At Helsinki Literary Agency, Urtė Liepuoniūtė says she’s seeing greatly enhanced interest from France and French-language houses.
UTA Buys London’s Curtis Brown: ‘A Culture of Collaboration’
A 31-year-old American agency buys a 123-year-old British agency in the UTA-Curtis Brown acquisition.
Rights Roundup: A Finnish Flash Point From 1961
Titles in this Rights Roundup come from Turkey, Spain, France, Finland, and Sweden, and include work for adults and young readers.
Rights Roundup: After London Book Fair Closes
Our featured rights deals at the end of the 2022 London Book Fair week include titles from Finland, Italy, Sweden, and more.
Rights Roundup: Ukraine’s Andrej Kurkow and ‘Grey Bees’
Even amid the excitement and pleasure in an in-person staging of Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Ukraine nightmare was never forgotten.
Rights Roundup: Bologna Names Its Cross-Media Awards Winner
The road to Bologna is paved with awards programs, of course, and a French book-and-film project has just been named a winner.
Rights Roundup and Awards: ‘Comedy Queen’ Wins a Crystal Bear
The adaptation of Jenny Jägerfeld’s ‘Comedy Queen’–about a 13-year-old who wants to be a stand-up comedian–picks up a Berlinale award.
International Rights Roundup: ‘Wordless Comics’ and Cat Pictures
Today’s Rights Roundup features writings from France, South Africa, Greece, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
Urtė Liepuoniūtė of Helsinki Literary Agency: A Summer of Big 2021 Rights Sales
For all the strains of the 2020 Finnish and international marketplace, Urtė Liepuoniūtė says the agency is nearing three times last year’s sales.
Barcelona’s Pontas Literary Agency Opens a Mentoring Prize for Authors
The new award comes with £1,000 and is geared to writers from ‘Black, ethnic minority, LGBTQ+, and working-class backgrounds.’