At the Pontas Agency, we’re always very active in promoting the novels of the authors we represent within film and tv producers, and now even more, with the bloom of streaming services everywhere and with more and more films and series being adapted from literary works. Dolores Redondo‘s Baztan Trilogy is a great example, with The Invisible Guardian being
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Basque author Kirmen Uribe is a New York Public Library Cullman Fellow 2018-2019, where he is working on his new novel titled The Book She Writes, inspired by Edith Wynner’s life, the secretary of Rosika Schwimmer, a Hungarian feminist, suffragist and peace activist who lived in the United States in the 1920s till her death in 1948. By the way,
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At the Pontas Agency, we’re always very active in promoting the novels of the authors we represent within film and tv producers. We’re delighted to announce that several novels have recently been optioned worldwide: Rocking Horse Road, by New Zealander Carl Nixon is optioned by South Pacific Pictures Limited, the company who is also currently developing another
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The second Hay Festival of Arequipa (Peru) took place from December 8-11, 2016. Four days of literary and cultural exchange with an audience of more than 15,000 people, with over 100 guests from 15 countries on a full programme of activities, talks, readings, conferences, film screenings and workshops. Anna Soler-Pont attended the Hay Arequipa on
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At the Pontas Agency we are very glad to announce that the new novel by Basque author Kirmen Uribe, Elkarrekin esnatzeko ordua (The Hour of Waking Together), will be published simultaneously in Spanish (Seix Barral), Catalan (Edicions 62), Galician (Xerais) and in its original language, Basque, (Susa) in November 2016. Karmele Urresti is in Ondarroa,
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As huge fans of Kirmen Uribe’s literature, the entire Pontas team is thrilled to announce that the most important contemporary author in Euskera (Basque language) has joined the agency. Marina Penalva and Marc de Gouvenain met Kirmen Uribe at the Göteborg Book Fair in September 2015; he then travelled to Barcelona to meet all of us
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