Welcome to Rosalie Siegel International Literary Agent, Inc.
Prior to founding her independent literary agency in 1977, Rosalie Siegel began her career as an agent in the late sixties representing French authors on behalf of Editions Robert Laffont in Paris.
The agency also represents Ann Rinaldi, who is a major historical novelist of young adult fiction. Harcourt has sold over one million copies of her titles. In addition, she has been published by Scholastic, including their Dear America series, Hyperion's Jump at the Sun, Simon & Schuster and by HarperCollins.
Siegel serves as American and Canadian sub-agent for Mary Kling's La Nouvelle Agence in Paris, through whom she represents Nancy Huston, winner of the 2006 Prix Femina award for FAULT LINES (McArthur & Co, Toronto, October, 2007). Grove Atlantic publishes the novel in the U.S. in October 2008.
With representatives in all translation markets, Ms. Siegel has been responsbile for selling translating rights in the U.S. during the entire course of her career. Until 1997 she served as a amjor scout vetting the American market on behalf of European houses. On behalf of La Nouvelle Agence she is currently representing Mathieu Belizi's major Fall 2008 novel about the Algerian struggle for independence published by Albin Michel in Paris.
Through her efforts, and those of Maria Strarz Kanska's Graal agency in Warsaw, William Wharton became the number one bestselling American author in Poland during the 1990's and beyond after communism fell. His earlier works were reissued while new works have been brought to market in Polish translation.
One of the agency's most noteworthy backlist titles is BANKER TO THE POOR, the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, the economist who created the concept of micro-credit, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. The Public Affairs trade paperback edition is selling steadily and has been widely taken for course adoption.
You will find more information about our authors in the Recent Titles and Backlist sections of our website.
Current News
KAPITOIL by Teddy Wayne has recently sold to Jeanette Perez at HarperPerennial for April 2010 publication. Harper has North American rights only. Louise Greenberg in London is handling U.K. and Commonwealth. Rosalie handles all translation rights through her co-agents. Sarah Self at The Gersh Agency is co-agenting for film. Wayne has fashioned a page-turning first novel with an appealing protagonist, a 26 year old Muslim computer programmer and math whiz brought to NYC from Quatar in the fall of 1999 to work in the corporate headquarters of a hedge fund. He soon invents an ingenious quants program that can predict oil futures, which reaps record profits for the company. Homesick and unsophisticated, but with a strong moral core, he is taken under the wing of the charismatic CEO of his firm, and develops an increasingly tender friendship with Rebecca, a colleague who understands him better than he may understand himself. As Karim's values shift, he confronts a significant choice concering his program, Kapitoil, that will determine his and the company's future. Teddy Wayne is a 30 year old Harvard graduate who received an MFA from Washington University. He has developed a strong following for his many humor pieces to be found on McSweeney'sonline.and for Op-Ed essays published in the N Y Times. To learn more about Teddy Wayne's published pieces, visit his website at: TeddyWayne.com
THE DOUBLE LIFE IS TWICE AS GOOD by Jonathan Ames is a collecton of essays and fiction to be published by Scribner in July, 2009. The collection includes Jonathan's novella, Bored To Death, originally published in McSweeney's in the Fall of 2007 and which serves as the basis for an HBO comedy series featuring the young man who decides to become a detective on a whim one day when he is at loose ends, and who becomes embroiled in a series of hilarious episodes around NYC as he searches for an NYU co-ed gone missing.
As of March, 2009, Jonathan Ames has two film projects in production in New York based on his fiction: the aforementioned series starring Jason Schwartzman as the detective for the HBO television series. The second project is the long awaited film based on THE EXTRA MAN which features Kevin Kline, Katie Holmes, Paul Dano and John C. Reilly. Berman and Pulcini are directing, Anthony Bregman's Likely Story and Stephanie Davis' 3 Arts will produce. Visit the Daily Beast to read Jonathan's inteview about having two films in production simultaneously in the Big Apple.
AMANDINE by Marlena de Blasi will be a departure for the author of four memoirs about life in her beloved Italy. Her first novel, to be published by Ballantine in Summer, 2010, will relate the story of an orphaned girl named Amandine growing up in World War II era France. Her aristocratic Polish grandmother entrusts her in infancy to a convent on the outskirts of Montpellier, telling her daughter that her baby had died shortly after birth. The child will long to know and comfort her mother. Her mother will only learn her daughter is still alive at the outbreak of the war. Neither knows how to find each other as Europe heads into conflagration.