Corinna Barsan

Senior Editor, Other Press, USA

Corinna Barsan is a senior editor at Grove/Atlantic. Previously she worked at Other Press and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Authors she has worked with include Richard Polsky, Bonnie Nadzam, Emma Forrest, Michelle Hoover, Sofie Laguna, Peter Stamm, Murray Bail, Ninni Holmqvist, and Sarah Bakewell.

Specific genres that she is interested in include literary fiction, international fiction, and short story collections as well as non-fiction focusing on art, popular culture, biography, popular science, and current affairs. She is looking forward to connecting with publishers, agents, and writers during her attendance at the Adelaide Writers' Week.

Heleen Buth

Publishing Director, House of Books, The Netherlands

House of Books are the proud Dutch publishers of several Australian authors including: Markus Zusak, Alex Miller, Eva Hornung/Eva Sallis, Di Morresey, and Melanie La’Brooy among others, and of authors who live in Australia right now, like Dorothy Koomson and Hannah Richell. In the past they have published Colleen McCullough and Belinda Alexandra.

Heleen is always keen to find new exiting authors in women’s fiction, upmarket fiction, thrillers and YA. For the non-fiction she is looking for strong memoirs. Heleen has also been working with two Dutch authors who live in Australia (Carla van Raay, who wrote Gods Call Girl and Suzanne Visser, who lives in Alice Springs and wrote “A Man With Nice Legs”) and their stories and experiences have made her very curious and excited to visit the Adelaide Writers Week in March 2012.

Poulomi Chatterjee

Senior Commissioning Editor and Editorial Manager, Hachette Book Publishing, India

In her 10 years in Indian publishing she has worked with a range of authors: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi, Githa Hariharan, Manjula Padmanabhan, Sudhir Kakar, Sarnath Banerjee, Shobhaa De, Tavleen Singh, Swati Kaushal, Samit Basu, Amitava Kumar, Arunava Sinha, Sonia Faleiro, Bhaichand Patel, Jahnavi Barua, Arjun Rao, Altaf Tyrewala, Kavery Nambisan, Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan, N.S. Madhavan, Namita Gokhale, Ritu Dalmia, Sujit Saraf and Suniti Namjoshi, among others.

Poulomi has recently bought Scribe Publication’s The Pen and the Steth for publication in the Indian Subcontinent and is looking forward to acquiring more Australian literature that will work in the Indian market. While in Australia she looks forward to meeting Australian publishers, discovering and discussing what they are excited about, meeting authors she’s loved to read and of course the new voices that have been discovered, and exploring possibilities of introducing them in the Indian market.

Judy Clain

Vice President and Executive Editor, Little, Brown and Company, USA

Judy Clain has worked at Little, Brown since 1998. She focuses on story-driven, up-market literary fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoirs, and strong suspense novels. Some of the novels she has recently edited include the New York Times bestsellers Room by Emma Donoghue (a Man Booker Prize finalist), Hollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh, and The Brave by Nicholas Evans, as well as the debut thriller by Marcia Clark, Guilt by Association and Tom McNeal’s second novel, To Be Sung Underwater. Non-fiction titles she has recently edited include The Horse Boy by Rupert Isaacson, Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard (both NYT bestsellers), Cheerful Money by Tad Friend,; Cleaving by Julie Powell,; and The Fear by Peter Godwin.

A few of Judy’s upcoming projects are the debut novels including American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar, The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O’Melveny, An Unexpected Guest by Anne Korkeakivi, Tigers in Red Weather Liza Klaussmann and Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple.

Lara Crisp

Managing Editor, Allison & Busby London, UK

Lara Crisp is the Managing Editor at Allison & Busby in London, an independent publishing house that prides itself on publishing quality commercial fiction and non-fiction. Lara has been focused on building up the company’s successful Young Adult list and she is interested in both historical and contemporary women’s fiction. Allison and Busby have bought UK rights from Australian publishers in the past, meeting up with Random House, Allen and Unwin, HarperCollins Australia and others at the London and Frankfurt book fairs.

Lara hopes that attending Adelaide Writers Week, will enable her to catch up with peers in the industry as well as form new relationships with other Australian agents and publishers with whom she may do business in the future.

Ludmilla Fenchenko

Foreign Rights Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group, Russia

Ludmilla began work in publishing as foreign rights assistant of one of the Russian publishers. She then became foreign rights manager when she was invited to join the foreign rights department of Machaon Publisher, now Azbooka-Atticus Publishing Group.

In 2007 after the merger of three publishing houses Machaon, Inostranka and CoLibri into a unified publishing group under the name Atticus Publishing and since Azbooka Publishers joined the group in 2008 the company covers the entire spectra of the Russian book market in terms of themes and genres.

One of Azbooka-Atticus’s key partners in Australia is Weldon Owen, Sydney. They launch high quality encyclopedias and reference titles created by Weldon Owen team.

Azbooka-Atticus has exclusive rights for publication in Russia an outstanding Australian artist Robert Ingpen, the only Australian to be awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his international contribution to book illustration.

Several Australian writers have been published under Azbooka and Inostranka imprints including John Maxwell Coetzee, Nick Cave, Gregory David Roberts’s Shantaram.

Ludmilla is looking for different genres from high quality fiction to picture books for children, encyclopedias and non-fiction titles for adults.

Francis Geffard

Literary Director, Foreign Department, Albin Michel, France

Francis Geffard is the Literary Director of Albin Michel’s Foreign Department, one of France’s most important publishing house and among the very few still independent today. He founded a bookstore in 1980 at age 20, Millepages in Vincennes, which he still owns today. He joined Albin Michel in 1992 where he has published mostly American and Canadian Fiction, but also Non-Fiction. In 2002, he founded Festival America, France’s premier literary event dedicated to Fiction from North America (Canada, USA, Mexico, Cuba, Haiti).

He has developed a strong interest in Australian Fiction. David Malouf, Nam Le, Chris Womersley and Steven Amsterdam are published with Albin Michel. He is always looking for new literary talents.

Kjersti Herland Johnsen

Editor in Chief, Schibsted Forlag, Norway

Kjersti Herland Johnsen is Editor in Chief at the Fiction Department of Schibsted Forlag, Norway. She studied history and international politics at the University of Bergen, and started working for Schibsted in 1998, where she was a non-fiction editor before starting a list of translated fiction in 2004. Since 2007 she has also published Norwegian fiction.

Schibsted Fiction publishes Australian authors Kate Morton and Christos Tsiolkas and a broad range of other international authors including Khaled Hosseini, Sebastian Faulks, Sebastian Barry, Howard Jacobson, Peter James, Carolina De Robertis, Tea Obreht, Victoria Hislop and Leif GW Persson.

Kjersti’s recent international acquisitions includeThe Light Between Oceans by Margot Stedman, The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker, The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, Tony & Susan by Austin Wright and Acts of Violence by Ryan David Jahn.

While in Australia, Kjersti is looking forward to learning more about Australian literary fiction as well as upmarket commercial fiction.

Elena Lappin

Elena Lappin Scouting, UK

Elena Lappin is a writer and international literary scout. She is the author of a collection of stories called Foreign Brides and a novel called The Nose. Her investigative narrative about the case of Fragments, a famous Holocaust hoax, was the cover title in Granta’s Truth and Lies issue (2000). She has contributed to journalism, features, reviews and columns to Prospect, Slate, Sunday Times, Guardian Weekend, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Die Zeit and New York Times Book Review. Elena is now working on a memoir.

Currently Elena is a literary scout and consultant for publishers in the UK, Australia, Germany/Switzerland, Israel, Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Denmark, France and Holland. She is also a book scout for a major international film company. She has been associated for many years with independent Australian publishers (scouting for Scribe and has previously worked with Text) and is very interested in exploring the Australian book market and literary culture for all of her publishing clients.

Elena is interested in finding literary fiction, upmarket thrillers and narrative non-fiction.

Michelle Nam

Executive Director, Minumsa Publishing Group, Korea

Michelle is in charge of the foreign rights department of Minumsa Publishing Group. Michelle has been at Minumsa for 15 years.

From 1993 to 1994, Michelle worked at Imprima Korea Agency.

The main genres which she will be looking for while in Australia are general fiction, literary fiction, science books, economy trends, culture related non-fictions, self-help, parenting, spiritual books and health books.

David Shelley

Publisher, Little Brown Book Group, UK

David joined Little, Brown in 2005. He became publisher of the Sphere imprint in 2008, and was promoted to Publisher of the Little, Brown Book Group in early 2011, working across all imprints (Sphere, Little, Brown/Abacus, Virago, Piatkus, Orbit, Atom, Hachette Digital). Authors David publishes include Patricia Cornwell, Val McDermid, Mitch Albom, Michael Robotham, Dennis Lehane, Mark Billingham and Carl Hiaasen.

Australia is an important territory for Little, Brown and for David’s authors. David’s goal for this trip is to discover more about the Australian retail market, consumer tastes, and the issues that are important in the Australian publishing and bookselling sectors at the moment. As Michael Robotham’s publisher, David is proud to be working with an Australian worldwide bestselling author. Little, Brown has a very active policy of seeking out and publishing Australian talent in conjunction with their colleagues at Hachette Australia – Trudi Canavan and Karen Miller are great examples of this. David looks forward to connecting with more Australian authors at Adelaide Writers’ Week and to introduce their work to his editorial colleagues in the UK.

Thomas Tebbe

Editorial Director, Fiction, Piper Verlag, Germany

Thomas Tebbe is the Editorial Director of Fiction at German publishing house, Piper Verlag, and has over 15 years experience in the publishing industry.

Thomas was information consultant at the Berlin based text book company Cornelsen Verlag in 1994, and took on the role of fiction editor for Goldmann/Random House and btb that same year. Thomas also worked for Piper as an editor on their highly renowned hardcover list.

Thomas acquires fiction as well as non-fiction having published authors like Anita Shreve, Jodi Picoult, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Lionel Shriver, Anne Holt, Kerstin Ekman, Christian Jungersen, Arne Dahl, Adam Ross, M J Hyland as well as German authors like Franka Potente, Jakob Hein, Hape Kerkeling, Ronald Reng, Julia Schoch, Paul Ingendaay, and Annette Pehnt.

His most recent international acquisitions include Hector Tobar, The Barbarian Nurseries, from the USA, Toni Jordan, Fall Girl, from Australia, and Anne & Even Holt, Flimmer, from Norway as well as Jón Kalman Stefansson’s Sadness of Angels from Iceland. Other recent names on the Piper list are Charlotte Roche, Georg M Oswald, Ferdinand von Schirach, and Emma Donnoghue.

Among the Australian authors he likes are Peter Carey, M J Hyland, Helen Garner, Peter Temple and Tim Winton. While in Australia he would be most interested in literary fiction as well as upmarket commercial fiction (i.e. upmarket crime and women’s fiction).

Ana Paula Hisayama

Foreign rights manager, Companhia das Letras, Brazil.

Ana has been working at the foreign rights department at Companhia das Letras since 1998.

She acquires foreign titles for all imprints of the company (fiction and non fiction for adults, YA, children's books, pocket books and comics and graphic novels). Ana also works intensively to promote Brazilian authors abroad.

Companhia das Letras turned 25 in 2011, it has published  a series of authors from Australia such as David Malouf, Anna Funder, Richard Flanagan, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Hughes, Peter Carey, Keith McGowan.

Ana is interested in good quality authors from all over the world and is looking forward to reducing the distance and getting to know more authors and books in Australia.

Claudia Winkler

Ullstein, Acquisitions Editor, Ullstein Buchverlag, Germany

Claudia started work in publishing four years ago with a focus was on Scandinavian literature. She is now the acquiring editor for Australian books and would love to build up a list with Australian writers at Ullstein. Getting to know the people in publishing from Australia will assist her to build this list. Claudia wants to meet the writers, the publishing houses, the editors, the agents and anyone else like her who just can’t get enough of books.

Claudia is looking for fiction – both literary and commercial. Ullstein Buchverlag is successful with crime novels and thrillers and Claudia would love to find an Australian suspense writer. She is also interested in finding women’s fiction, commercial or upmarket, heart-warming or cool, love and landscape. Ullstein Buchverlag are also interested in humorous novels and would like to publish Australian humour in Germany. Claudia is also keen to find books representing the unique voice of Australia.