Michela Panichi, with her debut novel La Cecilia, published by nottetempo, has won the VIII edition of the Premio Letterario Allumiere: Femminile, plurale. The announcement took place on Friday, August 28 in Allumiere, in the metropolitan city of Rome, during the final evening of the prize, which this year saw 52 female writers competing and […]
The recognition goes to the debut novel Variazioni sul tema (Solferino). This is the third literary award received for the book, after the Iannas Prize and the Laura Grasso Prize for LGBTQIA+ literature, thus confirming Martino Giordano as one of the most promising voices in the new Italian narrative. Martino Giordano is the winner […]
The novel Dove cadono le comete by Vito di Battista, published by Feltrinelli, has won the DEI Award – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion as part of the IV edition of the literary festival and award “Parole a Braccio”, held in Perugia on May 22 and 23, 2026. Organized by the Rotary Club Fortebraccio Perugia, the […]
The Otago Literary Agency will be present, as every year, at the Rights Centre of the Turin International Book Fair, scheduled at the Lingotto Fiere in Turin from May 14 to 18, 2026. The theme of the XXXVIII edition will be “The World Saved by Kids,” inspired by the work of Elsa Morante. The Rights […]
The Premio Strega reaches its 80th edition and, as a novelty this year, the award ceremony has been announced in Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome, on July 8, instead of the usual setting of the Villa Giulia garden. There are 79 books proposed by the Amici della Domenica, which will now be examined by […]
Sardinia has fallen in love with the debut novel by Martino Giordano, Variazioni sul tema, published by the publishing house Solferino. A week after winning the Iannas Prize, the Palermo writer returned to the island to be awarded another literary prize: this time, it is the second edition of the “Laura Grasso” Prize for LGBTQIA+ […]
The award ceremony of the IV edition of the Iannas Literary Prize, named after the City of Quartu Sant’Elena, featured two authors from the Otago agency: Martino Giordano won the first prize in fiction with his novel Variazioni sul tema (Solferino), while Giovanni Follesa received the critics’ prize for his latest literary work, Un […]
We arrive at the third edition of Le Notti of Pratello, the evening literary festival that enlivens the Pratello district in Bologna in the evening. Born in 2023 from an idea by Marco Nardini of the literary agency Otago, the event returns on September 23, 24, and 25, 2025, starting at 8 PM, in various […]
The Otago Literary Agency will be present, as every year, at the Rights Centre of the Turin International Book Fair. The space dedicated to the buying and selling of rights, the Rights Centre, located at the Lingotto Congress Centre, will welcome literary agencies, Italian and foreign publishing houses, film and television producers, scouts, and translators […]
During the last edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the finalist books for the Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi 2025 were announced. We are happy that the novel by Jay Hardwig, Semplicemente Maria, translated into Italian by Sante Bandirali and published by uovonero, is among the third finalists in the Debut Book section and […]
While waiting for the publication by Borgerhoff & Lamberigts in Dutch this summer, the novel by Alessio Arena Ninna nanna delle mosche (released in his home country by Fandango Libri and winner of the Premio Procida-Isola di Arturo-Elsa Morante) titled Vliegenlied, the translation rights for three novels from the Otago roster have been recently […]
The Norwegian writer Niels Fredrik Dahl has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize (also known by the English term Nordisk Råds Litteraturpris) with the novel Fars rygg (“Walking Man”), published in his home country by Oktober, which we are thrilled to represent in Italy on behalf of Oslo Literary Agency!Established in 1962, the Nordic Council […]
