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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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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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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The Salon du Livre de Paris 2017 took place at the Porte de Versailles in Paris from March 24-27 and Marc de Gouvenain and Leticia Vila-Sanjuán were the ones attending this year on behalf of the Pontas Agency. There, they were able to meet with authors, publishers and scouts, both at their offices in the center
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The London Book Fair in 2017 took place from the 14th to the 16th of March and Anna Soler-Pont, Marina Penalva, Maria Cardona and Leticia Vila-Sanjuán attended the fair on behalf of the Pontas Agency and met with editors, scouts and film producers from all over the world, as well as as meeting some London-based editors at their offices,
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The FIL Guadalajara, the most important international book fair of the Spanish language publishing industry, took place in the Mexican city of Guadalajara from November 26th to December 4th, 2016. While celebrating 30 years, the entire Latin America was the guest of honor of the fair. A very large number of authors, publishers and literary
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