Mushens Entertainment Partners with Azantian Literary Agency
Mushens Entertainment is thrilled to now be working with Azantian Literary Agency to sell their bestselling and critically acclaimed list of novels into translation markets. Effective immediately, Mushens Entertainment will be the agency handling ALA translation rights, as well as partnering to bring select titles into the UK market, and they have kicked off their partnership with their first two foreign pre-empts, within a fortnight of beginning to work together. This is the first time that Mushens Entertainment has sold another agency’s rights since their inception in 2020, but they are delighted to be representing such an exceptional list.
Jennifer Azantian established Azantian Literary in 2014 with the commitment of guiding the careers of both new and established voices in fiction and nonfiction across genres and all age ranges, particularly those who have been historically underrepresented. Azantian represents bestselling and award-winning writers, such as Shannon Chakraborty (The Adventures of Amina Al-Sarafi, The City of Brass), Chelsea Abdullah (The Stardust Thief), Lynette Noni (The Prison Healer), A.L. Graziadei (Icebreaker, In Repair), Sara Hashem (The Jased Heir), Esme Symes-Smith (Sir Callie and the Champions of Helston) and many more.
Founded by Juliet Mushens, Mushens Entertainment represents a dynamic and bestselling list of fiction and non-fiction including no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling authors, such as Richard Osman, Claire Douglas and Jessie Burton. Their books are published in 48 languages around the world and regularly top the bestseller lists abroad as well as at home.
Jennifer Azantian said, ‘I've been buzzing with excitement since my first call with Juliet! I've admired her and the incredible team at Mushens Entertainment from afar for a long time, and I'm honoured they want to bring ALA's books to a wider global audience alongside their amazing titles’.
Juliet Mushens said, ‘I love ALA’s list - full of enormously successful books I enjoy as a reader, which we feel confident we can help bring to an even wider international audience. Jennifer shares our ambition and global vision for her clients, and this feels like a perfect partnership’.
For any enquiries about ALA rights, please contact Liza Deblock on liza@mushens-entertainment.com or Alba Arnau Prado on alba@mushens-entertainment.com