For centuries, travelling has been a universal activity that constitutes an essential instrument of dialogue between cultures. Travelling is also a form of personal knowledge, of connecting to others and to their languages and cultures. In the time of the lockdowns, we see that, more than ever, reading is another way to travel. A very
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At Pontas, we are incredibly excited to announce that Avni Doshi has made the longlist of The Booker Prize 2020 with her debut novel Burnt Sugar; out on July 30th 2020 in the UK with Hamish Hamilton after a very successful publication in India in 2019 with HarperCollins (under the title Girl in White Cotton), and
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Since 1992, the Pontas Agency’s mission has been to bring diversity into literature, coming from the five continents, from all kinds of communities, and take these stories to the bookshops across the world. In solidarity with the uprisings all over the United States in response to the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and so
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On May 19th 2020, Latitudes of Longing, the debut novel by Shubhangi Swarup, was released in the United States by One World/Penguin Random House and in the United Kingdom by Riverrun/Quercus. It had already been published by HarperCollins in 2018 in India, where the author comes from and lives now, and it became an instant
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At the Pontas Agency we’re glad to announce that, following the international success of his debut novel Tram 83 (originally written in French and published by Éditions Métailié in 2014 and later translated into fifteen languages), Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with his highly anticipated second novel. La danse du vilain (The Villain’s Dance) will
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During the time of global confinement, two authors represented by the Pontas Agency, Dolores Redondo and Federico Moccia, have seen the audiovisual adaptations of their works going online on Netflix with great international success. On March 17th, The Legacy of the Bones, the second book of Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy, was released by Netflix and,
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After several weeks of confinement in many countries around the world, people in good health have finally started to get used to their new routines, to juggling their careers with video-conferencing, virtual classes, concerts, family time and meetings of all sorts. Some have been struggling with reading and concentration, while others have read one book
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In the middle of the pandemic, when most of the books have been put on hold and publication dates have been postponed, some titles were just released. Among these, at the Pontas Agency we want to make sure readers can reach the French translation of Shubhangi Swarup’s debut novel, Dérive des âmes et des continents
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At the Pontas Agency, we have just completed our second week of confinement, of re-adjusting our ways to working from home, our daily meetings through the screen, our calls, videocalls, WhatsApps and endless emails with everybody. It’s a strange feeling, but we’re busier than ever and the days seem longer too. We’re all in good
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These are troubling times. And we are convinced that people need books more than ever, since fiction and non-fiction provide wonderful entertainment and nourishment for the mind. While many publishing houses have stopped printing and new titles are being re-scheduled (nobody really knows for when), we must go on, reading and re-reading and trying to
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