MORE SUCCESSES FOR LLUÍS-ANTON BAULENAS

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

On Saturday December 20 there were good news for Catalan literature: Lluís-Anton Baulenas won the Sant Jordi Award, the most prestigious and best funded literary prize in the Catalan literary scene, for his latest novel El nas de Mussolini (The Nose of Mussolini), a historical novel set in 1920s.   El nas ...

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ABOUT ADAPTATIONS

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Good news from the Pacific: the play Where We Once Belonged, adapted by Dave Armstrong from the novel by Samoan author Sia Figiel and produced by the Auckland Theatre Company won the “Absolutely Positively Outstanding New New Zealand Play of the Year” at the 2008 Chapman Tripp Theatre Awards announced ...

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THE SMILING MOON

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Pimolporn Yutisri, managing director at Tuttle-Mori Agency in Bangkok, our co-agent for Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, sent us this amazing picture, taken in Bangkok on Monday December 1st: According to her, Venus and Jupiter orbited to be as the eyes and the Moon smiled. And it made everyone smile (*_*).   While the ...

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MEETING PARVATI NAIR AND SUSAN ABULHAWA

Monday, December 1st, 2008

One of the most special moments for me as agent is to meet an author who has already decided to be represented by Pontas and for whom we have started to work before any personal contact: only through trust, phone calls and emails. Last Wednesday November 26th I went to ...

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