Archive for February, 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
At the beginning of this year 2010, Pontas became the international agency for Swedish author Jonas Jonasson and his first novel: The Centenarian Who Climbed Out Through The Window and Vanished.
When we started working for Jonas Jonasson, the novel was already selling very well in Sweden and had been the third ...
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Despite the wintery weather, the European Film Market (EFM) 2010 hit new records in industry attendees and visitors. The European Film Market runs for nine days as part of one of the most important film festivals in the world, the Berlinale. As the first major film event of the year, it ...
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Marc de Gouvenain, on behalf of Pontas, attended the 7th edition of the FIFO (Oceania International Film Festival) 2010 in Papeete (25th-31st january), where he could meet a number of producers and film directors from all over Oceania. The FIFO focuses on documentaries and could present this year films coming ...
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
The Pontas team is working (on behalf of the Nordin Agency) in the sales of more translation rights of Swedish author Ann Rosman, considered in her country the new Camilla Läckberg!!
Italian rights of Swedish author Ann Rosman have been acquired in a pre-empt in a two-book deal by Bompiani, from the ...
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Last January 28th, Maite Carranza won the Edebé Award for Young Adults Fiction with Poisoned Words (Palabras envenenadas). The novel will be launched within a few weeks in the four Spain’s official languages: Spanish, Catalan, Basque and Galician. Written originally in Catalan, Maite Carranza’s new novel is the story of ...
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