Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

Matthew Tree was born in London but has lived in Barcelona since 1984. For literary reasons of his own, in 1990 he stopped writing in English and switched to Catalan, in which language he has published ten books. He has published in English a collection of articles titled “Barcelona, Catalonia. A View from the Inside” and now he presents us with a novel written in English; “SNUG”, published through this agency’s... - 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

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

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

We're pleased to see how our author's titles keep on seeing the light of day in other countries. The last ones we have received in the agency are the following: * Misión Olvido, by María Dueñas, has been published in The Netherlands under the title De wereld vergeten by Wereldbibliotheek. * Prométeme que serás libre, by Jorge Molist, has been published by S. Fischer in Germany. The title chosen for the... - Read more