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our agency has sold the Italian rights to Arv og miljø (Wills and Testaments) by Vigdis Hjorth to Fazi Editore.                

Marie-Renée Lavoie’s “Autopsie d’une femme plate” is out with Sperling & Kupfer for the Italian market with the title of “Come sopravvivere al tuo ex“.                

Dr. Bruce Fife’s “Ketone Therapy” is out with My Life for the Italian Market with the title of “La Dieta della Lunga Vita: Detox chetogenico e studi scientifici su salute e metabolismo per vivere sani oltre 100 anni“.                

Christina Baumann and Roswitha Stark’s “Homöopathische Symbolapotheke” is out with Armenia Edizioni for the Italian market with the title of “Simboli omeopatici: 101 rimedi vibrazionali per un utilizzo immediato ovunque”.                

Two books of the Polish publishing house Nasza Ksiegarnia, one of our clients, are out for the Italian market with Macro: “Mamma ti racconto… cosa fanno le rane” and “Mamma ti racconto… cosa fanno le formiche”, both written by Marcin Brykczynski and illustrated by Katarzyna Bajerowicz.                

Matteo Poletti’s new book “Splendida giornata per un funerale” (A Wonderful Day for a Funeral) is out today with the Italian publishing house Sperling & Kupfer. A Wonderful Day for a Funeral Matteo Poletti Nemo is thirty years old and, to support himself, he works in his family’s funeral home as the one responsible for…

Our Lorenzo Mazzoni has been invited to Turin’s Salone Internazionale del Libro to give a talk during the lecture “Te la do io, la periferia!”. When? 11th May 2018, at 21:30. Where? Turin, via Bari 22.                

We are delighted to congratulate Roy Jacobsen on being shortlisted to The International Dublin Literary Award for his novel The Unseen. The Unseen was shortlisted from a long list of 150 novels submitted by libraries in 37 countries. The announcement of the winner will take place in Dublin on June 13th. The International Dublin Literary Award is…

Our Mauro Casiraghi is presenting his book Estate Indiana (Indian Summer, published by Alberto Gaffi) three times in the next few weeks: Wednesday 11th April at 18pm in Bologna, at the Ubik bookshop. Vanni Schiavoni and Alberto Bertoni will be there as well. Friday 11th May at 18pm in Piacenza, at the Fahrenheit bookshop. Friday…

new edition of The Family by Ed Sanders out now with Feltrinelli                    

out now with Bompiani The Unseen by the Norwegian writer Roy Jacobsen                

Out now the Italian translation of Um postal de Detroit by João Ricardo Pedro, sold to Nutrimenti on behalf of Dom Quixote and Ilustrata.                

An excerpt from Paolo Zardi’s novel XXI Century, published by our client NEO EDIZIONI, has just been published in English on LUNCH TICKET, an online review published by the Antioch University MFA in Los Angeles. You can find it at this link                

At the end of the Festival Tolfa Gialli & Noir, Darien Levani was declared the winner of the prestigious Glauco Felici Award 2017 thanks to his thriller Toringrad, published in 2016 by Edizioni Spartaco, a client of our agency. Congratulations, Darien! Drini, an Albanian former student of History, after having accumulated a fair amount in…

Laurie Friedman’s “Mallory on the Move”, illustrated by Tamara Schmitz and first book of a series originally published by Lerner Books, is out today with Edizioni Leima for the Italian market, with the title of “Mallory cambia casa“.                

Our Marilena Renda, with her book Regali ai fantasmi (ed. Mesogea), is one of the five finalists shortlisted for the prestigious Biblioteche di Roma Award. The winner is going to be revealed during the award ceremony, that is to take place the 7th of December in Rome. For more information, click here. Congratulations, Marilena!                

Emilia Dziubak’s “A Year in the Forest”, originally published by Nasza Ksiegarnia, is out today with Fabbri Editori for the Italian market, with the title of “Un anno nella foresta“. Wild boar, wolves, pheasants, a bear cub, ants, a woodpecker, foxes, a badger, grass snakes, frogs, an elk and many other creatures live in the…

Sex, drugs and kicks in the teeth, published by Giunti and written by our Renzo Stefanel, is being reprinted for the 3rd time. If you haven’t bought your copy yet, this may be the perfect moment. You can find it online on Amazon and Ibs, as well as in bookshops.          …

Estate Indiana, by our Mauro Casiraghi and published by Alberto Gaffi Editore, is out today. An Italian excerpt can be found here and you can buy the book online both on ibs and amazon.it.       INDIAN SUMMER A snowstorm is about to hit a remote lake in North America. An Italian-Canadian young man…

Thursday 9th November, at 18 pm, our Mauro Casiraghi is presenting his new novel, Estate Indiana (ed. Alberto Gaffi) for the second time. The presentation is taking place in Udine, at the Tarantola bookshop, and the editor, Alessandro Lutman (a poet), Nicola Skert (a writer) and Roberto Mete are going to discuss with the author.…

Saturday 4th November, at 18 pm, our Mauro Casiraghi is presenting his new novel, Estate indiana (ed. Alberto Gaffi), for the very first time. The presentation is taking place in Monterotondo (Rome), at the Ubik bookshop and Dario De Cristofaro, an editor, and Anna Mittone, an Italian writer, are going to discuss with the author.…

Two presentations of Marilena Renda’s new novel this October Our Marilena Renda, whose book Regali ai fantasmi has been longlisted for the Biblioteche di Roma Award, is presenting her novel in two occasions. The first meeting is taking place on the 3rd of October at 5pm at the Bibliocaffè Letterario, Rome.   The second meeting…

The Italian publishing house Matilda (formerly known as Mammeonline and client of our agency), won two awards during the eleventh edition of the National ‘Mariateresa Di Lascia’ Prize. Their book ‘Sguardi Differenti’ (Different Looks) was awarded with the Best Essay Prize and with the Unifg Prize – on whom these words can be read: “thought…

The book Fascial Release for Structural Balance, edited by North Atlantic Books (our client) and written by James Earls and Thomas Myers, got published in Italy last July. The Italian version, called Fascial release per il riequilibrio funzionale, has been published by Edi.Ermes. This thoroughly revised edition of the authoritative reference Fascial Release for Structural…

Ancora sesso, droga e calci in bocca, published by Giunti and written by our Renzo Stefanel, is out at last.   This dazzling book, a sequel of Sesso, droga e calci in bocca (published by Giunti in 2016), is in fact a collection of peculiar stories: those of some of the most famous and discussed…

Carlo Vanin, an author of our agency, took part in a very interesting project for Neo Edizioni: a book in favour of the legalization of cannabis in Italy.           This book, which is a collection of short stories written by many Italian authors, is surprising and moving at the same time.…

Three authors of our agency – Carlo Callegari, Francesco Dominedò and Ilaria De Togni – are taking part in the Sugarcon Festival, which takes place from 09/21/2017 to 09/24/2017.   09/21/2017 Carlo Callegari and Francesco Dominedò are going to be in Padua for the first preview of a trailer of the movie La banda dei…

Our Marilena Renda, with her book “Regali ai fantasmi”, is on the shortlist for the prestigious Biblioteche di Roma Award. Congratulations, Marilena. Good luck!                

The Italian publishing house Edizioni Enea has recently published a book, called La via verso Dio, that collects a selection of Mahatma Gandhi’s scripts.                  

Doctor Bruce Fife’s new book has been published by the Italian publishing house Macro.                

Il servizio realizzato sul set del film “La banda dei tre” del nostro Carlo Callegari, con il nostro Francesco Dominedò come regista, andrà in onda stasera (17 maggio) alle 23.05 su Rai Movie e in replica intorno alle 2 su Rai 1.                

Anna Mioni from our agency is debating on translation of books about rock music at Turin International Bookfair                    

Il racconto del nostro Matteo Poletti è tra i venti finalisti del “Premio letterario Michele Benetazzo”. Congratulazioni, Matteo. In bocca al lupo! http://www.ilgiornaledivicenza.it/territori/grande-vicenza/sandrigo/premio-benetazzoin-gara-292-raccontiscelti-i-venti-finalisti-1.5526088?refresh_ce#scroll=696                

Doctor Bruce Fife‘s new book has been published by the Italian publishing house Macro.                  

One of our Italian authors, Marilena Renda, has just published a book with the Italian publishing house Mesogea. REGALI AI FANTASMI (Presents to ghosts) An intriguing story, told in a very poetic and resonant prose, about two orphaned sisters from Sicily. They lost their parents in a plane accident and Lena, who moved to Northern…

We are thrilled to announce that Roy Jacobsen, who we represent in Italy on behalf of Cappelen Damm Agency, has been shortlisted to the prestigious Man Booker International Prize for his novel The Unseen – Congratulations to this wonderful author! The Unseen will be published in Italy by Bompiani in the first months of 2018.…

Our author Matteo Poletti‘s new novel will be published by Sperling & Kupfer. Congrats Matteo!                  

The Italian version of The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain is out with De Agostini as Usa il cervello: se sai come guidarlo (ci) arrivi prima                

Sex, drugs and kicks in the teeth by Renzo Stefanel is being reprinted for the 2nd time in a new 1100 copies batch http://www.giunti.it/libri/musica/sesso-droga-calci-in-bocca/                

Il racconto Il bosco di pietra del nostro Matteo Poletti si è classificato secondo al premio “PAROLE SUL MARE” organizzato dall’ARCI di Cogoleto                    

http://www.lacorteditore.it/prodotto/la-bambina-che-amava-stephen-king-claudine-dumont/                

Il sogno di Keribe, fantasy novel by Ilaria de Togni, is out today for Gargoyle     THE DREAM OF KERIBE (fantasy, new adult, paranormal romance – Gargoyle Books, autumn 2016) Erinke awakens inside the Orlog, at the same time a sea that no one can cross, and a powerful and obscure deity. Erinke is…

During the next Eurocon in Barcelona, the yearly European SF convention, Francesco Verso will take part in three panels: Friday 4th of November at 14:15 Small Press Meeting. Sunday 6th of November at 10:15: Rome and the Lost Legion: SF in Italy & Romania. Sunday 6th November at 12:45: Is there a South European SF?…

THE BEATLES’ CHRISTMAS (Giunti editore, 2017, by Renzo Stefanel co-author: Franco Zanetti)   offers a strange and curious glance at the history of the Fab Four, picking a dozen joyful, dramatic or funny true stories, set in the heart of winter, Christmas, New Year and surroundings, from the Fifties to the end of the Sixties.…

in libreria per La Meridiana editrice il nuovo libro di Elena Girardin, Le ali in tasca un assaggio da sfogliare qui   In queste pagine ripercorriamo le biografie di dieci donne che hanno fatto la storia del Veneto passando da personaggi quali Caterina Cornaro e Tina Merlin. Figure diverse per epoca, astrazione sociale e fama,dando…

Dal 29 settembre 2016, in uscita in tutte le librerie “Il muggito di Sarajevo” di Lorenzo Mazzoni (Edizioni Spartaco). Nata per essere assediata. È così che si sente Amira, diciotto anni e un grande sogno da realizzare nella città di Sarajevo del ’93, lacerata dalle rappresaglie tra serbi e bosniaci. Il cuore della suonatrice di cigar box guitar…

Il sogno di Keribe (The dream of Keribe), a fantasy new adult novel by our author Ilaria de Togni, will be published this autumn by Gargoyle books. You can follow Keribe’s world on the dedicated website and on  the Facebook and start exploring it from this booktrailer                  

This month of May three new novels are out from our authors: Kamasutra Kevin by Alessandro Berselli, Pendragon                 Un tango per Victor by Lorenzo Mazzoni, Edicola Edicciones                 Non ci sono dei oltre il tempo by Davide del Popolo Riolo,…

Ecco gli appuntamenti con i nostri autori al Salone del Libro di Torino: venerdì 13 maggio Francesco Verso dalle 18 alle 20 terrà un workshop sulla scrittura di genere a “Storie lunghe come coltelli“, presso la Biblioteca Comunale, via Traforo 62, Bussoleno (TO). sabato 14 maggio   14.30 – 17.30 stand delle Edizioni Pendragon Alessandro…

La nostra Elena Girardin presente con un suo racconto nell’antologia Io sono il Nordest di Apogeo editore. Guarda il booktrailer                

Sesso, droga, calci in bocca. Storie del rock maledetto (Sex, drugs and kicks in the teeth – Rock’n’roll scandal stories) by Renzo Stefanel, out now on paper and e-book for Giunti editore is topping the music books charts. Contact us for foreign rights.                

SEX & DRUGS & KICKS IN THE TEETH (Giunti editore, 2015) by Renzo Stefanel, rock critic and author. In the sixty-plus years of its history, rock music stole to blues the reputation of “devil’s music”, with an endless series of murky stories, and lives devoted to recklessness, excess and madness. This book is a selection…

Mauro Casiraghi’s Un chilo di cenere will be published in 2016 by Gaffi editore and Regali per i fantasmi by Marilena Renda will be published by GEM – Mesogea editore                

Francesco Verso’s Il sangue e l’impero out now for Urania Mondadori, print and ebook                

Alessandro Berselli wins the Young Readers – Memorial Gaia Di Manici Proietti at Umbria Libri with his Non fare la cosa giusta                

João Ricardo Pedro will present his O teu rosto serà o ultimo (Nutrimenti) at the festival Fiera delle Parole, in Padova, our hometown.                

Joao Ricardo Pedro is longlisted in the new Premio Sinbad for Independent publishers. Also longlisted is the Italian novel XXI secolo by Paolo Zardi, NEO edizioni, which we represent for foreign rights                

Davide Del Popolo Riolo‘s new book Non ci sono dei wins Kipple Prize 2015 and will be soon published by Kipple in Italy                  

The novel Bloodbusters by our author Francesco Verso (already published in English with Livid) wins the Urania Mondadori 2014 prize and will be published in november in thousands of copies in Italian newskiosks. Full English text available for review, please contact us                

GIOVEDÌ 17 h 21:00 la nostra Marilena Renda a pordenonelegge: Loggia del Municipio Alla sera la poesia… Transeuropa e Ladolfi: nuove proposte Con Marco Bini, Alberto Casadei, Clery Celeste, Matteo Fantuzzi, Isabella Leardini, Giulio Milani, Marilena Renda, Domenico Cipriano                

Volevo essere Lady Oscar by Marie-Renée Lavoie is out now published by Sperling & Kupfer (italian version of La petite et le vieux, Les Éditions XYZ inc.)                

ecco le presenze dei nostri autori al Salone del Libro di Torino: Venerdì 15 maggio, ore 16.00 all’Incubatore padiglione 1 il nostro Francesco Verso presenterà Ufo e altri oggetti non identificati di Giorgio Manganelli   Partecipanti: Lietta Manganelli Mariangela Mincione Francesco Verso Venerdì 15 maggio dalle 14 alle 16 allo stand Spartaco G56-H55   pad. 2…

The steampunk novel by our Davide Del Popolo Riolo wins World SF Ernesto Vegetti prize for the best SF Italian novel of the past 2 years, after winning Premio Odissea 2014. DE BELLO ALIENO (Delos 2014, winner of 2013 Odissea Award 800 copies sold so far, rave reviews, good chart placement). Steampunk and sci-fi novel…

Anche le scimmie cadono dagli alberi (Monkeys fall from trees, too, published by Piemme edizioni), Alessandro Berselli‘s latest novel, is in the 3 books shortlisted at “Subiaco Città del Libro” prize.                

Nutrimenti edizioni has just published the Italian translation of O teu rosto será o ultimo by the Portuguese writer João Ricardo Pedro, con Il tuo volto sarà l’ultimo, the first foreign books sold to Italy by our agency (on behalf of STA asociados – Ilustrata, for Leya publishers)                

Lo scopriremo solo scrivendo by our Franca Di Muzio out today for Panda Edizioni Lo scopriremo solo scrivendo – L’odissea occupazionale di un’operaia della parola   Pagg. 204 Cm 15×21 ISBN 9788899091248 Read an excerpt in Italian >                

Chicago Quarterly Review turns to Italy and its writers during a time of great unrest, both socially and politically. Guest edited by Michela Martini, this is a diverse, vibrant collection of poetry and prose translations from the 1960s to the present, featuring five writers from our Agency: Mauro Casiraghi, Franca Di Muzio, Fabio Donalisio, Nicola…

La nostra Marilena Renda a LibriCome Domenica 15 marzo ore 11 Officina 2, Auditorium di Roma presenta Arrenditi Dorothy, L’Orma editore con Teresa Ciabatti, Andrea Cortellessa, Carola Susani                

Forty by Annachiara Capuzzo is out now on paper and ebook for Panda Edizioni Forty – Storie di maternità sostenibile Pagg. 142 Cm 15×21 ISBN 9788899091224 Excerpt in Italian> A funny book about motherhood and family life.                

Davide Del Popolo Riolo’s De bello alieno, winner of ODISSEA Prize 2014, is shortlisted as best science fiction novel for Premio Italia 2015.                

Arrenditi Dorothy!, short stories by Marilena Renda, out in late February for L’orma editore                

Il nostro Alessandro Berselli al Nebbia Gialla festival sabato 31 gennaio, Suzzara (MN) aperitivo con l’autore h 19.45 <http://hotmag.me/nebbiagialla/2015/01/13/nebbiagialla-2015-ecco-il-programma-del-festival/>                  

Stefano Guglielmin‘s collected poems, Maybe it’s raining, out in the USA for Chelsea Editions.                

Su Il libraio, intervista a Giuseppe Russo, direttore editoriale di Neri Pozza, che presenta la nuova collana noir della casa editrice. La collana è aperta anche ai giallisti italiani. Primi nomi in arrivo? “Sì, è aperta anche ad autori italiani e poiché teniamo in modo particolare al primo nome che pubblicheremo, mi limiterò a citare…

renzo stefanel anima latina: storia e cronistoria  disponibile su Amazon in versione e-book e su carta  “Un libro semplicemente clamoroso.” (Michele Neri, critico e ricercatore musicale, esperto battistiano)  Quanto sono durate effettivamente le sessions di registrazione di Anima latina? È davvero possibile che la sua lavorazione sia durata sei mesi? Qual è veramente il misterioso…

The short story “Midsummer Future” by our Francesco Verso will be included in the science fiction collection “Planet Europa” edited by Gloria McMillan from University of Arizona. The collection will include the best European authors, and will be printed in the USA in 2015. Francesco Verso’s book rights are available at our agency, ask for…

Con la nuova stagione riproponiamo i nostri corsi. Tutte le informazioni dettagliate alla pagina Facebook dell’Associazione Culturale AC2 e alla pagina dei corsi su questo sito. Per ulteriori informazioni scrivete a questo indirizzo mail. CORSI ATTIVI PER IL 2014/2015: Autunno caldo: Seminario di scrittura erotica e furto con destrezza, 15 e 16 novembre Vivere per…

Le Petit Omar, Panda edizioni 2014 Pagg. 150 ISBN 9788896753972 Download an excerpt in Italian Omar is fourteen. He arrives in Italy from Senegal with his mother to join his father, who has been working for a long while in the Northeast and works in a Lanerossi yarn factory in  a smalltown near Vicenza. Omar is…

The English version of Dante Palladino’s bilingual debut Una cosa sola, As one, went as far as number 10 in the best sellers of YA Paranormal and Urban Fantasy books on Amazon. Also available on paper, here. Dante’s book is the first installment of our series with Amazon Kindle White Glove.                

Francesco Verso at LonCon, save the date!