Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Following the huge success of the Italian translation by Mondadori of Carlos Ruiz Zafón´s novel El laberinto de los espíritus , the German translation, published last week by S. Fischer Verlag, immediately went to number two on the Spiegel bestseller list: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/bestseller-buecher-belletristik-sachbuch-auf-spiegel-liste-a-458623.html... - Read more

Yesterday Barcelona celebrated it's well known Sant Jordi. The day of books and roses. La Templanza by María Dueñas was the number one bestseller with long queues of people waiting to get the book signed by the author. La Templanza , published in March by Planeta, was number one on the lists in Spain a few days after publication. Three weeks later, it is still number one. After the international success of her first novel El... - Read more

Last Friday, the 6 th  of September, television networks  Antena 3 and Boomerang TV presented the pilot episode of the series El tiempo entre costuras  ( The Seamstress ), during a party for the Vitoria-Gasteiz Television Festival (FesTVal). The adaptation for television of the novel written by María Dueñas and translated into more than 30 languages, is the much anticipated Autumn Prime Time launch for... - Read more

Today Valió la pena reaches bookstores, the memoirs of the diplomat Jorge Dezcállar. The notes and memories of Jorge Dezcállar include his years as ambassador in the Vatican; in Lebanon, after the assassination of the former Spanish leader Pedro de Arístegui, or his mission in the United States and his participation in the Dayton Conference for pacification of the Balkans. Dezcállar was also director of the... - Read more

Only two days after its release in Peru the latest novel by Alonso Cueto, “ Cuerpos secretos ” ( Secret Bodies ), has already been listed on the bestseller list for this South American country. During the Ricardo Palma Book Fair 2012, “Cuerpos secretos” ( Secret Bodies ) published by Editorial Planeta Peru, was the most successful book, as far as activities relating to the novel as with number of assistants during the... - Read more