The stories in Ex Libris (Oblícuas, 2020) speak of one thing: the love of books, and those who read, translate, write and edit them. Its pages are filled with writers who end up taking a drag on the very pages that they’ve written, academics who compete by the dioptre, journalists who decide to invent the truth and become novelists, creative writing professors with the odd secret, dangerous pseudonyms, explosive manuscripts, labyrinthine libraries and wonderful madmen who leave no literary stone unturned.

Ex Libris —”a book from among the books”— is dedicated to those who live by books and dream of them, to those who make a living from books and would lose their lives for them. To all of us.