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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The Pontas Agency has been working since its very beginnings, more than twenty-five years ago, as a bridge between cultures, between languages, between writers from the five continents and its readers everywhere. Although we’re an international company representing authors living in 26 different countries around the world, our offices are based in Barcelona. For this
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Around the dates of the Salon du Livre de Paris, which this year took place from March 16-19, Anna Soler-Pont visited some French publishers and authors represented by the Pontas Agency, such as Luce Michel, Christophe Carlier and Fabienne Jacob, in the photo below from left to right, next to Anna, at Café des Éditeurs.
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re incredibly excited to present a debut author: CSU Long Beach MFA student Zara Raheem. Her debut novel The Marriage Clock will be published by William Morrow (HarperCollins) in the US and Canada in 2019. Lucia Macro at Wm Morrow (HarperCollins) has signed World English language rights to this a smart, light-hearted, and witty
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