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.

• Nicki Kennedy

  is the Managing Director. She handles rights in France, Germany, Japan and Spain.

  nicki.kennedy@ila-agency.co.uk

• Sam Edenborough

  handles rights in Brazil, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, and Sweden.

  sam.edenborough@ila-agency.co.uk

• Clementine Gaisman

  handles rights for our children's and young adult titles in all territories.

  clementine.gaisman@ila-agency.co.uk

• Katherine West

  handles rights in Georgia, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine and works with our co-agents selling rights in The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia.

  katherine.west@ila-agency.co.uk

• Jenny Robson

  handles rights in the Arabic-speaking countries, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Thailand, Vietnam, and all rights in India and Pakistan. She works with our co-agents selling rights in Bulgaria, China, Korea, Romania, Serbia and Taiwan.

  jenny.robson@ila-agency.co.uk

• Alice Natali

  is rights assistant, supporting the agents.

  alice.natali@ila-agency.co.uk

CO-AGENTS

ALBANIA, BULGARIA, SERBIA & ROMANIA

• Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. (SOFIA)

CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA & SLOVENIA

• Andrew Nurnberg Assoc. (PRAGUE)

MAINLAND CHINA & TAIWAN

• Big Apple Agency (TAIPEI & SHANGHAI)
• Grayhawk Agency (TAIPEI & SHANGHAI)

JAPAN

• English Agency (TOKYO)
• Japan Uni Agency (TOKYO)
• Owls Agency Inc (TOKYO))
• Tuttle-Mori Agency (TOKYO)

KOREA

• Eric Yang Agency (SEOUL)
• Shinwon Agency (SEOUL)

CLIENTS

• Bell Lomax Moreton Agency

  Bell Lomax Moreton Agency

  Founded in 2000 by Eddie Bell, Bell Lomax Moreton handles quality fiction and non-fiction, biography, children's, business and sport.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  http://belllomaxmoreton.co.uk
• Cassava Republic Press

  Cassava Republic Press

  Founded, 10 years ago, Cassava Republic Press is one of Africa’s leading publishers of contemporary writing with offices in Abuja and London. In 2018 they won a LBF International Excellence Award.
  
  ILA handles all translation rights.

  www.cassavarepublic.biz
• Clare Hulton Literary Agency

  Clare Hulton Literary Agency

  Clare Hulton Literary Agency is a young, creative, commercial and successful London-based agency.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.clarehulton.com
• Cooke International

  Cooke International

  (Children's & YA only) Founded in September 2009, The Cooke Agency International represents foreign rights for Penguin Random House Canada, 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.

  www.cookeinternational.com
• Harold Matson Co.

  Harold Matson Co.

  Established in 1937, Harold Matson Co. was one of the founding partners of ILA. The New York based agency represents fiction and non-fiction including a number of high profile estates.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

• hhb agency

  hhb agency

  hhb agency ltd was founded in 2005 by Heather Holden-Brown, the agency represents writers of non-fiction and commercial fiction.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  http://www.hhbagency.com/
• Hill Nadell Literary Agency

  Hill Nadell Literary Agency

  The Frederick Hill Bonnie Nadell Literary Agency was founded in 1979 in and represents literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, current affairs, memoirs, popular culture, and young adult fiction.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights in territories where we deal directly, except Turkey.

  www.hillnadell.com
• Jane Conway-Gordon Ltd

  Jane Conway-Gordon Ltd

  Founded in 1982, Jane Conway-Gordon Ltd handles mostly adult fiction with a specialism in the crime writing genre.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights except German.

• Kate Barker Literary, TV & Film Agency

  Kate Barker Literary, TV & Film Agency

  Kate Barker Literary, TV & Film Agency is a boutique London-based agency representing writers of fiction and non-fiction. It works creatively with its authors and is actively looking for new writers.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.katebarker.net
• Kingsford Campbell

  Kingsford Campbell

  Kingsford Campbell provides traditional literary agent services for authors, as well as offering brand, marketing and digital strategy services.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.kingsfordcampbell.com
• Knights Of

  Knights Of

  A new inclusive children’s publisher based in London. Focused on ensuring the team behind all of our books is as representative as possible, KO publishes the best commercial fiction for all kids. Books made by everyone, for everyone.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights. #BooksMadeBetter

• LaunchBooks Literary Agency

  LaunchBooks Literary Agency

  LaunchBooks is based in San Diego, CA. Founder David Fugate represents a wide range of authors writing genre-breaking fiction and trade non-fiction.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.launchbooks.com
• 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.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.lawagency.co.uk
• Luigi Bonomi Associates

  Luigi Bonomi Associates

  London-based literary agency LBA was established by literary agents Luigi Bonomi and Amanda Preston in March 2005. Though the agency is relatively new, the founding agents have been in the business for years and represent a wide variety of best-selling and prize-winning authors, journalists and writers.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.bonomiassociates.co.uk
• Martin Leonardis

  Martin Leonardis

  Founded by Federica Leonardis in 2016, Martin Leonardis Literary Management represents commercial and crossover fiction, cookery and food writing, business, memoirs, psychology and lifestyle.
  Its mission is to help each author build a literary career through careful planning and a tailored strategic approach as unique as they are.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.martinleonardis.com
• 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

  Persephone Books reprints neglected fiction and non-fiction by mid-twentieth century (mostly women) writers. The emphasis is on beautiful writing that says as much about the time it was written, as it does about today.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights for selected titles only on the Persephone Books list.

  http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/
• Pocket Jeunesse

  Pocket Jeunesse

  Pocket Jeunesse is Univers Poche’s children’s fiction imprint, which is amongst the top three French publishers overall every year and holds the number one position in Young Adult Fiction in France.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights except French in their backlist and new Young Adult and Middle Grade novels.

  https://www.pocketjeunesse.fr/
• Regal Hoffmann & Associates

  Regal Hoffmann & Associates

  A full-service agency based in New York, Regal Hoffmann & Associates was founded in 2002. The agency represents works in a wide range of categories, with an emphasis on literary fiction, outstanding thriller and crime fiction, serious narrative non-fiction, works in translation, and children's books. Authors include Pulitzer Prize-winners, New York Times bestsellers, university professors, hip-hop stars, and and the current Poet Laureate of the United States.
  
  ILA handles translation rights in the following languages: Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian and Swedish.

  www.rhaliterary.com
• Short Books

  Short Books

  An 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
• Skylark Literary

  Skylark Literary

  Skylark Literary is a specialist Children's & YA literary agency and creative consultancy founded in 2014 by Amber Caraveo and Joanna Moult.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

• Stimola Literary Studio

  Stimola Literary Studio

  Founded in 1997, Rosemary Stimola's agency handles children's books (pre-school through young adult) fiction and non-fiction. The Stimola Literary Studio specialises in picture books, middle/young adult novels. ILA does not handle any picture book rights.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights except German.

  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, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Scandinavian, Spanish and Turkish rights on behalf of Hilary's clients.

• The Cheney Agency

  The Cheney Agency

  Founded by Elyse Cheney in 2004, the agency represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction writers.
  
  ILA represents translation rights on behalf of The Cheney Agency in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

  www.cheneyliterary.com
• The Good Literary Agency

  The Good Literary Agency

  The Good Literary Agency is a new social enterprise literary agency from the team behind the award-winning book The Good Immigrant.
  
  Inspired by a desire to increase opportunities for representation for all writers under-represented in mainstream publishing, we are focused on discovering, developing and launching the careers of writers of colour, disability, working class, LGBTQ+ and anyone who feels their story is not being told in the mainstream.

  www.thegoodliteraryagency.org
• 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 its authors as well as representing exciting entrepreneurs, organisations and third sector campaigns.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.hanburyagency.com
• The Turnbull Agency

  The Turnbull Agency

  The Turnbull Agency was set up by Janet Turnbull Irving to manage John Irving's literary rights.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

• The Viney Shaw Agency

  The Viney Shaw Agency

  The Viney Shaw Agency is one of the UK’s most successful independent agencies, and has represented numerous bestselling books, including number one Christmas bestselling titles.
  
  The Viney Agency 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.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.thevineyshawagency.com
• Wade & Co Literary Agency

  Wade & Co Literary Agency

  Founded by Robin Wade in 2001, Wade & Co Literary Agency handles fiction and non-fiction for adults and young adults.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.rwla.com

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