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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Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan’s dark, spellbinding literary debut Rainbirds follows a young man’s path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister’s murder. Rainbirds was published in March 2018 in English, original language, by Soho Press worldwide except in Singapore, where it was published by Math Paper Press. Translation rights have been sold
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The Pontas Agency has been working since its very beginnings, more than twenty-five years ago, as a bridge between cultures, between languages, between writers from the five continents and its readers everywhere. Although we’re an international company representing authors living in 26 different countries around the world, our offices are based in Barcelona. For this
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re incredibly excited to present a debut author: CSU Long Beach MFA student Zara Raheem. Her debut novel The Marriage Clock will be published by William Morrow (HarperCollins) in the US and Canada in 2019. Lucia Macro at Wm Morrow (HarperCollins) has signed World English language rights to this a smart, light-hearted, and witty
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