November 13th, 2019

Nominations and accolades for four Pontas authors

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 A Mirror (published by BlackBird / Jacana Media in English) have both been Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award 2020!

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Eka Kurniawan’s Beauty Is A Wound (published by New DirectionsPushkin Press and Text Publishing in English, original by Gramedia in Indonesian) has been included among Lit Hub’s 10 Best Translated Novels of the Decade. Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila makes it to the 'Dissenting Opinions' list, (published by Deep Vellum Publishing in English, original by Editions Métailié in French).

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Congratulations to all four!

For more information on any of the above, please contact Maria Cardona.