Cervantes Institute in London is collaborating in the latest edition of the Cheltenham Literature Festival with an event entitled ‘Voices of Spanish Noir’, at which writers Esther García Llovet and Rosa Ribas will discuss their novels "Spanish Beauty" and "Far", translated into English by Foundry Editions.
The event will be hosted by cultural journalist Rose Goldsmith.
There will be a book signing after the event.
Esther García Llovet (Málaga, 1963) has lived in Madrid since 1970, where she studied Clinical Psychology and Film Direction. She is a photographer. She has published "Coda" (2003), "Submáquina" (2009), "Las crudas" (2009) and "Mamut" (2013), as well as stories in various anthologies and magazines. Anagrama has published "Cómo dejar de escribir" (2017); "Gordo de feria" (2021) and "Spanish Beauty" (2022).
Rosa Ribas (El Prat del Llobregat, Barcelona, 1963) has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and has been a Spanish lecturer at Goethe University and a collaborator at the Cervantes Institute in Frankfurt. She is the author of the novels "El pintor de Flandes", "La detective miope", "Miss Fifty", "Pensión Leonardo", "La luna en las minas", from the crime series starring Cornelia Weber-Tejedor, and, together with Sabine Hofmann, the "Trilogía de los años oscuros" (Siruela), which has been translated into several languages with great success.
In 2022, she published "Lejos", an extraordinary novel of love and secrets, and in 2024, "Peces abisales", a literary confession. With "Un asunto demasiado familiar" (2019) and "Los buenos hijos" (2021), she began the addictive series starring Hernández Detectives, which was a resounding success with critics and readers alike, and which has continued successfully with "Nuestros muertos" (2023).
