Doug Wallace

About

Doug is managing director of Andrew Nurnberg Associates International, the agency's global network of literary agencies across non-Anglophone markets, and is also a literary agent and a board director of Andrew Nurnberg Associates in London.

Born and living in Edinburgh, he read history at University College London and spent sixteen years in publishing and cultural relations before joining the agency in 2017.

Genres

Looking for

• experimental literature
• literature in translation
• serious non-fiction and graphic novels.

Agency submission guidelines

' - Covering letter (in the body of the email) - 1-page synopsis (attached) - First three chapters or 50 pages (attached) - For non-fiction proposals, please send an overview, chapter outlines and three sample chapters. - Please address your submission for the attention of the agent for whose list you think it would be most suitable.

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Clients include

• Geum-Yi Lee
• Vasily Grossman
• Sasha Denisova
• Irina Ratushinskaya

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