Tonight, reading Ana Paula Maia’s new novel She is my favorite contemporary Brazilian novelist. Read her Published by Charco Press 💚🇧🇷

"The contrast between the subtle and the brazen is but one facet of this astonishing novel’s brilliance." Thank you SwR! southwestreview.com/death-by-a-tho…

Over the month, I'll share some good #booksintranslation. Starting with Uruguayan author Daniel Mella's Older Brother, a novel about a man trying to come to terms with his brother's death. A book about grief and loss. Transl. Megan McDowell Charco Press talking-about-books.com/2022/10/22/old…

From the Republic of Consciousness Prize to Hollywood. Entries are still open for this year’s prize for any small presses wanting their book to be made into a blockbuster movie in a few years time.

"I've never read a bad book from Charco Press, ever." We've been blushing all weekend... galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-brag-…

Author Ave Barrera gives us a wonderful introduction to her novel RESTORATION. Check it out! Out now in two editions - Spanish and English (in a beautiful translation by Ellen Jones and Robin Myers). Get them here: charcopress.com/bookstore/rest…

Our own Fionn Petch will be talking to Velia Vidal this weekend at Berlin's International Lit Festival! She will discuss her autofictional text and her work for a literary festival in Chocó, a region of tropical forests in northwestern Colombia. Tix: literaturfestival.com/en/events/veli…

CHILCO: "This book fosters collective awareness of the destruction of indigenous people from the hands of capitalism and colonialism...masterpiece" says frogbooknook over on Instagram, with this beautiful photo! Get CHILCO now: charcopress.com/bookstore/chil…

Another beautiful Charco rainbow stack, this time from booknerd37 over on Instagram. Thank you to everyone who builds their collections and shows them off!

Team Charco Press last night at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin, with outstanding Colombian writers Velia Vidal and Cristina Bendek. Thank you to Curator in Residence Cristina Rivera Garza for the invitation. 💙💚

Lovely to see Velia Vidal, author of TIDAL WATERS, with our own Fionn Petch at the ILB this past weekend. TIDAL WATERS is an epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Colombia’s Pacific coast: charcopress.com/bookstore/tida…

RESTORATION is a "masterful - a ghost story where the ghost is capitalism’s oldest accomplice: patriarchy." - Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk/article/letter…

🦥 Thank you beanfield.books over on Instagram for the lovely photo and review of Roque Larraquy's THE NATIONAL TELEPATHY (translated by Frank Wynne). charcopress.com/bookstore/the-…

🥁 Announcing the 2025 Cercador Prize finalists — Congratulations to all the nominees and thank you to this year's bookseller committee! 🎉 The winning work of literature in translation will be announced on November 17, 2025.

We are very proud to announce that both RESTORATION by Ave Barrera (tr. Ellen Jones & Robin Myers) and CHILCO by Daniela Catrilaeo (tr. by Jacob Edelstein, in FSG's lovely edition) are finalists for the 2025 Cercador Prize! Thanks to the judges, and congrats to all the finalists.

An all ⁦Charco Press⁩ weekend.

The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here! Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: charcopress.com/bookstore/die-… youtube.com/watch?v=2jzXHW…

Timely. Vital. Some of the region's leading voices share their thoughts, stories and ideas, bringing new perspectives to an old struggle.  La Lucha. Out today. Get it at your local bookstore, or direct from ours: charcopress.com/bookstore/la-l…

5 stars on publication day for LA LUCHA, from the wonderful The Skinny! Read the full review below.