About
BJZ Agency is a global literary agency that is based in New York City for over 22 years. Barbara J Zitwer’s strength and expertise is in her ability to discover new writers and launch their international careers. She also works with established authors in their home countries like Korea, who want to break out into the world. At the beginning, Zitwer discovered Jerry Stahl, Eric Garcia, Sharon Krum, and The Friday Night Knitting Club which was a NYTimes Bestseller for over a year, Jeff Noon, winner of the Arthur C Clarke Award for his debut Vurt among others. She is responsible for the Korean New Wave in global publishing which won her the 2016 International Literary Agent of the Year Award and launched the careers of Shirley Jackson Prize winner Hye young Pyun’s The Hole, Booker International Prize winner Han Kang’s THE VEGETARIAN and Kyung sook Shin’s Please Look After Mom, Man Asian Prize winner and also became a NY TIMES Bestseller., Un su Kim’s international sensation The Plotters, You Jeong Jeong’s The Good Son, a Seo mi-Ae’s The Only Child among many others. From Poland, our authors include Man Booker International and prize winning poet and novelist Wioletta Greg and bestselling, award-winning, Kaja Malanowska, with her literary thriller FOG. We are always looking for and reading works of undiscovered writers from every part of the globe and we are working with the best millennial writer Marina Lau from Australia, Won-pyun Sohn, Ji ri Park from Korea. We are proud to work with Turkish writers, Ozgu Mumcu, Ersin Saygin and Defne Suman called the Elena Ferrante of Turkey.
Handling film/TV rights and marketing across borders is a strong focus and we work with Emily Hayward-Whitlock at the Artists Partnership.
Contact
If you are a publisher, editor, film company or member of the press, and want to know more about any of the agency’s clients, please contact Barbara J. Zitwer at zitwer@gmail.com
We will be happy to provide information about how to acquire foreign rights through our co-agents or the procedure for dealing with film rights. And we are constantly updating our client list with new information.
We can assist you in obtaining manuscripts early or reader’s copies and galleys.
If you are a writer, please read and follow the submission guidelines.
