Scribe has acquired Amadou, a novel about a missing translator by Man Booker International winner Jennifer Croft.
UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, were sold at auction to publisher Marika Webb-Pullman by Rachel Clements at Abner Stein, on behalf of Katie Grimm at Don Congdon Associates. US rights went to Daniel Loedel at Bloomsbury, in a pre-empt, by Katie Grimm.
Croft is a translator who, along with Olga Tokarczuk, won the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for Flights (Fitzcarraldo).
Webb-Pullman said of the book: “We’re thrilled to be publishing Amadou and taking Jennifer’s brilliant book to international audiences. It’s a bold, funny, inventive novel that’s both an insider’s view of the world of translation and an immensely satisfying literary mystery that also addresses climate change and the precarity of the world’s remaining wild places. We can’t wait to share it with readers in the UK and Australia.”
Amadou will be published in early 2024.