Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

In its 70th edition, the journalist and writer Carmen Amoraga (Picanya, Valencia, 1969) received the Nadal Prize for La vida era eso, an "intimistic" novel that deals with love, loss and social networks, "the value of what we have lived and what is yet to be lived", and that was presented, as usual, under a pen-name, and with the title Senza fine. The novel's main character, Giuliana, loses her husband and has to take care of her two children.... - Read more

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

1. “Dr. Roberto Canessa and author (and fellow Uruguayan) Pablo Vierci's THE DOCTOR FROM THE MOUNTAIN , whose teachings in neonatal heart medicine stem from his "impossible" survival, as a pre-med student and rugby player, in the devastating 1972 Andes plane crash, to Atria , on exclusive submission, by Thomas Colchie at The Colchie Agency (world English and North American Spanish).” Publishers Lunch, September... - 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

La luz difícil (The Difficult Light), by Tomás González (Das spröde Licht, S.Fischer Verlage) occupies the number 1 spot in the recommendations list of the Litprom Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Literatur aus Afrika, Asien und Lateinamerika (Litprom, Association for the Promotion of African, Asian and Latin-American Literature). Litprom is an association that was founded in Frankfurt in 1980 during the world... - Read more