Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Return to the short story genre of Jose María Merino, Premio Nacional de Narrativa y Premio Nacional de la Crítica "Each one chooses the responsibility of his destiny." A pope dreams of God's resignation, a young writer tries to relate the end of the rural world, a man seeks in the depths of the sea to get away from the atrocities on the surface, a couple reaches the seventh continent, formed by the accumulation of plastic, that... - Read more

The Back Yard is an intimate and universal story on life, disenchantment and grief. The author of Baudelaire’s Flowers, sets his sight on family conflicts, in the injustice of some of our society’s approaches, in the difficulty of facing our own fate. The main character, Pablo, is a young man of the eighties who has started to study law and lives with his family in an apartment that gives out onto a courtyard. On weekends he goes... - Read more

“One day the walls will fall and Barcelona will spread under the heavens like a drop of ink over holy water”   Last April 23, 2012 for the “Day of the Book” Carlos Ruiz Zafón published with the publisher’s Editorial Planeta a short story un-edited titled, El Príncipe de Parnaso (The Prince of Parnaso). The story that forms part of a special edition pack with the author’s latest novel El... - Read more

The Literary Agency Antonia Kerrigan wants to congratulate the author José María Merino for receiving, the well deserved,   Premio Nacional de Narrativa 2013 (National Narrative Award 2013) for his novel; The River of Eden ( El río de edén ) published in 2012 by   Editorial Alfaguara. José María Merino is a member of the  Real Academia Española   (Spanish Royal... - Read more

Released less than a month ago, María Pilar Queralt's latest book,  As Mulheres do Marquês de Pombal, has become a great success in Portugal. Two weeks ago it was placed at number seven in the Non Fiction category of the best seller list by the bookstore chain Bulhosa, and last week it reached number one among History books in FNAC Portugal. Diario de Noticias echoed the news of the splendid public reaction to the... - Read more