Novela

Minerva

Minerva cuenta la historia de una chica nacida en el seno de una familia venezolana poliamorosa, conformada por una madre diseñadora de modas y dos padres: un antiguo convicto de la dictadura franquista y un director de arte para teatro. Criada en un país pacato y dividido, el ambiente hostil de la Venezuela de principios del siglo XXI la lleva a exiliarse en Nueva York, donde persigue el sueño de ser bailarina de ballet. Una novela femenina de aprendizaje con un claro acento contemporáneo.

Pre-Textos · Valencia, España

"Choreographs a masterful immigrant novel into existence… stunned by its grace."Alejandro Puyana, author of Freedom Is a Feast

Novel in translation

Minerva

Raised in a queer, multi-partnered family in politically divided Venezuela, Minerva's personal freedoms stand in stark contrast to the rigid authoritarianism around her. When a political event forces her to flee to New York, her mother is kidnapped in Caracas — and Minerva must choose between her new life and the family she left behind.

Regal Publishing House · USA · Translated by Robin Myers

"Choreographs a masterful immigrant novel into existence… stunned by its grace."Alejandro Puyana, author of Freedom Is a Feast

Novela

Los días animales

Una metáfora de la vida a través de la escalada en roca y un viaje en el tiempo y el espacio entre Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, Estados Unidos y Katmandú. La relación amorosa y destructiva entre Julia y su alter-ego Rafael permite mirar de cerca las dinámicas íntimas de la violencia de género. Destrucción y autodestrucción, amor y muerte, se anudan mientras una madre muere y los amigos de juventud van y vienen.

Oscar Todtmann Editores · Caracas

"A moving story about love, violence, freedom, and self-discovery."Alberto Barrera Tyszka, Tusquets Prize

Novel in translation

The Animal Days

A woman's story of movement as both a lifestyle and a rite of passage, The Animal Days follows Julia's journey of love and rock-climbing across three continents. In this fast-paced novel, joy is linked to self-destruction, love is inseparable from death, freedom is twinned with unbearable solitude, and life is worth only as much as a given moment. The taste for risk and vertigo never stop: they feed each other as the abyss approaches. Julia, determined to never look back, lives perpetually on the brink, even if it means shedding her own skin in the process.

Katakana Editores · Translated by Robin Myers

"An adventure, a travel chronicle, and a metaphor for discovery."Antonio Muñoz Molina, Jerusalem Prize & Prince of Asturias Award

Short Stories

Enero es el mes más largo

Stories about immigration, displacement, violence, and love, framed within contemporary popular culture. Characters who — through irony, nostalgia, and tenderness — reconfigure themselves and construct, for themselves and for the reader, a world without certainties.

Sudaquia Editores · New York

Short Stories

Ana no duerme y otros cuentos

A new edition gathering the title stories of Vall de la Ville's debut alongside new work — characters caught between wakefulness and dream, desire and loss, in prose that moves between the intimate and the uncanny.

Sudaquia Editores · New York

Short Stories

Ana no duerme

The subtlety of her prose, her soaring poetic flights, the way the thread of the fabulous unfolds — these are among the attributes of Vall de la Ville's writing. In Ana no duerme, the metaphysical realities of her characters are reflected through meticulous observation of their behavior. The interior monologue plays a central role throughout: fictional matter transcends the tangible and penetrates the most intimate recesses of the individual, in an interiorization of the self rendered through sensory and visceral perception.

MonteÁvila Editores Latinoamericana · Caracas

Chronicles

El día en que Corre Lola Corre dejó sin aire a Murakami

Seventeen chronicles of New York City through the eyes of an immigrant woman — running in the park, riding the metro, sitting at a bar next to a stranger. A notebook of what she reads, thinks, and remembers, transforming the external landscape into an intimate experience of belonging.

Suburbano Ediciones · Miami

Poetry

Perseo en Si Bemol

Perseo en Si Bemol surrenders to melodic explorations of a very contemporary rhythmic nature. It offers a poetry of knowledge formulated between irregular cadences, without fear of dissonance — its interrupted phrases always accompanying the reflexive inquiries it sets out to make. Her writing is governed by the desire to create a world, or to look at it the way a listener does. Her aesthetic consciousness is an extension of a very peculiar worldly awareness, one that has found in the heterogeneity of digital culture its ultimate form of representation.

— Igor Bareto

Valparaíso Ediciones · Granada, España

Poetry

Viaje legado

The poems in Viaje legado provoke bewilderment. Her poetry slips through our hands when we try to place it in any known referential context, because her poems are resolutely unlike anything else. They generate appetite and curiosity, and — to greater astonishment — they immerse us in the magma of their own gestation, of what is still waiting to be expressed. A kaleidoscopic book that mirrors worlds, situations, and characters of multiple origins, masterfully orchestrated. —Patricia Guzmán

Bid & Co Editor · Caracas

Co-Translation

Mineral Fire

Mineral Fire is a reflection on time and the poet's melting into it to embrace the individual and the universal, the everyday that is substance between past and present. Her poems plunge a dagger into us where it hurts the most: what we have done for the dignity of humankind, that of others, our own, with our name that carries our own identity inscribed in it? "What if you are nobody?" "And what if no one is each one of us?"

Broken Bowl Books · 2025

Co-Translation (forthcoming)

Como vidrio

Poetry by the Filipino-American poet Patrick Rosal, translated into Spanish in a work that navigates the demands of voice, rhythm, and cultural resonance across languages.

Under evaluation for publication

Poetry · Photo-Book

Black

BLACK is a journey. A silent testimony, an infinite rage, a gaze toward impossible nostalgias — toward the monsters that inhabit the darkness when all the lights go out and one hides behind the camera. BLACK is a concave, oxidized, opaque mirror: his most painful and rain-soaked photography, the portrait of invisible lives rendered in an act of profound irreverence and humility.

— Ernesto Constante

Ernesto Constante · Caracas · 2024 · Poetry by Keila Vall de la Ville

Introduction · Photo-Book

Ávila Sierra Grande

A celebrated visual essay and hardcover book by Venezuelan photographer and mountaineer Henry González. Published in 2022, the book captures the majestic landscapes and deep emotional connection of Caracas' iconic El Ávila National Park through 146 stunning photographs gathered over four years of exploration.

Henry González · Caracas · 2022 · Texts by Keila Vall de la Ville

Introduction · Photo-Book

Antolín Sánchez: Discurso en movimiento

The work of Antolín Sánchez, recipient of a National Photography Prize, occurs in the passage from pixel — what has been seen and registered — to the photograph as a closed universe; from the complete message construed by the contiguity of related images to the graphic history in comic strip tradition. Antolín builds unsettling progressions showing a connection between fragment and totality, between current and archetypal, between reality and dream. The work of Sánchez is highly aesthetic, critical and dazed.

La Cueva Casa Editorial · Caracas · 2016 · Texts by Keila Vall de la Ville

Text · Photo-Book

Antolín Sánchez Lancho · Premio Nacional de Fotografía

Text written for this photography book celebrating Antolín Sánchez Lancho, recipient of the Premio Nacional de Fotografía.

El Perro y la Rana · Caracas · 2000 · Text by Keila Vall de la Ville