Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

“El Festival du premier roman de Chambéry is the only literary manifestation in France to work towards the discovery and promotion of novel French language and novel European authors through writing. In effect, 3000 demanding and passionate readers make the selection, after one year of debates and lectures, the novel writers that have won the most attention are invited to the Festival. Every year 15 novel French language writers... - Read more

The Argentine Marcelo Luján (Buenos Aires, 1973) has been awarded the Dashiell Hammett , the principal recognition awarded at the Semana Negra de Gijón, for his book Subsuelo (Subsoil) , a disturbing and sober thriller that has been considered by the judges as the best book of the noir genre published in Spain in 2015 . Luján won the Getafe award in 2009 for “La mala espera”. Visibly emotional, the winner has... - Read more

The novel 'Subsuelo', by Marcelo Luján, wins the Premio Ciudad de Santa Cruz of the Festival Atlántico Tenerife Noir for the best noir genre novel of the 2015 in Spain. Ver más en:  http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/2696533/0/subsuelo-marcelo-luj-premio-ciudad-santa-cruz-tenerife-noir/#xtor=AD-15&xts=467263... - 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

Divine Punishment  was published back in 1988 and has been translated into many languages, but never before into English. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor, it is launched today by McPherson & Co . This publication will be celebrated with appearences of the author and translator at the Americas Society in New York City in association with the Instituto Cervantes. Tomorrow there will be a panel for Sergio at the Instituto... - Read more