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	Sarah Dickman - Agent and Director of Foreign Rights As Director of Foreign Rights at The Nicholas Ellison Agency, Sarah successfully places non-fiction, bestselling authors, and first-time novelists with international publishers who are committed to promoting the longevity of an author's career and to developing audiences abroad. Sarah is dedicated to the long-term success of the agency's authors and meets regularly with foreign publishers in New York and at the international book fairs (the Frankfurt Book Fair, the London Book Fair, and Book Expo America). Sarah has had the pleasure of selling foreign rights in over thirty countries for Alan Weisman's international bestseller The World Without Us,as well as helping to make Jeff Lindsay's Dexter series a worldwide phenomenon. Sarah also works with Nelson DeMille and Christopher Moore week to week in many capacities editorially and in the disposition of all rights. In addition, Sarah represents authors domestically in the U.S. and works with both experienced and first-time authors. She is drawn to a variety of literary and popular fiction as well as non-fiction projects including business, politics, health, music, memoir, science, and culture. Sarah graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in English Literature and is fluent in Spanish.

Sarah’s International Co-agents:

Brazil: RIFF Agency
Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania and Romania: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Sofia
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Slovenia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Prague
France: Eliane Benisti Agence Litteraire
Greece: JLM Literary Agency
Germany: Mohrbooks
Hungary and Croatia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Budapest
Israel: I. Pikarski Literary Agency
Italy: Agenzia Santachiara
Japan: Tuttle-Mori Agency
Korea: Eric Yang Agency
Latvia, Estonia and Lithunia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates Baltic
Netherlands: Marianne Schonbach Literary Agency
Poland: Graal Ltd.
Russia: Andrew Nurnberg Literary Agency
Scandinavia: Ann-Christine Danielsson Agency
Spain: A.C.E.R. Agencia Literaria
China and Taiwan: Andrew Nurnberg Associates International Ltd.
Thailand: TMA-Big Apple Thailand
Turkey: Akcali Copyright Agency

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