Talk discussing the novel Permafrost with author Eva Baltasar

Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London - FQSLL

Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanches and Stefan Tobler in conversation with con Jorge Gárriz about the book Permafrost, published in English by And Other Stories

Eva Baltasar has published ten volumes of poetry to widespread acclaim. Her debut novel, Permafrost, received the 2018 Premi Llibreter from Catalan booksellers and was shortlisted for France’s 2020 Prix Médicis for Best Foreign Book . It is the first novel in a triptych which aims to explore the universes of three different women in the first person. The author lives a simple life with her wife and two daughters in a village near the mountains.

Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. For And Other Stories she has translated from all three languages—from the Portuguese, Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques, from the Catalan the forthcoming Permafrost by Eva Baltasar, and from the Spanish, Slash and Burn by Claudia Hernández, for which she won a PEN/Heim award. She has also translated works by Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, and Geovani Martins, among others. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators’ collective, and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Stefan Tobler is the publisher of And Other Stories and, whenever time permits, a translator from Portuguese and German. He loves to read in French and Spanish too. His translation of Arno Geiger’s The Old King in His Exile was shortlisted for the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize and Schlegel-Tieck Prize, and his other translations include the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize-shortlisted Água Viva by Clarice Lispector and the Man Booker International Prize-longlisted A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar.

And Other Stories publishes some of the best in contemporary writing, including many translations. They aim to push people’s reading limits and help them discover authors of adventurous and inspiring writing. And they want to open up publishing so that from the outside it doesn’t look like some posh freemasonry. For example, as we said in this piece in The Guardian, we think more of the English publishing industry should move out of London, Oxford and their environs. In 2017 we moved our main office to Sheffield and found such a warm welcome. The move also helped us discover great new writing from the North of England, including Tim Etchells’ Endland, Amy Arnold’s Slip of a Fish and Rachel Genn’s What You Could Have Won.

Permafrost

The #1 Catalan bestseller and winner of the Llibreter booksellers prize.

Permafrost’s no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover and a wickedly funny observer of modern life. Desperate to get out of Barcelona, she goes to Brussels, ‘because a city whose symbol is a little boy pissing was a city I knew I would like’; as an au pair in Scotland, she develops a hatred of the colour green. And everywhere she goes, she tries to break out of the roles set for her by family and society, chasing escape wherever it can be found: love affairs, travel, thoughts of suicide.

Full of powerful, physical imagery, this prize-winning debut novel by acclaimed Catalan poet Eva Baltasar was a word-of-mouth hit in its own language. It is a breathtakingly forthright call for women’s freedom to embrace both pleasure and solitude, and speaks boldly of the body, of sex, and of the self.

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Talk sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull - Catalan language and culture abroad.

Event in English.

Pre-recordered talk available only during Friday 1 October.

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Festival de Literatura Queer Española en Londres - 1 al 3 de octubre de 2021

Programa

Viernes 1 de octubre

Charla

Entrevista a Camila Sosa sobre su novela Las Malas

En castellano with English subtitles

Podcast 

sobre la vida del escritor Ángel Vazquez  y su libro La vida perra de Juanita Narboni

con Miguel Agnes, y Paz Olivares y Weldon Penderton del podcast Niños Gratis

En castellano

Mesa redonda

sobre el Teatro queer español contemporáneo 

con Luisgé Martín, Nando López y Alberto Conejero. 

Charla dirigida por las directoras de la compañía de teatro Little Soldiers Productions con sede en Londres

En castellano
 

Talk

Discussing the novel Permafrost

with author Eva Baltasar, translator Julia Sanches,

and Stefan Tobler from the book’s

UK publisher And Other Stories

In English

Sábado 2 de octubre

Charla

Presentación de la novela El Power Ranger Rosa

con su autor Christo Casas y los editores Paz Olivares 

y Weldon Penderton de Niños Gratis

En castellano with English subtitles
 

Charla

Presentación del libro de relatos Pronto seré de Oro y Carmín 

con su autore Vanina Bruc y Alberto Rodríguez y Gonzalo Izquierdo 

editores de Dos Bigotes editorial

En castellano with English subtitles

Podcast 

Sobre la vida y la obra del poeta Jaime Gil de Biedma 

con Paco Clavel, el director de cine Sigfrid Monleón 

y Juan Sánchez del podcast Cineciento - Subterfuge

En castellano

Charla

Presentación del ensayo Historia Queer del Flamenco

con su autore Fernando López Rodríguez 

En castellano with English subtitles

Charla

Presentación del libro Tengo miedo torero de Pedro Lemebel 

Con los editores Francisco Llorca y Magda Anglès de Las Afueras editorial

Conferencia

A cargo del catedrático José Luis Plaza Chillón sobre su libro Efebos tristes. La Iconografía homosexual masculina en lo dibujos de Federico García Lorca.

En castellano
 

Domingo 3 de octubre

Talk

Discussing the novel Andrea Víctrix

by Llorenç Villalonga with English translator Louise Johnson 

In English

Live Poetry Reading - 3pm

Poet Leo Boix reads from his collection

Ballad of a Happy Immigrant

Spanglish
 

Charla

Presentación de la traducción al castellano del libro Napal al cor

con su autore Pol Guasch

En castellano 

Mesa redonda - 5pm

Sobre Poesía queer contemporánea española y recital poético 

con les poetes Adrián Peñalver, Oscar Espirita, Perla Zuñiga y Lalu Bee

En castellano

Lectura en directo del cadáver exquisito - 6.30pm

escrito por les participantes del festival.

A cargo del agitador cultural Andrés Bravo

En castellano

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Friday 1 October

Talk

Discussing the novel Las Malas

with author Camila Sosa

In Spanish with English Subtitles

Podcast

Discussing the writer Ángel Vazquez and his book La vida perra de Juanita Narboni

with Miguel Agnes, Paz Olivares and Weldon Penderton from Niños Gratos Podcast

In Spanish

Round Table

Discussing contemporary queer Spanish theatre

with Luisgé Martín, Nando López and Alberto Conejero

hosted by UK theatre company Little Soldiers Productions

In Spanish

Talk

Discussing the novel Permafrost

with author Eva Baltasar, translator Julia Sanches and Stefan Tobler 

from the book´s UK publisher And Other Stories

In English
 

Saturday 2 October

Talk

Discussing the novella El Power Ranger Rosa

with author Christo Casas and Paz Olivares and Weldon Penderton 

from the Niños Gratis publisher and podcast

In Spanish with English subtitles

Talk

Discussing the short story collection Pronto seré de Oro y Carmín

with author Vanina Bruc, and Alberto Rodríguez and Gonzalo Izquierdo 

from publisher Dos Bigotes

In Spanish with English sutitles

Podcast

Discussing the poet Jaime Gil de Biedma

with Paco Clavel, film director Sigfrid Monleón,

and Juan Sánchez from Cineciento Podcast

In Spanish
 

Talk

Discussing the essay Historia Queer del Flamenco

with author Fernando López Rodríguez

In Spanish with English subtitles
 

Talk

Discussing the novel Tengo miedo torero

by Pedro Lemebel with Francisco Llorca and Magda Anglés 

from publisher Las Afueras

In Spanish

 

Lecture

Author José Luis Plaza Chillón on his book

Efebos tristes. La iconografía homosexual masculina en los dibujos de Federico García Lorca

In Spanish

Sunday 3 October

Talk

Discussing the novel Andrea Víctrix

by Llorenc Villalonga with English translator Louise Johnson

In English

Live Poetry Reading - 3pm

Poet Leo Boix reads from his collection

Ballad of a Happy Immigrant

In Spanglish

Talk

Discussing the novel Napal al cor

with author Pol Guasch

In Spanish

 

Live Round Table & Poetry Reading - 5pm

Discussing contemporary queer Spanish poetry 

with poets Adrián Peñalver, Oscar Espirita, Perla Zuñiga and Lalu Bee

In Spanish

Live Reading - 6.30pm

Cultural aesthete Andrés Bravo facilitates

and Exquisite Cadaver with the festival´s participants