Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

The Uruguayan writer, translator and journalist Claudia Amengual has recently published El rap de la morgue y otros cuentos ( The Rap of the Morgue and Other Stories ). The book, the first collection of short stories she publishes after having written novels, biographies and journalistic pieces, appeared in the United States in La Pereza Ediciones, and gathers texts written between 2001 and 2012. Tense and threatening, filled with lonely and... - Read more

Realized for Alianza Editoral, April 2013. The Sorbonne Club  is a essentially humoristic novel. In times of crisis are you looking for an escape through humor? We have to be careful with humor that, in some way, it’s always included in whatever we do, whether we are in times of crisis or calm, it’s the medicine that synthesizes our bodies with the will to keep fighting, to live and to add life to life. However there is no... - Read more

The full-length film “ A puerta fría ” ( To the Cold Door ) was triumphant last October when it was presented with the awards for both, best screen-play and best actor, Antonio Dechent, at the Spanish film festival of Toulouse. This is the second work by the writer Jesús Gil Vilda, ( Crisis of the Grand Evil, The Aleph ) as principal screen-play writer. In both occasions he collaborated with Xavi Puebla as director and... - 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

Les Bandits by Jorge Volpi is since the last week available in French Bookstores. The publishing house Seuil brings this novel, originally published in Spain in 2014 by Alfaguara, to French readers. The novel was translated from the Spanish by Gabriel Laculli, who is known for translating classics like Cervantes and Lorca as well as contemporary authors such as Volpi and Sergio Pitol, among others. Memorial del engaño is a daring novel,... - Read more