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OUR AGENCY HAS MOVED!

After four years on the Oostenburg we have moved to the center of Amsterdam. As of April 19^th of 2012 we can be found at Rokin 44:

On sunny days we invite you to have a drink with us on our beautiful rooftop terrace with a view of all of Amsterdam.

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Harper Collins acquires world rights to Knox memoir

Following a heated auction Harper Collins US has acquired world rights to Amanda Knox’s memoir, this memoir will be published at the same time, with the Dutch edition (Uitgeverij Sijthoff)  in January or February of 2013.

Knox, an American student in Perugia Italy, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of British fellow student Meredith Kercher in 2007, a crime she was believed to have committed with her boyfriend at the time, Raffaele Sollecito. The case was retried in 2011 which led to her and Sollecito’s acquittal. The murder of Kercher and trial of Knox has generated worldwide media attention and for years the intimate details of the case and all involved have been the subject of news reports and items.

The Harper Collins book deal has led to publicity in the Netherlands.

artikel De Standaard
artikel NRC

 

ANNE TYLER WINS THE SUNDAY TIMES AWARD FOR LITERARY EXCELLENCE!

The American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Tyler has been announced as the winner of the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence. She was awarded the prize in recognition of her lifetime achievement in literature on April 1^st 2012 at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. Anne Tyler is the author of numerous well known and successful novels, such as Breathing lessons, The accidental tourist, and The amateur marriage. Her new novel, The beginner's goodbye will be published in the Netherlands in the summer of 2012 by Cargo. Cargo will also be publishing new editions of Anne Tyler’s better known work in beautiful mid price editions.

Anne Tyler is well loved for her effortless prose, her empathy for her characters, the depth of her insights in human behavior and the emotions of her characters.

   

Mechthild Borrman awarded the Deutsche Krimipreis 2012

German author Mechthild Borrman was awarded the Deutsch Krimipreis 2012 (for crime writing) for her novel Wer das Schweigen bricht. The novel was at the top of the Krimi-Bestenliste, a prestigious crime bestseller list chosen by the weekly Die Zeit, before being selected as the winner of the Krimipreis.

Robert Lubisch, a doctor and a scientist, makes an unsettling discovery after his father’s death: in a desk drawer he finds a box full of SS documents and a photograph of a beautiful young woman. Could his father, who was always supremely correct, have had a lover? On the back of the picture he finds the name of a photography studio in the town Kranenburg, near Munster. Robert embarks on a quest to discover the truth about his father’s past.

Mechthild Borrman tells this story from the present, with flashbacks to the 1940s and 1950s. With precision and yet full of compassion the author tells us of a time when moral decisions required a great deal of courage. The main character Robert Lubisch unearths a terrible crime that had no legal consequences in that time. The themes in the novel – long shadows from the past, guilt and broken trust, manipulation and treason – are all touched by love.

American author Jesmyn Ward wins National Book Award for Fiction, for her novel SALVAGE THE BONES

Jesmyn Ward’s lauded novel tells the story of twelve days in the life of a poor family trying to survive in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina on the Mississippi coast. Ward offers readers an overwhelming new literary voice from the Southern United States.

Her work has been translated into French, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese.