Corto
Literary Agency
Corto Literary Agency represents some of the best and most prestigious writers from South-Eastern Europe, i.e. the Balkans. It is a territory of diversity; an intersection of various cultures, traditions and practices, a territory that pulsates with creativity and variety.
Our mission is to choose only the finest and the most valuable in our pursuit to bring this talent closer to the international reading audience, to contribute to the open world of new stories, new voices and new ideas that can enrich and change us.
Besides representing authors from the Balkans, Corto Literary works as a co-agent with international publishers and agencies on Central and Eastern European markets. Our main objective is to match the right publishers with the right titles and thus contribute to greater success of our clients.
Featured Titles
Sons, Daughters
Corto Literary / Hermes, 2020, 264 pages
30-pages long excerpt in English
Translation rights sold: Orfelin (Serbia), Seven Stories Press (World English), Sellerio (Italy), Libri (Hungary), Paradox (Bulgaria), Antolog (North Macedonia)
Winner of Meša Selimović Award 2021
In the vein of majestic works such as Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides or Margaret Atwood’s prose, the power of this novel lies in the ability of genuine literature to reshape the suppressed using it as a vehicle of personal and collective change. Ivana Bodrožić’ new novel tells a story of being locked in: socially, domestically and intimately, told through three different perspectives.
Split
aka Dreams and Backdrops
Jung und Jung, 2021, 182 pages
Full German manuscript and English sample available
Translation rights sold: World English (Amazon Crossing), Croatia (Fraktura)
A harbour town on the Adriatic serves as a backdrop for dreams which some people use for business, others for films and a few to make their fortune.
The Travelling Theatre
VBZ, November, 2020, 476 pages
Translation rights sold: Serbia (Booka)
The Traveling Theatre, the fifth novel by Zoran Ferić, a readers’ favorite and one of the most awarded and acclaimed Croatian authors, is an impressive work, a novel that would mark a grand event in any of the great European literatures
A harbour town on the Adriatic serves as a backdrop for dreams which some people use for business, others for films and a few to make their fortune.