January 2019 | RIGHTS EDITION
Award-winning author David Diop is the client of a one-woman literary agency in France. Looking at her rights sales, you can understand the agency's name: So Far So Good.

The coming Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honor program is off to an agile start, as we feature several foreign rights hits from Norway, as well as Germany and India.

With more than 170,000 copies sold, the auto-racing biography of Kimi Räikkönen has entered 2019 as Finland's biggest bestseller in history.

Online reading and writing platform Wattpad has launched its own book publishing division with six titles due this fall and a stronger foreign rights push.

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Books, Games, Film: Choose the Next Path for Storytelling

UK’s Deer Little Forest and Finland’s Ferly–Formerly Kaiken–in Licensing Agreement

A New Literary Agency’s Old Hands: ‘It’s Just Intoxicating’ in London

IPR License Signs S. Fischer Publishing Houses in Germany to Its Network
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