Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez was named yesterday the winner of the 2017 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s highest literary honor. Ramírez has written more than 20 novels, including “Margarita, está linda la mar” (Margarita, How Beautiful the Sea), which won Spain’s prestigious Alfaguara award in 1998. His work has been widely translated.  He has also received... - Read more

The Seamstress continues to conquer Europe. We've just received copies of the twelfth edition in The Netherlands. With the title Het geluid van de nacht, the publishing house Wereldbibliotheek has sold more than 60.000 copies of the book since it came out in April 2012. The Seamstress , with more than a million readers in Spain, has been turned into a successful TV series and awarded prizes such as the Ciudad de Cartagena to the best... - Read more

The Violinist of Mauthausen , by Andrés Pérez Domínguez, won the XLI Premio Ateneo de Sevilla in 2009 by unanimous; it was praised by unquestionable authors such as the last winner of the National Award in Narrative José María Merino, who welcomed its thematic novelty and literary vocation. Five years later, its well-balanced mixture of History, intrigue, espionage, adventure, lwar and romance, which portrays... - Read more

Divine Punishment  was published back in 1988 and has been translated into many languages, but never before into English. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, it is launched today by McPherson & Co . This publication will be celebrated with appearences of the author and translator at the Americas Society in New York City in association with the Instituto Cervantes. Tomorrow there will be a panel for Sergio at the Instituto... - Read more

“The Book of the Mistaken Travels” by Clara Obligado , is presented with the IX Setenil Award for the best book of short stories published inSpain in 2012, assembled by the City ofMolina de Segura. Yesterday, the 30 th. of October, 2012 the IX Setenil Award for the Best Book of Short Stories Published in Spain was celebrated. This award has been converted into a national reference for the short story genre. The jury was chaired, in... - Read more