Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Here there are the latest deals done after and during the Frankfurt Book Fair:   Rights of El paso de la hélice by Santiago Pajares has been acquired by Destino (World Spanish), Objetiva (Brazil – two book deal in pre-empt), Rizzoli (Italy – pre-empt), Signatuur (The Netherlands - pre-empt), and Libri (Hungary – pre-empt).     La lluvia de Ionah (Ionah´s Rain) by Santiago Pajares has been acquired... - Read more

The Italian publishing house Lapis will relaunch this year the first three volumes of the Manolito Gafotas' saga, which had been previously published in Italy, in a new translation and with a new design. Manolito Gafotas (1994), Pobre Manolito (1995) and ¡Cómo molo! (1996) become, respectively, Ecco Manolito, Bentornato Manolito and Che forte Manolito : the first of the three is already available in bookstores all around the... - Read more

Catalan writer Mercedes Abad returns after five years of silence with La niña gorda (The Fat Girl, Páginas de Espuma). A group of interwoven short stories, the girl in the title (a character inspired by the author when she was a child, or an imaginary double of hers in her adult age) is the guiding figure through all the stories, in which humor and irony mix with sadness to speak about childhood and adolescence, about women. La... - Read more

This year marks the first centenary of the birth of writer Camilo José Cela, and has been declared by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture as “an event of special public interest”. For forty-five years, Cela occupied the Chair Q of the Spanish Royal Academy of Language and won the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras in 1987, the Premio Cervantes in 1995 and, of course, the Nobel 1989.  The jury on... - Read more

The Nadal Novel Award is a literary award for the best in-edit work selected by the publishing house, Ediciones Destino (a sub-label of the Grupo Planeta). Its notoriety is established as the oldest literary award granted in Spain and in the category of the writers who have been acknowledged with this prestige are important Spanish literary figures from the 20 th century. This year the winner of the 69 th edition of the Nadal Awards is the... - Read more