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Translation Rights

The Darley Anderson Agency has great success in placing books with international publishers around the world.

For translation rights enquiries, please contact:

Head of Rights: Mary Darby mary@darleyanderson.com

Rights Manager: Georgia Fuller georgia@darleyanderson.com

Rights Executive: Salma Zarugh salma@darleyanderson.com

Rights Assistant: Francesca Edwards francesca@darleyanderson.com

For translation rights enquiries for the Children's Book Agency please contact Kristina Egan kristina@darleyanderson.com

We work with co-agents in the following territories:

  • Bulgaria & Macedonia: Katalina Sabeva (Anthea, Sofia)
  • China, Taiwan, Thailand & Vietnam: Gray Tan, Itzel Hsu (The Grayhawk Agency, Taipei)
  • Czech Republic & Slovakia: Lucie Polakova (Andrew Nurnberg Associates, Prague)
  • Germany: (Adult titles only) Thomas Schlueck, Bastian Schlueck & Franka Zastrow (Thomas Schlueck Agency, Garbsen)
  • Greece: Michael Avramides (O.A. Literary Agency, Markopoulo)
  • Hungary: (Adult titles only) Miklos Lekli and Orsi Mészáros (Katai & Bolza, Budapest)
  • Italy: Roberta Oliva (Natoli, Stefan & Oliva, Milan)
  • Japan: Ken Mori and Misa Morikowa (Tuttle Mori Agency, Tokyo) 
  • Korea: Danny Hong (Danny Hong Agency, Seoul)
  • Poland: Lukasz Wrobel (Graal Ltd, Warsaw)
  • Romania: Simona Kessler (Simona Kessler Agency, Bucharest)
  • Russia: Elizabeth Van Lear & Olga Rogozina (Van Lear Agency, London, Moscow)
  • Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia: Vuk Perisic & Mila Perisic (PLIMA Literary Agency, Belgrade)

Latest Rights Sales

You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood
Translation rights sold to Édition Zaleucus in France

Be Wild, Little One by Olivia Hope
Translation rights sold to Futa Fata in Ireland

Bumble and Snug and the Shy Ghost by Mark Bradley
Translation rights sold to Hunan Juvenile and Children's Publishing House in Simplified Chinese

Bumble and Snug and the Excited Unicorn by Mark Bradley
Translation rights sold to Hu in Sim

Bumble and Snug and the Angry Pirates by Mark Bradley
Translation rights sold to Hunan Juvenile and Children's Publishing House in Si

The Little Italian Hotel by Phaedra Patrick
Translation rights sold to Mystery Press in Czech

The Prisoner by B.A. Paris
Translation rights sold to Gyldendal in Norway

Santa's New Sleigh by Caroline Crowe
Translation rights sold to Ancora Libri in Italy

No Plan B by Lee and Andrew Child
Translation rights sold to KM Books in Ukraine

Better Off Dead by Lee and Andrew Child
Translation rights sold to KM Books in Ukraine


Our Rights Department

I can't imagine that there is a better, more perceptive, or more committed rights section than Darley Anderson's in any literary agency anywhere

John Connolly

The Rights department has done much more for my books than I ever knew was possible. It's like having a bunch of fairy godmothers who regularly drop wonderful exotic presents into your inbox: 'Good morning! Here's Croatia!'

Tana French

The Darley Anderson Agency sells foreign rights faster and further than anyone in the business. I'm published in countries some agents have never even heard of

Lee Child


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