BookBlast

BookBlast® Limited, a writing agency based in Tonbridge, was founded in 1997 to showcase new or neglected writers and world writing.

Description

The agency numbers three directors: Georgia de Chamberet, Ben Fiagbe and Jemma Jupp; company secretary M. N. Jenks; legal advisor Alan Williams; and three editorial freelancers. The agency also offers Franco-British translation services.

Clients include Jamika Ajalon (Zenzile), Rupert Bogarde, M. V. Diboll, Edward Evans, Philip Mann, Mounsi and Onyekachi Wambu, editor of Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain. The Bookseller referred to the anthology as being "ground-breaking, tracking how black men and women have made Britain their own".[1][2][3]

Estates: Lesley Blanch (1904-2007) in association with United Agents, Professor George Elton Mayo (1880–1949) and Gael Elton Mayo (1923-1992).[4][5]

XCiTés: the Flamingo Book of New French Writing, edited by Chamberet, features writing by 15 writers under 40 who were unknown in English when the book was published in 2000 — Frédéric Beigbeder, Tonino Benacquista, Virginie Despentes, Michel Houellebecq, Abdourahman Waberi among them.

Chamberet has written for 3:AM Magazine and Words Without Borders and The BookBlast® Diary.

Awards

  • Abdourahmann Waberi's The Gallery of the Insane published in XCiTés: the Flamingo Book of New French Writing, was shortlisted for The Caine Prize in 2000.
  • Mounsi's The Demented Dance (La noce des fous) was awarded the 2004 Inaugural 3:AM Good Sex Prize.[6]
  • In 2015 the agency's website bookblast.com (first online in 2000) was selected by the curators of Bodleian Electronic Archives and Manuscripts, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, as being of lasting research value and worthy of permanent preservation in the Web Archive of the Bodleian Libraries.[7]

References

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