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Massimo Canuti
Massimo Canuti was born in Piombino in 1971. He graduated in Architecture and started working in the world of communication in 1999. At the same time, he dedicated himself to what he loves most: writing stories. In 2011, he published with Gianluca Belmonte the illustrated book Al buio vedi for Franco Cosimo Panini, which was…
Giorgio Figus
Giorgio Figus (http://www.fumetti.org/autori/figus.htm) was born in Turin on 7 November 1958. Desirous from an early age of becoming a comic book author, at the age of 17 he began drafting his first scripts, which he submitted to Edizioni Paoline. Passionate about Disney characters from a very young age, and Carl Barks in particular, he wrote…
Camilla Conti Shergill
Camilla Conti Shergill was born in Casale Monferrato in 1980 and grew up in Vercelli. After graduating with honours in Science of Education with a research thesis on the slums of Bombay, she left Italy for India. She still lives and works in Delhi with her Italian-Indian family. Camilla is now a perinatal educator, professional…
Bakemono Lab
La casa editrice Bakemono Lab nasce a Roma nel 2011, fondata da Valentina Cestra, che fa confluire nel catalogo il frutto dei suoi studi e dei suoi interessi primari: il cinema, le illustrazioni, la cultura giapponese e i romanzi di matrice gotica. Nella sua fase iniziale, Bakemono Lab ha operato come associazione culturale, impegnandosi attivamente…
Scholastic Canada
Scholastic Canada is one of the country’s leading publishers and distributors of children’s books and educational materials in both official languages. For over 60 years Scholastic Canada has introduced young people to the joys of reading, and has enlarged their understanding of Canada and the world. Today we continue that mission with award-winning Canadian…
Helvetiq (Svizzera)
We represent Helvetiq for Italy HELVETIQ is an international publishing house founded in 2008 and based in Basel and Lausanne, Switzerland. Creatives at heart, we craft new experiences for casual gamers, book lovers and design aficionados, in print and digital formats. We publish children’s books, non-fiction books for adults and graphic novels in French, German…
Flying Stars (China, Taiwan, Hong Kong)
Flying Stars We represent Flying Stars agency‘s catalogues into Italy. Flying Stars is an agency licensing children’s books to China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. We also represent children’s books from Chinese publishers. All the books in our catalogue are carefully selected. We try to find the beautifully-illustrated, modern and innovated books, to make children enjoy…
Pelledoca
We represent Pelledoca editore for the non-Italian markets 23 February 2016 marked the foundation of Pelledoca. A publisher of children’s literature. Our books tell great, strong, unusual stories.Thrilling tales that leave readers with bated breath and their eyes glued to the page. We have made a specific choice, deciding only to deal with thrillers,…
Pietro Albì
Pietro Albì Pietro Albì, pen-name for Pietro Albino Di Pasquale, is a screenwriter and writer born in Canzano, in the province of Teramo, Abruzzo, in 1979. After his studies at the free school of Cinema Azzurro Scipioni by Silvano Agosti in Rome, he writes texts for theatre, film and television and works on the scripts…
Marco Chiarini
Marco Chiarini Marco Chiarini was born in Teramo in August 1974. He graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Urbino and then in Direction at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Rome in 2003. He began his career as a director with the feature film L’Uomo Fiammifero self-produced with the proceeds of…
Greystone Books (Canada)
Greystone Books Greystone Books is a trade book publisher that focuses on high-quality non-fiction books that appeal to regional, national, and international readers. The company is a leading publisher of books about nature and the environment, travel and adventure, sports, social issues, science, and health, as well as books that are exceptional literary expressions of personal…
Literary Sapiens (UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi, Oman, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, Armenia e Georgia)
Literary Sapiens is representing us for UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi, Oman, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Bahrain, Pakistan, Armenia and Georgia, and adult books (fiction and non fiction) in Iran. International Publishing Services (IPS ME Ltd) is a key player in the Middle Eastern publishing industry with over 30 years’ active presence marketing, selling and promoting…
VLP Agency (Chile)
Our agency represents for Italy VLP Agency from Santiago de Chile. We are a Latin American literary agency that aims to spread the voices of our authors and attract new readers from all over the world, with a special focus in the Asia-Pacific region. We represent writers, illustrators and publishers from Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia and…
Fabio Burzagli
Fabio Burzagli nasce a Piombino nel 1970, dove frequenta il liceo scientifico e studia pianoforte. Si laurea in ingegneria aerospaziale a Pisa nel 1997 e si trasferisce a Torino per lavorare sul design termico dei moduli della Stazione Spaziale Internazionale. Fra il 2004 e il 2007 fa il pendolare fra Torino e Cape Canaveral dove…
Stefano Chiapello
Stefano Chiapello was born in 1977. After college he worked as a social worker, shop assistant, call-center operator, caretaker in a sports facility, temporary teacher and musician, and in the recent years he has earned a living as an editorial translator. Lately he has lived between Turin, Barcelona, Manila and the Salento countryside. Instagram: @ilgrandemano…
People
We represent the Italian publishing house People Pub all over the world. People Pub is the publising house of “The Black sea of indifference” written by Liliana Segre, senator for life, Senato della Repubblica, survivor of Auschwitz. People Pub is a house that wants to narrate and investigate change in society; it was founded by…
Uovonero
We represent the Italian publishing house Uovonero all over the world. Download their catalogue in English here. Uovonero is an independent publishing house specialised in books for children with special needs (Augmented and Alternative Communication, Dyslexia, Cognitive difficulties). It was founded in 2010 in Crema by Enza, Lorenza and Sante.
Coccole Books
We represent the Italian publishing house Coccole Books all over the world. Download their catalogue in English here. Coccole books was born eighteen years ago in Calabria by Ilario and Daniela companions in life, who choose to leave their professions to do something new, able to put together their common interest: children’s books. The initial…
Piero Ruzzante
Piero Ruzzante Nato a Padova l’11 giugno 1963 (lo stesso giorno in cui nel 1984 sarebbe morto Enrico Berlinguer), sposato con Lorena, ha tre figli. Laureato in Storia. Dal 1984 al 1988 segretario della Fgci di Padova. Dal 1985 al 1998 Consigliere Comunale a Padova, Assessore al Progetto città sane e politiche giovanili. Dal ’95…
Valentina Nieli
Valentina Nieli was born in Padua the year that The Rocky Horror Picture Show was released. Being a lazy person who hates low temperatures, she decided to move to Norway “because what hurts you attracts you, or at least that’s how it seems”. Her artistic production is mostly linked to photography. She won a photographic…
Ool Literary Agency (South Korea)
We represent selected books from Ool Literary Agency, a Korean Literary Agency specialised in children’s books. Take a look at their catalogues here: 2018 2017 fiction 2017 non-fiction “Ool Literary Agency represents picture books and graphic novels from Korea. And we also have illustrators for your future works. Contact: book@oolliterary.com“
Charlesbridge (USA)
We represent the American publishing house Charlesbridge for the Italian market. Catalogues ara downloadable from this page. Charlesbridge publishes high-quality books for children, with a goal of creating lifelong readers and lifelong learners. Our books encourage reading and discovery in the classroom, library, and home. We believe that books for children should…
Andrea Maggi
Andrea Maggi (1974) teaches literary subjects in secondary schools. He published three adult books with Garzanti: two historical novels (Morte all’Acropoli, 2014 and Il sigillo di Polidoro, 2015) both translated in Spain, and a thriller set in a country school (Niente tranne il nome, 2017). As a teacher, he became popular as one of the…
TerraRossa Edizioni
TerraRossa Edizioni is a boutique publishing house and its head office is in Alberobello (Bari), Italy. Trying to propose books that differ from those the public expects, and striving to make readers think and considering literature as means to explore the possibilities of both language and invention, used to be the reasons that behind the very…
Spartaco
Edizioni Spartaco is a small indipendent publisher, founded in 1995. In 2003 our perspective changed and we decided to enter the national market, by creating two new series: in the first (“La campana”) we publish essays about history of Southern Italy. The second series (“Il risveglio”) contains historical-political books of libertarian inspiration, welcoming reflections and…
Pendragon
We represent Edizioni Pendragon for foreign markets. “Pendragon Publishing House was founded officially in November 1994. We have published more than 600 books. In our backlist there are illustrious Italian and international names of culture, literature, criticism, music, but also little known authors, in a kaleidoscope of series and cultural activities. We have made choices…
Matteo Poletti
Matteo Poletti was born in Susa in 1979. He graduated in History of Cinema at the DAMS course of Turin. He worked for some online magazines that are about cinema and he published an essay about Blake Edwards called “Il tocco della pantera” (2010, ed. Il Principe Costante). In 2006, he had his debut as…
Pantera Press (Australia)
We represent Pantera Press for the Italian market. Find their catalogues here: Lost the Plot. 2016 catalogue. 2015 catalogue. The Crossing. About Pantera Press Pantera Press is a boutique Australian book publisher with big differences. Some great businesses have started in home garages: think Disney, Amazon and Google. Pantera Press sprang to life around the story-loving Green family’s kitchen…
Lerner Books (USA)
We represent Lerner Books / Carolrhoda Books for the Italian market About Lerner Committed to Education Since 1959 Lerner Publishing Group is one of the nation’s largest independently owned children’s publishers with more than 5,000 books in print. For more than 50 years, we’ve created nonfiction and fiction books for pre-school to young adult readers and for libraries, classrooms,…
Nasza Księgarnia, Poland
We represent Nasza Księgarnia‘s books for the Italian market. Catalogues and info downloadable here https://nk.com.pl/foreign-rights/information.html Founded in 1921, are the oldest publishing house of children’s literature in Poland. We have in our offer traditional classic as well as modern works for younger children, teenagers and young adults and they come in different genre and format,…