Founded in 1965, ILA is a specialist literary agency which sells translation rights in general fiction, non-fiction and children's books throughout the world on behalf of a wide range of authors.
Our client base comprises formalised relationships with literary agencies and publishing houses based in the UK and the USA.
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Nicki Kennedy
handles rights in France, Germany, Japan and Spain. She also handles our children's and young adult titles in France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Her assistant is Natascha Kilts.
nicki.kennedy@ila-agency.co.uk
natascha.kilts@ila-agency.co.uk
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Sam Edenborough
handles rights in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Sweden. His assistant is Simone Caplin.
sam.edenborough@ila-agency.co.uk
simone.caplin@ila-agency.co.uk
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Mary Esdaile
handles rights for our clients' literary Estates in all territories. In addition she handles our twentieth-century classics list which includes selected titles for Persephone Books Ltd.
mary.esdaile@ila-agency.co.uk
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Franca Bernatavicius
handles rights for our children's and young adult titles in all territories except France, Germany, Italy and Spain.
franca.bernatavicius@ila-agency.co.uk
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Jenny Robson
handles Arabic, Croatian, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Mongolian, Thai, Vietnamese, and all rights in India and Pakistan. She works with our co-agents selling rights in Bulgaria, China, Estonia, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Serbia and Taiwan.
jenny.robson@ila-agency.co.uk
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Katherine West
handles rights in Greece, Poland and Portugal and works with our co-agents selling rights in The Czech Republic, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey.
katherine.west@ila-agency.co.uk
CO-AGENTS
- Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. (SOFIA)
ALBANIA, BULGARIA, SERBIA & ROMANIA
- Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. (PRAGUE)
CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA & SLOVENIA
- Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. (RIGA)
BALTIC STATES
- Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. (MOSCOW)
RUSSIA
- Big Apple Agency (TAIPEI & SHANGHAI)
- Grayhawk Agency (TAIPEI & SHANGHAI)
MAINLAND CHINA & TAIWAN
- English Agency (TOKYO)
- Tuttle-Mori Agency (TOKYO)
- Japan Uni Agency (TOKYO)
- Owls Agency Inc (TOKYO))
JAPAN
- Eric Yang Agency (SEOUL)
- Shinwon Agency (SEOUL)
KOREA
- Akcali Copyright Agency (ISTANBUL)
TURKEY
CLIENTS
- Bell Lomax Agency
Bell Lomax Agency
Founded in 2000 by Eddie Bell, Pat Lomax and Paul Moreton, the Bell Lomax Agency is based in London. It handles quality fiction and non-fiction, biography, children's, business and sport.
ILA represents all translation rights
- Burkeman & Clarke Agency
Burkeman & Clarke Agency
Founded in July 2009, combining Brie Burkeman and Serafina Clarke's agencies, together Brie and Serafina brought a combined sixty years of experience to their new agency. Serafina Clarke has now retired.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.burkemanandclarke.com - Clare Hulton Literary Agency
Clare Hulton Literary Agency
After a successful career in publishing Clare Hulton set up her eponymous agency in 2010. She represents a wide range of non-fiction authors many of whom have appeared in the bestseller lists.
ILA represents all translation rights
- Elyse Cheney Literary Associates
Elyse Cheney Literary Associates
Elyse Cheney, formerly of the prestigious US literary agency Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, set up her own agency in New York in 2004. She represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction writers.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.cheneyliterary.com - Harold Matson Company
Harold Matson Company
Established in 1937, this New York agency represents fiction and non-fiction.
ILA represents all translation rights
- hhb agency ltd
hhb agency ltd
hhb agency ltd was founded in 2005 by Heather Holden-Brown. The agency represents writers of non-fiction - in particular, journalism, history and politics, travel and adventure, contemporary autobiography and biography, books about words and numbers, popular culture and quirky humour, entertainment and television, business, family memoir, food and cookery - and commercial fiction.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.hhbagency.com - Jane Conway-Gordon
Jane Conway-Gordon
Founded in 1982, Jane Conway-Gordon Ltd handles mostly adult fiction of which a high proportion is crime. It actively looks for new young writers who can tell a good story.
ILA represents all translation rights except French and German
- John Beaton Writers' Agent
John Beaton Writers' Agent
Based in Scotland, John Beaton founded his agency in 2004. He represents fiction and non-fiction.
ILA represents all translation rights
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Lucas Alexander Whitley Ltd
Lucas Alexander Whitley Ltd
LAW is a successful and creative London-based agency representing both writers and artists. Its clients feature regularly on bestseller lists worldwide.
For authors represented by Philippa Milnes-Smith, Mark Lucas and Araminta Whitley, ILA handles all translation rights.
For authors represented by Julian Alexander ILA handles all translation rights except Dutch; Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil); and Spanish.
www.lawagency.co.uk - Luigi Bonomi Associates
Luigi Bonomi Associates
After a successful career as an agent at Sheil Land, Luigi Bonomi set up his own London literary agency in 2005. LBA represents fiction and non-fiction with an emphasis on high-profile commercial projects.
ILA represents all translation rights.
www.bonomiassociates.co.uk - Old Street Publishing
Old Street Publishing
Founded in 2006, Old Street is an independent British publisher with a small but eclectic list ranging from literary fiction to commercial non-fiction, with the odd – very odd – gift or 'humour' book thrown in. In their ever-lengthening but still short history, they have won the IMPAC with Rawi Hage's De Niro's Game, and the BBC National Short Story Award with The Orphan and the Mob, the prologue to Julian Gough's Jude in Ireland.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.oldstreetpublishing.co.uk - Persephone Books
Persephone Books
Nicola Beauman started Persephone Books to bring back into print authors whose work she felt had been neglected and deserved to be in the public eye once again. ILA represents translation rights in a selection of titles from the Persephone catalogue. Please email Mary Esdaile (mary.esdaile@ila-agency.co.uk) for more information.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.persephonebooks.co.uk - Short Books
Short Books
Independent London-based publishing house, launched in 2000 by former journalists Rebecca Nicolson and Aurea Carpenter. Short Books strives to bridge the gap between publishing and journalism.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.shortbooks.biz - Stimola Literary Studio
Stimola Literary Studio
Founded 1997, Rosemary Stimola's agency handles children's books (pre-school through young adult) fiction and non-fiction. Specialises in picture books, middle/young adult novels. ILA does not handle any picture book rights.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.stimolaliterarystudio.com - The Agency (Hilary Delamere)
The Agency (Hilary Delamere)
Hilary Delamere at The Agency represents a range of children's authors and illustrators, both new and established, and handles their publishing and related media rights.
ILA represents Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Scandinavian and Spanish rights.
www.theagency.co.uk - The Cooke Agency International (Children's & YA only)
The Cooke Agency International (Children's & YA only)
Founded in September 2009, The Cooke Agency International represents foreign rights for Random House of Canada Ltd., The Cooke Agency and Tundra Books.
ILA represents translation rights in all Children's and Young Adult titles from The Cooke Agency International's catalogue.
Please email Franca Bernatavicius or Nicki Kennedy (franca.bernatavicius@ila-agency.co.uk, nicki.kennedy@ila-agency.co.uk) for more information.
www.cookeagency.ca - The Hanbury Agency
The Hanbury Agency
Founded in 1983, The Hanbury Agency has consistently represented remarkable writers. It is dedicated, forward-thinking, delivers a personal service and represents its clients worldwide. The agency has its own Media Department, which supports our authors as well as representing exciting entrepreneurs, organisations and third sector campaigns.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.hanburyagency.com - The Steinberg Agency
The Steinberg Agency
The Steinberg Agency, Inc. is a full-service literary agency formed in the fall of 2007 by Peter Steinberg. Peter worked for eleven years as a literary agent at a number of high profile boutique literary agencies, including Donadio & Olson and Regal Literary before forming his own company. Peter's clients have been nominated for/awarded Edgars, Quills, The Pulitzer Prize, The Story Prize, The Paris Review Discovery Prize, Borders Original Voices and National Book Awards.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.steinbergagency.com - The Viney Agency
The Viney Agency
The Viney Agency, founded by Charlie Viney, primarily sells books to publishers, but also provides a full range of services for its clients which includes the selling of film and TV treatments to broadcasters and production companies. The Viney Agency represents over eighty authors across a wide variety of genres including adult and children's fiction writers, biographers and historians.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.thevineyagency.com - Turnbull Agency (John Irving)
Turnbull Agency (John Irving)
The Turnbull Agency was set up by Janet Turnbull Irving to manage John Irving's literary rights.
ILA represents all translation rights
- Wade & Doherty Literary Agency
Wade & Doherty Literary Agency
Founded in 2001, Wade & Doherty handles fiction and non-fiction, including children's books. A young and dynamic agency, it actively seeks new writers across the literary spectrum.
ILA represents all translation rights
www.rwla.com - We Are What We Do
We Are What We Do
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We'd like to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. Whoever they are. And wherever they are. And that includes you. We've created 100 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities and make our planet and the people on it much happier. We started by putting these actions into a book but it rather burst its bindings. Today it has gained momentum, gathered community and become a global movement with two books and over 500,000 registered actions.
ILA handles translation rights in the book projects of We Are What We Do.
www.wearewhatwedo.org
SUBMISSIONS POLICY
ILA is a specialist translation rights agency.
Please note- We are unable to accept submissions from writers seeking an agent.
- We do not sell English-language rights.
ILA works exclusively on behalf of authors who are introduced to us by our client agencies and publishers.