Marente used to live in Russia and one of the two novels is set in there. We mention it in the context of European literature, and more precisely because Katharina has acquired the French rights in two novels written by Dutch author Marente de Moor. I wanted to alert you before you listen to today’s interview with Les Argonautes Editeur founder Katharina Loix Van Hooff that Russia comes up a couple of times during our conversation.

This is the last episode I recorded before traveling to Europe again at the end of March, to attend the London Book Fair but also to visit publishers in Amsterdam and Paris. She is now a literary agent at #BAM in France, with partner Marie Lannurien. After working for two years in London at the French Book Office, she joined the foreign rights department at Gallimard then the two independent publishing houses Les Arènes and l’Iconoclaste, where she sold rights (for Adeline Dieudonné’s La vraie vie, for instance) and acquired books (such as M by Antonio Scurati). Sophie Langlais was born in 1982 and has been reading a lot ever since. We discussed many topics, including the rise of literary agents in France, where the publishing landscape was pretty reluctant to embrace this role for a long time, bringing new translations of classics to the market, and the upcoming book fair season. Today I’m speaking with Sophie Langlais, literary agent at #BAM - Books and More Agency in Paris. Landing back on my feet after my 5-week trip to Europe around the London Book Fair was a bit more challenging this time, due to some lingering fatigue after I caught Covid at the fair, like many others.

It’s been a while since I recorded and published the previous episode. In 2021 she founded a second business in partnership with her brother, Radu Nicolau, the first audiobook platform on the Romanian market – AudioTribe. In 2015 she became the CEO of Nemira Publishing House and a member on the Board of the Romanian Publishers’ Association (AER) – a position held between 20. Pursuing a path in publishing, she concluded an MA in Publishing at Oxford Brookes University in 2014. She received her bachelor degree in French and European law at Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2010, and a second bachelor degree in Romanian law from the University of Bucharest in 2011. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonĪna Lotts-Nicolau was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania.

Ana has had an impressive career so far: she currently is the CEO of Nemira, was for many years a member on the Board of the Romanian Publishers’ Association, and if that wasn’t enough on her plate already, in 2021 Ana founded the first audiobook platform on the Romanian market in partnership with her brother Radu Nicolau. Today’s guest is Ana Lotts-Nicolau of Nemira Publishing House in Romania.

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