We’re delighted to present Imraan Coovadia‘s new novel, A Spy in Time, which will be published in 2018 by Fourie Botha at Penguin Random House South Africa and Renuka Chatterjee at the Indian publishers Speaking Tiger for the whole of the Indian sub-continent and South East Asia. A Spy in Time (working title) is a literary time travel novel with
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We are delighted to present Janice Pariat‘s new novel, The Nine-Chambered Heart, which will be published at the end of 2017 in hardcover by the prestigious imprint Fourth Estate in India, who won the highly contested auction for the rights. Publisher Udayan Mitra said: «Many in India feel that Janice is one of the best writers in the
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Three authors represented by the Pontas Agency (Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, JJ Bola and Winnie M Li) were part of the exciting Writers of the World Unite! Festival held in Waterstones Piccadilly, London, between April 27th and May 1st. A festival of talks and debates on literature, politics and culture from around the world… and we couldn’t be more excited that three
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This 2017 at the Pontas Agency we’re in our 25th year in business and to celebrate this milestone, we thought that the best way was to reunite as many of the writers we work for as possible to a ‘get together’ in Barcelona during the weekend of April 21-22-23rd. The 23rd of April is, and has
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For 25 years (and counting!), the Pontas Agency has been pushing African literature to all the corners of the world. We are proud to have been representing African literature since the very beginning, and to keep discovering highly interesting African authors from different cultures and living in many different cities worldwide. ZP Dala is one
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The Pontas Agency began representing Colombian author Melba Escobar in December 2016, some weeks after she met in person with Anna Soler-Pont during the Guadalajara Book Fair in Mexico (in the photo below), and since we started submitting her novel La Casa de la Belleza (The Beauty House) the success has been immediate. Published in 2015
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Since March 7th 2017, Sara Lövestam‘s novel Hjärta av jazz is available in English worldwide with the title Wonderful Feels Like This, out with two great publishing houses: Flatiron Books in North America, and Allen & Unwin in the rest of the world. A bestseller in Sweden, published by Piratförlaget, this novel has already been published in Spanish
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The long-awaited film based on Dolores Redondo‘s novel El guardián invisible (The Invisible Guardian) is finally here, hitting more than 400 screens in Spain on Friday 3rd of March. El guardián invisible (The Invisible Guardian) is the first installment in The Baztan Trilogy, which has sold over 1,200,000 copies in Spain only and one of the most —if not
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re delighted to welcome French author Christophe Carlier. His latest novel, Ressentiments Distingués (With My Worst Regards) is out now in French with Phébus and Italian rights have already been pre-empted by Luigi Brioschi at Guanda/GeMS. Published in January 2017 by Phébus, Ressentiments Distingués (With My Worst Regards) is a charming ‘island noir’ that
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re delighted to welcome Kopano Matlwa and to announce two great deals for her third novel, Evening Primrose, originally published in South Africa by Jacana Media in November 2016 with the title Period Pain to great acclaim. Francine Toon, Editor at Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton) has acquired World English rights excluding South Africa to Evening
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