or six years now, Fundación TyPA has been working to make authors who are still producing new texts, so that their inclusion in this Argentine literature better known around the world. Through our catalogue and the possible translations of their books may work as a F special programme for publishers (the Semana TyPA de Editores real encouragement for their further writing and creativity. en Buenos Aires) sixty professionals from many different countries have visited Buenos Aires, established first-hand contact with their local Beyond these boundaries, criteria were quite flexible: you’ll find authors colleagues and discovered astounding books which they’re now who have written just one book and others with a well-established œuvre; publishing on their own. Today, many Argentine books can be found in titles published by international houses and others by small, independent bookstores in Paris, Berlin, Rome, London, Sao Paulo, New York, ones; novels written in the classical tradition and others that play with the Amsterdam… short story (the great genre of the Río de la Plata), the autobiography, the chronicle; narrations that look “simple” and others that challenge even the To continue with these actions, in April we awarded the country’s first most sophisticated readers. We don’t believe a single “translation criteria” Translation Subsidy for Argentine authors. And now we are introducing exists; each of you must independently choose the texts that interest a new tool which, we hope, will be as useful as the previous ones: a you, the ones that move you to the point of wanting to see them in your TyPA Catalogue with thirty outstanding books that haven’t yet been own tongue. Therefore, the committee didn’t try to introduce translated into other languages. “international” books, but simply those they considered fundamental to presenting a wide, precise and yet representative panorama of Argentine www.typa.org.ar A committee of experts (and, above all, great readers of contemporary literature over the last ten years. Argentine literature) was in charge of the selection. The committee’s At the end of the catalogue you’ll find the contact information for agents members were the academics Sylvia Saítta and Martín Prieto, and publishers. In those cases where the rights are handled directly by journalists Silvia Hopenhayn and Pedro Rey, and the writer Anna the authors, we’ll be happy to serve as facilitators. We hope you enjoy Kazumi Stahl. Their task was to choose thirty books of unquestionable reading our catalogue and, above all, the chosen books. And we look literary quality that, until today, have not been translated from Spanish forward to seeing many of these texts soon available in other languages. into another language. Of course, this requirement forced us to leave out the classics of Argentine literature, as well as very good Américo Castilla Gabriela Adamo contemporary writers like César Aira, Martín Kohan, Alan Pauls and President Programme Director many others who already earned a place in the international publishing FUNDACION TyPA also runs programmes in the areas of film, heritage and visual world. At the same time, we decided to concentrate our support on arts. For more information, please visit: www.typa.org.ar 1 Barbecue Oscar Taborda When he published his book 40 Watts, Taborda was 154 pages seen to be in the tradition of the “strange Argentineans” Editorial Municipal de Rosario, 1996 like Copi and Lamborghini. With Barbecue he emerges as a solid storyteller, able to sustain the tension from the beginning to the end of this awe-inspiring novel about evil. He involves the reader in a tale of travels, dreams, Josefina Darriba madness and death, that starts when the narrator drives away on a long weekend with friends from Oscar Taborda was born in Rosario another time. While back in Buenos Aires, he leaves a in 1959. A poet and narrator, he writes neurotic wife and their eight-month-old baby… for Diario de Poesía. He has published poems in collective volumes and on www.typa.org.ar the web. Other works by the author: 40 watts (1993) Foreign Rights: with the author 2 Oscar Taborda Green Hands Matías Serra Bradford Seven days, seven houses. From one Tuesday to the 173 pages next, the voice of Nieves, the gardener, goes through Norma, 2004 the gardens he tends like chapters of a story. Centipedes, fences, laurels, hoes, chinese roses, mark the difference between time and work. The gardener draws a zone and scatters his thoughts while he rakes together the leaves that will be covered by memory. Years later, a couple travels through Europe. The man’s Matías Serra Bradford was born in handwriting runs through copy-books. A different Buenos Aires in 1969. He writes for continent, another age, the company of a woman. This different magazines and newspapers, novel asks for attention in order to give it all: clues, and works as a translator. www.typa.org.ar promises, travels and detours with a strange, surprising sense of humour. It reveals in Matías Serra Bradford a dazzling writer, able to find in the smallest things the Other works by the author: essence of great literature. Fagans. El viaje y los viajes (1996) Studio (1998) Diarios y miniaturas (1990) Foreign Rights: with the author 3 Matías Serra Bradford The Song of the Cities Matilde Sánchez From Alicante to La Habana, passing through Ushuaia, 287 pages Berlin and the Auschwitz concentration camp, The Seix Barral, 1999 Song of the Cities creates a particular map set on the frontier of fiction. It is, at one and the same time, a travelogue and a coming-of-age novel. Each narration is closed in itself, but the reader can trace a sensibility, can read the book as the biography of a voice : that of Sebastián Freire the narrator who’s away from home. Matilde Sánchez was born in 1958. A It is, without doubts, an intimate song: the author journalist, researcher and writer, for recreates the incidental music of her walks and runs, many years she directed the cultural the film she lived while she was somewhere else. To supplement of Clarín newspaper. She www.typa.org.ar travel is to live in 24 photograms per second. received distinctions like the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Knight- Wallace Fellowship of Michigan University. Other works by the author: La ingratitud (1990) El Dock (1993) El desperdicio (2008) Foreign Rights: with the author 4 Matilde Sánchez Marriage War Edgardo Russo “Marriage War is an exceptional book for its subtle 208 pages observations and unsettling descriptions, for the Adriana Hidalgo, 2000 precision of its language and its desolated irony. This book touches the heart, but does not overwhelm the reader, who is grateful for that. A Pablo Hernández lot of anguish runs through the pages, but a pervasive humour underlines the happiness of Edgardo Russo was born in Santa Fe being able to tell the story. I believe that Russo is in 1949. Poet, essayist and storyteller, essentially a poet; maybe that’s why poetry he won the Premio Fondo Nacional de sustains the delicate architecture, the sordid las Artes (1987). He directed stories that cross their paths in this wary country.” Acomodador, a movie based on a short story by Felisberto Hernández. www.typa.org.ar - Isidoro Blaisten Other works by the author: Poesía y vida. Sobre un panfleto de Gombrowicz (1988) Reconstrucción del hecho (1987) Exvotos (1991) La historia de Tía Vicenta (1993) Foreign Rights: Adriana Hidalgo Edi- tora/ Letras Argentinas 5 Edgardo Russo Edgardo I’d Love it if You’d Like Me Dalia Rosetti A surfer and her ex girlfriend go to see a surfing 174 pages tournament held on the South Atlantic coast. They Mansalva, 2006 are looking for new adventures: seagulls, water, sand and sun-lotions; sex among women, freedom and fantasy. Dalia Rosetti follows the best tracks set by Copi and César Aira and surprises with the originality of Lulú Jankilevich her writing. A novel of love and dreams, different, Dalia Rosetti (Fernanda Laguna) avant-garde, total. was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. She is an artist, writer, poet and curator. Together with Javier Barilaro and www.typa.org.ar Washington Cucurto, she created the Eloísa Cartonera publishing house. Other works by the author: Sueños y pesadillas (2003) Durazno reverdeciente (2003) 6 Foreign Rights: Mansalva Dalia Rosetti The Interpreter Néstor Ponce With The Interpreter we enter the mysterious universe of 284 pages 1870’s Buenos Aires, dominated by chaos, death and Beatriz Viterbo, 1998 love. Is this an historical novel? A love story? Ponce’s writing plays with those definitions and seduces us with a barroque, obsessive style, which doesn’t exclude Gonzalo Mainoldi humour, poetry or testimony. Néstor Ponce was born in 1955. With One day, the French woman Aude d’Alençon arrives at The Interpreter he won the prize Fondo Buenos Aires, where she has been invited by an old Nacional de las Artes (1998) and was former judge. He needs the services of an interpreter. finalist of the Premio Planeta (1999). He currently teaches at Université de The meeting of these characters happens in a city Rennes II and is an editorial director at assaulted by death –caused by yellow fever– and Editions du Temps (Nantes). www.typa.org.ar impotence. The interpreter becomes the anguished witness of these crossed destinies. Immigrants, politicians, black servants and enigmatic hairdressers give life to a period in history that, interestingly, can Other works by the author: easily be related to present-day Argentina. Novels: La bestia de las diagonales (1999) Essays: Diagonales del género. Estudios sobre el policial argentino (2001) Argentine crise et utopies (2001) 7 Foreign Rights: with the author Néstor Ponce Ireland Square Eduardo Muslip “I never knew what she was doing at Ireland Square.