The Pontas Agency is delighted to announce that four of our authors have been nominated and received accolades for their novels. Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (to be published by One World / Penguin Random House, riverrun/Quercus in May 2020, and already published by HarperCollins India in English) and Ijangolet S Ogwang’s An Image In
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The Pontas Agency attended the Frankfurt Book Fair for the 28th time in a row! We’ve not missed a “Frankfurt” since 1992! Anna Soler-Pont, Maria Cardona and Nick Owen had many meetings between Tuesday, October 15th and Friday, October 18th in the new Literary Agent’s Center at Festhalle, a venue which is one hundred years
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“La cara norte del corazón” (“The North Face of the Heart”) by Dolores Redondo, set between New Orleans and Elizondo, in the Baztan Valley, is landing in all bookshops on October 1st, 2019! With a first print run of 200,000 copies in Spanish language (published by Destino) and 15,000 copies in Catalan (published by Columna),
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Hamish Hamilton have acquired Avni Doshi’s debut novel Burnt Sugar (titled Girl in White Cotton in India): a searing debut novel about obsession, betrayal and the ties that bind. Out now in India with Fourth Estate/HarperCollins India, titled Girl in White Cotton, the novel will be reaching even more English-speaking readers worldwide with Hamish Hamilton as
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Karen Havelin’s debut Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is one of six books that have been shortlisted for this year’s Not the Booker Prize! Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is the story of a woman whose body has become her enemy. The novel tracks backward, from 2016 until 1995, etching details of daily life into
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JJ Bola is back with a non-fiction book about a topic that is gaining more and more interest and generating debate all over: Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined. Out in English worldwide with Pluto Press in September, 2019, What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, from Trump’s twitter outbursts to deadly gun violence, from male
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The international fast-paced cycling thriller Muerte contrarreloj (The Black Jersey) by Mexican writer and journalist Jorge Zepeda is now published in 13 languages, coinciding with the 2019 Tour de France this July. For the first time in history, a Colombian cyclist, Egan Burnal, has been crowned the winner of the Tour de France race. It
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At the Pontas Agency we’re delighted to introduce a debut author from South Africa: Susan Newham-Blake. Her first novel ‘As if Born To You’ is coming out in July 2019 with Umuzi, the fiction imprint of Penguin Random House South Africa. French rights have already been snapped by Éditions Marabout. When Anna Soler-Pont and Maria
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As every year, the Pontas Agency travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices. Maria Cardona was the one attending on behalf of the Pontas team. Maria also took the time to catch up with many Pontas authors who either live in New York or were passing by the big apple. There are more editors and
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At the Pontas Agency, we are happy to announce that Peruvian author Renato Cisneros is launching a new title for the first time simultaneously in print form with Alfaguara and as an audiobook with Storytel. Someday I Will Show You The Desert (Algún día te mostraré el desierto) was originally a project for the series
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