Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

  From one of the most accomplished writers to emerge from Latin America,  No Place for Heroes  is a darkly comic novel about a mother and son who return to Buenos Aires in search of her former lover, whom she met during Argentina's Dirty War. During Argentina’s “Dirty War” of the late ’70s and early ’80s, Lorenza and Ramon, two passionate militants opposing Videla’s dictatorship, met and fell... - Read more

November 1938. Erik y Mathilde Friedberg leave Berlin on their way to Paris to escape the Nazi horror. She is a children’s storywriter, he a Jewish actor. They’re a couple and before the latest events and her family’s neglect, who have disowned them, they’re forced to take flight in search of a future and safe home for their daughter, who is growing inside Mathilde’s belly. Their objective is to move to Argentina.... - Read more

Dora Maar died in 1997 leaving behind an aura of mystery and expectation. She was Picasso’s lover between 1936 and 1943, she had photographed the Guernica and was an exceptional model for the series; The Crying Woman by the painter from Malaga. Dora Maar’s father was Yugoslav and her mother French although her childhood was spent in Argentina. Rejecting her bourgeois origins she became a political left wing activist joining the... - Read more

Hell´s Promise Poland, 1926. Dina is a sixteen-year old Jewish girl. She lives in the small village of Kazrilev. At school, the Polish kids ignore her. One day, Dina bumps into Andrei, a classmate, in the forest. Andrei comes up to her quietly and kisses her tenderly. She consents. In the end, he rapes her. Soon thereafter, the entire village knows what has occurred. Dina feels unclean and evil. Every one accuses her of her misfortune.... - Read more

  What if your mother was the best forger of ancient books in history?  Someone who’s been dead forty years can’t be kidnapped and, surely, cannot bleed. Vitoria, 2022. Former inspector Unai López de Ayala —aka Kraken— receives an anonymous call that will change what he thinks he knows about his family’s past: he has one week to find the legendary “Black Book of Hours”, an rare... - Read more