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La nostra Franca Di Muzio, dopo aver vinto vari premi con i suoi racconti, stavolta è in finale a Il racconto più brutto, il primo concorso letterario che premia il brutto vanaglorioso. Franca Di Muzio – Earworm Veronica. Nica, per gli amici. Te ne sono rimasti pochi; l’unico che la capisce, Lindo. che pare la…

        

                

     

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…