It was big new a few weeks ago when word came that, as for example Publishers Weekly reported, Andrew Wylie Merges Agency With Carmen Balcells, as leading international 'literary' agent Andrew Wylie (The Wylie Agency) joined forces with dominant Spanish-market figure Carmen Balcells -- promising, as El País put it, una nueva superagencia literaria, Balcells & Wylie.
(Apparently all is forgiven for Wylie's ... 'poaching', let's call it, of Roberto Bolaño (or at least his estate -- Wylie sure knows how to handle those widows (see also the ultimate widow, María Kodama, another Wylie client ...) from Balcells a couple of years back.)
(I'm not sure how much to read into the fact that Carmen Balcells Agencia Literaria S.A. does not appear to have had any real public web-presence, the Wylie agency's is about as basic as it gets, and there does not yet appear to be any 'Balcells & Wylie' web-presence. So much for the internet age ......)
In The New York Times today Rachel Donadio reports on the merger in her profile of Balcells, After Years of Solitude, Spanish Literary Champion Takes Partner.
This hook-up certainly bolsters Wylie's estate-heavy list -- much easier to deal with than living authors, presumably.
(I'm not sure how much to read into the fact that Carmen Balcells Agencia Literaria S.A. does not appear to have had any real public web-presence, the Wylie agency's is about as basic as it gets, and there does not yet appear to be any 'Balcells & Wylie' web-presence. So much for the internet age ......)
In The New York Times today Rachel Donadio reports on the merger in her profile of Balcells, After Years of Solitude, Spanish Literary Champion Takes Partner.
This hook-up certainly bolsters Wylie's estate-heavy list -- much easier to deal with than living authors, presumably.