Pilar Quintana is a widely respected Colombian author. In 2007, Hay Festival selected her as one of the most promising young authors of Latin America. Her previous novel, The Bitch, won a PEN Translates award in the UK and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the US. It also won the prestigious Colombian Biblioteca de Narrativa Prize, was selected for several Best Books of 2017 lists, and was chosen as one of the most valuable objects to preserve for future generations in a marble time capsule in Bogotá. Abyss, her latest novel, was awarded the Alfaguara de Novela Prize, which is among the most prestigious awards in the Spanish language.
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Peter and Amy Bernstein founded Bernstein Literary Agency in 2009. For over two decades, we have worked with over 100 brilliant authors around the globe and across a gamut of subjects to get their books published, and their stories told. We typically work on non-fiction projects, but we have helped bring many fiction books, children’s books, and the occasional cookbook to market. We work with authors in all stages of their careers, from experienced, award-winning, and bestselling ones to debut writers ready to take on the world.
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Authors
Amitav Acharya
Esther Allen
Gerard Araud
Chris Bohjalian
Andrew Scott Cooper
Vincent Coppola
Eva Dou
Caldwell B., Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
Bruce Falconer
Gillian Lipton
Sven Steinmo
Robert Suettinger
Tanzina Vega
Olajide Williams
Dalena Wright
Recent Books
- Band of Sisters by Philippe Maynial October 23, 2024
- 90 Seconds to Midnight by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs October 23, 2024
- The Once and Future World Order by Amitav Acharya October 22, 2024
- House of Huawei by Eva Dou October 22, 2024
- Raiders, Rulers and Traders by David Chaffetz July 30, 2024
- Embrace Your Freedom by Philip A. Glotzbach July 9, 2024
- The Catalyst by Thomas R. Cech June 4, 2024
- Dear Chrysanthemums by Fiona Sze-Lorrain May 2, 2024
- Predicting the Winner by Ira Chinoy May 1, 2024
- The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD by Shalene Gupta February 27, 2024
- Zodiac by Ai Weiwei January 30, 2024
- Into Siberia by Gregory Wallance December 5, 2023
- Murder in Manchuria by Scott D. Seligman October 1, 2023
- Target Tehran by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Ilan Evyatar September 26, 2023
- The Story of Scandinavia by Stein Ringen September 14, 2023
- When Washington Burned by Robert P. Watson August 1, 2023
- Into the Amazon by Larry Rohter May 30, 2023
- The Last Secrets of Anne Frank by Joop van Wijk-Voskuijl and Jeroen De Bruyn May 16, 2023
- I Have No Enemies by Perry Link and Wu Dazhi May 10, 2023
- Victorious in Defeat by Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine March 21, 2023
- Thinking Critically in College by Louis E. Newman March 7, 2023
- Deadly Quiet City by Murong Xuecun March 7, 2023
- The Disappeared by Sam Ferguson March 1, 2023
- Wilderness Tales edited by Diana Fuss February 28, 2023
- Victims of the Cultural Revolution by Wang Youqin February 23, 2023
- India is Broken by Ashoka Mody February 14, 2023
- The Peking Express by James M. Zimmerman February 1, 2023
- Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer by Jeremy D. Popkin February 1, 2023
- The Retirement Challenge by Martin Neil Baily and Benjamin H. Harris January 18, 2023
- The Oswalds by Paul R. Gregory November 15, 2022
- The Fractured Himalaya by Nirupama Rao November 1, 2022
- The Fight of Our Lives by Iuliia Mendel September 13, 2022
- Red Roulette by Desmond Shum September 6, 2022
- The Only Woman in the Room by Pnina Lahav September 6, 2022
- Common Stocks and Common Sense by Edgar Wachenheim III September 1, 2022
- China Coup by Roger Garside August 1, 2022
- Lost in the Cold War by John T. Downey, Thomas J. Christensen, and Jack Lee Downey August 1, 2022
- Defenders of the West by Raymond Ibrahim July 26, 2022
- Before the Big Bang by Laura Mersini-Houghton July 19, 2022
- My Boy Will Die of Sorrow by Efrén C. Olivares July 12, 2022
- Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden by Zhuqing Li June 21, 2022
- We Have Tired of Violence by Matt Easton June 7, 2022
- The Winning Ticket by Rob Sand May 1, 2022
- How Democracies Live by Stein Ringen May 1, 2022
- Indelible City by Louisa Lim April 19, 2022
- Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge by Christopher M. Smith March 15, 2022
- Searching for Peace by Ehud Olmert March 15, 2022
- The Snatch Racket by Carolyn Cox March 1, 2022
- Wuhan: Dokumentarroman by Liao Yiwu (published in German) February 1, 2022
- Just Help! by Sonia Sotomayor January 25, 2022
- The Cowshed by Ji Xianlin January 11, 2022
- The Secret Listener by Yuan-tsung Chen January 5, 2022
- When the Iron Bird Flies by Jianglin Li January 1, 2022
- Undoing the Liberal World Order by Leon Fink January 1, 2022
- Selected Poems by Ai Qing November 2, 2021
- A Thousand Years of Joys and Sorrows by Ai Weiwei November 2, 2021
- The Enablers by Frank Vogl November 1, 2021
- Champagne Charlie by Don and Petie Kladstrup November 1, 2021
- A Second Reckoning by Scott D. Seligman October 1, 2021
- Chicago’s Great Fire by Carl Smith September 14, 2021
- The Hidden Habits of Genius by Craig Wright September 7, 2021
- The Power of Trust by Sandra Sucher and Shalene Gupta July 6, 2021
- Engaging China edited by Anne F. Thurston July 1, 2021
- My Time Will Come by Ian Manuel May 21, 2021
- To Repair a Broken World by Dvora Hacohen May 11, 2021
- The Ever-Changing Past by James M. Banner, Jr. March 16, 2021
- The Kennedys in the World by Lawrence J. Haas March 1, 2021
- A Raid on the Red Sea by Amos Gilboa March 1, 2021
- What’s Luck Got to Do With It? by Edward Kleinbard February 8, 2021
- George Washington’s Final Battle by Robert P. Watson February 1, 2021
- The World Turned Upside Down by Yang Jisheng January 19, 2021
- The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 by Scott D. Seligman December 1, 2020
- Ghost Flames by Charles J. Hanley August 25, 2020
- The Bitch by Pilar Quintana August 4, 2020
- America’s Jewish Women by Pamela Nadell May 5, 2020
- The War of Return by Adi Schwartz and Einat Wilf April 28, 2020
- The Planter of Modern Life by Stephen Heyman April 14, 2020
- The Journey of Liu Xiaobo by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman April 1, 2020
- Forbidden Memory by Tsering Woeser April 1, 2020
- Bullets and Opium by Liao Yiwu March 3, 2020
- Our People by Rūta Vanagaitė and Efraim Zuroff March 1, 2020
- Drunk in China by Derek Sandhaus November 1, 2019
- Catch ’67 by Micah Goodman October 8, 2019
- Plaintiff in Chief by James D. Zirin September 24, 2019
- The Beloved World of Sonia Sotomayor by Sonia Sotomayor September 17, 2019
- Just Ask! by Sonia Maria Sotomayor September 3, 2019
- Presidential Misconduct by James M. Banner, Jr. July 1, 2019
- The Making of a Justice by John Paul Stevens May 14, 2019
- Shadow Strike by Yaakov Katz May 7, 2019
- Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion by Simon May May 2, 2019
- How Safe Are We? by Janet Napolitano March 26, 2019
- The Power of Cute by Simon May March 19, 2019
- Neruda: The Biography of a Poet by Mark Eisner February 26, 2019
- Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir by Victoria Riskin February 26, 2019
- Riding High by Ruth Zukerman October 2, 2018
- The New Authoritarianism by Salvatore Babones October 1, 2018
- Turning Pages by Sonia Maria Sotomayor September 4, 2018
- Sword and Scimitar by Raymond Ibrahim August 28, 2018
- The Great Flowing River by Chi Pang-yuan July 3, 2018