| The Bukowski Agency | ||
| NEWS 2009 | ||
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| June | ||
| Mainland Chinese rights (simplified characters) to neurologist Liam Durcan’s award-winning debut novel García’s Heart, about the war crimes trial of a doctor accused of participating in torture, have gone to Beijing Booky Company. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in the USA, Canada, Holland, Italy and Taiwan. | ||
| Croatian-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag have been sold to Naklada Ljevak. The deal was arranged by Peter Bolza of the Katai & Bolza Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Turkish-language rights have gone to Domingo Publishing. The deal was arranged by Jericho Buendia of The Bukowski Agency. | ||
| May | ||
| Croatian-language rights to bestselling author Wayson Choy’s memoir Not Yet, an intimate and insightful story about surviving near-death twice, have been sold to Naklada Ljevak. The deal was arranged by Peter Bolza of Katai & Bolza Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in Canada and Australia. | ||
| Taiwanese complex character Chinese rights to Anosh Irani’s The Song of Kahunsha, about an orphan’s search for his long-lost father in the violent streets of 1993 Bombay, have been sold to Commonwealth Publishing. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in ten territories, including US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Israel, Brazil, Portugal and Mainland China. | ||
| Brazilian Portuguese rights to The Girls author Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone to Rosemary Alves at Bertrand Brasil, an imprint of Grupo Editorial Record. The deal was arranged by João Paolo Riff on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. French-Canadian rights have also been sold to Antoine Tanguay at Editions Alto by Vanessa Kling of La Nouvelle Agence. Rights have previously been sold in five territories, including the US, the UK, Canada, Italy and the Netherlands. | ||
| Canadian rights to journalist Valerie Fortney’s biography Canada’s Daughter: The Global Journey of Captain Nichola Goddard, about the first female Canadian solider to die in combat, have gone to Linda Pruessen at Key Porter Books, for publication in fall 2010. Goddard was born in Papua New Guinea to idealistic pacifist educators and died at age 26 in 2006 in Afghanistan. Her story embodies the national debate over participation in the war there. | ||
| Arctic Front: Defending Canada in the Far North, co-authored by Ken Coates, Bill Morrison, Greg Poelzer and Whitney Lackenbauer, has won the 2009 Donner Prize of $35,000. The prize is awarded annually for the best book on Canadian public policy. | ||
| Mainland Chinese rights (simplified characters) to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag and Hang, Gypsy! Dance Gypsy! have been sold to Beijing Hongwenguan Publishing & Planning Co. Ltd. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the 22nd territory sold for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. In addition, US English-language large-print rights have been sold to Thorndike Press by Random House Publishing Group US. | ||
| April | ||
Czech-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Euromedia Group. The deal was arranged by Agnieszka Dembek of Graal Ltd. on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. The title has now been sold to twenty-one territories worldwide. |
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| The film of Ryan Knighton's Cockeyed, to be directed by Jodie Foster, receives US$40,000 funding from The Tribeca Film Institute's Sloan Filmmaker Fund, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fund supports feature-length narrative projects that “tell compelling stories about science and technology or portray scientists, engineers and mathematicians as major characters.” | ||
| Mainland Chinese rights (simplified characters) to Anosh Irani’s The Song of Kahunsha, about an orphan’s search for his long-lost father in the violent streets of 1993 Bombay, have been sold to Beijing Book Company. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in nine territories, including US, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Israel, Brazil, and Portugal. | ||
| Dutch language rights to The Girls author Lori Lansens’ The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone again to de Bezige Bij (The Busy Bee). The deal was arranged by Marianne Schönbach on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in the US, the UK, Canada and Italy. | ||
| Serbian-language rights to Alan Bradley’s The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie have been sold to Sanja Djurdjevic at Marso Publishing House. The deal was arranged by Jericho Buendia of The Bukowski Agency. The title has now been sold to twenty territories worldwide. | ||
| March | ||
| Dutch language rights to the first two titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie and The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag – have gone to Marga de Boer at Luitingh-Sijthoff. The deal was arranged by the Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the nineteenth territory sold. | ||
| Korean language rights to Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap, exploring the biological reasons why girls perform better than boys do at school but often opt out of high-status jobs, have been sold to Soopsogyeoubi. The deal was arranged by Joe Moon of the Duran Kim Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the seventeenth territory sold. | ||
| Italian language rights to Lori Lansen’s The Wife’s Tale, about an obese woman whose husband disappears on their 25th anniversary, sending her across the country in search of him, have gone to Mondadori. The deal was arranged by Silvia Donzelli of Grandi & Associati on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights have previously been sold in the US, the UK, and Canada. | ||
| Portuguese rights to the first three titles in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England – The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag and Hang, Gypsy! Dance Gypsy! – have gone to Planeta Manuscrito. The deal was arranged by Natàlia Berenguer of the Sandra Bruna Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the eighteenth territory sold. | ||
| Taiwanese Complex Character Chinese rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first title in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England, have gone to Azoth Books. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the seventeenth territory sold. | ||
| Russian rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie gone to AST Publishing Group. The deal was arranged by Julia Goumen of Goumen & Smirnova Literary Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the sixteenth territory sold. | ||
| UK rights to volumes 4-6 of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce mystery series have gone again to Bill Massey at Orion, publisher of the first volume, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. The entire series of six titles was sold previously in the US (Bantam) and Canada (Doubleday). The UK deal was done by Bill Hamilton of A.M. Heath on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. | ||
| February | ||
| World rights to CBC Radio Workplace Specialist Frank Koller's Spark: Lincoln Electric and the Importance of a Steady Job, a timely investigation of a Cleveland-based Fortune 1000 company that guarantees never to lay off employees for economic reasons, have been sold to Clive Priddle at Public Affairs for publication in February 2010. | ||
| Slovak-language rights to The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, the first title in Alan Bradley’s mystery series featuring an 11-year-old pig-tailed sleuth in 1950s England, have gone to Ikar. The deal was arranged by Ilene Kreshka on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Norwegian rights have gone to Forlaget Press in a deal arranged by Louise Hald of Licht & Burr Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. These rights sales bring the number of territories sold to fifteen. | ||
| World English rights to award-winner Austin Clarke’s first two novels from the 1960s, The Survivors of the Crossing and Amongst Thistles and Thorns, have gone to Peepal Tree Press, for re-issue as part of the Caribbean Modern Classics series. The deal was arranged by David Whiteside of The Bukowski Agency. | ||
| January | ||
| Canadian rights to Alan Bradley’s unwritten volumes 4-6 in the Flavia de Luce mystery series (Seeds of Antiquity, Death In Camera, The Nasty Light of Day) have gone to Kristin Cochrane at Doubleday Canada, in advance of the February 14 Canadian publication of volume one, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie. | ||
| US rights to Alan Bradley’s unwritten fourth to sixth volumes in the Flavia de Luce mystery series (Seeds of Antiquity, Death In Camera, The Nasty Light of Day) have gone to Kate Miciak at Bantam, in advance of the May publication of volume one, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, as a Delacorte hardcover. Rights to the first three books in the series, centred on a pigtailed 11-year-old sleuth with a passion for poisons in 1950s England, have been sold in thirteen territories. It was released in the UK by Orion in January and will launch in Canada from Doubleday on February 14. | ||
| Portuguese rights to Susan Pinker’s The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women, and the Real Gender Gap have gone to Planeta via Sandra Bruna on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. This is the sixteenth territory sold. | ||
| Complex Chinese rights to neurologist Liam Durcan’s award-winning debut novel García’s Heart, about the war crimes trial of a doctor accused of participating in torture, have gone to Sun Color Culture Publishing in Taiwan. The deal was arranged by Gray Tan of The Grayhawk Agency on behalf of The Bukowski Agency. Rights previously sold in the USA, Canada, Holland, and Italy. | ||
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