Saskia Vogel’s debut novel Permission is out in English, both in the US (Coach House Books) and in the UK (Dialogue Books, Little Brown), as well as in Swedish (Mondial) and in Spanish (Alpha Decay). In 2019 it will also be published in Italian (Safará) and French (Le serpent à plumes). Rights have been optioned
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May 2019 is full of great novels coming out in several corners of the world. Masande Ntshanga‘s second and awaited novel Triangulum is out in South Africa with Umuzi/Penguin Random House, in North America with Two Dollar Radio and in the UK with Jacaranda. Following the critically acclaimed The Reactive, Masande’s new novel is a
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Forrest Gander has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2019 for his latest collection, Be With, published by New Directions. Also longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2018, these elegiac poems were the subject of a rhapsodic article in the New Yorker. Poet, novelist, essayist and Spanish translator Forrest Gander has previously
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The international bestselling page-turner All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo is reaching readers in 22 languages worldwide, as well as winning awards in different territories. After winning the Planeta Prize in 2016, All This I Will Give to You has won the independent booksellers Bancarella Prize in Italy, and received the Special commendation from
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At the Pontas Agency we’re excited to present two debut authors writing in English whose novels will be published in 2020: Eloísa Díaz and Y.S. Seraph. Federico Andornino, Commissioning Editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson, has pre-empted World English language rights in Eloísa Díaz’s debut novel Repentance for publication in late 2020 or early 2021. Translation rights
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Since the beginning of the 1990s, the Pontas Agency has always had a very “Francophone soul”, which was strongly reinforced in 2009, when Marc de Gouvenain became a partner of the agency. Furthermore, in 2018 we started a regular freelance collaboration with Lily Guillard. In the image above, some of the authors represented by Pontas
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The first trip of the Pontas Agency this 2019 was a visit to Stockholm, Sweden. Two authors represented by the agency live in Stockholm, and we always try to see all our authors, wherever they are based, as often as we possibly can. Maria Cardona was in the city for a couple of days to
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As we reach the end of the year, at the Pontas Agency we’re wrapping up another year full of great stories and interesting voices from the five continents, but we are also getting ready for what’s to come in 2019! Three debut authors in English language will see their novels published in the first half
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On December 14th, Jordi Cabré won the Sant Jordi Award 2018, one of the oldest and most prestigious awards of Catalan literature, given by Òmnium Cultural for his novel Digues un desig (Tell A Wish). The so-called “Nit de Santa Llúcia” (The Night of Saint Lucia) is an annual evening dedicated to Catalan Literature where
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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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