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International Literary Agent of the Year 2015
The Literary Agency Mertin has been voted International Literary Agent of the Year 2015 by The London Book Fair, in partnership with the UK Publishers Association! This is a great acknowledgement of our work and above all, it’s a great tribute to our outstanding authors. Christopher MacLehose of MacLehose Press, chairman [...]
Portugal and PALOP Leipzig Book Fair 2022
After the cancellation of this year’s Leipzig Book Fair due to the pandemic, Portugal's Guest of Honour appearance will be postponed to 2022. However, from 27 to 30 May 2021, as part of this year's reading festival Leipzig liest extra, the literature in Portuguese language from Portugal and PALOP, which includes [...]
Spain: Translations Grants – Deadline 31st December
Spain will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022. There is a third round of applications for grants for translation projects into German, English, French, Dutch, and Italian of literature from Spain by Acción Cultural. Applications may be submitted from June 9th to December 31st 2021. > accioncultural.es [...]
New Translation Grant between Portugal and the USA
At a difficult time for authors and publishers, FLAD launched the first open call for the translation of literary works in order to promote Portuguese authors in the U.S. market and support Portuguese publishing companies, helping to enable works by American authors who would not otherwise arrive in Portugal. The next [...]
New York Times Book Review of Gala’s Call Me Cassandra
Marcial Gala // Call Me Cassandra, published at FSG on 11 January, has already received an excellent review in the New York Times. "Dazzling . . . Deftly pushing the boundaries of both realism and first-person perspective . . . Gala constructs sentences and scenes that [...]
Top 15 Best Crime Novels of 2021
Patrícia Melo // Patrícia Melo made it into the CrimeMag Top 15 of the best crime novels of the year 2021 with her novel Piled Women. Among the other authors on the list are Colin Niel, Tade Thompson, David Peace, Candice Fox, and Garry Disher. CrimeMag [...]
Writer in Residence at the Literaturhaus Zürich
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida will be a guest at the Züricher Literaturhaus as Writer in Residence, starting in February 2022. For five months, Djaimilia will be living in the heart of Europe, with time to focus on her creative work. The [...]
Oceanos Prize 2021
Luís Cardoso and Gonçalo M. Tavares // Luís Cardoso wins the Oceanos Prize 2021 with his novel The Pumpkin Planter. This is the first time that a book from the Asian continent is among the finalists and winners. The jury highlighted the dexterity and narrative resourcefulness of the author in [...]