Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

El maestro del Prado ( The Master of El Prado ) , sixth and last novel by Javier Sierra, was the most sold among the national fiction books in Spain in 2013, as revealed by Nielsen Bookscan. Published in February 2013 by Planeta, it has sold more than 150.000 copies in Spain and the same amount in Latin America, reaching its seventh edition and remaining on the best seller lists for more than 25 weeks in the sales lists. The novel, a mixture of... - Read more

Mercedes de Vega , author of the novel El profesor de inglés  ( The English Professor ), was awarded with an honorable mention, for her short story The Last Time I saw My Brother , in the Antonio Machado Train Awards 2013, for the Spanish Railway Foundation and the Antonio Machado Spanish Foundation. The announcement and presentation of the Train Awards took place on the 28 th of October, the commemorative date of “Train... - 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

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

We're happy to see two of our titles in the best seller lists of 2013 published by Nielsen Bookscan. Javier Sierra, with his latest novel El maestro del Prado ( The Master of El Prado ) ,  appears, in the sixth position, as the first Spanish author in the list, with almost 150.000 copies sold of this last book. María Dueñas is in the tenth position with Misión Olvido ( Mission Oblivion ), that sold almost 120.000... - Read more