A GOOD BEATING: AN EVERYDAY STORY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE Every third day, a woman in Germany is murdered by her partner. Every third woman experiences domestic violence. One of these women is Antje Joel. Here, Joel tells her own story. Yet she also broadens the focus of this important and timely book beyond her own experiences, analysing the wider social…
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Inés Garland has been awarded with the Ala Delta Children Book Award (Edelvives) for Lilo, her new children book . Ala Delta Award The story is told by Lilo, a perspicacious and warmhearted dog, who finds out that the abrupt changes of mood of his owners granddaughter are related with the anonymous threats she frequently receives on her mobile phone….
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Shinrin Yoku by the bestselling authors Francesc Miralles and Hector García has been published in the Netherlands by Meulenhoff Boekerij. Human beings have always been intimately tied to forests, since they provide nourishment, shelter and spiritual serenity. Living in city labyrinths has pushed us all away from our truly natural habitat, and in turn, this has unleashed all kinds of…
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The Spanish author Alejandro Palomas has been awarded on this 74th Edition of Nadal Literature Award with his work Un Amor (A Love), book which goes on with Una Madre (A Mother) and Un Perro (A dog) characters. Un Amor is the third novel with Amalia, now 70 years old, as the leading character. The author described the award winning…
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IKIGAI (Boekerij) by the Spanish authors Francesc Miralles and Héctor García represented for German and Dutch translation rights by SvH Literarische Agentur is on the top of the Bestsellerlists in the Netherlands! In Germany IKIGAI is published by Ullstein- Allegria Verlag: www.ullsteinbuchverlage.de/nc/buch/details/ikigai-9783793423171.html The book focuses on the question how people become hundred years old … it’s about the secret of IKIGAI…
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The Argentianian author Inés Garland is nominated in the Netherlands for the Dioraphte Literatour Prijs 2017 with her novel “Piedra papel o tijera”. The award is for the best book of 2016 for young readers between 15 and 18 years. Piedra papel o tijera has been translated into several languages (German, French, Italian and Dutch) and has been awarded with…
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SvH Literarische Agentur: Our Youth and Children Rightslist 2017 is online:http://www.saskiavonhoegen.de/download/svh-katalog-bologna-2017.pdf
Care Santos wins the Nadal Literature Award with the novel ‘Media vida’ We start 2017 with big news: the writer Care Santos has won the prestigious Nadal Literature Award with the novel Media Vida, a story about five women with an unclear past. The awarded novel tells the reunion of five women after three decades without seeing each other, in…
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At this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, the publisher Ariella presented the new young-adult novel Und frei bist Du noch lange nicht (The long way to freedom) by Adriana Stern. The gripping novel tells the story of a group of refugee children, focusing on Zippi, a Jewish girl from Azerbaijan, and Saladin, who – together with his brother – fled from…
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The Argentinian writer Maria Teresa Andruetto (Anderson Award 2012) was awarded with the Pregonero de Honor Award by the El Libro Foundation. Since 1990 in Argentine persons and institution with outstanding contributions to the distribution of youth and children’s literature are honored with this award. Fundación El Libro http://www.el-libro.org.ar/infantil-juvenil/premios-pregonero-2016/ Diario La Nación: http://www.el-libro.org.ar/infantil-juvenil/premios-pregonero-2016/ We represent Maria Teresas Andruetto for German…
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After the huge succes of her novel La sonata del silencio, that was made in Spain into a TV series, now the Spanish author Paloma Sánchez-Garnica has been awarded with the Premio Fernando Lara 2016 for her new novel Mi recuerdo es más fuerte que tu olvido to be published by Planeta. We represent the author for German and Dutch…
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