The works featured in this installment in our Rights Roundup series include the tale of a famous pearl and ‘Magic Candies’ from Korea.
Authors and illustrators whose work is featured in today’s Rights Roundup include, on the upper row from left, Magda Hellinger; Maya Lee; Carmen Posadas; and Jenny Jägerfeld. On the lower are, from left, Heena Baek; José Ovejero; Magdalena Hai; and Teemu Juhani
A Rights Event Reminder: French Week
As this is the last Rights Roundup we’ll have before it opens, we want to refer you to our coverage of the rights program French Week, running May 17 to 28, a project of BIEF, the Bureau International de L’Édition Français the international outreach organization for France’s publishers.
Today’s Rights Roundup brings together work from Bogota, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Norway, emphasizing fiction, but with a couple of exceptions and an issue-driven children’s title.
Authors and illustrators represented in today’s Rights Roundup include, from left on the upper row, Lena Johannson (image: André Leisner); Ann-Helén Laestadius; Gulraiz Sharif; and Lawrence Schimel. On the lower row, from left, are Juan Camilo Mayorga; Maurice Leblanc; Luca Mazzucchelli; and Andy Robinson.
Reading in the Dark
As many rights specialists who normally would be about to get onto the plane for London Book Fair can tell you, lots of niche rights events some of them agency-based continue to be staged online so that the business can keep humming as we wait for the vaccines to catch up with everyone’s need to travel.