At the Pontas Agency, we are glad to share that, according to Publishers Weekly, Elena Medel (Córdoba, 1985) has been named as one of the 12 Essential Spanish-language Female Authors, and most recently she was awarded the Literature Achievement Award 2019 by Harper’s Bazaar. Previously known as a poet, she has transitioned seamlessly into the
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The Pontas Agency is delighted to announce that four of our authors have been nominated and received accolades for their novels. Shubhangi Swarup’s Latitudes of Longing (to be published by One World / Penguin Random House, riverrun/Quercus in May 2020, and already published by HarperCollins India in English) and Ijangolet S Ogwang’s An Image In
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Karen Havelin’s debut Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is one of six books that have been shortlisted for this year’s Not the Booker Prize! Please Read This Leaflet Carefully is the story of a woman whose body has become her enemy. The novel tracks backward, from 2016 until 1995, etching details of daily life into
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Forrest Gander has just been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry 2019 for his latest collection, Be With, published by New Directions. Also longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry 2018, these elegiac poems were the subject of a rhapsodic article in the New Yorker. Poet, novelist, essayist and Spanish translator Forrest Gander has previously
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The international bestselling page-turner All This I Will Give to You by Dolores Redondo is reaching readers in 22 languages worldwide, as well as winning awards in different territories. After winning the Planeta Prize in 2016, All This I Will Give to You has won the independent booksellers Bancarella Prize in Italy, and received the Special commendation from
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re excited to announce that Rafel Nadal is 2019’s winner of the most prestigious literary award in Catalan language, the Ramon Llull, with a novel titled El fill de l’italià (The Italian’s Son). Rafel Nadal is a journalist and Catalan writer. He is the author of several bestselling novels such as La maledicció dels Palmisano (Columna,
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On December 14th, Jordi Cabré won the Sant Jordi Award 2018, one of the oldest and most prestigious awards of Catalan literature, given by Òmnium Cultural for his novel Digues un desig (Tell A Wish). The so-called “Nit de Santa Llúcia” (The Night of Saint Lucia) is an annual evening dedicated to Catalan Literature where
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Eka Kurniawan received the Prince Claus Award 2018 on December 6th, 2018 at the Royal Palace in Amsterdam, together with six other laureates from different countries and cultural disciplines, in the presence of members of the Dutch Royal family and an international audience. The Prince Claus Awards, organized by the Prince Claus Fund, have been
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After the Swedish Academy cancelled the Nobel prize this year, a ‘New Academy’ has been put together by a consortium of writers, journalists and others to confer an award in October. In their mission statement, they say: “The New Academy is a nonprofit organization, politically and financially independent. It consists of a wide range of knowledgeable
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re glad to announce that the 2018 Ramon Llull Award Winner is Martí Gironell, with a novel based on the life of Jean Leon, titled La força d’un destí (The Strenght of a Destiny). The Ramon Llull Award has been awarded to a novel in Catalan language since 1981, and it’s the biggest in
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