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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The London Book Fair 2019 took place from the 12th to the 14th of March at Olympia. This time Anna Soler-Pont, Maria Cardona and Madeleine Feeny had as many meetings as possible at the Pontas Agency table in the International Rights Center, but also in the corridors, stairs and lifts, as well as restaurants and
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After the trip to Munich in January to visit several publishers, and continuing the Pontas Agency’s will to strengthen the personal and direct contacts while the world becomes more digital and technological, Anna Soler-Pont went to Paris the last days of February. Many meetings took place inside the Editis building (above), on Place d’Italie.
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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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At Pontas we always say that the more digital and technological we become, the more important face to face meetings are. That’s why almost every month someone from the Pontas team is “on the road” to meet publishers, film producers and authors wherever they are. During book fairs and film markets or in between, when everybody has
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re excited to announce that Rafel Nadal is 2019’s winner of the most prestigious literary award in Catalan language, the Ramon Llull, with a novel titled El fill de l’italià (The Italian’s Son). Rafel Nadal is a journalist and Catalan writer. He is the author of several bestselling novels such as La maledicció dels Palmisano (Columna,
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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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The entire Pontas team wishes a very happy and literary year 2019 to everyone from Barcelona! 2019 has started and books are reaching bookshops and shelves all over again. Two novels have been published the first week of January 2019: Oh My Gods, the YA debut novel by Alexandra Sheppard at Scholastic UK; and Shadows
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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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