Between essays, biographies and novels: what books will we read in 2023

2023 has started and when it comes to books, it will come with a variety of titles so that no one is left without reading: from essays written by a novelist to another unpublished book by an author who has already published one that was all the rage, going through expected biographies and unexpected and for a title that talks about the relationship of some famous authors with their typewriters.

“Two literary geniuses living together in the Barcelona of the sixties.

Just a few meters separate their apartments, they see each other almost daily.

They write about each other, share friendships, party nights, conversations about books and writing, and above all the brilliant start of their literary careers”, but one day they decide never to speak again.

"This is the novel of what happened and its reasons", they promise from the

label , which will launch in the first months of this year

,

Jaime Bayly writes in "Los genios" about the relationship between Gabriel García Márquez and Vargas Llosa.

An

amazing book of essays will come out of

, which will also publish

, by

a sequel to the successful

.

Thesis of a domestication

, by

and the biography of

written by

will be two other strong novelties of the year, in this case by

.

The author of

will also be one of the names that

will publish in its Escribir collection.

“The seventies precipitated many events that

, as a witness, does not prefigure or promise, a fact that does not make it another souvenir of the time.

Fortunately, it is not the prophetic or emphatic nature of the stories of the 20th century that allows us to reread them;

the tranquility of the resurrection resides in this slow or dull manifestation of singularity that El frasquito preserves without stain”,

wrote about the most famous book by

, which

will publish it again, as well as

, a new novel by its author, who will also publish the

by

, will be released by the same publisher.

It is the 50th anniversary of the publication of "El frasquito", by Luis Guzmán.

Photo Constance Niscovolos

María Negroni,

one of the finalists for the 2022 Filba Medifé Prize, also in charge of inaugurating the face-to-face return of

, once again writes about literature in

, which will be published by

, a series of articles in which she talks about readings that they interested him.

The Filmoteca diary

, a kind of logbook of the quasi-archaeological work carried out by

, will be published this new year by

.

It will reflect the task of a voracious collector since his childhood, programmer, historian, restorer and cultural agent of Argentine cinephilia, who collects in his personal archive all the film material that is discarded and no state body rescues.

The same publishing house will continue with the publication of the

, a travel account through contemporary China, in the same vein as the previous

and

.

One of the central themes of the book will be the search

"The thinking machine of Gladys", by Mario Levrero.

From

and

, two authors with their tribes of fanatical readers,

as well as new novels, which will be published by

, by

,

and

​La máquina de pensar en Gladys

also comes

from

, by the Uruguayan label

Of biographies, libraries and encyclopedias

In addition to

, the new year will arrive with three others under its belt:

will publish that of the playwright, cartoonist and writer

which will be written by

and that of the artist

curated by

In turn,

will come out ,

written by the poet and editor

.

Through

, a book by

on the figure of

will be published , based on archives and testimonies featuring the great filmmaker.

There will be a biography of Aurora Venturini.

Diario de la dispersión

will be another

title , along the lines of hybrid books, in this case by the musician, writer and actress

who died in 2020, for whom

, also postmortem, has already been published.

Selva Almada, Martín Kohan, Katya Adaui, Dolores Reyes, Jazmina Barrera, Jorge Carrión, Luis Chitarroni, María Sonia Cristoff

and

will integrate with their stories the book Libraries, about the experiences of these authors with reading, which will be published in February by

to celebrate its 15th anniversary.

encyclopedia

will be a novel proposal published by the

, made up of more than a thousand entries with references to the work of the author of

international

, by

will finally arrive in these lands ,

a reflection on writing and a tribute to some of his literary masters, such as

The story, about a disenchanted writer who renounces creation, marks the return of the Spanish author

Celine

's hitherto unpublished manuscripts

will be released by

under the title

.

, by

, translated by

, will be another unpublished one published by the same publisher.

The Polish lover

, by

, will be published by

while

–the original title in French– by

will be published by

"Montevideo" by the Spanish Enrique Vila-Matas will be published.

In March,

will publish

a novel by the Argentinean living in the United States

, which was one of the 2022 books for the New York Times and competed for the Booker Prize. 

Ampersand

will publish in April

, by

about the link between writers and their work tools from the 1880s to 1980, with a focus on the figures of

Also during the first months of the year,

launches a new detective novel by

,

which explains how and why Jack Reacher, the hero of the saga that makes up this title, leaves the Military Police to be a wandering vigilante.

"Trust", by Hernán Díaz, in its English version.

It will arrive in the country edited by Anagrama.

Aldo Giacometti will be the translator of this book by the author who has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and is admired by peers such as

His novels were made into a movie with Tom Cruise as the protagonist and the second season of a series that will be broadcast on Amazon Prime will soon be released.

Along the same lines,

will publish the king of Norwegian detective stories,

label

, by American

;

, by

, which won the Swedish Crime Time award for the best police debut of the year and

, by

Brazilian indigenous leader and philosopher

is the author of

a title to be published by

.

in turn, will publish

, by

, which exposes the economic, ideological and political power of the industry.

There will be a new title by Margaret Atwood.

Photo EFE/ Facundo Arrizabalaga

International fiction will also feature new titles by

who will publish

among others.

In terms of non-fiction, the same publishing house will have a new title by

and another by

 which brings together texts about French writers,

One last advance, which promises, is

, by

a new proposal for

after the great success of

by the same author.

This time it will be a novel about marriage, friendship, deceit, loneliness and art.

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