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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As every year, the Pontas Agency travels to New York to meet editors and scouts in their own offices. 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 three days of meetings, Maria met with more than
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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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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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This 2016, several novels by authors represented by the Pontas Agency have been published or are about to be published in the United States (and distributed also in Canada). It’s always fascinating to witness the process from sending a submission of a novel to an editor and then following up their interest; to selling them the
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The first Hay Festival of Arequipa took place from December 5-8, 2015. Four days of literary and cultural exchange with an audience of more than 15,200 people, a success that ensured its continuity in this city in Southern Peru, as confirmed Cristina Fuentes, director of the Hay Festival for the Americas. Anna Soler-Pont attended
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On Friday November 13th, 2015, took place an interesting one-day conference about “Literary agents and copyright management in France”, organized by the Centre Régional des Lettres (CRL) Midi-Pyrénées, in Toulouse. Anna Soler-Pont was one of the panelists on behalf of the Pontas Agency, together with Emmanuelle Urien (French author represented by Pontas). Marc de Gouvenain
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Jessica Craig recently traveled to New York for her first office meetings with US editors since starting with Pontas last September. Her days were full of meetings at some of the major publishing houses: Penguin Random House, Little, Brown, and HarperCollins. There are more editors and imprints in the US eager to acquire new fiction than
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The “Salon du Livre de Paris 2015” took place from March 20-23 and Marc de Gouvenain and Marina Penalva, on behalf of the Pontas Agency’s team, attended the important French publishing event, as well as many meetings with authors, scouts and at several publishers’ offices in Paris. Marina Penalva (Pontas) with Jean Arcache (PD-G Place
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The Spain-USA Foundation, as part of its Spain Arts & Culture program, organized a Conference on Publishing Spanish Authors in English at the King Juan Carlos I Center of New York University (coordinated by Valerie Miles) on Wednesday, March 11 from 9 am to 6 pm, followed by a reception offered by the Consul General of
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