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My Lady [Jonkvrouw] travels to Denmark with ABC Forlag (21/11/2011)
After an exciting auction the Danish rights for the awarded historical youth novel Jonkvrouw are sold to ABC Forlag. The publishing house will release the marvelous book at a first run of 1 000 copies at a retail price of DKK 150 (about 20 euro). ABC Forlag, originally founded in 1998, is a pu ...

Soon also German children will enjoy the magnificent book The Findling of Wammerswood (15/11/2011)
The Findling of Wammerswood [De Vindeling van Wammerswald] by Stefan Boonen and illustrator Tom Schoonooghe is a touching and funny book for children of 8 years and upwards. After an exciting auction with 3 publishers, Esslinger Verlag nabbed the German rights. They will release the book in 2012 ...

Pieter Aspe on promotion tour in South Africa (15/11/2011)
The Flemish best selling thriller author Pieter Aspe was invited to South Africa by Lapa Uitgewers. In the end of October the author had a successful promotion tour across the country. He attended several seminars and public discussions to promote his books.  Pieter enjoyed a warm wel ...

BELGIAN BEST SELLING THRILLER AUTHOR PIETER ASPE READY TO CONQUER THE USA (18/10/2011)
  After France, South Africa, Spain, Poland and Italy, Flanders’ best-selling thriller author Pieter Aspe is now ready to conquer the English market!  WPG Publishers Belgium is proud to announce that Pegasus Books and Open Road Integrated Media have acquired the first two novels in ...

Suske and Wiske officially presented in China (05/10/2011)
The Suske and Wiske series with over 300 titles has since decades been the most successful comic book series in Belgium and The Netherlands. Now, the two heroes are ready to conquer China! Lianoning Publishing House launched 10 titles of the series and presented them at the latest Beijing Book Fair. ...

Videograf II released Aspe in Poland (08/06/2011)
After France, South Africa, Spain and Italy, Flanders’ best-selling thriller author Pieter Aspe is now conquering Poland! Videograf II released Pieter Aspe’s ‘Kwadrat Zemsty’ (The square of revenge) in May 2011. This month they will release already the second thriller in the ...

French rights of Jaren van de Olifant sold to Même pas Mal (08/06/2011)
Même pas mal acquired the French rights of Jaren van de Olifant. The awarded graphic novel of Willy Linthout will be published in 2013 on a print run of approximately 2000 copies. Même pas mal is a young and dynamic publishing house based in Marseille. Their publishing list stands ou ...

Rights of Galgenmeid [Gallows Maid] sold to South-Africa and Germany (08/06/2011)
Gallows Maid is another historical novel from the successful writing duo Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem and Pat van Beirs. The rights are now sold to Gerstenberg Verlag in Germany and Protea Boekhuis in South-Africa. These publishing houses also already published Jonkvrouw [My lady]. Gallows Maid wi ...

Liever de leugen [Rather the Lie] sold to Gerstenberg Verlag in Germany (08/06/2011)
The German rights of Rather the Lie , the exciting and surrealistic thriller of Jonas Boets, are sold to Gerstenberg Verlag. Rather the lie will be published in 2013 on a print run of 5000 copies and sold at a retail price of 16.95 euro. Birgit Göckritz, publisher at Gerstenberg Verlag, i ...

Silenos releases Los in Hungarian (11/05/2011)
The Hungarian publishing house Silenos released its Hungarian edition of Tom Naegels’ splendid novel ‘Los’ (Válófélben) at the Budapest Book Fair on the 14th of April. Cut Loose [Los] earned Naegels the Gerard Walschap Prize for Literature 2005 and t ...

When reality goes beyond our wildest dreams (05/04/2011)
In his book From Purgatory to Hell, Janko tells his fascinating and shocking story for the first time. In 1999, this 21-year-old Syrian student run away from his family and leave the United Arab Emirates where he was living. He decides to leave to Afghanistan to seek asylum. But the Taliban, who run ...

International succes for Jonkvrouw [My lady] continues! (11/02/2011)
“Jonkvrouw, by Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem and Pat Van Beirs, is published in Canada and North-America by Annick press, under the title A Sword in Her Hand. Take a look at their beautiful trailer In March this beautiful historical novel will also be released in South-Africa by Protea Boekhui ...

Loewe Verlag released fourth ‘Helen Vreeswijk’ (10/02/2011)
The German publishing company Loewe Verlag released the fourth book by best selling youth author Helen Vreeswijk. German readers of these reality crime books will find the translation of ‘Overdosis ' as ‘Die Party-Pille’ in the German bookshelves. 'Die Party-Pille' is the fourt ...

Goedele Liekens now in Serbia (10/02/2011)
The vagina book and Her penis book are now available in Serbia under the titles Knjiga O Vagini and Knijga O Penisu. In Belgium we sold 300.000 copies of Goedele Liekens’ books about sexology. Each of her books broke taboos during embarrassing moments of silence, created clarity from co ...

Nyitott Könyvmuhely releases Hungarian translation of Fata Morgana (22/12/2010)
The Hungarian publishing company Nyitott Könyvmuhely releases the translation of Chika Unigwe’s Fata Morgana.  This moving story of four African women in the red-light-district of Antwerp was previously released by Neri Pozza in Italy, Jonathan Cape in the USA and Klett-Cotta in G ...

Aspe’s resounding international success continues! (03/12/2010)
 After France, South Africa and Italy, Flanders’ best-selling thriller author Pieter Aspe is now conquering Spain! The prestigious Spanish publishing house, Ediciones B, released Pieter Aspe’s ‘Las culpas de Midas’ in November 2010. For more information on this title, vi ...

Marc de Bel’s Captain Cacao Series sold to Memory House in China (03/12/2010)
The fantastic adventures of Captain Cacao make up a series of 5 books for children of 7 years and upwards. These entertaining, adventurous reading books are illustrated by Bart Vantieghem. Memory House will be releasing the series in the Chinese market in 2011. Once upon a time, Marc de Bel was ...

Chika Unigwe nominated for the 2011 IMPAC Award (15/11/2010)
Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street has been nominated for the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literature Award 2010. This award is special for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the award of 100.000 euros. The nominations come from libraries rather than professional judges. Those lib ...

Koen Peeters is awarded the F. Bordewijk Prize 2010 for De Bloemen [The Flowers]. (03/11/2010)
The jury praised the novel, which 'balances carefully between restrained nostalgia and sharp observations'. De Bloemen was already shortlisted for the AKO Literature Prize which will be awarded on Monday 8 November. Are you still a son if your parents are dead? In The Flowers, Koen Peeters tells ...

Pieter Aspe launched in South Africa (03/11/2010)
‘Die vierkant van die wraak’ is the African translation of 'Het Vierkant van de Wraak', Pieter Aspe's very first of 27 thrillers, and is being published by Lapa Uitgewers. Visit the website of Lapa Uitgewers for more information on the African translations of Pieter Aspe's thrillers. ...

Random House Germany / Bassermann Verlag acquired German rights for Donderdag Veggiedag Kookboek. (27/10/2010)
Donnerstag ist Veggietag will be released on the German market in March 2011. The book will be published under the imprint Südwest.  The Thursday is Veggie Day Cookbook is full of ideas for cooking vegetarian meals once a week, on Thursdays for example, one for every week of the year. Col ...

The comic strip series "Bob and Bobette" wins The Golden Pencil 2010 award (04/08/2010)
The authors, Luc Morjaeu and Peter Van Gucht, handed over the award to Leen Vandersteen. She is the daughter of Willy Vandersteen who invented Bob and Bobette. In this way they payed tribute to all the artists and scriptwriters who work and have worked for Studio Vandersteen. It is for the first ti ...