Founded by Marco Nardini, Otago raised anchor in 2010.
Vito di Battista joined the crew in 2016 as Foreign Rights manager.
Our crow’s nest is in Bologna, Italy.
We represent authors in Italy and abroad, foreign publishers and literary agencies in the Italian market, and we manage the foreign rights of some independent Italian publishing houses.
We are proud to be one of the founding members of ADALI, the first Association of Italian literary agents.
We are always open to new collaborations with foreign publishers, co-agencies and literary scouts. We attend the major book fairs, so let’s meet up in Frankfurt, London, Turin, Göteborg and Bologna!
Send us a message in a bottle. It won’t take long to reach us.
↣ Click here to see our Rights List updated to Turin Book Fair 2022.
↣ Click here to see our Rights List updated to Frankfurter Buchmesse 2021.
SUB-AGENCIES
- Agence Deborah Druba (France)
- Andrew Nurnberg Associates – Budapest (Hungary, Croatia)
- Andrew Nurnberg Associates – Prague (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia)
- Book/lab (Poland)
- International Editors’ Co (Spain, Latin America)
- Literaturagentur Juliane Roderer (Germany)
- Livia Stoia Literary Agency (Albania, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia)
- Marianne Schönbach Literary Agency (The Netherlands)
- Onk Agency (Turkey)
- Tuttle-Mori Agency (Japan)
- Tuttle-Mori Agency – Bangkok (Thailand, Vietnam)
- Villas-Boas & Moss (Brazil, Portugal)
CLIENTI STRANIERI che rappresentiamo in Italia
FOREIGN CLIENTS that we represent in Italy
- Arsenal Pulp Press (Canada)
- Cappelen Damm (Norway)
- Carina Deschamps Agency (Sweden)
- Eirin Hagen Literary Agency (Norway)
- Immaterial Agents (Scandinavia)
- Michel Lafon (France)
- Nordlyset Literary Agency (USA)
- Northern Stories Literary Agency (Norway)
- Nouveau Monde Éditions (France)
- Presses de la Cité (France)
- The Rights Company (The Netherlands)
- Unnamed Press (USA)
- Winje Agency (Norway)
EDITORI ITALIANI che rappresentiamo all’estero
ITALIAN PUBLISHERS that we represent abroad
VENDITE RECENTI
RECENT SALES
• Isen (John Kåre Raake)
Piemme (Italy)
• Mine menn (Victoria Kielland)
Sellerio (Italy)
• Havets kirkegård (Aslak Nore)
Marsilio (Italy) – 3 book deal
• Conflict is Not Abuse (Sarah Schulman)
minimum fax (Italy)
• I vermi grigi (Francesco Bortolozzo)
Alter Ego (Italy)
• L’inerme (Marco Rovelli)
Il Margine/Erickson (Italy)
• Senza disturbare nessuno (Luca Giachi)
Giunti (Italy)
• Unfuck Your Brain (Faith G. Harper)
Libreria Pienogiorno (Italy)
• The Alien Book (Nick Redfern)
Venexia (Italy)
• L’uomo che ha venduto il mondo (Claudio Conti)
Pessime Idee (Italy)
• La Cantadora (Vanni Lai)
minimum fax (Italy)
• Non muoiono mai (Francesco Spiedo)
Fandango (Italy)
• Madame (Mauro Baldrati)
Bompiani (Italy)
• Il doganiere senza volto (Gianluca Lioni)
TEA/Tre60 (Italy)
• L’età delle madri (Vittorio Punzo)
Alter Ego (Italy)
• Teatro Pereyra (Marco Visinoni)
Arkadia (Italy)
• Catalogo dei silenzi e delle attese (Claudio Morandini)
Bompiani (Italy)
• Guida ai luoghi magici d’Italia (Arianna Mendo)
Newton Compton (Italy)
• Neve, cane, piede (Claudio Morandini)
Polyandria (Russia)
• Rasende binne (Ingebjørg Berg Holm)
Carbonio (Italy)
• Neve, cane, piede (Claudio Morandini)
Bompiani (Italy) – paperback
• Neve, cane, piede (Claudio Morandini)
Anacharsis (France) – paperback
• Gli oscillanti (Claudio Morandini)
Anacharsis (France)
• Rocket Girls (Laura Gramuglia)
Belas Letras (Brazil)
• Neve, cane, piede (Claudio Morandini)
Al Arabi (Egypt)
• Soggiorno a Zeewijk (Marino Magliani)
Bordighera Press (USA)
• Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow
Future Fiction (Italy)
• Neve, cane, piede (Claudio Morandini)
Koppernik (The Netherlands)
• Le formiche non hanno le ali (Silva Gentilini)
Fame Art (Poland)
• Prima che te lo dicano altri (Marino Magliani)
Edicola (Chile, Argentina)
• Bestie affamate (Emanuele Ferretti)
Caracò (Italy)
• I rinnegati di Arest voll. I, II, III (Adrian R. Rednic)
Fanucci (Italy)