Monthly Archives: "September 2011"

On September 22nd-25th, Carina Brandt and Marc de Gouvenain from the Pontas team attended theGöteborg Bok Mässan (Gothenburg Book Fair). This important Swedish cultural event is catching the interest of many publishers from France, Germany, Holland, Italy and other countries interested in what’s going on in Scandinavia and brings the opportunity to have meetings with literary agencies

When I saw you (Lamma Shoftak), the second feature film by Palestinian writer, director and producerAnnemarie Jacir (still in post-production), was selected for Cinema in Motion at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2011. Cinema in Motion was open (for the seventh edition) to filmmakers from the developing Arab countries and Portuguese-speaking African countries. On September 19th,

We are happy to announce that this fall 2011 we are enlarging the Pontas list of Brazilian authors!   The highly praised novelist João Almino was awarded this year’s Zaffiri & Bourbon Literary prize for the best novel published in Portuguese from May 2009 to May 2011 for Cidade Livre – Free City (Record, 2010),