At the Pontas Agency, we’re incredibly excited to announce the first ever English rights deal for Federico Moccia. With more than 10 million copies sold worldwide, Federico Moccia’s bestselling Three Meters Above Heaven trilogy will be introduced to English readers worldwide for the first time. Alex Logan at Grand Central Publishing has acquired World English
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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
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As every year, the Pontas Agency travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices. This year, Maria Cardona was the one attending on behalf of the Pontas team. There are more editors and imprints in the US eager to acquire international fiction, both in English and in translation. In three days of meetings, Maria met with more than
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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Norwegian writer and translator Karen Havelin’s debut novel Please Read This Leaflet Carefully has sold to two ambitious new independent publishers: Dottir Press (New York City) and Dead Ink (Liverpool). Karen Havelin’s Norwegian publisher will be Cappelen Damm. Karen Havelin’s novel is inspired by her personal experience as an MFA fiction student at Columbia University
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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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For book-lovers, every April 23rd, known as Sant Jordi’s Day, is an amazing experience in Barcelona. This year, the city was, once again, completely taken over by books, authors, readers and roses. The sun shone to the relief of publishers and booksellers, and writers signed their books for all those who queued to get the signature of their favourite
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The London Book Fair 2018 took place from the 10th to the 12th of April at a busy Olympia, with countless meetings being held around the tables, corridors, stairs and lifts, as well as restaurants and pubs, to pitch novels by all the authors represented by the Pontas Agency. This year two novels became
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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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