We are delighted to say that Georgie will be returning from maternity leave on Friday (1st December), we are very much looking forward to welcoming her back. With that in mind we wanted to let you know how we will divide titles within FR, and it is mainly reverting back to a clear divide by genre in major territories, and then we divide the smaller territories amongst us and look after the entire list in these places. Alex will also now start to go direct in the Baltics and Ukraine (after giving sufficient notice to our sub agents)
The Foreign Rights team works across all territories, you can find out who to be in touch with below regarding translation rights. For any general queries, please email foreign@unitedagents.co.uk and the right person will be in touch as soon as possible.
Georgina Le Grice (Foreign Rights Agent) will handle non-fiction (excluding The School of Life list) in all key territories as well as all titles in Korea*, complex and simplified Chinese*, Japanese* and Denmark
Amy Mitchell (Foreign Rights Agent) will handle commercial fiction in all the key territories (The Netherlands, France, Germany and Italy), as well as all titles in Poland, Portuguese in Portugal, Portuguese in Brazil and Norway.
Alex Stephens (Rights Executive) will handle fantasy and sci-fi fiction and The School of Life list in all key territories as well as all titles in Baltics, Greece, Finland, Romania*, the Indian sub-continent, Indonesia*, Malaysia*, Vietnam, Russia*, Ukraine, Georgia, Thailand, Turkey*, Israel
Jane Willis (Agent) will handle all literary fiction in all key territories, children’s rights in all territories, as well as all titles in Spanish, Sweden, Croatia*, Hungary*, Albania*, Bulgaria*, Czech Republic*, Macedonia*, Serbia*, Slovakia*, Slovenia*
Lily Down will hand all titles in Icelandic (direct) and Arabic (direct)
We work directly in the majority of territories but also work with the following sub-agents: Foreign Rights - Sub Agents
*denotes where we use a sub-agent.
Foreign Rights - Sub Agents
We work directly in the majority of territories and with the following co-agents:
Chinese
ANA Beijing Contact: Jackie Huang jhuang@nurnberg.com.cn, Vicky Wen Vicky@nurnberg.com.cn
ANA Taiwan Contact: Whitney Hsu whsu@nurnberg.com.tw
Croatian and Hungarian
Katai & Bolza Contact: Petra Olah Petra@kataibolza.hu, Orsi Meszaros Orsi@kataibolza.hu
Korean
Eric Yang Agency Contact: Jackie Yang jackieyang@eyagency.com
Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian
The Van Lear Agency Contact: Julie Demchenko julia.demchenko@vanlearagency.com
Albanian, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian
ANA Sofia Contact: Kamelia Emilova kamelia@anas-bg.com
Czech, Slovak and Slovene
ANA Prague Contact: Jitka Němečková nemeckova@nurnberg.cz
Indonesian, Malay and Vietnamese
Maxima Creative Agency Contact: Santo Manurung santo@maximacreativeliterary.com
Japanese
The English Agency (Japan) Ltd. Contact: Hamish Macaskill hamish@eaj.co.jp
Japanese
Tuttle-Mori Japan Contact: Misa Morikawa misa@tuttlemori.com
Japanese
Japan Uni Contact: Miko Yamanouchi miko.yamanouchi@gmail.com
Romanian
Simona Kessler & Associates Agency Ltd. Contact: Simona Kessler simona@kessler-agency.ro
Turkish
Anatolialit Agency Contact: Cansu Canseven cansu@anatolialit.com
Jane is responsible for handling all children’s books in all languages. She works directly in the same territories as Georgie, Amy and Alex and with the same co-agents listed above with the following exceptions:
Korean
Eric Yang Agency Contact: Jackie Yang jackieyang@eyagency.com
Romanian
ANA Sofia Contact: Kamelia Emilova kamelia@anas-bg.com
Russian, Ukrainian and Georgian
Synopsis Agency Contact: Anastasya Markova nastya@synopsis-agency.ru
If you have a general query about any of our titles please do contact us at: