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La Biennale di Venezia La Biennale di Venezia Director General and its collaborators for Andrea Del Mercato Book Adaptation Rights Market Erika Giorgianni Artistic Director Laura Kirlum of the Cinema Department Eugenia Leonardi Alberto Barbera Mariachiara Manci Chiara Marin Venice Production Bridge Alessandro Mezzalira Pascal Diot Nikolas Montaldi Savina Neirotti [email protected] The 4th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market, which will take labiennale.org place within the context of the 76th Venice International Film Festival, veniceproductionbridge.org confirms the increasing success of this initiative dedicated to publishers, as well as to producers. The Venice Production Bridge team is proud to announce that, in 2019, we are welcoming more international publishers than last year and who will be pitching their new titles as well as to present their complete catalogues, as opposed to other events dedicated to publishing within the context of Film Festivals that focus on a single book or volume. Producers will be offered a worldwide tour of 25 publishing companies coming from France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Italy, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, the UK and the USA. The uniqueness of this 3-day event consists not only in the organization of 1-to-1 meetings between the publishers and the producers, but also in enabling them to develop their network in a productive and welcoming setting. With the Book Adaptation Rights Market, the Venice Production Bridge renews its vocation to foster the development and production of international and European projects across a wide range of audiovisual forms. We warmly welcome you to this 4th edition and hope that it will bring many beneficial encounters. Pascal Diot Head of the Venice Production Bridge
Thanks to Db Logic S.r.l. Festival Scope Book Adaptation Rights Market for 2019 has been edited using the information assembled by June 21th, 2019. The Venice Production Bridge may not be held responsible for possible errors. 6 ABRAMS/ THE OVERLOOK PRESS 8 ACTES SUD 10 ANDREW NURNBERG ASSOCIATES 12 AU DIABLE VAUVERT 14 BLUE OCEAN PRESS/ARI 16 UITGEVERIJ DE BEZIGE BIJ 18 DEA PLANETA LIBRI 20 ÉDITIONS DE L’HOMME SANS NOM 22 EDITORIAL PLANETA 24 ELISABETH RUGE AGENTUR GMBH 26 FELTRINELLI EDITORE 28 GIULIO EINAUDI EDITORE 30 GRUPPO EDITORIALE MAURI SPAGNOL 32 KADOKAWA CORPORATION 34 MADELEINE MILBURN LITERARY, TV & FILM AGENCY 36 MEDIATOON AUDIOVISUAL RIGHTS 38 MARCEL HARTGES LITERATUR- UND FILMAGENTUR 40 MICHAEL GAEB LITERARY AGENCY 42 NEFELI PUBLISHING 44 NOTTETEMPO 46 PLACE DES EDITEURS 48 RIZZOLI (MONDADORI LIBRI SPA) 50 SALOMONSSON AGENCY 52 SINGEL UITGEVERIJEN 54 SUSANNA LEA ASSOCIATES ATTENDING TEAM MEMBER WEBSITE USA & JOB TITLE abramsbooks.com Tracy Carns ADDRESS Associate Publisher 195 Broadway and Editorial Director ABRAMS / 10007 New York PHONE / CELL PHONE USA THE OVERLOOK PRESS +1 2122297161 +1 9173468907 E-MAIL [email protected]
COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The Overlook Press, founded by The Overlook Press has published Peter Mayer in 1971 and acquired many titles that are the basis for FICTION by ABRAMS in 2018, continues major films and television series, Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin (2017). its decades-long tradition of including: #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s distinguished publishing as, now, The Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Tale. Jules Lacour –cellist, widower, and child of the the adult fiction imprint at ABRAMS. Peake (1946-59; reissued 1995). Holocaust– grapples with his complex past as he Overlook is the publisher of an The classic epic gothic fantasy, risks fraud to save his grandson, matches wits with eclectic list of titles, including the #1 currently being adapted for an insurance investigator, and is drawn into an act New York Times bestseller True Grit television by Fremantle US, Neil of savage violence, against the backdrop of a by Charles Portis, acclaimed Gaiman, Akiva Goldsman, and Toby vividly-drawn Paris. bestselling author Mark Helprin’s Whithouse. The Spirit Photographer by Jon Michael Varese Paris in the Present Tense, and True Grit by Charles Portis (1968, fantasy classic, the Gormenghast (2018). A richly atmospheric Southern Gothic reissued 2003). The basis for two historical ghost story about a con-artist novels, by Mervyn Peake. The classic films and a #1 New York Overlook Press publishes bold and photographer who captures a real ghost with his Times bestseller upon release of the camera, inspired by Reconstruction-era spirit relevant literary fiction; exceptional acclaimed Coen Brothers 2010 film. literature in translation; selected photographer William Mumler. The Company by Robert Littell mainstream fiction; a curated list Starling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (2020). (2002). The sweeping history of the of genre fiction, including mystery, On their first date, Mina told Oscar she was CIA during the Cold War, adapted for thriller, and fantasy; and drama. bisexual, vegetarian, and on meds. He married her a limited television series by TNT and For more than 60 years, ABRAMS anyhow. After Mina’s suicide attempt, they move to Scott Free, with Chris O’Donnell, has remained dedicated to a single London, encountering new challenges in the form of Alfred Molina, and Michael Keaton. objective—the practice of a young woman named Phoebe. A compelling novel exceptional bookmaking. Legends by Robert Littell (2005). about love, mythology, mental illness, and the times An artisanal publisher at heart, The acclaimed espionage thriller we need to seek out milder psychological climates. ABRAMS creates and distributes about an undercover FBI agent The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting (2020). brilliantly designed, visually whose ability to disappear into his A sweeping historical novel and #1 bestseller illustrated books with the highest various identities, or “legends”, for in Norway about 19-year-old Astrid Henke, production values in the adult, each case leads him to question his desperate to escape her isolated village with young adult, and children’s trade sanity. Adapted for television by TNT, its mystical church bells that ring on their own markets—covetable books, skillfully starring Sean Bean. in times of danger. Rights sold in 12 countries. crafted with a strong editorial Caging Skies by Christine Leunens Warrior Butterflies by Ava Homa (2020). vision, each an object of art in its (2008, 2019, first US publication). Debut novel by Kurdish-Canadian writer set in Iran own right. ABRAMS is the publisher The acclaimed novel sold in 22 and inspired by the life of Iranian Kurdish activist of the perennial #1 New York Times countries and inspiration for the Fox Farzad Kamangar, for fans of The Kite Runner and bestselling series Diary of a Wimpy Searchlight film Jojo Rabbit, written Half of a Yellow Sun. Kid, which now has more than 150 and directed by Taika Waititi, million copies in print, as well as the starring Roman Griffin Davis, recent New York Times bestsellers Thomasin McKenzie, Taika Waititi, The Good Neighbor and The Soprano Rebel Wilson, Stephen Merchant, Sessions, from its text-based adult Alfie Allen, Sam Rockwell, and imprints. Scarlett Johansson.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Actes Sud is an independent literary The Scortas by Laurent Gaudé Publishing House established in (2004), Prix Goncourt 2004. The FICTION NON-FICTION Arles, Provence for 40 years. It was Scorta family are met by indifference Le Grand Nord-Ouest by Anne Marie Garat (2018). Le Genre intraitable by Nadia Tazi (2018). This work founded by Hubert Nyssen and his and general opprobrium in the small Late 1930s, on the road to Yukon and Alaska. An presents a thoroughly original perspective on the wife Christine Le Boeuf. With a town in southern Italy where they adventuress flees California with her daughter and, ‘unending crisis’ in the Muslim world, analysing the strong emphasis on literary fiction, live. Yet despite these testing braving myriad dangers, strikes out in pursuit of her political bankruptcy of Muslim countries in terms Actes Sud has established a solid circumstances, the family finds pride ghosts on the Amerindian trails of the wild north-west. of a cult of virility. reputation in publishing foreign in its roots and discovers happiness fiction but also with a graphic despite the abject poverty. 77 by Marin Fouqué (2019). Since the beginning Agroecology – A potential savior by Marc Dufumier identity (with a very specific format of term, the routine is always the same. He arrives and Olivier Le Naire (2019). At the age of twenty-two Tell Them of Battles, Kings and at the bus stop early. But on this day the young when still a student of agroecology, Marc Dufumier of the book, its choice of paper and by Mathias Enard (2010), Elephants narrator spends the entire day alone on the bench learned a traditional form of agriculture that its illustrated covers). Over the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2010. of the busshelter... respects both people and the environment from years, Actes Sud has also Enard turns a few historical a community of illiterate women in Madagascar. spectacularly developed its French fragments and suggestions into Atmore Alabama by Alexandre Civico (2019). In this series of interviews with Olivier Le Naire, he list, becoming a key player in French a story of Michelangelo traveling On landing in Florida, he knows exactly where he provides a scientific and clear demonstration of why editorial landscape, managing to to Istanbul to design a bridge over will be going in his hire car: Atmore, a far-flung little and how agroecology offers a concrete and realistic impose highly ambitious young the Golden Horn. town in deepest Alabama. He is clearly ravaged by an insurmountable grief and is impervious response to many problems of the modern world. writers such as Laurent Gaudé (Prix The Sermon of the Fall of Rome by to any emotion but pain. Sauvés par la sieste by Brice Faraut (2019). The aim Goncourt 2004), Mathias Enard (Prix Jérôme Ferrari (2012), Prix Goncourt of this book is to help the general public understand Décembre 2008, Prix du Livre Inter 2012. By turns wise, comic, Critical Masses by Ronan Gouézec (2019, edited how siestas work and the remarkable role they can 2009, Prix Goncourt des Lycéens dramatic, tragic and absurd, by Le Rouergue). That night the Bannecks - the father play in overcoming the destructive effects on the 2010) Jérôme Ferrari (Prix Goncourt Ferrari’s masterpiece reads like and his two sons - took a boat out for a spot of illegal brain and the body of a shortage of sleep like 2012), Eric Vuillard (Prix Goncourt a Corsican One Hundred Years of fishing, as was their wont. The father was at the diabetes and cardiovascular disease - for a siesta 2017), Nicolas Mathieu ( Prix Solitude, covering a century of helm and his sons were diving for shellfish. But old is like a night’s sleep in miniature. Goncourt 2018) just to name a few. intimate history with a dazzling, Banneck had drunk too much and the boat never In total, Actes Sud publishes about skewering precision. made it back to port. Théorie de la bulle carrée by Sébastien Lapaque 500 titles a year, including French (2019). In November 2005, Sébastien Lapaque The Order of the Day by Eric Vuillard Imprudence by Loo Hui Phang (2019). A young female and foreign literature, fiction and visited Anselme Selosse. He was struck by the (2017), Prix Goncourt 2017. This photographer who lives on instinct, entirely wrapped non-fiction, theatre, art and mysterious images and the original metaphors that behind-the-scenes account of the up in her projects and her desires, learns of the death photography books, children books, the winegrower used when describing his wine. manipulation, hubris, and greed that of her grandmother in Laos, her native country that comics and graphic books. Being Since taking over the Jacques-Selosse family together led to Nazi Germany’s she left at the age of one. She travels with her mother first to publish Stieg Larsson’s vineyard in 1980, the winemaker has changed our annexation of Austria brilliantly and older brother to be with the widowed grandfather. Millenium trilogy (more than 4 perception of champagne, both in France and dismantles the myth of an effortless La Murène by Valentine Goby (2019). Winter 1956: million copies sold), the Actes Noirs around the world. victory and offers a dire warning for François is 22 years old. On this particular day, he series has also made a name for our current political crisis. finds himself in the middle of a field of snow. The itself, becoming quite a successful truck in which he has been riding has broken down crime fiction trademark. Their Children after Them by Nicolas Mathieu (2018), Prix Goncourt 2018. and they need to find help. He comes across another A portrait of teenagers growing up truck stuck in the snow and hauls himself up onto its in a forgotten, hopeless region of metal roof, but suddenly he plunges into the void - France in the 1990s. electrocuted and badly burnt. Those Who Depart by Jeanne Benameur (2019). A handful of them come ashore on Ellis Island and with them the 20th century takes its first faltering steps along the path to liberty and happiness. Zippo by Valentine Imhof (2019, edited by Le Rouergue). When they met, she was very young. He made her wear a black venetian mask, he called her Eva, he taught her to play with fire. He was the master of her emotions, of her will, of her suffering. He lost her. Wherever she is, wherever she is hiding, she is missing him, he is convinced of that. 8 Venice Production Bridge 2019 9 Book Adaptation Rights Market ATTENDING TEAM MEMBER WEBSITE UNITED KINGDOM & JOB TITLE andrewnurnberg.com Michael Dean ADDRESS Agent 20-23 Greville Street ANDREW NURNBERG PHONE / CELL PHONE London EC1N 8SS +44 2033270411 United Kingdom ASSOCIATES +44 7469704211 E-MAIL [email protected]
COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Founded in 1977, Andrew Nurnberg Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith Associates represents a distinguished (1981). The first title in the Arkady FICTION NON-FICTION list of authors from around the world Renko series. Cosi giocano le bestie giovani (This Is How Young Defending the Motherland by Lyuba Vinogradova in the fields of literary and The Beach by Alex Garland (1997). Beasts Play) by Davide Longo (2018). Gripping (2015). Drawing on original interviews with surviving commercial fiction and general Alex’s debut novel was adapted Italian noir as Corso Bramard uncovers a long- airwomen, Lyuba Vinogradova weaves together non- fiction, as well as children’s for film by Danny Boyle, starring buried political conspiracy. ‘Direct, believable, the untold stories of the female Soviet fighter pilots and YA authors. Leonardo DiCaprio. as sincere as its conflicted characters’ (Tuttolibri). of the Second World War. ‘A gripping, unforgettable Some of our best-known clients Stalingrad by Antony Beevor (1999). Sixty Kilos of Sunshine by Hallgrímur Helgason and heart-breaking story of female heroism in war include Antony Beevor, Mikhail Established Antony as the leading (2019). Winner of the 2019 Icelandic Literary Prize. and terror’ (Simon Sebag Montefiore). Bulgakov, Don DeLillo, Alex Garland, military historian writer today, The story of Iceland’s path to modernity through Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges by Antony Beevor Vasily Grossman, Jonathan Littell, a reputation cemented by Berlin: the life of a young boy, whose trials and adventures (2018). A Sunday Times #1 Bestseller from the Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, The Downfall, D-Day, Ardennes 1944, mirror those of a new nation. ‘A social and preeminent WWII historian. ‘Magnificent’ (The Times). Martin Cruz Smith, Michel Roux Jr and The Battle For Spain. psychological melting pot that churns and crackles, and Patricia Wentworth. Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-up and the Deceitful Inkheart by Cornelia Funke (2003). like a fjord full of herring. The book is a Case for the Atomic Bomb by Peter Watson (2018). The agency is distinctly international Adapted for film by Ian Softley, masterpiece’ (Fréttablaðið). ‘A story of duplicitous players, sinister decisions in its focus and among our authors starring Brendan Fraser and Andy The Alibi Girl by CJ Skuse (2019). Scintillating and regrettable outcomes. Meticulous [...] are winners of several major prizes, Serkis. thriller from the author of the acclaimed Sweetpea a page-turning read’ (Sarah Robey, in Nature). including the International Prize for Les bienveillantes by Jonathan Littell series (under option). Joanne Haynes has a secret: Arabic Fiction, the Sapir Prize, the The Beekeeper of Sinjar by Dunya Mikhail (2018). (2006). Winner of the Grand Prix that is not her real name. Nor is she any of the other Man Asian Literary Prize, the French The harrowing stories of women from across Iraq du roman de l’Académie française women she pretends to be. But someone has got Goncourt and the Nobel Peace Prize. who managed to escape the clutches of ISIS with and the Prix Goncourt. too close, and it looks like her alibis have begun the help of a local beekeeper. ‘Rare and powerful Based in London, in 1993 we opened The Power Trip by Jackie Collins to run out... [...] a searing portrait of courage, humanity our first overseas office in Moscow, (2012). Jackie Collins has sold more The Shadow Bird by Ann Gosslin (2020). A gripping and savagery’ (The New York Times). and three years later opened offices than 500 million copies in over 40 thriller in which a psychiatrist must overcome her in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Critical by Matt Morgan (2019). An intelligent, countries. troubled past to free a patient locked up for a brutal Hungary, Latvia and Poland. compelling and profoundly insightful journey into Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee murder. Our Beijing office opened in 2002, the world of intensive care medicine and the lives (2015). Harper Lee’s lost novel, followed by Taipei in 2003 and The Unadoptables by Hana Tooke (2020). Middle- of people who have been forever changed by it. and one of the biggest publishing finally Istanbul in 2015, when we grade Gothic adventure set in a Dutch orphanage in ‘A very special book filled with stories of survival, events of the century. th formed a collaboration with the 19 Century. World English rights pre-empted by hope and loss’ (Adam Kay). AnatoliaLit. La ragazza nella nebbia (The Girl Puffin; further pre-empts in France, Hungary, Italy, in the Fog) by Donato Carrisi (2015). Norway, and Spain and sold at auction in Germany. Michael Dean joined Andrew The Italian master of the unsettling ‘With the spooky gothic magic of A Series of Nurnberg Associates in 2016. thriller. Unfortunate Events, this joyful romp of an adventure He is responsible for the sale of film is sure to delight fans of Rooftoppers and television rights as well as Zero K by Don DeLillo (2016). and Nevermoor’ (Puffin). finding new authors and handling The latest title from one of America’s prints rights for many of the most perceptive observers of agency’s existing clients. modern society. Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (2018). Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize and sold in over 20 languages; winner of the Kitschies Golden Tentacle for debut of the year.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Au diable vauvert is an independent Le Liseur du 6h27 (The Reader of the publishing house, founded in 6.27) by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent FICTION NON-FICTION October 2000 in Vauvert, Occitanie, (2014). An original and feel-good L’enfant de poussières (Child of Dust) by Patrick K. Crepuscule (Twilight) by Juan Branco (2019). by its actual managing director debut novel, which renders a Dewdney (2018). Will a young orphan spy takes An original investigation, disclosing and and editor Marion Mazauric. generous reflection on human the lead of a medieval country destroyed by wars denouncing a major democratic scandal relationships and an ode to simple With authors such as David Foster and political conflicts? at the head of French government. Wallace, William Gibson, Neil life, love and literature. In a color Feel Good by Thomas Gunzig (2019). When Alice Gaiman, Jeff Vandermeer, Irvine evoking the cinema of Jean-Pierre takes the crazy decision to kidnap a baby, Welsh, Paolo Bacigalupi, and their Jeunet or Jean Meckert’s working- she wasn’t expected that nobody will reclaim French counterparts, Au diable class plume, Jean-Paul Didierlaurent this baby girl... novel in abyss, with black humor vauvert publishes voices of our time. has written a debut novel that and fatalism. Alternating hilarious passages on the Most of our books are adapted into reveals the world of a remarkale literary phenomenon of the moment and lucid movies and our writers are famous writer, full of warmth and poetry, description of his time, Gunzig manages, with great for their cinematographic approach in which the most insignificant intelligence, to brush the social misery for our time. to storytelling, just like Thomas characters are crazy and Gunzig, an award winning Belgian extraordinary in their humanity, Né d’aucune femme (Born of No Women) by Franck author, who was nominated for the and literature the remedy to daily Bouysse (2019, edited by La Manufacture de livres). Césars and the Golden Globes for monotony. A 14 years-old girl is sold as a slave by her misery his screenplay The Brand New Vintage by Grégoire Hervier (2016). father to a rich depraved man who lives with his old Testament. A praise to the former years of rock’n mother and his sick wife. Rose, abused, is interned in an asylum where she writes a diary. Twenty years Our current book-to-film projects roll and pop cultures! A young later, a priest find Rose’s diary and will try to find includes the adaptation of a music guitarist, passionately fond of the protagonists and maybe to find Rose. road trip, the story of a modern instruments and an oddjobber mythical quest about the vintage at a reputable shop, is instructed Simili Love by Antoine Jaquier (2019). 2040, Foogle guitar the Gibson Modern and the to deliver an antique guitar to an declares the “big transparency” and open to the adaptation of the international eccentric British collector. Once public all personal datas... bestseller The Reader of the 6.27 there, in a manor beside the Loch Terres Fauves by Patrice Gain (2019). Hostile by Atlas Entertainment. Ness, he takes on the extraordinary territories of the Pacific Northwest and struggle Urban but organic-committed house, mission to find the prototype of for survival into a very wild nature. Pageturner hyperconnected but located far away a mysterious and cursed guitar, guaranteed! from Paris, in the South of France, the legendary Modern, assuming between vineyards, Au diable it ever actually existed. Five years vauvert releases less than 25 books of research and amazing erudition a year, including French and foreign have conjured up a novel in vintage fiction, documentaries, albums, vein with a nod at the Phantom history, young adults, poetry. of the Opera as well as an incredible In 2020, the company will celebrates reverie to the beat of the American 20 years of publications. road movie; the artistic and technical origins of blues, rock’n’roll, heavy metal, and their guitars.
12 Venice Production Bridge 2019 13 Book Adaptation Rights Market ATTENDING TEAM MEMBER WEBSITE USA & JOB TITLE blueoceanpublications. Jaha Cummings com President & Publisher ADDRESS Chungmei Lee P.O. Box 510818 BLUE OCEAN EMEA Rights Diretor 33951 Punta Gorda PRESS/ ARI PHONE / CELL PHONE USA +1 9416392914 / +1 8133449674 (Jaha Cummings) +46 723108818 (Chungmei Lee) E-MAIL [email protected] COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION [email protected] AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL For fifteen years, blue ocean press Computing Reality by M.A. has contributed to the literary world Choudhury and M.S. Hossain (2007). FICTION NON-FICTION by providing its readers with works The emotional intelligence of the Memoir of a Time Yet to Come by Wm Kane (2012). Living Legends: A Departure to the Past by Lance that allow its authors to express developers of Artificial Intelligence Aaron copes with his dramatic metamorphosis from Wissinger (2019). A Departure to the Past is themselves freely. (AI) technology will determine if AI a typical young urban professional to a Soul Eater, augmented reality with historical significance. We are particularly focused on is a benefit or harm to humanity. the fierce and vicious immortals created by God to Y2X by Abrielle Tayler-Levine and Brian Harvey providing literature to producers Green Pearl Odyssey by Reilly defend Heaven from the forces of Satan. Soul Eaters (2019). What happens when a happily married man of visual entertainment media for Ridgell (2008). A former Peace Corps are answerable to noone, not even the God who who is a pillar of the community, working beside the adaptation. Participation in the Volunteer kills a mobster’s son in created them. governor in a highly conservative state, reveals to cinema industry is one of our most revenge for the murder of his wife Last Things by Wm Kane (2013). With all of Creation his wife that he needs to explore what it feels like cherished endeavors. We feel that and brother, then escapes to the on the verge of certain annihilation, the fate of to be a woman. The couple journey into the world good literature is essential to the South Pacific to avoid the mobster’s humankind rests on the success of a small team of of crossing-dressing as the husband begins secretly development of quality films, hired killers. Adepts who have been recruited by the ultra secret living a second life as a woman. Once this secret documentaries, television series, Obi: Seminole Maroon Freedom PsyOps for a desperate mission to hold back the is revealed, it brings out many emotional responses and games. Fighter by Martha R. Bireda (2014). Forces of Darkness. from family, friends and colleagues.I am that wife We specialize in literary works The daring escape of a group of The Last Pharaoh by Wm Kane (2018). While and this is my story called “Y2X”. for adaptation: film, documentary, teenagers from a plantation in South attending his morning briefing, the President Envie de Maroc by Jamal Belahrach (2020). Longing television, theater, animation, Carolina who find refuge among the receives an urgent call from the moonbase. for Morocco is an autobiographical work of Franco- games, and VR. As such, we have Seminoles of Florida. One among the An object has been found, one with a stunning Moroccan entrepreneur Jamal Belahrach. The child a full creative team on-hand to make group becomes a leader and the similarity to the Great Pyramid. This object has a of immigrants who arrived in France without the acquisitions of our titles founder of a new town. Peace only carving of a face on it, a face that looks like his own. knowing why, he recounts his childhood, images of a smooth experience. We try to map lasts so long, and eventually the growing up, the confusion of adolescence, and the out a possible road to greenlighting entire community is drawn into the Murder Insured by J. Stephen Reid (2020). There are choices and commitments of being a man. He saw each work that we bring to Venice. Second Seminole War. thousands of companies which insure millions of employees for billions of dollars as a way his life “as a chance to draw inspiration into his life We option our intellectual properties by Brian The Incomplete Sorcerer of offsetting the emerging cost of post-retirement from two national sources”. Jamal recounts the for adaptation; and if desired, we Ardel (2017). A young, untrained benefits. With so many people covered for so much return home of childhood, its transformation, can also source additional creative magician desperately tries to save money, is it inconceivable that someone is taking inequality, and improvements, and his work to and other professional services to his love and the realm by defeating advantage of this indifference? promote social and economic progress in Morocco. assist in bringing the project to an evil master sorcerer, all while My Brother’s Keeper by P.W. long (2020). He speaks as a bi- national, which was the impetus fruition, to include: scriptwriting, using a spell book missing the most behind his return to Morocco. art, casting, costume design, important parts of each spell. A centenarian avenges the murder of his brother that took place 80 years before.This 1930s The Return of the Garden of Eden by Sharon Andrea production, directing, publicity, and by P.W. Long The Womb Rebellion millionaire Policy King finds the clue to his brother’s (2020). This is about the Awakening and the assistance in securing final project (2017). Based on true historical murder in a luxurious retirement center. Ascension time taking place on Planet Earth right financing. accounts, young Ruby leads a Southern Conspiracy by P.W. long (2020). now. This is the balance and new archetype of This year we are featuring titles for community of enslaved women Feminine and Masculine Template on planet Earth. adaptation into the following genres: in fomenting a “Womb Rebellion” A socialite is shot and killed by the police in an idyllic retirement community.A story about race, We are now re-creating Our Garden of Eden. Film: Action, Adventure, Crime & against a system in which women class, and police relations that are at the epicenter Gangster Drama - Comedy, Fantasy, are exploited as producers and of American life. Historical Drama, Political Drama, reproducers. Science Fiction, Teen Fantasy/ The Marvelous Mister Moon Romance, Western. by Christine Ramondetta (2018). Animation: Children’s Fantasy - Discover the deep magic of a child’s Puppetry/Traditional Video Game: dream in this bedtime story of Turn-based Strategy Game (RPG) enchanted butterflies, the moon, Role-Play Games. and the night sky. VR: Augmented Reality.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL De Bezige Bij (The Busy Bee) is one FICTION NON-FICTION of the leading literary publishers in FICTION NON-FICTION Un Untouched House by Willem Congo by David van Reybrouck the Netherlands for both Dutch and Frederik Hermans (1952). A partisan (2010). A history of one of the most The Blessed Rita by Tommy Wieringa (2018). The Burgundians by Bart Van Loo (2019). The book translated literature, fiction, and fighting with the Red Army in devastated nations in the world. His whole life, Paul Krüzen has lived with his father takes the reader on a journey through a thousand non-fiction. Publishing House De Germany comes across an Van Reybrouck balances hundreds in an old, haunted farmhouse, not far from the years of European history up to the time when the Bezige Bij was set up illegally during abandoned house. Exhausted, he of interviews with a diverse range of German border. Where once his father took care of Seventeen Provinces arose and the Burgundian WWII by a group of students in falls asleep in a room, but wakes to Congolese with meticulous him, now he takes care of his father. In those fifty Empire came to an end. Bart Van Loo is unmatched Utrecht who, led by Geert find a German patrol marching up historical research to construct years, they have seen their village change in his ability to bring the powerfully evocative Lubberhuizen, financed their the garden. His only hope is to pose a multidimensional portrait of drastically. The world is on the move: the Chinese middle ages to life. The Burgundians is a whirlwind resistance activities under German as the house’s owner. a nation and its people. now run the bars and restaurants in their village, of a cultural history, an astonishing account of occupation with a range of while Russians, Bulgarians and Poles have become emerging cities, awakening individualism and dying publications. It was officially The Ice-Cream Makers by Ernest van Under the Knife by Arnold van de a familiar presence. The Blessed Rita is an knightly ideals, of schizophrenic kings, bold dukes established in December 1944, der Kwast (2015). Giovanni Talamini Laar (2014). The history of surgery enchanting memento for those left behind. and brilliant artists. While the Burgundian dukes several months before the war decides to break with his family’s told in 28 remarkable operations: forged the fragmented Low Countries into a unified ended. After the liberation of The ice-cream making tradition by Empress Sissi (stabbed), Louis XIV Otmar’s Sons by Peter Buwalda (2019). The book whole through battles, marriages and reforms, they Netherlands it moved to a building pursuing a literary career. But then (fistula in the anus), Pope John Paul II tells the story of a young Shell employee named spurred artists like Klaas Sluter, Jan van Eyck and on the Van Miereveldstraat in one day his younger brother Luca (colostomy), John F. Kennedy and Lee Ludwig Smit, who, after visiting the illustrious Rogier van der Weyden to produce unforgettable Amsterdam as a cooperative approaches him with a highly Harvey Oswald (gunshot wounds), Johan Tromp on the Siberian island of Sakhalin, works. Along the way, Bart Van Loo’s equally publishing house. In these elegant unusual request. Houdini (ruptured appendix), etc. finds himself stranded there during a snow storm. thrilling and educational exploration of the middle premises the publishing house still The Devil’s Handwriting by Donald Pluses and minuses by Stefan It’s at that very moment, when investigative ages develops into an impressive cultural history resides and continues to go from Nolet (2016). Zina, a brilliant Buijsman (2018). About why do we journalist Isabelle Orthel hands Tromp the lid to a which is crying to be filmed. strength to strength. De Bezige Bij mathematician, tries to develop an need math in life? Buijsman makes Pandora’s box, that his sensational career in the oil consists of the following lists: 1. De algorithm that could be the key to connections between philosophy, industry begins to teeter. Tromp – hedonist, alpha Notes on a Murder by Peter Vermeersch (in prep. Bezige Bij: literary and upmarket unlocking the secret meaning of the psychology and history, while male, Shell’s crown prince and in all regards 2019). One morning Peter Vermeersch is called up fiction and non-fiction 2. Thomas Voynich manuscript; a 15th-century explaining the wonderful world of Ludwig’s exact opposite – misjudges his two for jury duty. The young man in the dock is accused Rap: upmarket fiction and non- illustrated work, composed in an mathematics for absolutely visitors entirely. of robbery and manslaughter. Together with the fiction, books on comedy and sports unknown language. Until now, no everyone. Plenty of Time by Ronald Giphart (in prep. 2019). other members of the jury Vermeersch is confronted 3. Cargo: crime fiction, thrillers, one has been able to crack it. Their friendship was born during many evenings with questions about the true course of events, the commercial fiction and non-fiction. spent in their local pub. They knew that every day rituals of the law and the suspect as a timid In December 2019 De Bezige Bij will would bring something memorable. When the six creature. This story provides a penetrating insight be proud to celebrate their 75th men opened a beer brewery in the 1990s, they into violence and justice. anniversary. became business partners as well as friends. Film producers interested in our Twenty-five years later, they are on their way to a stories can read many of our titles log cabin in Germany to spend one last weekend suitable to be filmed in foreign together before they sign the contract to sell their languages (English, French, German, brewery. Italian and so on).
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL DeA Planeta Libri is a well CHILDREN’S FICTION INTERNATIONAL ADULT FICTION established Italian publishing house, The Mia Series by Italian author Ready Player One by Ernest Cline FICTION NON-FICTION a joint venture between major Paola Zannoner (2007, 2011, 2014, (2018). Now a major sci-fi movie by CHILDREN’S FICTION Il vento contro (With the Wind in your Face) publishing groups Planeta and De 2016, 2018), with over 200,000 Steven Spielberg. Darkness is the new middle grade novel written by by Daniele Cassioli (2018). An uplifting take Agostini. Grupo Planeta, founded in copies sold, middle grade fiction. Need to Know by Karen Cleveland the Italian bestseller YA author Leonardo Patrignani on the extraordinary vitality of a blind boy, now Barcelona in 1949, is the leading Le ragazze non hanno paura (Girls (2018). A psychological suspense (2019). It’s a story about fears and friendship, a grown-up man, and how he became a water-skiing Spanish language publishing group Aren’t Afraid) by Alessandro Ferrari and a major international thriller. paranormal and mystery, perfect for fans of champion. A heartwarming call to never give up and the world’s fourth largest (2018). Debut middle grade novel by Pre-empted by Universal, it will Stranger Things. on your dreams, even in the face of adversity. publisher. De Agostini is an a very talented and experienced become a movie with Charlize Theron. La scorpacciata (Binge Feasting) is the new laugh out How to Build a Boat by Jonathan Gornall (2019). international group involved in a screenwriter, winner of the Premio The Secret We Kept by Lara Prescott loud novel written by a much awarded Italian author, The inspiring story of a man who decided to build wide range of industrial and financial Selezione Bancarellino. (2019). Sold in 25 countries and activities. De Agostini Editore Annalisa Strada (2019). It’s a clever and funny story a boat with his bare hands as a gift to his newly born YA/CROSSOVER FICTION poised to become a global literary about dreadful gramps and rebel children. daughter. A story of fatherly love and resilience. operates in 30 countries, mainly in sensation, a dazzling novel about the partworks and books segments. The Divergent Saga by Veronica Roth Stella azzurra (The Little Light Blue Star) by Mario La vita inizia dove finisce il divano (Life Starts (2012 – 2015). The saga has become the fate of Boris Pasternak’s banned DeA Planeta Libri focuses on the Lodi (2019). It is a shining and imaginative novella Where the Couch Ends) by Veronica Benini aka an international series of live action masterpiece, a book that changed publication of Kids and Middle Grade in the vein of The Little Prince, written by one of the Spora (2019). Part motivational, part advice book, movies. the history. Fiction and Non Fiction, Young Adult/ most noteworthy contemporary-classic authors. the story of a web coach whose amazing life is by Jennifer The Warehouse by Rob Hart (2019). inspiring tens of thousands of women. Crossover, Adult international and All the Bright Places YA/CROSSOVER Niven (2015) (YA fiction). It will A thriller set in near-future America. Italian Fiction as well as Non Fiction. Abbi cura di splendere (Make Sure to Shine) by become soon a movie with Elle Rights sold to Ron Howard’s Imagine On the Children side, DeA Planeta Ludovica Bizzaglia (2019). An unforgettable novel Fanning. Entertainment, with Howard publishes a variety of both highly attached to direct. about girl power by the very talented and very commercial and upmarket L’ultimo faro (The Last Lighthouse) popular Italian actress Ludovica Bizzaglia (750k international and Italian fiction. also by Paola Zannoner (2017). A YA ITALIAN ADULT FICTION followers on Instagram). A book that will inspire On the Italian front, we have a wide coming of age novel by a bestselling Mi vivi dentro (You Live Inside Me) young women to believe in themselves and to follow range of high profile authors with author that won the most prestigious by Alessandro Milan (2018). The their dreams. Italian Prize for literature: the Premio touching love story between two an audiovisual potential. Il tempo è una vertigine (The Vertigo of Time) Strega Children’s Award 2018. radio journalists, Alessandro and On the YA/Crossover list, DeA by EIGEI (2019). Set in New York, the absolutely Francesca, and the tumor that took Planeta publishes commercial and Kissing Booth by Beth Reekles romantic love story between a very young Italian her away. A novel that cuts through upmarket fiction titles, both Italian (2018). A bestseller young adult writer and a French girl. A novel in prose and verse pain and manages to make people and international. On the Italian romance, now a big movie on Netflix. about love and self-acceptance by a popular Italian smile with sweetness and restraint. side, we have recently started The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina urban poet (50k followers on Instagram). An ode to resilience, love for life and to publish big commercial projects by Sarah Rees Brennan (2019). strength. 60,000 copies sold in Italy. L’imprevedibile movimento dei sogni (The by web and TV stars. A prequel novel to the award- Unpredictable Journey Of Dreams) by Francesca Se i pesci guardassero le stelle On the adult fiction side, we offer winning Netflix series. Sangalli and Fabrizio Bozzetti (2019). A touching, (If Fish Looked up at the Stars) a variety of upmarket commercial The Perfectionists by Sara Shepard brave and controversial novel about euthanasia. by Luca Ammirati (2019). A delicate women’s fiction, psychological (2019). The spin-off novel to the Part sick-lit and part ghost story, this story is about romantic comedy set in Sanremo: suspense, thrillers and noir. In 2018 Pretty little liars series, which has three girls in a hospital and the choice they have to during a magical summer night, we started to develop a strong recently become a TV series for face between life and death. Samuele meets Emma, the woman Italian fiction list with a film Freeform. of his dreams, but when he wakes up ITALIAN FICTION adaptation potential. the next morning she’s gone, all that Con tanto affetto ti ammazzerò (I Will Kill You with Finally, on the Non Fiction side, remains is the trace of a kiss on the Lots of Love) by Pino Imperatore (2019). A brilliant DeA Planeta Libri publishes both bathroom mirror. mix between noir, humor and comedy. Set between commercial and upmarket essay- Naples, Ischia and Capri. An old baroness driven titles with the two different disappears during her birthday party; a chief of imprints De Agostini and Utet. police and a hilarious family of restaurant owners investigate a bad story of envy and vested interests. The new novel by best seller author Roberto Emanuelli – 200,000 copies in two years with his previous novels – will be published in Fall 2019.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Grupo Planeta is Spain’s leading La gangrena by Mercedes Salisachs El juego del ángel by Carlos Ruiz family-owned publishing and media (1975). Zafón (2016). FICTION group and it boasts an extensive Sendero de libertad by Javier Moro El libro de las pequeñas revoluciones All Good and All Evil by Care Santos (2018). Reina product offering at the service of (1992). by Elsa Punset (2016). is a strong successful woman. During a business culture, learning, news and Las montañas de Buda by Javier Pan de limón con semillas de trip she receives the news that her son has audiovisual entertainment. In the Moro (1997). amapola by Cristina Campos (2016). attempted suicide. She tries to go back home, but years since Editorial Planeta was La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Patria by Fernando Aramburu (2016). a storm leaves her stranded in Bucharest and is founded in Barcelona by José Manuel Zafón (2002). forced to wait, with nothing but her cellphone. Lara Hernández, in 1949, the Group El prisionero del cielo by Carlos Ruiz She discovers then how little she knows about him. has become a multinational Pasión India by Javier Moro (2005). Zafón (2016). enterprise. It combines a solid Un burka por amor by Reyes El silencio de la ciudad blanca Days without You by Elvira Sastre (2019). Dora, a business tradition with its capacity Monforte (2007). by Eva García Sáenz De Urturi (2016). teacher at the time of the Second Spanish Republic, for innovation and its European and El sari rojo by Javier Moro (2008). El sistema by Ricardo Menéndez shares with her grandson the story that has led her to be who she is. She confesses her emotions to international vocation, with an La infel by Reyes Monforte (2011). Salmón (2016). him and gives him the keys to recover from the especially prominent presence in La tierra que pisamos by Jesús La bibliotecaria de Auschwitz by wounds caused by love. Spain, France, Portugal and Latin Antonio Iturbe (2012). Carrasco (2016). Some Day, Today by Ángel Becerra (2019). On a America. Grupo Planeta leads the Ana by Roberto Santiago (2017). Una comedia canalla by Iván Repila stormy night, a bastard girl is born. She carries the publishing market in Spain and Latin (2012). A cielo abierto by Antonio Iturbe America and is one of the main strength of femininity and the rebellion that will Medusa by Ricardo Menéndez (2017). publishing groups worldwide. It has make her overcome all obstacles. She will create Salmón (2012). Como fuego en el hielo by Luz Gabás more than 100 brands and a strong bond with her foster sister, Capitolina (2017). publishing names in many countries, Una mochila para el universo and none will be indifferent to her gaze, not even which cover all literary genres and by Elsa Punset (2012). Después del amor by Sonsoles Emmanuel, a French revolutionary who will fall involve the work of more than 7000 Palmeras en la nieve by Luz Gabás Ónega (2017). in love with her. collaborators. Since the beginning of (2012). La huella de una carta by Rosario The Sting by Sílvia Soler (2019). Three siblings the 21st century, Grupo Planeta has Pídeme lo que quieras by Megan Raro (2017). inherit the family house when their father dies. achieved consolidation in new areas Maxwell (2012). El niño que robó el caballo de Atila The different events in their life lead all three of business to become one of Spain’s Intemperie by Jesús Carrasco (2013). by Iván Repila (2017). of them to move in. One of them decides to put leading media groups. It is a Sorpréndeme by Megan Maxwell Nosotros dos by Xavier Bosch (2017). the family’s library in order and discovers books reference shareholder in the (2013). La parte escondida del iceberg by dedicated to her mother by an unknown person. newspaper La Razón and in La trilogía del Baztán by Dolores Maxim Huerta (2017). Vanished in Siboney by Rosario Raro (2019). ATRESMEDIA, which comprises the Redondo (2013 - 2014). Prólogo para una guerra by Iván In 1875, Mauricio Sargal is obliged to travel to Cuba television channels Antena 3, when he finds out his sister has disappeared. Milena o el fémur más bello del Repila (2017). laSexta, Neox, Nova, Mega and To discover what has happened to her he will have mundo by Jorge Zepeda Patterson Los ritos del agua by Eva García ATRESERIES; the radio stations Onda to face his brother-in-law, a fugitive from justice (2014). Sáenz De Urturi (2017). Cero, Europa FM and Melodía FM; who has managed to assemble a great fortune. film and television production; El mundo en tus manos Todo esto te daré by Dolores online television and film websites by Elsa Punset (2014). Redondo (2017). and multimedia advertising Regreso a tu piel by Luz Gabás La chica invisible by Blue Jeans management (on television, radio (2014). (2018). and the internet). Through these Alguien como tú by Xavier Bosch Homo Lubitz by Ricardo Menéndez channels it also promotes (2015). Salmón (2018). awareness-raising campaigns A flor de piel by Javier Moro (2015). El laberinto de los espíritus by Carlos relating to road safety, the No me dejes (Ne me quitte pas) Ruiz Zafón (2018). environment and health. by Maxim Huerta (2015). El aliado by Iván Repila (2019). Te quiero (Casi siempre) by Anna El puzle de cristal by Blue Jeans Llenas (2015). (2019). Volver a Canfranc by Rosario Raro (2015).
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Elisabeth Ruge Agentur was founded Don’t Wait for Better Times by Wolf in 2014 and represents more than Biermann (2016). Wolf Biermann is FICTION 200 German and international one of the most important political After The Pain by Lucas Grimm (2017). The virtuoso authors. Elisabeth Ruge previously and cultural figures of the past half cellist Hannah Gold feels no pain. As a child she had worked as an editor and publisher century of German/German history. been tortured in East Germany, after her at S. Fischer, Berlin Verlag (which His autobiography – the account apparatchik father had stashed away explosive she co-founded) and Hanser Berlin, of a truly amazing life, rendered with information from his comrades, the notorious which she started for the Munich poetic force – became an instant Rosenholz files. Many years later Hannah wants to Hanser Verlag in 2012. bestseller. leave her past behind, she wants to feel alive, feel Her authors included Philippe Pozzo Hool by Philipp Winkler (2016). Heiko pain. But first she has to uncover her father’s secret. di Borgo (Untouchables), Michael is a football hooligan. And he’s good Sweet Rotation by Laura Wohnlich (2017). After her Haneke (Das Weiße Band) and at it. He also has a pet vulture and mother’s death, Anna, 19 years old, has to face the Svetlana Alexievich (Second-hand two rather sweet mastiffs. Now he’s task of growing up. She becomes an escort girl and Time), Ingo Schulze (Simple Stories), looking for a life. One of the most then handsome Nelson enters her life. A surprising Jonathan Littell (Les Bienveillantes), acclaimed literary debuts of the past literary debut. Young, fresh and smart – for the fans Zeruya Shalev (Love Life), and Victor years, shortlisted for Deutscher of Sex Education and the like. Erofeyev (Russian Beauty) – some of Buchpreis. Pale Heroes by Norris Von Schirach (2018). Moscow which she now also represents with The Wannsee Murder by Lutz in the early 1990ies: Anton has come to work here in German language rights or Wilhelm Kellerhoff (2018). Berlin commodity sales, a highly eccentric business in the worldwide. in the late 1960ies. A corpse is found turmoil of a rapidly disintegrating Soviet empire. The agency has been affliated on the banks of Lake Wannsee. Anton is sucked into an outrageously decadent with several prestigious awards: Inspector Wolf Heller is called to world fueled by money and corruption – and then the Nobel Prize for Literature, the investigate and suddenly finds Putin enters the scene. Prix Goncourt, as well as the most himself in the midst of corruption, important German literary prize, espionage, terror, and rebellious Jungle by Friedemann Karig (2019). Felix has the Deutscher Buchpreis, presented students. A riveting political thriller disappeared during a trip through Asia. And his to Frank Witzel in 2015. full of atmosphere and enticing best friend, a young man his age, on the verge of adulthood, is probably the only one who can find The Elisabeth Ruge Agentur is characters. him. A journey into distant worlds – and towards renowned for the high quality of its by Helene Bukowski Milk Teeth the heart of darkness. authors list, including fiction as well (2019). Skalde and her mother Edith as non-fiction writers. Major recent live in a secluded northern Kachelbad’s Legacy by Hendrik Otremba (2019). deals include Wolf Biermann’s landscape. One day, deep in the Los Angeles, 1980s. H.G. Kachelbad is head of “Exit autobiography and Julie von Kessel’s woods, Skalde finds a child with U.S.”, a company that deep-freezes humans German family saga Altenstein. The flaming red hair. Soon the newcomer in order to reanimate them in the distant future. agency is also known for building causes mistrust among the This Lynchean tale spans from Vienna in the 1920ies young talents and has negotiated neighbors and hatred flares up in the to modern New York and L.A. deals for exciting debut novels, small community. Milk Teeth is one like Hool by Philipp Winkler, which of the most relevant and artistically won the the well-known ZDF convincing German debut novels aspekte-Literaturpreis, or Alina published in recent years. Herbing Niemand ist bei den Kälbern.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Feltrinelli Editore is one of the most Here a few selected highlights from What a Carve Up (La famiglia independent-minded and Feltrinelli’s catalogue: Winshaw) by Jonathan Coe (1995). FICTION NON-FICTION prestigious literary publishers in Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Bar Sport by Stefano Benni (1997). We hold the film/TV rights to many of the novels by Senior Service by Carlo Feltrinelli (1999). Italy. Founded in 1955 by (1957). The Conservationist by Nadine Simonetta Agnello Hornby, including these below: Giangiacomo Feltrinelli was one of the most Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, the The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Gordimer (2009). The Marchesa (La zia marchesa) (2004); arresting characters of his generation, yet he died publishing house was marked with Lampedusa (1958). L’altalena del respiro by Herta Müller Boccamurata (2007); violently. Born into great wealth, he found himself some notable early successes, Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry (2010). There’s Nothing Wrong With Lucy equally attracted to great books and workers’ including the first publication (1961). (Vento scomposto) (2009); rights. Despite the attentions of the KGB, Pasternak worldwide of Doctor Zhivago by Blindness by José Saramago (2010). The Nun (La monaca) (2010). smuggled his manuscript out of the USSR to Boris Pasternak, of which all rights The Golden Notebook by Doris Suddenly a Knock at the Door by Feltrinelli, who then saw to it that the book was in all formats are still controlled by Lessing (1964). Etgar Keret (2012). Other titles include the following: published worldwide, and the passionate editor’s Feltrinelli, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1967). Canada by Richard Ford (2013). All The Colours of The World (Tutti i colori del censor-duping correspondence with the besieged Tomasi di Lampedusa, and One Diario in Bolivia by Che Guevara mondo) by Giovanni Montanaro (2012). Zero Zero Zero by Roberto Saviano writer is relayed in this memoir. Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel (1968). (2013). Send Me Life (Mandami tanta vita) by Paolo Di Paolo Inside the Zhivago Storm by Paolo Mancosu (2013). García Márquez. Traditionally a very One Hundred Years of Solitude by Judas by Amos Oz (2014). (2013). Freshly arrived in Turin from his Piedmontese province, Moraldo searches for A riveting account of the story of the first publication accomplished publisher of literature Gabriel García Márquez (1968). L’amore by Maurizio Maggiani himself, wondering about his vocation, his political of Doctor Zhivago and of the subsequent Russian in translation, in the past three Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, (2018). decades Feltrinelli has also been a orientation. Son of a simple shoe salesman, the editions in the West. Exploiting the untapped and General Tales of Ordinary Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday (2018). resources of the Feltrinelli archives in Milan as well market leader in the publication of Madness by Charles Bukowski (1975). young man dreams of becoming the equal of Piero, a Educated by Tara Westover (2018). student for whom he cultivates an admiration as several other private and public archives in new literature in the Italian The House of Spirits by Isabel Feltrinelli’s non- fiction list includes mingled with jealousy. At twenty-five Piero has Europe, Russia, and the USA, Mancosu reconstructs language, publishing works by Allende (1983). Stefano Benni, Gianni Celati and works by Hannah Arendt, Enrico already founded a magazine and is a publisher the relationship between Pasternak and Feltrinelli, The Lover by Marguerite Duras Antonio Tabucchi. More recently Deaglio, Nelson Mandela, Edward engaged in dangerous activity, outspokenly critical the story of the Italian publication, and the pressure (1985). Feltrinelli has been the publisher of Said, Daniel Barenboim, Congo by of Mussolini. Persuaded that Piero will make sense exercised on Feltrinelli by the Soviets and the Italian Erri De Luca, Alessandro Baricco and Novecento by Alessandro Baricco David Van Reybrouk (2014), Olivier of his existence, Moraldo sends letters that Communist Party to stop publication of the novel in Roberto Saviano. Highlights from (1994). Roy, Giorgio Bocca, Paolo Rumiz, however remain unanswered. Fate provides for the Italy and in other countries. Within the context of the 2018 include Le Assaggiatrici (At the Sostiene Pereira by Antonio Tabucchi Michel Foucault, Eugenio Borgna, paths of the two men to cross again, in Paris, in Cold War, Mancosu describes the hidden roles of the Wolf’s Table) by Rosella Postorino, (1994). Charles Taylor, Carlo Ginzburg and February 1926. KGB and the CIA in the vicissitudes of the publication of the novel both in Italian and in the original ...Che Dio perdona a tutti by Pif, La The entire Malaussene cycle by Massimo Recalcati. Magari domani resto by Lorenzo Marone (2017). Russian language. felicità del cactus (The Cactus) by Daniel Pennac (1995-2018). A number 1 bestseller in Italy throughout the spring Sarah Haywood, Un ragazzo normale of 2017, this novel has sold more than 100,000 I’ll Have to Dance (Mi toccherà ballare) by Ottavia by Lorenzo Marone, and Il giro copies. Luce is an honest and combative young Casagrande and Raimonda Lanza di Trabia (2014). dell’oca by Erri De Luca. Feltrinelli woman, stuck in an existence dominated by a The astonishing story of Raimondo Lanza di Trabia, Editore also publishes a highly bigoted and unhappy mother. Until one day Luce is nobleman, soldier, diplomat and sportsman. selective list of upmarket assigned the custody of a minor. Suddenly a wise commercial fiction, a broad range of and very special child enters her life, together with quality non-fiction and a children’s a globetrotting street artist and a swallow with no list. The publishing group also intention of migrating. contains the editorial brands Gribaudo and Apogeo, and we work very closely with Marsilio Editori, including in handling foreign and film/TV rights on their behalf.
26 Venice Production Bridge 2019 27 Book Adaptation Rights Market ATTENDING TEAM MEMBER WEBSITE ITALY & JOB TITLE einaudi.it Valeria Zito / Rights ADDRESS Laura Piccarolo / Rights Manager Via U. Biancamano 2 GIULIO EINAUDI PHONE / CELL PHONE 10121 Turin +39 0115656204 / +39 3492909233 Italy EDITORE (Valeria Zito) +39 0115656269 / +39 3357328929 (Laura Piccarolo) E-MAIL [email protected] / [email protected] COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Since its foundation in 1933, Einaudi La luna e i falò by Cesare Pavese Berta Isla by Javier Marias (2018). has been regarded as the most (1950; latest ed. 2014). Divorare il cielo by Paolo Giordano FICTION NON-FICTION important cultural reference point in Se questo è un uomo by Primo Levi (2018). Don’t Tell Anyone by Riccardo Gazzaniga (2016). Gentle Listening. Clinical Stories by Eugenio Italy and has maintained a constant (1958; ultima ed. 2014). 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Programme” and become a Tokyo people, this apically told tale of the She repeatedly made speeches with no point, 2020 Official Supporter in the nuclear power plant accident pieces shamelessly, so naturally classmates started staying category of “Books and Magazines together the tense situation, the away from her. But she was more straightforward Publishing Services”. mounting damage, and the inspiring than others. Inspired by her vision and passion, she human drama that are known only to and I established the syndicate ‘MOAI’. Three years the people who were on the scene. A have passed since the establishment, and she, who feature film based on this book will used to speak about future goals together, is no be released next year. longer here. Her lies stabbed my heart. ‘I’ll make lies she’s left come true.’ For me, that implies the rebellion of the world.’ Sumino’s work softly portraits ambiguous feelings appearing in the mind of teenagers, which they cannot express to others. 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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The agency was founded by Guilt by Ferdinand von Schirach longstanding editor and publisher (2010). Adapted for Series by FICTION Marcel Hartges in Munich in January Constantin. Each standalone story Battlestars by Alexa Hennig von Lange (2018). 2016. Ferdinand von Schirach, Alissa is linked by the theme of guilt and The story of a generation of parents who wanted Walser, Jan Weiler, Volker Klüpfel & the character of defense attorney to live together more freely. The ideologies they Michael Kobr, Albert Ostermaier, Friedrich Kornberg, played by award followed, the love that united them, the mistakes Andrea Sawatzki and Anne winner Moritz Bleibtreu. they made and the decisions their children made Gesthuysen were among the first The Collini Case by Ferdinand von because of this. authors to join the agency. We Schirach (2011). Adapted for film by The Hungry and the Sated by Timur Vermes (2018). represent authors of fiction, Constantin. In this courtroom drama, A social satire: current, radical, oppressive and funny, non-fiction books and screenplays. Elyas M’Barek plays the role of all at the same time. It begins where the fun ends. In addition to sending manuscripts Leinen, an inexperienced lawyer who to publishers in Germany and further is assigned a case that will spiral Great Freedom by Rocko Schamoni (2019). The story afield, another key area of our work into a judicial scandal. His client is of Wolli Köhler, a dazzling figure of the Hamburger is in representing our clients’ film a retired Italian worker called Collini Kiez of the 60s and 70s. and translations rights. (Franco Nero), who has allegedly It’s time by Ildikó von Kürthy (2019). Judith’s mother We cooperate with Kiepenheuer murdered a prominent industrialist. dies and after twenty years she returns to her old Bühnenvertrieb and various The Verdict by Ferdinand von homeland, where she has left a well-kept secret, agencies abroad. Film, theatre as Schirach (2015). Adapted for film by an empty grave and a pile of hopes behind. well as foreign rights play such an MOOVIE. Can it be justified to shoot The Christmas-Story by Alexa Hennig von Lange important role for us that we do not down a civilian plane, converted by (2019). It’s Christmas and three sisters pack their want to leave them to publishers as terrorists into a deadly suicide children and partners to drive home to celebrate so-called “subsidiary rights”. Marcel missile? The Verdict is a legal thriller with their parents. But to their great surprise, the Hartges, born in Mönchengladbach, testing the fundamental values of house is abandoned. They can only find a message studied German, Spanish, democracy. on the fridge, which leads them on a search for philosophy and sociology in Bonn We’re then next of kin by Johann clues in the house of their childhood. and Berlin. He worked as an editor Scheerer (2018). Adapted for a film Forever the Alps by Benjamin Quaderer (2020). and later as head of the paperback by 23/5 Filmproduktion. The The whistleblower from Lichtenstein Johann Kaiser publishing house at Rowohlt Verlag. dramatic story of the Reemtsma lives under a false name in the Witness Protection From 2006 to 2009 he was publisher abduction, told by the ten 13- year- Program in Australia. In order to wash himself away of DuMont Literatur- und old son. from the accusations of guilt he tells of the Kunstverlag, from 2009 to 2016 How to kill with mindfully by Karsten circumstances that led him to commit the data theft. publisher of Piper Verlag. Hartges Dusse (2019). Adapted for a film also worked for the first time as a by Constantin Television. The lawyer producer at the filming of Ferdinand Diemel is forced by his wife to attend von Schirach’s The Collini Case. a mindfulness seminar. Diemel can integrate what he learns into his job: when his client, a brutal criminal, begins to cause him problems, he simply kills him - with all due care. Others do it for a living by Andrea Sawatzki (2019). Adapted for film by Ziegler Film. A family comedy about the married couple Bundschuh.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Michael Gaeb Literary Agency, a Die, my Love by Ariana Harwicz full-service agency based in Berlin, (2012). Nominated for the Man FICTION NON-FICTION was founded in 2003. We represent Booker International Prize 2018. Ghosts by Cesar Aira (1990). Highly acclaimed An Underground Life. Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi German-writing and Latin-American Published in 16 countries. In the author, published in 30 countries. “A heady, Berlin by Gad Beck (2004). Berlin, World War II: Gad authors. We are handling foreign French countryside, a woman is vertigo-inducing fantasia” (NYT) about a Beck manages to evade the Nazis and lives illegally rights and film representation battling her demons. Motherhood, construction worker’s family squatting on a building underground. Coming of age as a gay man during worldwide for the most part womanhood, the banality of love, site in Buenos Aires accompanied by a group of the war, he helps organize a Jewish youth group, of our authors as well as German the terrors of desire. Ref: John ghosts. free friends from the Gestapo, and maintains a representation for a selection Cassavetes, Lars von Trier. Next Door lived a Girl by Stefan Kiesbye (2008). series of romantic relationships. When anti-Jewish of Italian, French and Hispanic by Kristine A Love, in Thoughts A glimpse into an abyss of betrayal and violence. policies begin to be enforced, Beck helps set up publishers and agencies. Bilkau (2018). Award-winning, German mystery, for fans of Dark, set in a working- resistance efforts to hide refugees, smuggle food As primary agents, we are engaged bestselling author, published in 4 class town in post-World War II Germany. and drugs into labor and concentration camps. in every aspect of our authors’ countries. Antonia and Edgar share Bodies of the Summer by Martin Félipe Castagnet Actively homosexual from an early age, Beck argues careers, from the editorial work the dream of a future together during forthrightly that his sexuality and love for men of developing a book proposal the years before the social upheaval (2012). What happens if death doesn’t exist anymore, and you get to choose a second hand infuses most of his life and gives him the ability or editing a fiction or non-fiction of 1968. 50 years later, a daughter to fight for his own life and for others. manuscript to negotiating book says goodbye to her dying mother body after life? An Argentinian Black Mirror-like Time of the Magicians by Wolfram Eilenberger deals, assisting with strategic career finding hundreds of old love letters. Experience. (2018). International Bestseller, published in 22 decisions and helping to promote Milk Blood by Clara Weiss (2015). A claustrophobic The Republic of Free Spirits by Peter countries. A vivid History of Ideas about four the books once they are published. thriller about a woman suffering from facial Neumann (2018). Bestseller, German philosophers during the ten years following Our authors cover a broad spectrum published in 6 countries. The story of blindness, set in a small, archaic village in the Austrian alps in winter. Ref: The Shining. World War I. We accompany Ludwig Wittgenstein of literary fiction, commercial fiction an extraordinary thinkers’ commune, to the village school in rural Austria, promenade The Fur by Maren Wurster (2017). A Female (thrillers and crime, women’s fiction the Silicon Valley of 19th-century, with Walter Benjamin through the arcades of Paris, Kafkaesque Metamorphosis. 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Ref: The Meyerowitz Stories, Royal chopped. 1919-1929 mark the early highpoint of all our greatest achievements have on behalf of the German Oriental Tenenbaums. schools of thought shaping philosophy to this day, lately been with philosophical titles Society, laying bare the foundations The Disappeared by Antonio Ortuño (2019). including the critique of technology, crisis of from Germany. Regarding film of the Western world. Internationally renowned, award-winning author. democracy, culture wars, religious fundamentalism, rights, we’ve recently closed very Greed by Marc Elsberg (2019). A powerful evocation of intrigue, vengeance, discourses of sustainability. nice deals for our Latin-American Internationally bestselling author, politics and venality. A novel on the Desaparecidos literary fiction authors. published in 20 countries. His first in Mexico’s war on drugs. Andrea Vogel joined the agency thriller has been optioned by Netflix. 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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Nefeli Publishing is based in Athens, Focussing on the short form, magic Greece and it is currently one of the realism and contemporary fiction: FICTION NON-FICTION most dynamically emerging pushling Joke by Yiannis Palavos (2012). Phihellinon by Vicky Tselepidou (2018). This is the 1919 — The Suspended Step to Asia Minor (2019). houses in the Greek market. Since its Palavos was born in 1980 and ranks new novella of the Greek Academy Award laureate One of the most successful history books of 2019 founding in 1979, it has published among the most acclaimed and best Vicky Tselepidou. The mother: Mother-Church, in the Greek market, it fully covers the story of one more than 1600 titles, introducing selling short story collections Mother-Greece, Mother-Europe, Mother-Insecurity, of the most ambitious military campaigns in the writers and works of seminal published in Greece in recent years. a Nation getting older by itself. A modern, history of contemporary Greece, that ended in importance in most subject areas. It is one of the few short story fascinating narrative on the problems of Greek a great disaster with over 1 Million fugitives. By maintaining long standing collections to have won both major family and the Philhellenic views of the others — The narrative is short and simple and it covers dedicated title series with an prizes in Greece: the National Book our most own strangers. the events and causes objectively and thoroughly. emphasis on subject depth and Award – the highest national literary The Child by Yiannis Palavos (2019). The new short The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought thoroughness, Nefeli has been honor – and the award given by the story collection of the highly acclaimed young between Greece and the Turkish National Movement a major contributor to the promotion prestigious Anagnostis Literary author Yiannis Palavos was published in April and during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after of literature and academia in Greece Review. Joke comprises 17 stories has sold over 4.000 copies in 3 months. Loved both World War I between May 1919 and October 1922. and is reputed for its quality, both influenced mainly by magic realism, by critics and readers, the author confirms with his It is known as the Western Front of the Turkish War in terms of production values and dirty realism and the rich Greek second book his charisma and mastery of language of Independence in Turkey and the Asia Minor in regard to the choice and editing short story tradition that highlights and form, praised for his first book Joke. With a Campaign or the Asia Minor Catastrophe in Greece. of the texts. rural life. Many of the stories in the modest style, a language that serves ideally his Our catalogue of translated collection unfold in the backwater narrative spirit, carefully sculptured in every detail, literature includes many towns of rural Greece, while others fast paced and with an exemplary use of deduction. internationally acclaimed authors take place in Athens and Twelve short stories, sung with a soulful lament at such as Marquez, Pessoa, Joyce, Thessaloniki, Greece’s largest cities. the edge of logic and dream. Twelve stories that will Cummings, McEwan, Morrison, All 17 stories are characterized hunt you, an ideal material for short film and VR. Unsworth, Nabokov, Gombrowicz, by their sparing and unadorned Kharms, Aragon, Vian, Greene, language, their bitter sense of The Land of Anger by Christos Chrissopoulos Steinbeck, Brecht, Tranströmer, humor and the tenderness of their (2019). This is the new novella by the internationally Ashbery, and Fallaci. Among our characters. acclaimed Christos Chrissopoulos (his novella The Parthenon Bomber was recently published classics series are authors like Palavos’s stories give us the excuse by Penguin). The book was first published in France Shakespeare, Kafka, Rilke, Blake, to experiment, however modestly, under the title Terre de colère and its theatrical Flaubert, Goethe, Gogol, Molière, and let language do the work we can’t adaptation was performed in France in 2018 and Twain, Racine, Strindberg, Rostand, do any other way, at least not yet. 2019. As years go by, the anger rises, it passes from Büchner, Calderón de la Barca, All Stories by Gabriel García Goldoni, Lessing, Gorki, Heym, parent to child, like a holly stock it grows deeper Márquez (2014). Magic realism at its from generation to generation… Of all sentiments, Shelley, de Maupassant, Marquis best, by the biggest maestro of all. de Sade, Thackeray, Schnitzler and anger is most contagious. There was a time when Nobel Prize winner Márquez is “the anger was the privilege of the big city centres, the Goncourt brothers – beautifully most popular and perhaps the best translated and carefully edited. when it stayed behind hermetically closed doors, writer in Spanish since Cervantes”. when anger was bad — now, it is everywhere. Our philosophy is one of nurturing What really is at stake here is a A contemporary story of high tension. the fundamental values of psychological suppleness which is The Loneliness of Dogs by Panos Tsiros (2019). publishing, whilst making the able to inhabit unsentimentally the This is the new short story collection of Panos Tsiros necessary adaptations in order to daytime world. We published his (b. 1970). Short, slightly strange stories about the face future challenges in an ethical short stories in Greece in small loneliness of people, dogs and other pets. and sustainable manner. Our focus collections back in the 1980’s and on beautiful typography and good 3 years ago we completely revised design makes our projects stand the translations and published one out and underlines their importance. big volume, which is popular in the Our central focus this year will be Greek market ever since. the Short Form in Fiction and the Historical Non-fiction.
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She has two in Kiev, Nina emigrates to Italy to support her fiction with the pleasure of reading, Ero dietro di te by Nicolas Fargues Agus and Luciana Castellina (2014). sisters, one beautiful and the other lonely. They all daughter’s studies and here she meets a professor good literature with the experience (2008). La tregua by Mario Benedetti (2014). live in a crumbling aristocratic palazzo in an ancient who helps her transform her love for literature into of intensity and lightness. Mostly Inverno alla Grand Central by Lee area of Cagliari where rich and poor are mixed. a job. Pursuance of happiness versus sense of duty, focused on contemporary authors Ovunque, proteggici by Elisa Stringer (2008). When her eyes meet those of her shady neighbour familial bonds versus reasons of the heart. A novel from Italy and from all over the Ruotolo (2014). she realizes that even wonderful surprises can that celebrates the power of literature to change world, nottetempo’s strong Gottland by Mariusz Szczygieł La questione più che altro break your heart. A story of rare and simple beauty a person’s life and destiny. international list of both fiction and (2009). by Ginevra Lamberti (2015). about the nature of love and passion told with non-fiction aims at quality, variety Zelary by Kveta Legatova (2009). Paese senza cappello by Dany L’estate muore giovane (Summer Dies Young) warmth, humour and deep insight. An international and commitment. Among our Fra-intendimenti by Kaha Mohamed Laferrière (2015). by Mirko Sabatino (2018). A journey into the closed bestseller published in 25 languages. universe of a provincial town, with horrors nestled authors are Mario Benedetti, Iris Aden (2010). Senti le rane by Paolo Colagrande in the folds of an apparent stability, as unstoppable Murdoch, Alberto Manguel, Naomi Il ritorno by Alberto Manguel (2010). (2015). Due di tutto e una valigia (Two of Everything and a Suitcase) by Mila Venturini (2010). In a hospital, as the end of youth awaiting the three boys who try Alderman, Olga Tokarczuk, Susan L’incontro by Gabriela Adames¸teanu Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila waiting for her father to be operated, twenty-year- to fight back with their uncompromising friendship. Sontag, Pavel Sanaev, Milena Agus, (2010). (2015). Olivia Rosenthal, Dubravka Ugrešic´, old Sara looks back at those days when she and A story that touches upon universal themes such as Quando verrà la rivoluzione avremo Il grande animale by Gabriele Di her brother went through their parents’ divorce. the roots of evil in human beings, a well-built rhythm Yan Lianke, Xu Xing, Karin Alvtegen, tutti lo skateboard by Said Fronzo (2016). Judith Schalansky, Nicolas Fargues, A drama turns out to be brilliant family comedy as through the succession of scenes and a crescendo Sayrafiezadeh (2010). Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez Kim Thúy and Burhan Sönmez. the kids discover the advantages of the situation: of events in an epic setting. In the shortlist for the Riva by Kim Thúy (2010). (2016). infinite possibilities of transgression! Bookciak award at the 2018 Venice Film Festival and Alongside the contemporary and Cambiamenti by Mo Yan (2011). Londra per famiglie by Mila Venturini winner of the Segafredo Zanatti award - A book, international fiction list, are some Amori comunisti (Communist Love) by Luciana La scoperta del mondo by Luciana (2016). Castellina (2018). Speaking of the loves between a film. Published also in Spain and France. classics: Stevenson, Dickens, Castellina (2011). Colette, Yourcenar. We also have Ragazze elettriche by Naomi Nazim Hikmet and Münevver Andaç, between Gli Insaziabili (Insatiable) (2019). Eight Italian Scusate la polvere by Elvira several non-fiction series Alderman (2017). Argyrò Polikronaki and Nikos Kokulis and between authors and eight Chinese authors around the Seminara (2011). (reportages, philosophy, current Incerta Gloria by Joan Sales (2018). Sylvia and Robert Thompson, the author builds double red line represented by Eros and Food: affairs and others) that gather great Seppellitemi dietro il battiscopa I quattro libri by Yan Lianke (2018). a story interwoven with real memories and personal themes that deeply concern two distant cultures, by Pavel Sanaev (2011). encounters, around the three couples from Turkey, yet full of fertile land for comparison, knowledge thinkers such as Byung-Chul Han, Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls (2018). Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmonds Greece and the United States. Complicated lives and enrichment for each culture. The book, Pierre Bourdieu, Viveiros De Castro, Cosa resta della notte by Ersi (2011). with incredible loves that traveled through the published both in Italy and in China, is a game Noam Chomsky, Giorgio Agamben, Sotiropoulos (2019). Edward Said, Judith Butler and Vergogna by Karin Alvtegen (2011). second half of the last century united by the fact of mirrors, joints and visions on two topics that Pietra nera by Alessandro Bertante of being watched and spied on, in an atmosphere are governed by rituals and pleasure. Slavoj Žižek. We have also a poetry Guida il tuo carro sulle ossa dei (2019). of great difficulty and danger. series and an upcoming series morti by Olga Tokarczuk (2012). dedicated to contemporary art and architecture.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Place des Editeurs is held by EDITIS BELFOND – FRENCH AUTHORS and includes four imprints: Plon, Gran paradiso and Si loin, si proches FICTION Perrin, Belfond and Presses de la Cité. by Françoise Bourdin (2018 & 2019). PRESSES DE LA CITÉ Isabelle Desesquelles explores the fragile bonds Place des éditeurs publishes more Toutes blessent la dernière tue by D’autres viendront (Other People Will Come) which connect us to our loved ones and the than 400 new titles each year: and Karine Giebel (2018). by Richard Boidin (2019). 2023. Three Africans formidable power of memories. A deeply moving its catalogue includes literature, UnPur by Isabelle Desesquelles (2019). stand accused of crimes against humanity. There novel which is a celebration of memory, the only history, French and Foreign fiction BELFOND – FOREIGN AUTHORS are the accomplices of an African-American doctor antidote to the loss of happiness. Prix Femina des and non-fiction. Belfond has La Symphonie du hasard by Douglas who is alleged to be the author of an explosive tract lycéens 2018. published 20 novels by the master Kennedy (2017 - 2018, 3 volumes). – The Manifesto for Life. Hélène Morel, whose of suspense Harlan Coben, and Regression by Fabrice Papillon (2019). Vannina mixed-race grandson Julien has disappeared in the the books by Haruki Murakami Le Meurtre du commandeur by is a gendarmerie captain in Corsica. She discovers heart of Africa, is attending the trial. Five months or Douglas Kennedy. As to books Haruki Murakami (2018). a slaughterhouse. Among the remains strewn earlier, Julien Morel, a United Nations employee, in French, Belfond publishes literary Par accident by Harlan Coben (2018). across the floor of the cave is a thorax out of which received a photo from one Joseph Klein which works, sagas, major novels and Le Chant des revenants by Jesmyn the heart has been ripped and a severed skull prompted him to travel to the heart of the equatorial historical novels. With over 10 Ward (2019) - Grand Prix des containing a cooked brain. Meanwhile, the police forests in the hope of finding alive his mother and million copies sold, Françoise Lectrices ELLE. find the missing heart at a famous prehistoric site sister, who had officially been declared victims of Bourdin is one of the foremost on the island, as if it were an offering to ancestral Surprends-moi by Sophie Kinsella the Rwandan genocide. The trial and Julien’s writers of women’s fiction. With warriors. The situation rapidly spirals out of control: (2019). disappearance become inextricably linked. In the a catalogue featuring international similar crime scenes are discovered at other PRESSES DE LA CITÉ – heart of Equatorial Africa, along the enigmatic bestselling authors (Danielle Steel, prehistoric sites in Spain, at Stonehenge in England FRENCH AUTHORS Congo River, D’autres viendront is a powerful novel. and even in Germany… A gripping scientific thriller Jonas Jonasson, Elizabeth George, Sang famille by Michel Bussi (2018). Michel Bussi), new voices and J’ai dû rêver trop fort (I Must Have Dreamt Too by the author of Le Dernier Hyver. PRESSES DE LA CITÉ – by Michel Bussi (2019). Via four stopovers forgotten writers, Presses de la Cité Deeply) PLON FOREIGN AUTHORS and a game of mirrors between 1999 and 2019, offers a global reading experience. L’Expérience de la pluie (The Experience of the Rain) Le vieux qui voulait sauver le monde Michel Bussi’s latest novel blends emotion and Editions Perrin has, from its by Clélie Avit (2019). Arthur is 6 years old. He lives by Jonas Jonasson (2018). suspense, as it builds to a remarkable final twist beginnings (1827), catered to with his mother, Camille, in a bubble she created La punition qu’elle mérite in the tale. This top-drawer mystery story by Michel a readership of history lovers, just for them. That way, the world’s noise, violence by Elizabeth George (2019). Bussi is, as usual, replete with human interest, researchers and teachers. An initial and people can’t reach them. But one evening, as emotion and universal appeal. specialty was the publication of the Maître de son destin by Barbara he’s leaving the office, Aurélien crosses their path. speeches of the Académie Française Taylor Bradford (2019). Les Gardiennes du silence (The Guardians of the A luminous novel; the endearing characters, at once and early works included those of: Prisonnière by Danielle Steel (2019). Silence) by Sophie Endelys (2019). One island, two strong and weak, are just like us. monasteries, three murders, four centuries of an Tolstoy, Augustin Thierry, François PERRIN On ne meurt pas d’amour (We Can’t Die of Love) occult order composed of mute women... Chloe, an Mauriac and René Grousset. Today, Infographie de la Seconde guerre by Géraldine Dalban-Moreynas (2019). A man and ordinary young woman, archivist, will face an Perrin is the leading history mondiale, collective book (2018). a woman live in the same building, but in a different incredible adventure. and her own past. A very publisher in France. Plon is a leader Franck Ferrand raconte by Franck apartment. They are both part of a couple, but with tasty, and original domestic thriller. in France in the field of the political, Ferrand (2019). different people. One day, they bump into each economy and societal documents. Les Entretiens oubliés d’Hitler BELFOND other for the first time one Sunday in November Its prestigious collections count 1923-1940 by Eric Branca (2019). Je t’aime (I Love You) by Barbara Abel (2018). To lie at the street entrance. It is love at first sight. authors such as Claude Lévi-Strauss PLON by omission, merely out of love. And to become by And it hurts a lot. Later on, they agree that it was or Simone Weil, and the works of Le Petit Roi du monde by Philippe proxy the worst of murderers. The fates of four doubtless at that instant that it all began… A several French Presidents. Plon also Amar (2019). women collide, entangle and rip apart. Women who heartbreaking love story for a strong first novel. publishes commercial fiction with Madame la Présidente by Ava are often better at hating than loving. Because in Pour que le jour de votre mort soit le plus beau de authors as Raphaëlle Giordano. Djamshidi and Nathalie Schuck Barbara Abel’s novels, nothing is more akin to love votre vie (May the Day You Die Be the Most (2019). than hate. Beautiful Day of your Life) by Lionel Abbo (2019). Un mariage américain by Tayari Je voudrais que la nuit me prenne (I want the night The chaotic life of Adolph Goldstein, a thirty- Jones (2019). to take me) by Isabelle Desesquelles (2018). A something Jew who became an undertaker out of dizzying and poetic immersion in the universe of opportunism, and who gradually drifts towards childhood, Je voudrais que le nuit me prenne tells of practices that are ever-less conventional but far the dangers of happiness. Against a backdrop of more exciting. Exhilarating! troubled feelings shot through with rays of joy,
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Founded in 1927 by the Italian Many of our books are being filmed entrepreneur Angelo Rizzoli, the in the country of their origin and FICTION NON-FICTION company has always been a leading distributed internationally. Here A Husband by Michele Vaccari (2018). Patrizia and Duel in the Ghetto by Maurizio Molinari (2017). The player in publishing industry. Now below a selection of novels, memoirs Ferdinando have been married for more than twenty true story of Pacifico di Consiglio and his personal part of the Mondadori Group, with and non fiction titles we published years and everything in their lives goes on like war against a fascist that hunts him. A dramatic the different imprints Rizzoli, BUR, that already became or will soon be clockwork A holiday, their first and only, three days sequence of events, full of intrigue and tip offs Fabbri, Etas, Lizard, we publish a film / TV series. in Milan. But when they arrive in Piazza Duomo, a during the times of racial persecution. The book Italian and international fiction and Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert bomb explodes beneath the cathedral. Patrizia is tells a little known story based on witness accounts non-fiction, including biographies, (2010). one of the victims. Revealing the anguish and and unpublished documents obtained from the memoirs, art, science, philosophy, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar anxiety that belongs to all of us, Michele Vaccari families of the protagonists. Maurizio Molinari, politics, illustrated, manuals, Children by Ransom Riggs (2011). tells us what happens when the fear of change journalist and writer, is director of La Stampa and graphic novels and YA books. Among All the Light We Cannot See by clashes with the need to move on. has long been its correspondent in Jerusalem, for our authors of non-fiction, we have Anthony Doerr (2014). which he has authored the most followed blog many international celebrities, The Amazement of the Night by Piergiorgio Pulixi GerusalemmeDayByDay. including Daniel Goleman, Michio The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2014). (2018). From one of the greatest voices of the Italian Kaku, Roger Penrose, Stephen Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (2014). noir, set in the double-edged metropolis of Milano: I Visconti by Daniela Pizzagalli (2019). The queen Hawking, Michael Wolff, Hans Kung, Where’d You Go, Bernadette by half-dreamland, half-doomed world. The most of historical biographies and one of the leading Harold Bloom, Eric Hobsbawm, Maria Semple (2014). vicious of the criminal minds plot in the shadows experts in Medieval and Renaissance History is and police commissioner Rosa Lopez is at the back with the story of the Visconti family, a story Anthony Beevor and Mark Bowden; Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle forefront to stop it. of betrayals and redemption, conflicts and intrigue, among the Italians: Lilli Gruber, Stop Café by Fannie Flagg (latest ed. power and poisons, a story which lacks nothing Oriana Fallaci, Indro Montanelli, in 2016). The Sleeping Man by Corrado De Rosa (2018). Corrado De Rosa, the most important forensic in comparison to the most celebrated dynasties, Paolo Mieli, Vittorino Andreoli, Lion by Saroo Brierley (2016). Beppe Severgnini, Matteo Molinari. psychiatrist debuts as a novelist with the first from the Medicis to the Borgias. This book tells how Chanson Douce by Leïla Slimani (2017). they managed to audaciously arise in a completely Rizzoli publishes major fiction instalment of a new endearing crime series. Antonio Fallen Trilogy by Lauren Kate (2017). fragmented peninsula, and how they created the authors too, such as Donna Tartt, Costanza is 40 years old, has an ex-wife and a P.S I Love You by Cecelia Ahern most powerful Italian State of the time. Ransom Riggs, Jeffery Deaver, Kathy difficult relationship with his son. Like the author, (latest ed. in 2017). Reichs, John Green, Anthony Doerr, he is a psychiatrist and court consultant for violent The Law of the Sea by Annalisa Camilli (2019). NGOs Colum McCann, and among the First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong crimes. Everything changes following the murder of and human rights: sea taxis or the last border of Italians, Dacia Maraini, Walter Siti, by James R. Hansen (2018). two prostitutes and the arrest of two suspects: both civilization? A heartfelt and engaging journey about Edoardo Albinati, Silvia Avallone just Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (2018). men that hate women. One is guilty of the murders, the routes taken by migrants, the boats that rescue to mention a few. Rizzoli Lizard, the The 15:17 to Paris by Jeffrey E. Stern, the other is guilty of something even worse. Antonio them, the stories of the protagonists, and the Italian leading brand in graphic Spencer Stone, Anthony Sadler and is forced to choose between law and justice. central factory of false news that feeds the novels and comics, includes some Alek Skarlatos (2018). If He Were Your Son by Nicolò Govoni (2019). Nicolò anti-NGO rhetoric of the sovereigntist right wing all over Europe. international bestselling authors The Fault in Our Stars & Looking for works as an educator on the Island of Samos. He such as Hugo Pratt and Hergé, Craig Alaska & Paper Towns by John Green has seen many young refugees arrive, but when he Thompson and Guy Delisle; in (latest ed. in 2018 and 2019). meets Hammudi he feels something else click inside: he would risk anything to prevent this boy Fabbri, formerly brand dedicated to Among our Italian authors, we want from any further suffering. children’s titles, we now publish to mention Silvia Avallone and her commercial women’s fiction and novel Acciaio (2010). In addition to Once is Enough by Giulia Ciarapica (2019). An Italian light non fiction. BUR is our the list above, we want to name family saga set between the post-war years and the renowned paperback imprint that some of our important and ’60s, inspired by Elizabeth Jane Howard’s celebrates in 2019 its 70th prestigious authors whose novels successful Cazalet series, and that opens the doors anniversary and that has marked the have often inspired or have been of a community of the deep Italian province. history of the culture of many Italian adapted into films: Robert Ludlum, Will You Stay? by Riccardo Bertoldi (2019). A story generations. Jeffrey Deaver, John Irving, Stephen about love and friendship set in a mountain village, Hawking, Mark Bowden, Dacia where lives follow the rhythm of nature, but they Maraini, Oriana Fallaci. can’t escape its laws. Bertoldi was born in Trento in 1990.
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COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Salomonsson Agency was founded A Man Called Ove by Fredrik in 2000. Today, the agency has Backman (2013). The million-copy FICTION twenty-four employees and international bestselling I Will Miss You Tomorrow by Heine Bakkeid (2017). represents approximately fifty phenomenon, Fredrik Backman’s The first book about former interrogation leader Nordic authors of literary fiction, heartwarming debut is a funny, Thorkild Aske. crime fiction, children’s fiction, moving, uplifting tale of love and and narrative nonfiction worldwide. community that will leave you with The Red Address Book by Sofia Lundberg (2017). A heartwarming debut about 96-year-old Doris, In addition, Salomonsson Agency a spring in your step. who writes down the memories of her eventful life represents a curated list of critically Lazarus by Lars Kepler (2018). as she pages through her decades-old address acclaimed and commercially A dead man is found in an apartment book. But the most profound moment of her life successful screenwriters, directors in Oslo. The victim transpires to be is still to come. and composers working in an unknown grave defiler and trophy Scandinavia and around the world. collector, and when the police open The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag With passion, commitment and his kitchen freezer, they make a (2017). In his debut novel The Wolf and the Watchman, Niklas Natt och Dag paints a compelling innovation, Salomonsson Agency terrible discovery. A few days later, th brings the very best of Nordic Joona Linna is contacted by a portrait of late 18 century Stockholm. Through the content to the world. German police detective who asks eyes of the novel’s four narrators the powdered and for his help with a murder outside painted veneer of the era is peeled back to reveal Rostock. Joona understands that the the frightful yet fascinating reality hidden beyond pattern he’s starting to see is the dry facts of history texts. With one foot firmly insane, but at the same time it’s planted in literary tradition and the other in impossible to ignore. hardboiled suspense literature, with The Wolf and the Watchman Natt och Dag has created an entirely The master of thrillers, Lars Kepler, new genre of suggestive and realistic historical noir. is back with the seventh installment in the Joona Linna Series. Death Deserved by Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger (2018). Death Deserved is Jørn Lier Horst and Knife by Jo Nesbø (2019). Following Thomas Enger’s first co-written novel and the first the dramatic conclusion of The Thirst, installment in a suspense series that combines Knife sees Harry Hole waking up with the very best of both authorships. a ferocious hangover, his hands and clothes covered in blood. Not only is All the Air That Surrounds Us by Tom Malmquist Harry about to come face to face with (2019). All the Air That Surrounds Us is a haunting an old, deadly foe, but with his deep dive into an unsolved murder and the author’s darkest personal challenge yet. own relation to the hidden killer behind the murder: loneliness and alienation. The twelfth instalment in Jo Nesbo’s internationally bestselling crime fiction series.
50 Venice Production Bridge 2019 51 Book Adaptation Rights Market ATTENDING TEAM MEMBER WEBSITE THE NETHERLANDS & JOB TITLE singeluitgeverijen.nl Martijn Prins / Rights manager ADDRESS Janny Nijhof / Film, Television Weteringschans 259 & Theatre Rights SINGEL 1017 XJ Amsterdam PHONE / CELL PHONE The Netherlands UITGEVERIJEN +31 207607210 / +31 627142105 (Martijn Prins) +31 207607210 / +31 653177903 (Janny Nijhof) E-MAIL [email protected] / [email protected] COMPANY PROFILE PAST MAIN PUBLICATIONS LATEST TITLES AVAILABLE FOR FILM ADAPTATION AT THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Singel Uitgeverijen is one of the most Good Men by Arnon Grunberg prominent publishing companies in (2018). A novel about a Polish FICTION NON-FICTION the Low Countries, and consists of fireman who seeks comfort after his Brother by Esther Gerritsen (2016). Minutes before The Hidden Impact by Babette Porcelijn (2016). the following houses: Nijgh & Van son ends his own life. Through this Olivia has to speak at an important meeting of Helps to reverse your negative impact on the planet Ditmar (1837), Nijgh Cuisine (2018), he alienates himself from his family shareholders, her brother calls. His leg might have and make it a positive one, provides tools to make a Querido (1915), De Arbeiderspers and his work. to be amputated. She immediately drops everything difference, including an Impact Top 10. (1929), Athenaeum-Polak & Van Grand Hotel Europe by Ilja Leonard in a hopeless attempt to save her brother. We Don’t Say Half-Brother by Henk van Straten Gennep (1962), De Geus (1983) and Pfeijffer (2018). A writer takes Poubelle by Pieter Waterdrinker (2016). Panoramic (2017). This memoir is the humorous, poignant, but Volt (2007), boasting a combined residence in the illustrious but and pan-European novel. Wessel is a Member of the loving story about a child that felt he should be history of five hundred years in the decaying Grand Hotel Europe, to European Parliament. He travels to Ukraine where happy all the time and later, as a teenager, used book trade. Singel publishes a wide think about where things went he wallows in the decadent, promiscuous Ukrainian drugs and got involved in punk culture. With sharp variety of titles, ranging from literary wrong with his former lover. He society. and emotional observations Van Straten shows us fiction and non-fiction to upmarket reconstructs a compelling story of the heartbreaking, funny memories of the life of a commercial fiction, poetry, graphic love in times of mass tourism, and Everyone’s Sorry Nowadays by Bart Moeyaert boy who struggled with identity, love and novels and cookbooks. With their thrilling search for the last (2018). An emotionally charged new gem by the masculinity. publishing houses Querido and Volt, painting of Caravaggio. ALMA-award winning author. A razor-sharp portrait of twelve-year old Bianca. At home, life revolves We, Hominids by Frank Westerman (2018). One of Singel Publishers also is the Lampie and the Children of the Sea around Bianca’s younger brother, and her father Holland’s leading narrative non-fiction writers publisher of many classic and by Annet Schaap (2018). Every started living together with his much younger hunts down answers to anthropology’s most contemporary children’s books evening Lampie the lighthouse girlfriend. And then suddenly Bianca’s favorite fundamental questions: who are we? What makes authors and illustrators. keeper’s daughter must light a actress is sitting there in the living room! us different from animals? This investigation is a We are the publishers of many award lantern to warn ships away from the compelling mixture of reportage, travelogue and winning authors in translation such rocks. But one stormy night disaster Iron Head by Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem (2019). essay. as Paulo Coelho, Michel strikes. The lantern goes out, a ship A historical novel about a girl in Napoleon’s army by Houellebecq, Daniel Kehlmann, is wrecked and an adventure begins. an award-winning screenwriter. Eighteen-year-old XTC A Biography by Zandstra and Pottjewijd (2019). Stan’s dreams come to an abrupt end when she has XTC’s turbulent life so far. Through the Bhagwan Patrick Modiano, David Szalay Sarah Play Dead by A.F.Th van der Heijden to marry a rich and pushy moneylender. Stan’s runs communes, the RoXY in Amsterdam and the sheds Waters, Arnaldur Indriason, Thomas (2018). While discovering the truth away and the army, where she has to hide the fact on remote industrial sites in Brabant, the writers Harris, Ted Chiang, Karl Ove about a devastating plane crash that she is actually a girl. tell the story of a nearly 100-year-old failed drug Knausgard, Henning Mankell, Robert in the Ukraine, a journalist stages that has been so popular for more than three Macfarlane, Alice Munro. Our his own death to save his himself Murder on the Garden Plot by Nicolien and Mizee decades. in-house rights department and his family. How will his wife (2019). An literary whodunnit in the deceptively represent famous Dutch Authors and react when she finds out that the lovely spirit of Agatha Christie. Thijs and Judith Rembrandt’s Biograhpy by Machiel Bosman (2020). Illustrators such as Maarten ’t Hart, fatal shot in his back was a fake? decide to rent a forest cabin on an estate to spend Machiel Bosman (1972) is a historian in the tradition Anna Enquist, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, the summer, so Thijs can recover from his recent of the great storytellers. His Elisabeth de Flines was The Interpreter from Java by Alfred heart-attack. It is paradise on earth. However, this nominated for the AKO Literature Prize, his book A.F.Th van der Heijden, Guus Kuijer, Birney (2018). A son haunts his idyllic setting is roughly disturbed by a horrific The Predator King was shortlisted for the Libris Bart Moeyaert, Marente de Moor, parents with questions about the discovery. History Prize. He is currently working on a big Jamal Ouariachi, Annet Schaap, war in the Dutch Indies that still Rembrandt Biography. Marit Törnqvist, Frank Westerman, rages in their family. Anna Woltz, Arnon Grunberg, Pieter Waterdrinker, Hilde Vandermeeren, Thirty Days by Annelies Verbeke Babette Porcelijn, Erik Scherder, Fik (2018). A musician from Brussels Meijer, Esther Gerritsen, Jaap moves to the rural district of Robben, Annelies Verbeke. Westhoek to become a handyman. As he paints and decorates the interior of people’s homes he gets to know their complex emotional lives.
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It’s almost midnight, and into 45 languages and was number Empire falls into ruin, Constantinople remains the experts across all genres, including I’ve done everything in my power – everything – not 1 at the box ofice on its release as impregnable and thriving hub of power and novelists, journalists, psychologists, to end up here, in this place, at this time. The a film (starring Reese Witherspoon ambition. Amidst the decadence and instability, human rights activists, travel shadowy lake rippling in front of me, the pine trees and Mark Ruffalo). two rebel soldiers, Nicetas and Heraclius, are on a writers, scientists, chefs, historians shuddering in the wind, the stars scattered across the Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2006). mission fraught with mystery to overthrow Phocas and academics, from the very literary sky: they’re all proof that I’ve failed. Every second I A New York Times and international the Usurper. But to become the new emperors, they to the more commercial. expect to hear a soft footstep in the pine needles, the bestseller, translated in 38 not only need to win a battle, they must also win We pride ourselves in keeping our snap of a branch, some indication that I’m not alone. languages, this is the memoir of the a young woman’s heart. Rife with power struggles, list small, so that we can work That I’m being watched. I’m going to die – and the internationally renowned Somali rivalries, and conspiracies set against a historical closely with our authors to maximize worst part is, it won’t be for the first time.” born activist for women’s rights. backdrop, this is a modern, stunning, and the potential of their work both A celebration of triumph over enthralling debut. Kentucky by Simon Van Booy (2019). Carol was domestically and in translation – thirteen when her daddy lost her in a game of cards. adversity. Ghost in Love by Marc Levy (2019). From the in print, audio and electronic media A year later– pregnant and with nowhere to go − she How To Be a Parisian by Caroline de international bestselling author Marc Levy, a – and for television and film. is taken in by Bessie and Martha, who run a secret Maigret (2014). Sophie Mas, Anne comedy in the tradition of Frank Capra and Billy Among the authors that have marked refuge for ‘lost’ women. 50 years on − in the same Berest and Audrey Diwan. A New Wilder, that makes you want to believe in the Susanna Lea Associates’ history in small town– Carol’s thirteen-year-old grandson York Times bestseller , translated unbelievable. What would you do if a ghost France, New York and London are the rides his BMX and watches wrestling− mesmerized in 35 languages, this is a fresh suddenly appeared in your living room, and asked bestselling novelist Marc Levy, by 80s’ excess, while his community fights to stay and spirited take on what it really you to do the unthinkable—so that he could fulfill Ingrid Betancourt, philosopher employed in factories and on farms. Kentucky is the means to be a Parisienne: how they his last wish? Would you be ready to drop Tzvetan Todorov, chef Daniel de la epic saga of one family’s struggle to survive in the dress, entertain, have fun and everything and pack your bags, no matter how Falaise, Vahram Muratyan, David rural Unites States. attempt to behave themselves. crazy it seemed? And how about if this ghost was Servan Schreiber, François Bizot, The Woman in the Dark by Raphael Montes (2019). Fabrice Midal, Stephen Clarke, The Gentle Art of Swedish Death your father…? Thomas, a piano virtuoso, embarks Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson on a whirlwind adventure, with the ghost of his This is a stunning new psychological thriller from Maude Julien or novelists Sabri the Brazilian bestselling author. When Victoria’s Louatah, Adélaïde de Clermont- (2018). A New York Times bestseller, father: a life-changing journey to make up for lost translated into 30 languages, this time and a chance encounter… terrible past resurfaces, she knows there are only Tonnerre, Violaine Huisman, Louisa three people she can trust. The problem? One of Hall, Adam Ross and Eli Anderson... book provides a charming approach to putting your life in order so your them is a killer. We are always looking for new ways loved ones won’t have to. to ensure that our writers are read throughout the world and – Collusion by Luke Harding (2018). whenever possible – adapted A number 1 New York Times bestseller, to the screen. translated into 15 languages, this is a compelling account of how Russia helped Trump win the US election.
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