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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As we reach the first half of the year, we’re delighted to see our authors strive with their books —and we couldn’t be prouder, as we see many of the writers represented by the Pontas Agency in the long- and shorlists of important international prizes worldwide! Two Pontas authors, Dolores Redondo and Federico Axat, are longlisted
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Representing both the Pontas Agency and Pontas Films, Anna Soler-Pont and Ricard Domingo attended the Cannes Festival’s Marché du Film 2017, the biggest event in the international film industry and a unique opportunity to meet the most varied professionals: from producers to investors, from filmmakers to scriptwriters, from lawyers to sales agents, from distributors to directors…
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We are delighted to present Janice Pariat‘s new novel, The Nine-Chambered Heart, which will be published at the end of 2017 in hardcover by the prestigious imprint Fourth Estate in India, who won the highly contested auction for the rights. Publisher Udayan Mitra said: «Many in India feel that Janice is one of the best writers in the
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Three authors represented by the Pontas Agency (Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, JJ Bola and Winnie M Li) were part of the exciting Writers of the World Unite! Festival held in Waterstones Piccadilly, London, between April 27th and May 1st. A festival of talks and debates on literature, politics and culture from around the world… and we couldn’t be more excited that three
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This 2017 at the Pontas Agency we’re in our 25th year in business and to celebrate this milestone, we thought that the best way was to reunite as many of the writers we work for as possible to a ‘get together’ in Barcelona during the weekend of April 21-22-23rd. The 23rd of April is, and has
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For 25 years (and counting!), the Pontas Agency has been pushing African literature to all the corners of the world. We are proud to have been representing African literature since the very beginning, and to keep discovering highly interesting African authors from different cultures and living in many different cities worldwide. ZP Dala is one
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The Pontas Agency began representing Colombian author Melba Escobar in December 2016, some weeks after she met in person with Anna Soler-Pont during the Guadalajara Book Fair in Mexico (in the photo below), and since we started submitting her novel La Casa de la Belleza (The Beauty House) the success has been immediate. Published in 2015
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