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 [...]
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 [...]
Inauguration of Lídia Jorge’s professorship at the University of Geneva
Lídia Jorge // Lídia Jorge takes up a professorship at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. There will be an international conference on "The power of [...]
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida Writes Monthly Letter for Folha de S.Paulo
Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida // Over the next year, Ilustrada Ilustríssima (Folha de S.Paulo) will publish a monthly letter written by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. [...]
The Oblivion Theory wins Berlinale Co-Production Market award
José Eduardo Agualusa // Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has won the top prize at the Berlinale Co-Production Market to develop her upcoming feature The Oblivion [...]
Rights Sold in China
José Eduardo Agualusa, Lídia Jorge, Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, Mia Couto // China maintains a strong interest in the fiction of our Portuguese language authors. [...]
Plague Diary available in English
Gonçalo M. Tavares // Gonçalo M. Tavares has been writing a daily column for the renowned Portuguese newspaper Expresso tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, entitled Plague [...]
HBO announces QualityLand series
Marc-Uwe Kling // HBO announces QualityLand series. It will be a co-production between HBOand Lionsgate. Mike Judge, screenwriter, producer, and actor, will co-write and executive [...]
Netflix production A Twelve-Year Night
Mauricio Rosencof // Based on a true story, the Netflix production A Twelve-Year Night (“La noche de 12 años”), tells how in 1973 Uruguay’s government [...]
Nat Geo Kids develops animated series
Flávia Lins e Silva // Nat Geo Kids has greenlit its first two original productions for children in Latin America, entitled Nat Geo Lab and [...]