Focusing on debut Latin American talent, Victor Hurtado’s agency’s rights sales are moving new voices from the Spanish-language markets into the world arena ahead of Frankfurt Book Fair.
In the run up to the fall rights season, the Mexican literary agent Victor Hurtado is focused on a selection of promising debut authors from Latin America.
Debut, he clarifies, doesn’t necessarily mean youthful. “I don’t like to say my authors are young,” he tells Publishing Perspectives.”Most of them are in their 30s.”
Based in Barcelona, Hurtado set up VicLit three years ago after working for nearly 10 years as an agent in other’s offices. He’d entered publishing through freelance jobs and did his postgraduate studies on publishing in Spain. After working with Guadalajara International Book Fair director Nubia Macías on the event’s internationalization, he went into agenting in 2006.
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