Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

The writer, translator and journalist Monika Zgustova has won the Amat Piniella Prize for her latest novel La nit de Vàlia ( Valia's Night ), published last year by Proa in its original Catalan version and by Destino in Spanish translation. Valia's Night fictionalizes the true story of artist Valentina Grigorievna, wrongly acused of spying and sent to the gulag, who tries to recover her life and find her true love after many years of... - Read more

In his novel In Spite of It All (Dolmen, 2010), Juan de Dios Garduño portrays a world turned into a wasteland after the Third World War. In Bangor, Maine, there are only three people left; and these three people (Peter, his daughter and his much hated neighbour Patrick) will have to face a threat coming from things that are not precisely people (things in whose existence chemical weapons have had much to do). The French public will get... - Read more

Conference: THE ANATOMY OF DESOLATION Monday 20 August 8:30pm - 9:30pm RBS Corner Theatre Carlos Gamerro is a leading voice in Argentinian literature and his new novel The Islands recounts the surreal story of the Falklands War from one Argentinian perspective. Alongside him, László Krasznahorkai discusses his Hungarian masterpiece Satantango, which was described by Susan Sontag as 'a stirring manual of resistance to desolation'.... - 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

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