Looking for a Literary Agent

[Sarah Hurst]

I would suggest starting with the publisher who published the book in the
first place. Presumably they already sold translation rights for the
different languages it's been in. Can they help with finding an
English-language publisher? Preparing some marketing materials and shopping
them around at the London and Frankfurt Book Fairs might be an idea.

Sarah Hurst

-----Original Message-----
From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elena Gapova
Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 11:23 AM
To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
Subject: [SEELANGS] Looking for a Literary Agent

Dear colleagues,

a Belarusian writer published a fairly successful novel, it was translated
into a couple of Central European languages (and sold fairly well in
Poland), and now the person is interested in trying to be published in the
US (in the West).

Where can s/he turn? S/he has one chapter (24 pages) translated into
English and English synopsis.
Where and how does one start?

Elena Gapova

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