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| Barcelona Review | |
|---|---|
| Title | Barcelona Review |
| Category | Literary magazine |
| Country | Spain |
| Based | Barcelona |
| Language | English |
Barcelona Review Barcelona Review is an English-language literary magazine based in Barcelona that publishes fiction, poetry, translation, and criticism. Established to showcase contemporary writing from Europe and beyond, it has featured both emerging and established writers across multiple genres. The magazine connects a network of translators, editors, and cultural institutions in the Catalan capital and internationally.
Barcelona Review presents issues of short fiction, poetry, essays, and translations with an emphasis on international voices and cross-cultural exchange. Contributors have ranged from novelists associated with Haruki Murakami and Elena Ferrante to poets linked to Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott, while translation practices evoke names such as Edith Grossman and Gregory Rabassa. The Review has engaged with publishers and festivals including Penguin Books, Faber and Faber, Granta Publications, Hay Festival, and Barcelona International Literary Festival. Its editorial conversations reference institutions like Casa Batlló, Museu Picasso, MACBA (Barcelona), Fundació Joan Miró, and academic centers such as University of Barcelona, Pompeu Fabra University, and Columbia University.
Founded amid early-21st-century literary networking around Barcelona's creative scene, the magazine evolved alongside developments in European publishing highlighted by houses such as Anagrama, Seix Barral, and Tusquets Editores. Early issues mirrored debates prominent in circles connected to Jorge Luis Borges scholarship and translation projects tied to Gabriel García Márquez and Italo Calvino. The Review's timeline intersects with cultural events like the 1992 Summer Olympics urban legacy and the rise of contemporary Catalan culture referenced by figures such as Santiago Calatrava and institutions like La Sagrada Família. Over time, editorial shifts reflected international trends linked to awards including the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Man Booker Prize, and the Pulitzer Prize, and collaborations with translation programs associated with The PEN American Center and Scottish PEN.
The editorial board has included editors, translators, and guest editors drawn from literary networks spanning Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Portugal, Argentina, and Mexico. Guest editors have been linked to figures such as Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Mario Vargas Llosa, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Philip Roth through festival panels and anthology projects. Translation editors coordinate with translators who have worked on texts by María Dueñas, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Isabel Allende, J. M. Coetzee, and Orhan Pamuk. The Review has solicited poetry from circles associated with T. S. Eliot Prize nominees and short fiction with connections to National Book Award finalists and recipients of the Costa Book Award.
Content spans contemporary and translated literature, thematic dossiers, and interview features. Past issues have featured themed sections on migration echoing reportage traditions linked to Svetlana Alexievich and Ryszard Kapuściński, on urban narratives resonant with studies of Barcelona by scholars and writers connected to Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs, and on Mediterranean voices in dialogue with authors like Albert Camus and André Gide. Notable issues included translations of work by Clarice Lispector, rediscoveries of texts by Cesare Pavese, and contemporary pieces with contributors related to Rachel Cusk, Han Kang, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, and Jhumpa Lahiri. Interviews have engaged cultural figures associated with Pedro Almodóvar, Montserrat Caballé, Paco de Lucía, and curators from Tate Modern.
Critical reception has placed the Review within an international small-press ecosystem alongside titles such as Tin House, The Paris Review, Granta, The New Yorker, and n+1. It has been cited in academic syllabi at institutions like New York University, King's College London, and University of California, Berkeley and referenced in catalogues of cultural bodies including British Council and Instituto Cervantes. The magazine's influence extends to translation practice, festival programming at Edinburgh International Book Festival and Frankfurt Book Fair, and collaborative exhibitions with museums such as Fundació Antoni Tàpies.
The Review is issued in print and online, distributed through independent bookstores linked to La Central, Shakespeare and Company, Foyles, and online platforms like those run by Amazon (company) and Barnes & Noble. Back issues are held in collections at libraries such as National Library of Spain, Bibliothèque nationale de France, British Library, and archive projects coordinated with Europeana. Subscriptions and single-issue sales support partnerships with translation residencies sponsored by entities like Instituto Cervantes, British Council, and Goethe-Institut.
Category:Literary magazines published in Spain