"I was born in a country, Peru, where there is very little consideration for animals, and where they are even mistreated, but for a little more than half of my life I have lived in a place where they are highly respected," comments the narrator Claudia Ulloa Donoso (Lima, 1979), who has just arrived from Trondheim, a city located in central Norway, to present her third collection of stories. The Terrible Fear of Being an Animal (Páginas de Espuma, 2026) conjugates the realities of the Latin American country where she grew up and became an adult and those of the European country where she works as a teacher and has consolidated her literary career. "I arrived in Norway for love, but I stayed to study sociology and education, and I haven't left since," she recalls.

A year and a half ago, Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) left Argentina and settled in Launceston, on the north of the island of Tasmania. Before leaving the country where she had been born, raised, worked, and, finally, triumphed with novels like Nuestra parte de noche (Anagrama, 2019), Enriquez needed to take stock of the authors who had marked her throughout nearly four decades of obsessive reading. "While I was finishing that book, Archipiélago [Ampersand, 2025], my library was traveling by ship from Buenos Aires, and it could have been lost forever –she recalls now from Barcelona, with a new essay just published, Conversación con la oscuridad (Páginas de Espuma, 2026)–. For a few days, I fantasized about the idea of the shipwreck: it would have opened a period of inevitable mourning, but at the same time it would have forced me to start a new library from scratch".

Manuel Vilas (Barbastro, 1962) has reached that point in his career where he can combine the publication of the new novels he writes with the recovery of out-of-print books that he feels he wrote "in another life." This year he has released Iceland (Destination, 2026), in which he reconstructs, without sparing any detail, the separation from the writer Ana María Merino, and, at the same time, claims "the anti-bourgeois voice" of the desperate and funny narrator of Zeta, which Páginas de Espuma puts into circulation more than two decades after the first edition by DVD Ediciones, divided then into two volumes, Zeta (2002) and Magic (2004).

One of the most peculiar rituals of rural Galicia is the one that ends at the sanctuary of Santo André de Teixido, located in the municipality of Cedeira, in the province of A Coruña. “To San Andrés de Teixido goes the dead who did not go alive,” says a well-known saying. "He who does not go in life goes when he is dead," recalls David Roas (Barcelona, 1965), professor of literary theory at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and author of a dozen books of fantastic stories – a genre to which he has also dedicated numerous studies – the latest of which is Territorios" (Páginas de Espuma, 2026).