Archive for November, 2008
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
Last Thursday November 20th I had a meeting at the Planeta building in Barcelona to introduce Josep Maria Esquirol, writer and philosopher, to his editors at Paidós (Carme Castells and Patricia Sánchez). His new book, The Breath of the Days, A Philosophical Reflection on the Experience of Time, will be ...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
In the middle of Autumn, we keep concluding several deals that I want to share with everyone! We have sold World English rights of A Violin in Auschwitz by Catalan author Maria Àngels Anglada to Bantam Dell/Random House in New York! This was after we concluded the sale in Poland ...
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Here you have some pictures to illustrate the conference “Reading to travel, travelling to read” I explained in my previous post! Some serious images during the different sessions and some non-official images during dinners and celebrating Obama’s election!
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
“Reading to travel, travelling to read” was the title of the conference that took place in Barcelona last November 4th, 5th and 6th, organised as one of the events of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 by Libraries of Barcelona, coordinated by Pontas and directed by me... The aim ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Even if a little bit late, here are some images of my Frankfurt Book Fair 2008!
Lucien Leitess and Ilonka Reintjens looking for new titles to include in their catalogues during a casual open air meeting on Tuesday October 13th!
Lucien is one of my oldest friends in publishing and his ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
Images are sometimes better than words! And here are some pictures taken during last Frankfurt Book Fair 2008.
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