Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency

The Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramírez celebrates his 70th birthday this year and 50 years as an author. There have been a variety of events; presentations, exhibitions and tributes held in honor of this well known award winning author, including the International Alfaguara Novel Award for his title,; “ Margarita, the Sea is Beautiful ” in 1998. Uruk Editores, Publishing House in San José, Costa Rica published... - Read more

Catalan writer Mercedes Abad returns after five years of silence with La niña gorda (The Fat Girl, Páginas de Espuma). A group of interwoven short stories, the girl in the title (a character inspired by the author when she was a child, or an imaginary double of hers in her adult age) is the guiding figure through all the stories, in which humor and irony mix with sadness to speak about childhood and adolescence, about women. La... - Read more

Vanessa Monfort, prolific playwright whose texts have been included in many anthologies, published last February La leyenda de la ciudad sin voz (The Legend of the Voiceless Island) (Plaza y Janés), her third novel, after The Secret Ingredient (2006) and Mythology of New York (2010), both in Algaida. The book, starring Charles Dickens as he visits Blackwell Island (in which there was an asylum, a prison, a nursing home and an orphanage),... - Read more