Any recommendations for some contemporary authors writing fiction in Spanish? Or anything written from the 60s onwards...

Recommending books is difficult - I think it's a very personal thing. Also i think gender probably influences taste to some degree. That said...

I have read and loved several books by Eugenia Rico and also by Marta Rivera de la Cruz - just started her latest, En tiempo de prodigios. Also recently read La Cara de Marte by Esther Bendahan.

As for autores rather than autoras, I liked El bufalo de la Noche by Guillermo Arriaga - Mexican rather than Spanish, and have on the pile to read this summer En el cielo con diamantes by Senel Paz.

For more ideas, have a look at www.abretelibro.com - the best book forum I've seen.

Keith Walters reads books in Spanish so I think may provide you with a good list.

Rosemary

Cool, any suggestions welcome. How did you get on with blasco ibanez?

Aye, you’re absolutely right, you really do need to know someone before you can really recommend books. But anyway, will take any suggestions…

I must admit I read more male writers, not through any real preference but possibly subject matter tends to appeal more. I’ll search out those that you’ve recommended and have a look. I like the films Arriaga has written so that one should be a no brainer!

I have a feeling this one is also being made into a film, but I may have imagined that.