What will we read before Sant Jordi?

BarcelonaAlthough the winners of prestigious awards like the Sant Jordi, Carles Riba, Llibres Anagrama, and Josep Pla prizes are yet to be announced, most publishers have already begun revealing their new releases scheduled for before Sant Jordi. The first quarter is typically one of the busiest periods of the year, as January marks the start of the long race to reach April 23rd.

Ten years after publishing Homeland, Fernando Aramburu (San Sebastián, 1959) sets Maite During the four days of the kidnapping of politician Miguel Ángel Blanco by ETA in July 1997, the woman who gives the book its title receives a visit from her sister Elene from the United States to support her during their mother's recovery from a stroke. The three women spend time together and talk, avoiding confronting the social tension surrounding them in relation to Blanco, who will ultimately be murdered by the Basque armed organization.

The protagonist of Fish, a novel that Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, ​​1978) will publish her new book in early March. She is a writer and travels wherever she is asked to speak about her books. One day, while killing time before a book club meeting, she falls in love with Victoria, a woman who sells paper cones of fried fish in the town square. Beneath the growing passion they both feel lies emptiness, as is often the case in the novels of this author of Permagel and Boulder.

Less than six months after publishing his last book, Changing my mind (Angle, 2025), Julian Barnes (Leicester, 1946) is back in the spotlight. thanks to a hybrid text that blends fiction, essay, and memoirs. Farewells It begins with a reflection on voluntary and involuntary memory, reminiscent of Marcel Proust, and from there shifts to the unreliability of many memories, until Jean and Stephen appear, whom the author himself brought together during his university years and who almost married. Four decades later, he must once again act as a go-between for them.

Although the news related to Josep Carner usually arrive lateEdicions 62 announces the thousand-page volume for early March Poetry 1957It has been out of print since Quaderns Crema relaunched it in the early 1990s. The book will join other rediscovered Catalan classics on the new releases shelves, such as... Diaries by Mariano Manent and the two volumes of prose and verse poetry by JV Foix.

The death of historian Hélène Carrère de Encausse (1929-2023) spurred the creativity of her son Emmanuel Carrère (Paris, 1957), which in the ambitious Kolkhoz It moves between family history and history with a capital H, with the aim of offering an accurate portrait of 20th-century Europe and its heritage, highlighting the crucial and ambivalent role of Russia, the mother's academic specialty.

A philosopher specializing in contemporary thought, democracy, and totalitarianism, Donatella di Cesare (Rome, 1956) demonstrates in her latest essay how citizen participation has been replaced by technical management, individual freedom is confused with irresponsibility, and fear has become a tool of control. The Italian author shows how a new paradigm of power, technofascism, is emerging, combining expert governance with exclusion as a means of dominating society.

Ten years after his father's suicide, the narrator of Relic She decides to write it. Through a personal and intimate text that, at the same time, analyzes the voluntary death of several female authors throughout history, including Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, Polo Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) asks how family ties are forged, which are condemned by silence, and where the truth of a story is hidden.

Adesiara's catalog will be further enriched during the first months of 2026 with works such as Reeds in the wind, by Grazia Deledda; The great valleyby John Steinbeck, and Patmos, one of Friedrich Hölderlin's most celebrated poems. Manuel Carbonell culminates with this translation after more than four decades of intermittent dedication to the German poet, which has yielded fruits such as Hymns (Quema Notebooks, 1981), Poems of Understanding (Quema Notebooks, 1996) and Principles for poetic achievement (Quema Notebooks, 2014).

Thanks to books like Proper numbers (2021) and Not everyone (2023), both published by Sexto Piso, Marta Jiménez Serrano (Madrid, 1990) has become one of the most recognized and widely read new voices in Spanish literature. With Oxygen She makes the leap to Alfaguara to tell the true story of the night five years ago when, due to a carbon monoxide leak in the apartment's boiler, she and her partner – also a writer, Juan Gómez Bárcena – almost died.

In Ink and blood, one of the first novels by Nobel Prize-winning author Han KangIn this novel, previously unpublished in Catalan, Jeonghui embarks on an investigation to disprove recent rumors about her friend and fellow artist, Inju. Having died a year ago in an accident, a news report suggests she may have committed suicide. The investigation leads Jeonghui to delve into her own life and reveals the extent to which her life is intertwined with Inju's, both marked by art, loneliness, and romantic failure.

In Carrie, Stephen King had the good sense to connect two ideas Seemingly unrelated, the cruelty of teenagers and telekinesis—the power to move objects with the mind—triggered a novel, but after writing the first three pages, he thought they were bad and threw them in the trash. It was Tabitha King, the author's partner, who, after retrieving and rereading them, asked him how the story continued. Thus was born one of the novels that revolutionized the horror genre in the 1970s and which now, decades after being unavailable in Catalan, is published by Males Herbes with a new translation by Míriam Cano.

Halfway between memory and essay, there are many voices we hear in Thanksgiving for a house, the first thing he has written directly in Catalan Stefanie Kremser (Düsseldorf, 1967). They are real and fictional voices, voices of other writers, thinkers and artists who transmit stories, experiences and desires to the reader, and that all together refine the meaning of the book, to have a place where you can say: "this is my home".

Alicia Kopf (Girona, 1982) has let a decade pass between Ice Brother —which received awards such as Documenta and Llibreter, and was translated into a dozen languages— and Echo's MemoryThe writer and artist proposes an intimate and transgenerational approach that explores and seeks to broaden the boundaries between memory, body, and technology based on the following premise: in the near future, an encounter produces a flaw in the center of a woman's desire and makes it impossible to forget, a fact that will lead her to carry her consciousness for awareness and the story of herself.

"We know very little about our history, because there are countless lives that leave no trace and a multitude of traces that have not been studied," writes the ARA journalist. Silvia Marimon Molas (Sabadell, 1973) in the prologue of his new book, where he offers a historical journey through 25 objects – from cave paintings to demonstrations for the decriminalization of adultery – that reveal previously hidden or little-known aspects of what happened.

Following a breast cancer diagnosis five years ago, Dolores Miquel (Lleida, 1960) reflects, in a book that is part memoir, part essay, and part poetry, on the female breast in the arts and as a metaphor, on the condition and representation of women in history and literature, as well as on poetry and other cultural spheres. Parallel to the process of her illness, the author of Peasant Mass (Editions 62, 2006) and The pink plastic glove (Edicions 62, 2017) narrates personal stories of childhood and youth that have a generational and group character, which put in the foreground what in a certain era was the newest and most groundbreaking Catalan poetry: tours and recitals with poets and friends such as Enric Casasses, Pau Riba, Josep Pedrals, Gerard Horta.

Beloved (1987), one of the most important novels by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison (Lorain, 1931-New York, 2019), will cease to be unpublished this February thanks to Esther Tallada's translation for La Segunda Periferia. "Its importance transcends the literary sphere to rise as the greatest example of recognition, reparation, and respect for the Black men and women—especially the women—who suffered and died under the yoke of slavery in the United States of America," the editorial states regarding the book, which tells the story of a woman who, starting with a visit from the past.

Care consists of nurturing, feeding, breastfeeding, helping, and loving human beings. It is the work that makes all other work possible. For historian Premilla Nadasen (Durban, 1967), we are only beginning to understand the massive role it plays in our lives. In the essay Care work. The highest stage of capitalism It traces the rise of the care economy, from its roots in slavery, where there was no clear division between production and social reproduction, to the current care crisis, which is being experienced with increasing intensity by more and more Americans. The current care economy, Nadasen shows, is an institutionalized and hierarchical system in which the suffering of some translates into profits for others.

From Hendaye to Bordeaux, from San Sebastián to Pha Ngan, the protagonists of the five stories that make up It was all the same holeEider Rodriguez's (Errenteria, 1977) works share the need to confront an intimate conflict that suffocates them in silence. After the impressive Building materials (2023), where he fictionalized the life and death of his fatherThe Basque author once again focuses on minimal and subtle stories to point out some of the emotional dysfunctions of our time.

The new book by the versatile and prolific Ferran Sáez Mateu (La Granja de Escarpe, 1964) is a diary that aims to go beyond the daily record of events, striving to explore the human condition. The philosopher seeks a subtle balance between the events of daily life—walks, music, reading—and the abstract reflections that transcend them. Drawing inspiration once again from Montaigne, one of his major influences, Sáez Mateu presents introspection not as a mere personal mirror, but as a path to understanding human beings in their constant transformation.

Màrius Serra (Barcelona, ​​1963) is going through the most splendid creative decade of his career. In addition to the series of ludocriminal novels – the latest of which is The role of the Roc (Empúries, 2024)–, of the six installments of The Adventures of the Napeu and of the trilogy ShowCATHe continues to publish ambitious works such as Nothing is perfect in Hawaii (Proa, 2016) and The most painted woman (Proa, 2023). In The misunderstanding It shows the weight of chance in our lives starting from the death of Rosa and her daughter Alba shortly after finding out that her husband, a translator with a quiet life, was cheating on her with the nanny.

One year after publishing Strong heart, Silvia Soler (Figueres, 1961) will once again be in the news thanks to We were so youngWith nostalgia and a desire to remember, the author freezes sweet, joyful, and tender moments of life to reflect on the passage of time and invites the reader to think about their own photo albums.

Life and literature have often intertwined in the Canadian's literary career Miriam Toews (Steinbach, 1964). He dared to speak about his father's suicide in Swing low (2000), fictionalized the relationship with her sister, who also took her own life, in The sad quarrels (2014) and enjoyed a great reception among readers thanks to the shocking They speak (2018), set in a Mennonite religious community similar to the one she knew as a child. In the memoir A truce that is not peace She attempts to answer the question of why she writes while facing, once again, the most painful intimate losses of her life.

"I can change history because I am history," she writes. Jeanette Winterson (Manchester, 1959), author of books such as Written on the body, Why be happy when you could be something normal? and Frankenstein And now she reflects on how she managed to escape the life to which she seemed destined, thanks to her ability to imagine alternative scenarios. Interweaving fiction, fantasy, and memories, An Aladdin and two lamps It explores the importance of narratives in both individual and collective stories.

When the political scientist and writer Lea Ypi (Tirana, 1979) discovers that a stranger has posted a photo on social media of his grandmother Leman on her honeymoon in the Italian Alps during World War II, prompting him to embark on a reconstruction of his past. Through reports, archives, and repressed family memories, the book transports us to the vanished world of the Ottoman aristocracy of Thessaloniki, the formation of modern Greece and Albania, the horrors of war, and the dawn of communism in the Balkans.

Throughout his literary career, Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, ​​1966) He has had a predilection for characters who are lost or about to get lost.The lawyer who stars in his new novel is barely scraping by in a hotel after breaking up with his partner, a down-on-his-luck painter, and continues to take on shady jobs for the owner of a music bar. His latest case involves the death of an Australian rugby player and the disappearance of a British one.