A Literary Agency’s Future Is Uncertain After Its Founder’s Death - The New York Times

A Literary Agency’s Future Is Uncertain After Its Founder’s Death - The New York Times:



"PARIS — Carmen Balcells, the literary agent who helped create the politically charged boom in Latin American letters in the 1960s and ’70s, was a larger-than-life figure. Her death last month, at 85, has plunged her agency — which represents the estate of Gabriel García Márquez, one of its pillars — into uncertainty, setting the stage for a land grab involving some of the biggest personalities in world publishing."



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