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Ayesha Pande Literary Rights Guide/September 2012 Ayesha Pande Literary Rights Guide/September 2012 Fiction DANIELLE EVANS “Evans's greatest talent is her ability to create poignant moments of crisis in the lives of transient people who can't seem to connect with those they love… Again and again, without any histrionics, but with a clear appreciation for the natural drama of our mundane lives, Evans frames such questions in a way that will resonate with any thoughtful reader.” – Ron Charles, Washington Post “This debut collection is contemporary, powerful, and very real…” – Library Journal Kirkus (starred review) calls the collection “arresting” and “achingly believable.” BEFORE YOU SUFFOCATE YOUR OWN FOOL SELF A luminous collection of stories about young African-American women struggling to transcend their pasts and coming to difficult conclusions about what to keep, what they must give up, and what they can never really leave behind. One of the stories, “Virgins”, was published in the Fall 2007 The Paris Review. Danielle’s fresh and subtle take on race is one of the truly original elements in her writing, something which places her firmly in a new generation of African-American writers. Danielle Evans was born in 1983 in Northern Virginia. She received a B.A. from Columbia University, and an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was the 2006-2007 Carol Houck Smith Fellow at The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, and will be a Spring 2008 University of Iowa Lakeside Fellow. Her story “Virgins” was selected by Salman Rushdie for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2008. Her story “Someone Ought To Tell Her, There’s Nowhere to Go” was selected by Richard Russo for inclusion in Best American Short Stories 2010. Her short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Public Space, Black Renaissance Noire, Phoebe and The L Magazine. Danielle won the 2011 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for BEFORE YOU SUFFOCATE YOUR OWN FOOL SELF. THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES (novel). The long-awaited first draft is due to be delivered at the end of the year (2012). North American – Riverhead/Sarah McGrath, pub. Sept 2010 UK and translation rights – Ayesha Pande Literary PATRICIA ENGEL “Gloriously gifted and alarmingly intelligent Engel writes with an almost fable-like intensity, whether she is describing suburban New Jersey or urban Colombia or some other lost place . her ability to pierce the hearts of her crazy-ass characters, to fracture a moment into its elementary particles of yearning, cruelty, love and confusion will leave you breathless. Here, friends, is the debut I have been waiting for.” – Junot Díaz VIDA (stories) The stories in VIDA follow a single narrator, Sabina, as she navigates her shifting identity as a daughter of the Colombian diaspora through her relationships with other children of exile. The stories are assembled as an internal map of immigration and transitory communities, exploring 2 the loneliness and connections formed among the displaced. Many of these stories have been published including "Lucho" and "Desaliento" which both appeared in Boston Review. IT’S NOT LOVE, IT’S JUST PARIS Twenty year-old Leticia Del Cielo, the overachieving American-raised daughter of Colombian orphans turned manufacturing magnates and philanthropists, moves to Paris to continue her studies in diplomacy, renting a room in the exclusive yet decrepit House of Stars, a legendary Left Bank hôtel particulier owned by the aging Countess Séraphine de la Roque who now opens her home to board well-bred international girls otherwise known as Greenbloods. Amid the chaos and affairs of the dozen residents of the House of Stars and the vibrant, revolving Paris stage of transients, transnationals, students, artists, the displaced, and their lovers, Lita, as she's called, forges a new identity far from the folds of her close yet confining family tribe, dropping out of school and struggling to find work in a pre-millennial France with rigid restrictions against foreign workers, an increasingly vitriolic national immigration "discussion,” and cultivating her secret dream of becoming a writer while starting a romance with Cato de Manou, the overlooked son of France's most notorious extreme right-wing political figure, who suffers from an acute illness, casting an urgency on their budding relationship that changes Lita's life forever. Patricia Engel was born to Colombian parents and raised in New Jersey. Her first book, Vida, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Fiction Award, the Young Lions Fiction Award, and Paterson Fiction Award, winner of the International Latino Book Award, a Florida Book Award, and Independent Publisher Book Award, and nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Vida was named a Best Book of the year by Barnes & Noble, Latina Magazine, and NPR, as well as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and longlisted for The Story Prize. Patricia’s fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, A Public Space, Boston Review, and Guernica, among other publications, and her nonfiction has appeared in Black Book and Glamour. Her stories have received awards including the Boston Review Fiction Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Key West Literary Seminar, Norman Mailer Writer’s Colony, Hedgebrook, Ucross, and the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Patricia lives between Miami and New York. Her novel is forthcoming from Grove/Atlantic. World—Grove/Atlantic, Elisabeth Schmitz, pub. Fall 2010 House of Stars pub Fall 2013 Film rights: Optioned by Michael Jaffe via Hotchkiss & Associates SHILPI SOMAYA GOWDA THE MISTAKE (tentative title) THE MISTAKE takes Anil Patel from his tradition-bound life in a village in Gujurat to a medical residency in Dallas, Texas. When we first meet him, thirty-six members of his extended family have journeyed from his small Indian village to the airport to see him off to America, where he will begin his residency. He is the first person in his family to leave India, the first to become a doctor, the first to have gone to college rather than become a farmer. But more important than any of these accomplishments is a simple fact of biology: Anil is the eldest son. As the eldest son in his clan of over a hundred, he will inherit the mantle of arbiter for all family disputes, from minor squabbles to serious conflicts. Anil’s father, and his grandfather before him, demonstrated wisdom and courage in the role, earning the respect of family and villagers. But Anil wants no part of this tradition. He is determined to strike out on his own and define himself apart from his family. THE MISTAKE, both a bildungsroman and a love story, follows Anil’s journey as he struggles to find his way in America and to come to terms with his identity and tradition. He finds himself torn between a beautiful American girl and a childhood friend from his village who exerts a powerful spell. Will he be seduced by the freedom and opportunity that America has to offer or will his ties 3 to India and family ultimately prove to be more powerful than he had anticipated? Shilpi brings her remarkable powers of description to her second novel, infusing scene after scene with profound emotional depth. The manuscript is due to be delivered in Spring 2013 Canada – HC Canada/Iris Tupholme – pub 2013 All other rights – AP Literary SECRET DAUGHTER International bestseller. More than 400,000 copies shipped in Canada. More than 120,000 shipped of the US paperback. A poignant narrative about three women, a mother in rural India who is forced to give up her baby girl; the American doctor who adopts her; and Asha, the secret daughter, who sets out to discover who she is and changes their lives forever. Shilpi Somaya Gowda was born and raised in Toronto to parents who migrated there from Bombay. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was awarded a Morehead Scholarship, and an MBA from Stanford University. After moving to Dallas in 2006, she enrolled in the SMU Novel Writing series. On the basis of her manuscript, she was selected to participate in the New York Writers’ Seminar. She lives in Dallas with her husband and two daughters, and is working on a second novel. World English—William Morrow/HarperCollins, Carrie Feron, pub. March 2010 Translation rights—Pande Literary Film rights—Ellen Stiefler, Transmedia Agency Subsidiary rights deals—Karakter/Netherlands; Gallimard/France; Cicero/Denmark; Simanim/Israel; Corbaccio/Italy; Record/Brazil; Pegasus/Turkey; IP Jovan/Serbia, Proszynski Media/Poland; Profil Multimedija/Croatia; Norway/Juritzen Forlag; Alma Littera/Lithuania; Beijing Booky Company/simple Chinese; Han Shian Culture Publishing/complex Chinese; Kiepenheuer & Witsch/Germany; Planeta/Spain, Merket Kiado/Hungary; AEA Izdavaci/Macedonia; Hermes/Bulgaria; Prah/Czech Republic; Forlagid/Iceland; Forum/Sweden SHEBA KARIM SKUNK GIRL A young adult novel about a Pakistani-American girl growing up in a small town in upstate New York and grappling with being Muslim, being hairy, and being in love. Some excerpts of reviews can be found on Sheba’s website: www.shebakarim.com. Sheba Karim is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She is currently working on a novel about Razia, the daughter of a Sultan in India, who became a Sultan herself and a collection of linked short stories. North American—FSG Books for Young Readers/Janine O’Malley- pub. April 09 Translation Rights—Pande Literary Subsidiary Rights deals—Italy/Rizzoli; Sweden/Tilden; Denmark/Carlsen; India/Penguin 4 JUSTIN KRAMON THE PRESERVATIONIST To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Working in the snack bar at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but being with Julia makes him feel young and hopeful.
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