We’re delighted to announce that Jill Johnson‘s debut novel, The Time Before The Time To Come, will be published in English in June 2018. The Time Before The Time To Come is a story within stories inspired by Jill’s part Maori heritage. Set between London and New Zealand and intertwining past and present, we follow
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In September 2017, the Catalan Book Fair (La setmana del llibre en català) and the Institut Ramon Llull Fellowship are taking place in Barcelona during the same week for the first time, and it is a great opportunity for international editors to witness and learn more about contemporary Catalan literature. At the Pontas Agency, we’re proud to represent some writers
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Bookshops in the UK and in the US are currently full of novels by Pontas authors, as many new titles have been recently published in English worldwide! On June 1st, the powerful debut novel Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li was published in the UK by Legend Press. It’s coming out on September 12th in
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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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