Archive for December, 2009
Sunday, December 20th, 2009
Marc de Gouvenain attended the 9th edition of the Polynesian Book Fair in Papeete, Tahiti’s capital, on behalf of Pontas and was invited to participate in several events of the programme “Lire en Polynésie 2009” from November 26th-29th. This book fair was launched in 2001 as an initiative of the Association of Publishers ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
Just a few days before finishing the year, the activity selling translation rights at the Pontas Agency continues!
Fiona Capp (Melbourne, 1963) is one of the most awarded Australian authors. Her second novel, Last of the Sane Days, was shortlisted for the Age Fiction Book of the Year and was nominated ...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
Several years ago, back in 2001, at Pontas we had the chance to read a handwritten manuscript by someone called Andrés Rabadán that until then we only knew through the media. Diagnosed as mentally ill after provoking three train accidents not far from Barcelona (without injuries) and killing his father in ...
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Some days ago, Tatiana Salem Levy visited Barcelona invited by her Spanish publishing house, El Aleph, for the promotion of her novel. And the whole Pontas team could finally meet her after more than one year working for her in the distance!
Tatiana Salem Levy lives in Rio de Janeiro and is ...
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