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Lisette
Verhagen is a primary agent at Peters Fraser & Dunlop (PFD)
one of London’s leading literary agencies. She joined
the agency in January 2020 after 5 years at David Godwin
Associates, where she was Head of Rights. Before that, she worked
in publishing in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Lisette is actively
building a literary list with a strong focus on international
clients with great potential to travel. Her clients include,
Arundhati Roy, Kübra Gümüsay, Nayrouz Qarmout, Erika Kobayashi
and Hanna Bervoets, among others.
Lisette
is especially looking for literary fiction and narrative
non-fiction with great international potential, fresh literary
voices that just need to be shared with the rest of the world.
She loves sharp narratives with a sense of urgency, stories that are
moving but never sentimental or overwritten. She has a weak spot
for stories that reinvent genre and tell us something new about
ourselves and the world we live in, especially those from an
immigrant perspective.
Besides
excellent writing, she’s drawn to stories concerning race,
sexuality, specific cultural settings and notions on identity.
Submissions
can be written in any language, as long as they have high
potential to travel and are submitted with an extensive synopsis
and author’s biography in English. Making books travel has
always been a dream to her, and she’s excited by the growing
interest in international authors from publishers all over the
world.
Writers
she adores are Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Tayeb Salih,
Bernardine Evaristo, Mariana Enriquez, Han Kang, Natalia
Ginzburg, Ocean Vuong, Caleb Azumah Nelson, Carmen Maria
Machado and of course many, many others. Nonfiction titles she
loves are Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About
Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, Ways of Seeing by John
Berger, Conversations on Love by Natasha Lunn
and The Violet Hour by Katie Roiphe.
Please
note that she is not considering any children’s, YA or genre
fiction.
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