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

• Simone Smith

  handles audio rights in all territories and is executive assistant to Nicki Kennedy and Sam Edenborough.

  simone.smith@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, Pat Lomax and Paul Moreton, the Bell Lomax Moreton Agency is based in London. It handles quality fiction and non-fiction, biography, children's, business and sport.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

• Clare Hulton Literary Agency

  Clare Hulton Literary Agency

  Clare Hulton Literary Agency is a young, creative, commercial and successful London-based agency. Although they specialise in non-fiction they also have a small children's list. Many of their authors have appeared in the bestseller lists and frequently feature in the press. They are active in all areas of rights representation and are a member of the Association of Authors Agents.
  
  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.

• Diamond Kahn & Woods

  Diamond Kahn & Woods

  DKW is a dynamic and creative boutique literary agency providing a personal and professional management service to authors of outstanding fiction and non-fiction. DKW was founded in 2012 by Ella Diamond Kahn and Bryony Woods.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

  www.dkwlitagency.co.uk
• Elyse Cheney Literary Associates

  Elyse Cheney Literary Associates

  Elyse Cheney, formerly of the prestigious US literary agency Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, set up her own agency in New York in 2004. She represents a wide range of fiction and non-fiction writers.
  
  ILA represents translation rights on behalf of ECLA in Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden.

  www.cheneyliterary.com
• Harold Matson Co.

  Harold Matson Co.

  Established in 1937, this New York agency represents fiction and non-fiction.
  
  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 – in particular, journalism, history and politics, travel and adventure, contemporary autobiography and biography, books about words and numbers, popular culture and quirky humour, entertainment and television, business, family memoir, food and cookery – and commercial fiction.
  hhb agency is proud of its dynamic community of writers. A small and friendly company, it represents both established bestselling authors and talented, fresh voices new to the book world.
  
  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 San Francisco. The agency represents literary and commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, current affairs, memoirs, popular culture, and young adult fiction. Now based in Los Angeles, the agency works with a network of co-agents to represent translation rights in foreign territories, as well as film and television rights.
  
  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 of which a high proportion is crime. It actively looks for new young writers who can tell a good story.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights except German.

• 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
• 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.
  
  For authors represented by Julian Alexander, ILA represents translation rights in all territories except the Netherlands (handled by Jan Michael).
  
  For authors represented by Philippa Milnes-Smith, Mark Lucas and Araminta Whitley, 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/
• 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 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 Agency

  The Viney Agency

  The Viney 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.thevineyagency.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
• Wild Things Publishing

  Wild Things Publishing

  Wild Things Publishing Ltd produces beautiful, practical books to inspire and guide people to amazing adventures in the great outdoors. All Wild Things Publishing books are accompanied by apps and ebooks for the mobile age.
  
  ILA represents all translation rights.

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