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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 1d

TIME OF THE FLIES has been longlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize which aims to recognize the fundamental role of translators in making relevant and topical literary works accessible to a global audience.

queensofiaspanishinstitute.org/literature/l...

Longlist Announcement | 2025 Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize – Queen Sofia Spanish Institute

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 9d

The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here!

Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: charcopress.com/bookstore/di...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzX...

DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson

YouTube video by MUBI

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Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social · 1d

Currently enjoying this from @charcopress.com

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Strand Bookstore @strandbookstore.bsky.social · 6d

Charco Press is one of our absolute favorite indie presses, focused on publishing new translations of literature from Latin America. Enjoy some of our favorites from this small press, with one liners written by our ever witty book buyer, Cristin.
buff.ly/wUISH20

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 8d

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"

LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas

www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny

Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 8d

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 8d

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon"

LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas

www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

La Lucha ed. Carolina Orloff: Book Review – The Skinny

Charco Press's latest is an incredible collection of essays destabilising traditions of Western feminism through transformative radical ideas.

www.theskinny.co.uk

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 8d

Wow! This is fantastic. Thanks so much, team!

Charco Press @charcopress.com · 8d

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...

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 9d

The full trailer for DIE MY LOVE is here!

Read the book before seeing it in cinemas in Nov: charcopress.com/bookstore/di...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzX...

DIE MY LOVE | Official Trailer | In Theaters November | With Jennifer Lawrence & Robert Pattinson

YouTube video by MUBI

www.youtube.com

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Matthew Francis @mjfrancis.bsky.social · 14d

Book 72: Daniel Saldaña París's The Dance and the Fire (from @charcopress.com).

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H. Perry Horton @hperryhorton.bsky.social · 14d

This is one of the best debut novels Ive ever read.

Related: Im about to devour everything @charcopress.com publishes.

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 14d

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

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The Skinny @theskinnymag.bsky.social · 16d

For our 20th birthday we're brought back The Skinny on Tour – but just where did the mag wind up?

Submit your guess to be in with a chance to win a bundle of books from @charcopress.com – including a copy of Latin American feminist anthology La Lucha

www.theskinny.co.uk/competitions...

A hand holds a copy of the Skinny August 2025 issue over a vast, natural vista

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 16d

🦥 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/th...

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Kelly Davio @kellydavio.bsky.social · 19d

Honestly, all CharcoPress needs to do is announce a book and I buy it.

Charco Press @charcopress.com · 20d

RESTORATION is a "masterful - a ghost story where the ghost is capitalism’s oldest accomplice: patriarchy."

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...

Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: September 23, 2025

“I REMEMBER the first time Zuri showed me the house. He took my hand as we crossed the street, stopped on the corner, then said suddenly: This is it.” So begins Ave Barrera’s masterful ghost story Res...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 20d

RESTORATION is a "masterful - a ghost story where the ghost is capitalism’s oldest accomplice: patriarchy."

morningstaronline.co.uk/article/lett...

Letters from Latin America with Leo Boix: September 23, 2025

“I REMEMBER the first time Zuri showed me the house. He took my hand as we crossed the street, stopped on the corner, then said suddenly: This is it.” So begins Ave Barrera’s masterful ghost story Res...

morningstaronline.co.uk

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Matthew Linton @theindiereader.bsky.social · 24d

Join us @peoplesbooktakoma.com to discuss Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro on October 6 at 6 PM. It’s free. This novel is one of the most important independent press releases of recent years, so don’t miss it! #readindie @charcopress.com

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 27d

Lovely to see Velia Vidal, author of TIDAL WATERS, with our own @elusiveword.bsky.social 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/ti...

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · Sep 15

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

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Yeisil Peña Contreras @yeisil.bsky.social · Sep 11

And in addition to your reading list, add our paper on Chilco's contagious feminisms and a reading on decolonial gender! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · Sep 15

Amazing! Hope everyone enjoys...

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Bearded Badger Books @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social · Sep 13

Our next ‘Beyond Borders Book Club’ is on Tuesday 14th October at the marvellous Sid’s & Soda in Derby… come join us!

The book we’ll be rattling about is ‘Last Date in El Zapotal’ by Mateo Garcia Elizondo (translated by Robin Myers), published by the super heroes at @charcopress.com 😊🇲🇽💀

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · Sep 11

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/ch...

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · Sep 11

Our own @elusiveword.bsky.social 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.
literaturfestival.com/en/events/ve...

VELIA VIDAL: Tidal Waters | international literature festival berlin

A woman named Velia writes letters about returning to her homeland, Chocó – blurring the line between author and character. Vidal writes about the impact of community, the power of storytelling, and w...

literaturfestival.com

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Ruth Donnelly @rudotranslates.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ooh look what turned up in the post today! Thanks @charcopress.com, can’t wait to get stuck into this…

A photograph of a book, La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today, published by Charco Press

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