La Turia cultural magazine publishes in its new issue, which will be distributed this November in Spain and other countries, a summary with interesting unpublished texts starring great authors of contemporary literature. In this list of names that have written some of the best and most impressive works of our time, we must mention authors such as the Polish Olga Tokarczuk and the Norwegian Jon Fosse, both recent Nobel Prize winners.
Also to indisputable creators within the rich and diverse Spanish-speaking literary panorama, such as Luis Mateo Díez, the Uruguayan Ida Vitale and the Venezuelan Rafael Cadenas, all of them winners of the Cervantes Prize.
Among these unpublished materials that are so relevant for readers, it is worth mentioning that Turia publishes a preview of “Tiempo de empusas”, a world exclusive in Spanish.the new novel by Olga Tokarczuk, to be published by Anagrama in 2025. For Tokarczuk, literature can be a space in which to create myths, undo silences and expand the imaginaries that govern the present.
In addition to its quality and interest, his intellectual work has been recognized for his commitment to the defense of democracy and human rights in Poland.. Tokarczuk is the author of nine novels and three books of short stories, her works have been translated into forty-five languages and she has won prestigious awards at home and abroad.
With the publication of an excerpt from her unpublished novel. “El ballast de las fugas” (The ballast of escapes).writer Luis Mateo Díez (Villablino, León, 1942) ratifies his long and fruitful relationship with Turia. Not in vain, back in 2010, the magazine dedicated to him an unforgettable monograph that is now out of print. The winner of last year’s Cervantes Prize is, according to the jury, “one of the great storytellers of the Spanish language, heir to the Cervantes spirit, writer in the face of all adversity, creator of imaginary worlds and territories.
Jon Fosse, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023 is the subject of a suggestive and complete unpublished article by Silvia Bardelás, his great discoverer in our country and who has published in recent years, in her small independent publishing house De Conatus, a good part of his work. No one better than her to transmit to us the fascination that the Norwegian author’s work offers the reader, who practices an intimate and unconventional writing, although as a playwright he has obtained notable successes from critics and public.
Of great interest is the article that Turia magazine devotes to analyzing the career of the great Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas, Cervantes Prize 2022. Uruguayan writer Ida Vitale completes the list of illustrious award winners that Turia offers in its new issue. Vitale (Montevideo, 1923) is a true living legend of Latin American literature.