Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

In April of this year (2012) Blanca Rosa Roca (Roca Editorial) with the collaboration of Micheal Gordon (son of Noah Gordon) created, Barcelonaebooks . A label exclusively dedicated to the publication of digital books in English from Roca Editorial’s catalogue and from other Spanish publishing houses. Open Road , one of the American publishers, who pioneers in digital publishing and who distributes worldwide, has also joined this society.... - Read more

The Antonia Kerrigan Agency and its team announce with great sadness the passing of one of the world's most celebrated and beloved authors, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, after two and a half years of harsh disease, which he endured with irony and good temper to its invincible end. We send our heartfelt sympathy to his widow MariCarmen Bellver. Despite this painful loss to his family, friends, and all his readers and publishers across the globe, we... - 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

“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

This story starts in 2001, when its protagonist, Javier Sierra, by then already a promising young journalist, turned 30 and decided to become a full time writer. He had his will, he had his previous works and he had a theme that had been obsessing him for a long time: death as our inescapable destiny. Where do we go when we leave life? What remains of us after we’re gone? Is there a tiny little chance of avoiding our destiny? To deal with... - Read more