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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 [...]
Guest of Honour Portugal presents its literature despite cancellation of Leipzig Book Fair – popup book fair
The literary programme of Portugal as Guest of Honour in Leipzig will take place on Thursday, 17 March at Haus des Buches and on Friday, 18 March at Schaubühne Lindenfels both from 6 to 10 pm. The famous Blaue Sofa, organized by Bertelsmann, ZDF (Second German Television), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (German culture-oriented [...]
Spain: Translations Grants – Deadline 4th May
Spain will be Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2022. The call for applications for Grants for Translation into Foreign Languages 2022 of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport has been published. Applications may be submitted from March 28th to May 4th 2022. You can consult the text of [...]
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 [...]
Read Your Way Through Lisbon
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // We are proud to share that Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida wrote an article about her hometown Lisbon for the New York Times. The story is part of a new series “Read Your Way Through ...”. Different authors were asked to present [...]
Premios Ondas 2022
Jorge Carrión, Alberto Torres Blandina // Jorge Carrión wins the Ondas Prize for the best experimental podcast 2022 for Solaris and Alberto Torres Blandina the Ondas special mention for best experimental podcast 2022 for Diles que mi vida fue maravillosa. The Global Ondas Awards for Podcasts seek to give visibility [...]
Litprom Leaderboard Summer 2022
Tatiana Salem Levy // Tatiana Salem Levy 's Vista Chinesa enters the Litprom Leaderboard Summer 2022 (Bestenliste Weltempfänger). Litprom Leaderboard is an idea of the author, translator and editor Ilija Trojanow. Four times a year – in spring, summer, autumn and winter – Litprom publishes a list of the respective [...]
Yara Nakahanda Monteiro wins the Glória de Sant’Anna Literary Prize 2022
Yara Nakahanda Monteiro // Yara Nakahanda Monteiro wins with her volume of poetry Memories, Apparitions, Arrhythmias the prestigious Glória de Sant’Anna Literary Prize 2022, an award dedicated to the best book of poetry published in Portuguese speaking countries in the last year. The 10th edition of the [...]