China maintains a strong interest in the fiction of our Portuguese language authors. Latest deals are for Creole Nation (“A nação crioula”) and A Foreigner in Goa (“Um estranho em Goa”) by José Eduardo Agualusa, Those We Shall Remember (“Os Memoráveis”) by Lídia Jorge, Luanda, Lisboa, Paradise (“Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso”) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, and Under the Frangipani Tree (“A varanda do Frangipani”) and The Last Flight of the Flamingo (“O último voo do flamingo”) by Mia Couto.

We are proud to announce that the rights for the Nocilla Project (“Proyecto Nocilla”) by Agustín Fernández Mallo have been sold to The Netherlands, Sweden and Turkey. An English edition has been published at Fitzcarraldo in the UK and at FSG in the USA.

Feltrinelli secured the Italian rights to QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling. Taiwanese, Dutch, Russian and Swedish rights have also been sold recently, and an offer for Chinese rights has been received.

We’re happy to announce two English language deals for QualityLand by Marc-Uwe Kling: In partnership with William Morris, rights have been sold in a preempt to Grand Central (Hachette) in the USA and at auction to Orion in the UK.

WME has also closed a television deal with Lionsgate for Mike Judge (Silicon Valley, Idiocracy) to Executive Produce, Write, and Direct.