The Pontas Agency has not missed a Frankfurt Book Fair since 1992 and this year 2020 would have been our 29th time in a row! However, for the first time since the fair started in 1949, we didn’t travel to the world’s capital of ideas and content. Nobody did. This year’s Frankfurt Book Fair was not the
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One week ahead of the official virtual “Special Edition” of the Frankfurt Book Fair 2020, the Pontas Agency hosted a series of nine live webinars (on Zoom) with some authors represented and their international publishers or translators to discuss their literary careers and works. All webinars took place between October 5th-9th and were open to
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At the Pontas Agency we are utterly excited seeing Avni Doshi’s debut novel Burnt Sugar among one of the six novels to make it onto The 2020 Booker Prize Shortlist! Congratulations, Avni! We must extend our congratulations to everyone who’s been right alongside Avni since the beginning, including her Indian editor Rahul Soni, her UK
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The London Book Fair 2020 was cancelled only a few days before it was supposed to start. The Coronavirus wasn’t as widespread and at the Pontas Agency we decided to travel to London anyway and meet some of the represented authors who live in the city and some publishers, scouts and film producers who were
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The Pontas Agency attended the Frankfurt Book Fair for the 28th time in a row! We’ve not missed a “Frankfurt” since 1992! Anna Soler-Pont, Maria Cardona and Nick Owen had many meetings between Tuesday, October 15th and Friday, October 18th in the new Literary Agent’s Center at Festhalle, a venue which is one hundred years
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The London Book Fair 2019 took place from the 12th to the 14th of March at Olympia. This time Anna Soler-Pont, Maria Cardona and Madeleine Feeny had as many meetings as possible at the Pontas Agency table in the International Rights Center, but also in the corridors, stairs and lifts, as well as restaurants and
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Despite communicating by email, phone and social media all year long, the Frankfurt Book Fair remains the most essential gathering place in publishing and once again the Pontas Agency attended the fair, meeting editors, publishers, book scouts, film scouts and even film producers from the five continents from Tuesday, October 9th to Friday, October 12th. With
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Since its very beginnings, one of the main focus of the Pontas Agency has been African literature. Today, 26 years later, we’re proud to represent a wide diversity of literary voices coming from all the African continent that we push into the world. In order to meet some of the Pontas clients and to meet new
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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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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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