Eka Kurniawan received the Prince Claus Award 2018 on December 6th, 2018 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, together with six other laureates from different countries and cultural disciplines, in the presence of members of the Dutch Royal family and an international audience. The Prince Claus Awards, organized by the Prince Claus Fund, have been
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Basque author Kirmen Uribe is a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow 2018-2019, where he is working on his new novel titled The Book She Writes, inspired by Edith Wynner’s life, the secretary of Rosika Schwimmer, a Hungarian feminist, suffragist and peace activist who lived in the United States in the 1920s till her death in 1948. By the way,
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American writer based in Berlin Saskia Vogel joined the agency a few of years ago, but it will be in March 2019 when her debut novel Permission will be finally published in English, with Dialogue Books (Little Brown) in the UK and Coach House Books in the US. Translation rights have already been sold to Mondial (Swedish),
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After the international success of his previous thriller translated into 32 languages and published by 35 publishing houses worldwide, La última salida (Kill The Next One), Federico Axat is back! His new psychological thriller, Amnesia, is out now in Spain, published by Destino, and it’s coming out in Argentina in November 2018, and in Mexico in early 2019.
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re delighted to present a new voice from Africa: Ijangolet S Ogwang, a young author born in Kenya to Ugandan parents and raised in South Africa in a small town in the Eastern Cape. Her debut novel An Image in a Mirror is published in South Africa by Black Bird Books, an imprint of
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The international bestselling page-turner All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo (translated from Spanish language by Michael Meigs) is finally reaching English readers worldwide on September 1st 2018 published by Amazon Crossing. Twice nominated for the CWA International Dagger Award for her acclaimed Baztan Trilogy and a finalist for the Grand Prix des Lectrices
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After the Swedish Academy cancelled the Nobel prize this year, a ‘New Academy’ has been put together by a consortium of writers, journalists and others to confer an award in October. In their mission statement, they say: “The New Academy is a nonprofit organization, politically and financially independent. It consists of a wide range of knowledgeable
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At the Pontas Agency, we are incredibly excited to have started representing the Mexican writer and journalist Jorge Zepeda Patterson, with his new thriller Muerte contrarreloj (The Black Jersey), published in June 2018 in Spanish worldwide by Planeta. Muerte contrarreloj (The Black Jersey) is a mixture of sports commentary, police procedural and psychological thriller. Set
Continue reading »They say don’t judge a book by its cover, but the truth is: covers sell books. Why do covers can be so different from each other for the very same novel? And why, sometimes, a cover just gets it for the whole world? At the Pontas Agency we don’t really know all the answers but we
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The Hundred Wells of Salaga by Ghanaian author Ayesha Harruna Attah is a short yet sweeping tale of slavery in 19th century West Africa told from the point of view of two mould-breaking women whose lives intersect at the town of Salaga, the largest slave market in the region. The Hundred Wells of Salaga offers a remarkable view
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