This is the Australian Literary Management homepage. Our office (in Balmain, Sydney, see below) is open from Tuesday to Friday, and closed on Mondays.
Please note: We do not accept unsolicited personal visits.
Here’s a useful link:
the Australian Literary Agents’ Association Internet site: Literary contacts, Finding an agent, Code of Practice, list of ALAA Members.
Link: Are you a writer looking for an agent? This page
outlines what we do, how to contact us, and how to submit your work to us. Please read it all carefully.
But… please note:
We do not consider children’s books by unpublished authors.
Links...
below, links to descriptive notes about some of our authors:
click on the name.
This mark ¶ means that you can read a sample of their writing.
Fiction, Non-fiction and Fantasy:
Glenda Adams
Debra Adelaide
Tanveer Ahmed
Alan Attwood
Julia Baird
Margaret Bearman
John Bryson
Helen Caldicott
Paul Cleary
Catherine Cole
Eva Cox
Christopher Cyrill
¶ John Dale
Genna de Bont
Anne de Lisle
Robert Dessaix
Ross Duncan
Arabella Edge
Will Elliott
¶ Jennifer Fallon
Jeremy Fisher
¶ Judith Fox
Susan Fraser
Jane Freeman
Leon Gettler
¶ Amanda Hampson
¶ Vicki Hastrich
Sally Henderson
Jose Sevilla Ho
Sarah Hopkins
Sue Howard
Lyn Hughes
Adib Khan
Margo Kingston
Karen Kissane
Malcolm Knox
Susan Kurosawa
Nicholas Kyriacos
Valerie Lawson
Mabel Lee
Gao Xingjian
Antony Loewenstein
¶ Kate Lilley
Amanda Lohrey
Mark McKenna
Duncan McNab
Andrew Main
Barry Maitland
Kathy Marks
David Marr
David Marr and Marian Wilkinson
Robert Milliken
Lorenzo Montesini
Mary Moody
Christopher Morgan
Tom Morton
Kerrie O’Connor
Helen O’Neill
Melanie Oppenheimer
Catherine Padmore
Patsy Page
Shirley Painter
Glyn Parry
Henry Reynolds & Marilyn Lake
Andrew Riemer
Ros Reines
Alison Rogers
Leigh Sales
Margaret Simons
Stephen Smith
¶ Peter Timms
¶ John Tranter
Julienne van Loon
Anna von Marburg
Mark Wakely
¶ Murray Waldren
Christine Wallace
Rachel Weiss
Young Readers:
Pamela Freeman
Christine Harris
Tina Matthews
Glyn Parry
Ranulfo
Laurie Stiller
Michael Wagner
Cartoons:
Phil Somerville
Featured Books:
Debra Adelaide:
The Household Guide
to Dying
This is a brilliant, original work which charts one woman’s attempts to make provision for her husband and daughters — from writing lists on the fridge to teaching her 8-year-old to make boiled eggs — and to confront a ghost from the past. Delia has made a living writing an acerbic advice column and a series of wildly successful modern household guides. As the book opens, she has only a short time to live. Going about the ordinary routines of daily life, she is consumed by two things: how to make provision for her husband and daughters — and how to make her peace with the past. She feels the need for the type of manual she has made her living writing; only this time it will be about dying. Not a guide to bereavement, but, as she puts it, a book about the state when you know you’re going to die, but you’re not dying yet.
Debra Adelaide
At the
same time, she attempts to return to the places of her past, to lay a ghost and
see someone who is very much alive as she prepares to say goodbye. The two
stories interweave, and each section opens with very funny snippets from
Delia’s acerbic advice column, and, later, her Household Guide to
Dying.
Published by Pan Picador Australia. To be launched at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Friday 23 May
2008
Nobel Prize for Literature 2000
Gao Xingjian
Chinese playwright, novelist and artist Gao Xingjian became a critic of the Communist regime as a young man. He fled Beijing and has lived for many years in France where his first novel, Soul Mountain, was first published and became a bestseller, going into five editions. In 2000 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mabel Lee’s English translation of Soul Mountain has been a success worldwide.
Gao’s second novel One Man’s Bible focuses the political horrors of the twentieth century through the lens of desire and memory. It has received rave reviews in the US.
In 2004 Gao published a collection of short stories, Buying a Fishing Rod for My Grandfather. In September 2006 HarperCollins Australia released A Case for Literature, a collection of thought-provoking essays.
Mabel Lee is Gao’s English-language translator. She is represented by Australian Literary Management, and ALM is the lead agent for the English language translations of Gao’s writing.
You can read the first chapter of Soul Mountain on this website, as well as Mabel’s perceptive and informative Introduction to the book, the Swedish Academy’s bibliographical
note published on the occasion of the 2000 Nobel Prize, and a note about the author.
Rights in the English language translation of Soul Mountain have been sold to HarperCollins Australia, HarperCollins US, and HarperCollins UK via:
Lead agents: Australian Literary Management
US Agents: Georges Borchardt Inc., 136 East 57th St, New York NY 10022 USA: Tel (212) 753 5785, Fax (212) 838 6518
UK Agents: David Higham Associates, 5-8 Lower John Street, London W1R 4HA, UK: Tel (207) 437 7888
Other links:
For a list of writers from overseas represented in Australia by
ALM, follow this link to our overseas authors
page.
Our Bookstore Links page lists over twenty bookstores around the world, most
with live Internet links.
Visit Jacket
magazine — a free literary magazine on the Internet, edited by John Tranter and sponsored by ALM.
The APRIL project (which John Tranter started in 2004 with a prototype site sponsored by ALM) has been funded with a major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council. Professor Elizabeth Webby and Creagh Cole (University of Sydney) and CAL (the Copyright Agency Limited), will head a team of researchers to built a permanent and wide-ranging library of resources on the Internet, named Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library (APRIL) and located on the University of Sydney Library Internet server in 2008. Here is the draft site: http://april.edu.au/
You can browse our author list, arranged in groups: see the very top of the page.
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About us
Our office is open from Tuesday to Friday, and closed on Mondays.
Please note: We do not accept unsolicited personal visits.
Australian Literary Management was founded in 1980 in Melbourne, and is now based in Balmain, a harbourside suburb ten minutes from the centre of Sydney. We look after the business affairs of authors around the world, negotiating their contracts and managing their careers. Contact details:
Australian Literary Management
2-A Booth Street, Balmain NSW 2041, Australia
Tel Sydney 9818 8557 – Fax 9818 8569
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