RESOURCES-AGENTS

B. K. Agency is a professional sales and rights agency representing more than 40 American, British, and Australian publishers, including W.W. Norton as well as American university presses (Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc). We specialize in promotion of college texts, professional books, children’s literature, ELT/ESL, and educational publications to major Asian book importers, library suppliers, and publishers. International publishers benefit from our experience and expertise when they seek to make inroads to the Asian market.

In addition, we also promote Taiwanese children’s literature and language learning books to international publishers. We help to uncover the hidden gems within the vibrant Taiwanese publishing industry.

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Bernstein Literary Agency is a full-service literary agency representing non-fiction and fiction authors in the United States and around the world. The agency was founded in 2010. Our authors include US Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and John Paul Stevens, Noble Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo and many distinguished journalists, academics, writers and artists from around the world. We represent a significant number of Chinese writers and are particularly interested in expanding our list of nonfiction and fiction writers from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong as well as other parts of Asia. A partial listing of the Chinese authors we represent includes: Ai Weiwei, Liao Yiwu (THE CORPSE WALKER, FOR A SONG AND A HUNDRED SONG: A POET’S HOURNEY THROUGH A CHINESE PRISON); Wenguang Huang (THE LITTLE RED GUARD); Yang Jisheng (TOMBSTONE); Yang Xianhui (WOMAN FROM SHANGHAI); Ho Pin and Wen Huang (A DEATH IN THE LUCKY HOLIDAY HOTEL).

Peony Literary Agency, founded by Marysia Juszczakiewicz, is one of the most prolific multi-lingual literary agencies based in Asia with a successful rights business as well as an established Asian agency for author representation. We work with a wide range of high profile clients (http://www.peonyliteraryagency.com/authors.php) as well as represent US, UK and European publishers and agents for sales of complex and simplified Chinese rights (http://www.peonyrights.com/). Our agents come from Asian publishing backgrounds and are multi-lingual, with a wide range of contacts in the publishing industry both in Asia and the West.

The Grayhawk Agency first started representing Chinese language writers in 2009, quickly signing up some of mainland China's most critically and commercially successful authors, such as Zhang Ling, Mai Jia, Chi Zijian, Fan Wen, Lu Min etc. So far, the agency has sold rights to their novels (such as GOLD MOUTAIN BLUES, DECODED, THE LAST QUARTER OF THE MOON and UNDER THE HAWTHORN TREE, in over twenty different languages. In 2011, The Grayhawk Agency signed up its first Taiwanese author, Wu Ming-Yi, and has so far sold translation rights for his eco-fantasy novel THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES to the UK, US and France. This is the first time a Taiwanese author has been represented by an agent internationally. With extensive expertise in both the Chinese and international markets, the agency has established unrivalled links with publishers, agencies and translators and continues to look for exciting books to introduce to a new readership abroad.