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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 [...]
Shortlist Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize
Héctor Abad // We are pleased to share that Héctor Abad's “Except for My Heart, All Is Well” is one of the 12 finalists of the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize for Novels 2023. Among the other nominees are Piedad Bonnett, Santiago Gamboa, Claudia Piñeiro, Cristina Rivera Garza, and David [...]
Bestselling Title in Colombia
Héctor Abad // "Except for My Heart, All Is Well", the most recent novel by Héctor Abad, occupies the 1st place of the bestselling list of the leading Colombian newspaper El Tiempo for 23 weeks since its publication in October 2022. Among the most successful Spanish-language publications of the whole [...]
Visão Júnior selects Best Books of 2022
Maria Inês Almeida and Flávia Lins e Silva // The prestigious magazine Visão Júnior considers "The Mystery of the Stinky Sock" by Maria Inês Almeida and Flávia Lins e Silva, illustrated by David Pintor, winner of the Andersen Prize 2015, as one of the Books of the Year 2022 for [...]
National Prize Sara Gallardo 2022
Paula Perez Alonso // Paula Perez Alonso wins the National Prize for Novels Sara Gallardo with her work Kaidú. The aim of the contest is to recognise the creation and literary quality of Argentinean women authors -cis, lesbians, transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people- and to award the best novel published [...]
Book charts 2022 of L’Indiscreto
Agustín Fernández Mallo // Agustín Fernández Mallo's novel Trilogy of War reaches the 1st place of the book charts for the whole year 2022 of Italian's legendary magazine “L’Indiscreto”. Other authors on the list are Michel Houellebecq, Patricia Lockwood, Jennifer Egan, and Paul Auster. Three times a year, L'Indiscreto compiles [...]
Nomination Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2023
Andrea Ferrari // Andrea Ferrari has been selected as a candidate for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2023. The global prize was created in 2002 by the Swedish government and is given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature. With a [...]
2nd Place Oceanos Prize 2022
João Paulo Borges Coelho // The novel Museum of the Revolution, by João Paulo Borges Coelho wins the second place of the Oceanos Prize 2022. It is only the second time in the history of the Oceanos Prize that a Mozambican book is among the winners. The total value of [...]