Desahucio by Imanol Martínez (Mexico) won the 2021 José Revueltas National Youth Novel Prize. In counterpoint, the novel tells the story of the lives of Daniel and Julián. Daniel is a well-established chef who discovers that cancer is about to end it all. Meanwhile Julián, his best friend, undertakes some major projects, whose success is anything but guaranteed. Eva Piquer (Catalonia, Spain) has written 13 books, has been Literary Manager of the Thassalia publishing house and currently edits the cultural magazine Catorze. In Aterrizaje, her most recent novel, a woman overcome by mourning decides to travel to Iceland to relieve her pain. On the trip, the woman connects with a past that has been buried and evaded, and discovers a new love for life, one that she had been unwilling to let herself feel. The writer and editor Socorro Venegas received an Honorable Mention in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz awards for her first novel La noche será negra y blanca, and she has edited the recently-published anthology, Vindictas. Cuentistas Latinoamericanas (2023). She is the author of Ceniza roja (2022), a diary in which the poetic gaze and colour of memory shows us the dark workings of mourning in a body and soul damaged by absence, waiting and searching. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez Muñoz.
