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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We’re thrilled to share with you the latest news on some of the authors represented by the Pontas Agency. Five of them have just won or are shortlisted to top prizes worldwide for their novels! Join us at the celebration of their success, and don’t miss the chance to read their work. Indonesian most globally
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As we reach the first half of the year, we’re delighted to see our authors strive with their books —and we couldn’t be prouder, as we see many of the writers represented by the Pontas Agency in the long- and shorlists of important international prizes worldwide! Two Pontas authors, Dolores Redondo and Federico Axat, are longlisted
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For the third year in a row, Anna Soler-Pont, founder and director of Pontas Literary & Film Agency, has been shortlisted to The London Book Fair International Excellence Awards 2017 in the category of Literary Agent. You can see all the nominees of this year’s awards here. Jacks Thomas, director of the London Book Fair,
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Another year comes to an end, and we couldn’t be prouder of the authors we represent, with many of them having been longlisted, shortlisted and winners of important awards all over the world. These awards are a recognition to the great talent of the authors that we work for. The Pontas Agency has been representing international literature
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Dolores Redondo is 2016 winner of the Planeta Prize, the biggest prize in Spanish language, for her new and stand-alone novel Todo esto te daré (All This I Will Give You), out with Planeta on November 3rd 2016 with great expectations and a first print run of 210,000 copies. During the Frankfurt Book Fair,
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As we reach the first half of 2016, at the Pontas Agency we couldn’t be happier and prouder of the authors we represent internationally as many of them were shortlisted, longlisted or either won important prizes: a celebration of talent and diversity. For instance, Eka Kurniawan and Leila S. Chudori are among the 10 shortlisted writers on the
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We’re very happy to announce that La ràbia (Rage), a brave novel about bullying by Pontas author Lolita Bosch, has won Catalan Literary Award Roc Boronat 2016, to be published in May 2016 by Ara Llibres. On March 17th Lolita Bosch received the award in Barcelona, which she dedicated to everyone who has ever been
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