The Frankfurt Book Fair represents the climax of the publishing calendar and the most essential gathering place where projects that we have been working on all year round materialize. It is an unmissable event for literary agents, scouts and publishers and for everyone who wants to be involved in the stories and pitches that will
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The Göteborg Book Fair in 2017 was rather special for the Pontas Agency. After attending this fair for many years in a row, an author represented by the agency —Eka Kurniawan— was the “face” of the prestigious seminar program for this year’s fair; and three other authors from the agency were also in attendance: Sara Lövestam, Saskia Vogel and Lisa
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We’re delighted to announce that Jill Johnson‘s debut novel, The Time Before The Time To Come, will be published in English in June 2018. The Time Before The Time To Come is a story within stories inspired by Jill’s part Maori heritage. Set between London and New Zealand and intertwining past and present, we follow
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In September 2017, the Catalan Book Fair (La setmana del llibre en català) and the Institut Ramon Llull Fellowship are taking place in Barcelona during the same week for the first time, and it is a great opportunity for international editors to witness and learn more about contemporary Catalan literature. At the Pontas Agency, we’re proud to represent some writers
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In the aim to keep being a bridge between literature and cinema, between books and screens, the Pontas Agency attended the second edition of the still brand new Books Adaptation Rights Market, which took place from August 31st until September 3rd 2017, within the context of the 74th Venice International Film Festival. Anna Soler-Pont and Ricard Domingo, on
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Five authors represented by the Pontas Agency attended the most important book fair in Peru, FIL Lima – Feria International del Libro de Lima, and one of the most important in Latin America, held in Lima the last week of July and first two weeks of August 2017. With more than half a million attendees,
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Barcelona is our home, the home of the Pontas team. And “Les Rambles” are a part of our lives. We have all bought flowers, walked up and down to the sea, run to a meeting or just enjoyed it with friends, clients or relatives visiting from abroad. Since August 17th, 2017, Barcelona is crying. But
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Bookshops in the UK and in the US are currently full of novels by Pontas authors, as many new titles have been recently published in English worldwide! On June 1st, the powerful debut novel Dark Chapter by Winnie M Li was published in the UK by Legend Press. It’s coming out on September 12th in
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As every year, Pontas travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices and take the pulse of the publishing industry. 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
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We’re delighted to present Imraan Coovadia‘s new novel, A Spy in Time, which will be published in 2018 by Fourie Botha at Penguin Random House South Africa and Renuka Chatterjee at the Indian publishers Speaking Tiger for the whole of the Indian sub-continent and South East Asia. A Spy in Time (working title) is a literary time travel novel with
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