Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Desamparo is the bittersweet saga of a woman who returns to Portugal for the first time in more than fifty years to meet the mother she'd lost when taken off at three years of age by her father, to Brazil. Written with intelligence, compassion and dark humor, and set in an imaginary village in Portugal that serves as a microcosm and a crossroads for the global ebb and flow of immigrants and emigrants, strivers and losers, a community of the... - 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

What is the flipside of the everyday plot? What lies beneath that apparent calm that occurs day in and day out? When what is “normal” shows its loose threads, it might just very well do so with the tone of the stories we encounter in Monkeys’ Time . A strange wakefulness that colors, amongst other tales, the movements of the village’s adolescents who move about in-between death and their streets; or in an afternoon that... - Read more

“She is as pretty as Marlene Dietrich and writes as well as Virginia Wolf!” ejaculated impressed, on meeting her, whom would later be her English translator. Indeed, her beauty is the first thing that struck one’s attention on setting eyes on Clarice Lispector (Ukraine 1920 – Brazil 1977). But that spectacular appearance of hers—she was pretty, elegant, exotic, with the perfect manners of the wife of a... - Read more

Ilan Brenman is considered one of the most important Brazilian children’s authors. His most famous book, Even Pricesses Fart remained for more than 60 consecutive weeks in the best-sellers list of the main bookshops in Brazil and has been translated into more than 15 languages worldwide. He is also a best-selling author in Spain. Ilan has a degree in Psicology (PUC - São Paulo), a MA and PhD from the Faculty of Education... - Read more