Books by Richard Village
Richard Village is an author, translator and publisher. He founded Foundry Editions in 2023 out of a love for three things: discovering and sharing new voices, the Mediterranean and the people and lands that surround it, and internationalism and reading across borders.
Spanish Beauty
Esther García Llovet and Richard Village (translator)
Spanish Beauty is a noir novel set in the Spanish town of Benidorm—a town notorious both in Spain and the UK as a cheap package holiday destination. The story revolves around Michela, a corrupt cop with a Spanish mother and English gangster father, though neither is on the scene. It's brilliant at evoking a sense of place—even if that's a place you will probably never want to go after reading it. An interesting interview about the book with its author, Esther García Llovet, can be found here.
Interviews with Richard Village
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Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes -
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Berta Isla
by Javier Marías & Margaret Jull Costa (translator) -
3
Homeland (Patria)
by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred MacAdam (translator) -
4
The Frozen Heart (El corazón helado)
by Almudena Grandes -
5
An Olympic Death (Sabotaje olímpico)
by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Ed Emery (translator)
The Best Novels by Spanish Authors, recommended by Richard Village
The Best Novels by Spanish Authors, recommended by Richard Village
If you like your novels long, Spanish literature has some gems to lose yourself in. Richard Village, translator and publisher of Spanish Beauty, recommends five of his favourites, from the chaos of 17th-century Spain to the traumas of the 20th century, and also including a classic detective novel.
Interviews where books by Richard Village were recommended
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1
Don Quixote
by Miguel de Cervantes -
2
Berta Isla
by Javier Marías & Margaret Jull Costa (translator) -
3
Homeland (Patria)
by Fernando Aramburu and Alfred MacAdam (translator) -
4
The Frozen Heart (El corazón helado)
by Almudena Grandes -
5
An Olympic Death (Sabotaje olímpico)
by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and Ed Emery (translator)
The Best Novels by Spanish Authors, recommended by Richard Village
The Best Novels by Spanish Authors, recommended by Richard Village
If you like your novels long, Spanish literature has some gems to lose yourself in. Richard Village, translator and publisher of Spanish Beauty, recommends five of his favourites, from the chaos of 17th-century Spain to the traumas of the 20th century, and also including a classic detective novel.
