Temas de Hoy is a small team of young people to find "the new best": marginal voices from Spain and abroad that speak to us about the world we're heading, not the world we're currently living in. We believe in the future not as a promise but as the immediate reality we need to understand, so we're devoted to taking unusual risks in such a corporation as Planeta. Our goal is: to arrive early at every conversation we value.
We do fiction and non-fiction, from Spanish and translated. We have a particular fixation for dark debuts from countries and literary traditions that seem unfamiliar for the average Spanish reader. In just two years and a half, we have been lucky enough to publish the youngest International Booker Prize winner (Marieke Lucas Rijneveld), a shortlisted debut for the Booker Prize (Avni Doshi), two current longlisted authors in the Women's Prize for fiction (Avni Doshi a Naoise Dolan), two Whiting Award winners (Jia Tolentino and Ling Ma), and a National Book Award nominee (Susan Orlean).
I have an intense relation with South Korea since my first trip with the LTI in 2017 and met great people, such as the founder of Munhakdogne and the Hwang Seok-yeong. I went to Some Books - my favorite publisher of illustrated books globally- and spent time with the translators at the Institute and the Book Fair. No other publishing house in Spain has published three Korean projects in less than a year (Kim Young-ha in October 2019; Almond in February 2020 and Andrés Felipe Solano in June 2020), and my goal is to keep that pace. I'm thrilled about the future publication of Kim Cho-yeop, for instance, and I want more authors like her and Sohn Won-Pyung.
I consider this program helps keeping in touch with your industry, your authors and exploring genres beyond fiction. New voices like Kim's; radical stories like Almond: we want more of that.
