize
The shortlisted titles include novels and novellas from authors and translators spanning four continents, with stories that range from Japanese-controlled 1930s Taiwan to the streets of Tehran in 1979...
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5766171/2026-international-booker-prize-shortlist
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We are honoured to announce that ON EARTH AS IT IS BENEATH has been shortlisted for the 2026 International Booker Prize! Our huge congratulations to author Ana Paula Maia and translator Padma Viswanathan, and to all the other shortlistees. Available here:
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The Booker Prizes
3 months ago
‘Make space on your TBRs; this is an unmissable reading list’ We are delighted to reveal the shortlist for the
#InternationalBooker2026
, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies. ➡️ Discover the full list:
thebookerprizes.com/ibp2026
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Peruvian author Cisneros (The Distance Between Us, You Shall Leave Your Land and The World We Saw Burning) reflects on inheritance, silence and identity within a family marked by power and conflict. 🎫
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Renato Cisneros and Philippe Sands talk to Sophie Hughes - Hay Festival
The writers and the translator discuss the question — how much are our private lives shaped by political and historical forces?
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-25260-renato-cisneros-and-philippe-sands-talk-to-sophie-hughes.aspx
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Check out some of our authors at
@hayfestival.bsky.social
in May! In Salt Crystals, Bendek explores the histories & diasporas that bind together the island of San Andrés and its cultures, and proposes new ways of understanding the Indigenous Raizal people. 🎫
www.hayfestival.com/p-25388-cris...
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Cristina Bendek and Shon Faye talk to Georgina Godwin - Hay Festival
Community, culture and compassion are at the heart of this discussion between the Colombian and British authors.
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-25388-cristina-bendek-and-shon-faye-talk-to-georgina-godwin.aspx
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We are excited to be
@thebookseller.com
Small Press of the Year for Scotland!
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Check out some of our authors at
@hayfestival.bsky.social
in May! In Salt Crystals, Bendek explores the histories & diasporas that bind together the island of San Andrés and its cultures, and proposes new ways of understanding the Indigenous Raizal people. 🎫
www.hayfestival.com/p-25388-cris...
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Cristina Bendek and Shon Faye talk to Georgina Godwin - Hay Festival
Community, culture and compassion are at the heart of this discussion between the Colombian and British authors.
https://www.hayfestival.com/p-25388-cristina-bendek-and-shon-faye-talk-to-georgina-godwin.aspx
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