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Marc Levy, France's number 1 selling novelist. His career was launched in 2000 with his first novel If Only It Were True, which became France's bestselling work of fiction for that year. Translation rights were sold in 39 languages and film rights were sold to DreamWorks. The film, called Just Like Heaven, came out in the US in September 2005 where it was the number one grossing film for its opening weekend. For the past seven years Marc Levy has been the number 1 bestselling novelist in France. His books have been translated into 41 languages. |
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Infidel is the powerful memoir of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The translation rights have been sold in 35 languages, and the book has been on the New York Times bestseller list both as a hardcover and paperback. |
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Anticancer, A New Way of Life by David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. A wise, human, moving and purely illuminating book on what we can do everyday to lower our chances of ever developing cancer. The fruit of Dr. Servan-Schreiber’s experience both as a doctor and as a patient, Anticancer was an immediate number 1 bestseller. Translation rights sold in 34 languages. |
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Stephen Clarke, an internationally bestselling author, whose first novel A Year in the Merde is perhaps the funniest, most politically incorrect book you’ll ever read about the pleasure and perils of being an expat in Paris – translation rights have been sold in 21 languages. His second novel, Merde Actually, was published in September 2005 and went to number one on the UK bestseller lists, knocking Harry Potter from the top spot on the new fiction list! Merde Happens was his third bestseller, and Dial M for Merde was published in Summer 2008. |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. First published in 1997, rights were sold in 29 languages. Julian Schnabel’s motion picture adaptation has been nominated for 4 Academy Awards and won Golden Globe awards for best director and best foreign-language film. Vintage’s edition of Jean-Dominique Bauby’s book is a New York Times bestseller. |
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Inside the Kingdom by Carmen Bin Ladin – a fascinating and insightful look behind the closed doors of one of the most repressive kingdoms in the world, translation rights have been sold in 31 languages and the book was a New York Times bestseller on publication, rising to number 6 on the bestseller hardcover non-fiction list. |
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Until Death Do Us Part by Ingrid Betancourt - the incredible memoir of the Columbian anti-corruption campaigner kidnapped for her outspoken politics, published in France by XO Editions. Translation rights sold in 14 languages. |
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The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality, by André Comte-Sponville, is a provocative, brilliant and ultimately intensely personal new essay. Translation rights in this bestselling essay already sold in 15 languages. |
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Tracking the Da Vinci Code by Frédéric Lenoir and Marie-France Etchegoin – this fascinating ‘behind the scenes’ insight into The Da Vinci Code by two French journalists was an instant bestseller in France where it was published by Editions Robert Laffont. Translation rights have been sold in 20 languages. |
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Michael Wallner is a German writer whose novel April in Paris is a poignant and dramatic story of an impossible love between a German soldier and a Resistance fighter in occupied Paris. Originally published in Germany by Luchterhand, the translation rights have been sold in 24 languages. |
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Miklos Vamos is one of the most read and respected writers in his native Hungary. The Times of London describes The Book of Fathers as “A superb family saga that draws the reader effortlessly through nearly three centuries of turbulent history...” The translation rights have been sold in 12 languages. |
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Incas by A.B. Daniel - a commercial fictional trilogy set in Peru, a love story that unfolds during the Spanish conquest of the Incas. Published in France by XO Editions, translation rights have been sold in 27 languages. |
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In Our Strange Gardens by Michel Quint - a literary tale set during the Second World War, published by Editions Joelle Losfeld in France. Translation rights have been sold in 19 languages; film rights were sold to ICE3. The film, released in France in March 2003, was directed by Jean Becker. |
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Heroines of the Bible by Marek Halter - in this sweeping trilogy, Marek Halter brings the Old Testament to life through the tales of three of its heroines, Sarah, Zipporah, and Lilah. Published in France by Robert Laffont, translation rights sold in 21 languages to date. |
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The Prophecy of Stones by Flavia Bujor - A Y.A. fantasy novel about three fourteen-year old girls fulfilling an ancient prophecy, published in France by Editions Anne Carrière. Translation rights sold in 29 languages. |
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