There are a plethora of authors from a diversity of Spanish-speaking countries that deserve your attention. Here are some authors whose work in translation you should definitely check out.
These are the top ten recommended authors in Spanish Language:
10. Mayra Montero: She was born in Cuba, but made her career in Puerto Rico. All of her novels are written in Spanish, but they are pretty quickly translated into English.
9. Zoé Valdés: Zoé Valdés is one of those authors who seem to be able to write anything: poetry, novels, short stories, children's literature, and even screenplays.
8. Javier Marías: If we're going to discuss Spanish-speaking contemporary novelists who have been translated into other languages, it'll be hard to beat Javier Marías, whose novels have been translated into 34 languages and have sold more than 6 million copies worldwide.
7. Rosa Montero: Montero's work usually blends the best elements of literary fiction, sci-fi, and fantasy in ways that make her voice unique.
6. Carlos Velázquez: Wildly imaginative, entertaining in a strangely cinematic way, funny, and surreal are all good ways of describing the work of Carlos Velázquez, who has climbed to the top of the heap and established himself as one of the most original voices in contemporary Mexican literature
5. Valeria Luiselli: she is s a Mexican author living in the United States and the author of the book of essays Sidewalks and the novel Faces in the Crowd.
4. Yuri Herrera: There are very few folks writing about la frontera with the intensity that Herrera is, and he has writing chops to match.
3. César Aira: Exciting, inventive, fresh; this guy brings the goods consistently.
2. Leonardo Padura: Padura's Havana series crime novels, which rival any series in terms of entertainment value, quality of writing, and violence, have been published in English by Bitter Lemon Press, have been translated into many languages, and have won literary prizes around the world.
1. Pedro Juan Gutiérrez: His work offers a view of the real, poor, destroyed Cuba that many folks had to live in for their entire lives.
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