More films than ever around the world are based on books. The answer to this trend is always the same: it is much more comfortable for a producer or director to be able to go back to the book whenever it is needed, and the dialogue and synergies between literature and cinema are endless. A
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Dark Chapter is the powerful debut novel by Winnie M Li, a Taiwanese-American writer based in London. At Pontas we totally believe this is a very important piece of fiction and that Winnie M Li an extremely gifted writer and powerful voice. Last year, an excerpt of Dark Chapter was Highly Commended/Runner-Up for the CWA Debut Dagger.
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Love and Vengeance is Eka Kurniawan‘s third novel, originally published in Bahasa Indonesia in 2014 by Gramedia under the title Seperti Dendam, Rindu Harus Dibayar Tuntas. At the Pontas Agency we are now delighted to announce that film rights to adapt the novel into a feature film have been acquired by Jakarta-based company Palari Films. The film
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War Fairy by Daniela Tully became our hot book of The London Book Fair 2016, with two deals closed just days before: Garzanti pre-empted Italian rights, and Gads Forlag snapped Danish rights. At the fair, we closed a French deal with Fayard, and Vulkan pre-empted Serbian rights shortly after. We are now delighted to announce
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2014 and 2015 have been especially good years for English translation deals at the Pontas agency, almost all of them first-time English translations for our authors: Argentinian author Federico Axat’s psychological thriller The Last Way Out will be published in North America by the Hachette imprint Mulholland books –and 11 other international publishers. Heart of Jazz, by
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