GRANTA 113.

This week Granta publishes its first ever fully translated issue, the Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists. The English edition is with subscribers now, and will be in UK bookshops Thursday 25 November, and is the US on Monday 6 December. The Spanish edition can be bought here. Read the introduction to the issue by the founding co-editors of Granta en Español, Aurelio Major and Valerie Miles, here. Alternatively, subscribe to the magazine to receive it straight to your door four times a year.

From Borges to García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, Marías or Bolaño, the Spanish language has given us some of the 20th century’s most beloved writers. But as the reach of Spanish culture extends far beyond Spain and Latin America, and the US tilts towards a majority Hispanic population, the time is right to ask, who and what is next in Spanish-language fiction?

In this, the first translated issue of Granta’s Best of Young Novelists, a distinguished panel of six judges – Edgardo Cozarinsky, Isabel Hilton, Francisco Goldman, Mercedes Monmany, and Granta en Español’s editors, Valerie Miles and Aurelio Major – looks to new writing across the Spanish-speaking world and asks, ‘Who are the most promising novelists telling the stories from the old and new worlds today?’

Over the coming weeks we will be introducing each of the writers, as well as responses by previous Best Young Novelists to all their stories. Click on the images of the first four below to read their answers to a questionnaire on their influences, and the role of the writer in public life.

Adam Thirlwell: ‘There are very minute ways in which a person might differ from a monster...’

Christopher Coake: ‘A world dangerously suffused with the uncanny...’

Ben Rice: ‘They have been where we have yet to go...’

Esther Freud: ‘Small people in a vast land, giving meaning to their lives...’

Visit the issue page to see a full list of the writers, or read the introduction to the issue by Granta en Español’s editors, Valerie Miles and Aurelio Major. You can also read about the launch of the issue in Madrid last month.