News Archive: February 2012

23 February 2012

Maria Kallio titles now published in Turkish and Hebrew

We are happy to announce that two foreign translations of Leena Lehtolainen’s Maria Kallio Series have been published in February 2012.

Lehtolainen’s My First Murder has been published in Hebrew by Penn Publishing and Death Spiral in Turkish by Bizim Kitaplar. All in all Lehtolainen’s works can be read in 25 languages!

Take a look at Penn Publishing’s homepage here

Take a look at Bizim Kitaplar’s homepage here

 

Please ask for English samples, full English and German texts of Leena Lehtolainen’s works from the Agency: rights@ahlbackagency.com

10 February 2012

Johanna Sinisalo nominated for the Tähtivaeltaja award 2012

We are thrilled to report that Johanna Sinisalo has been nominated for the Tähtivaeltaja Award 2012. The Helsinki Science Fiction Association yearly elects the most outstanding science fiction book published in Finland, and Johanna Sinisalo has been nominated for her latest work, The Blood of Angels (Enkelten verta, Teos 2011). Published last September, the novel has received excellent reviews and won the P.E. Svinhufvud Memorial Foundation Literary Prize.

Foreign rights news:

Actes Sud has recently acquired the French rights of The Blood of Angels and plans to publish in 2013.

Moreover, the rights to Johanna Sinisalo’s earlier work, Not Before Sundown (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi, Tammi 2000) are currently negotiated with Brazilian (Portuguese) and Bulgarian publishers. In the very near future Johanna’s Finlandia Prize winning novel will be available all in all in 16 languages!

Please ask for reading copies and sample translations of Johanna Sinisalo’s works from the Agency!