Eulama is the second oldest literary agency in Italy. It is also one  of the  most dynamic and successful. The company was founded in 1962 by Harald Kahnemann and Karin von Prellwitz, who had emigrated to Argentina from their homes in Germany two  decades  earlier.  Eulama  is  short  for  European  Latin American Agency. The  second  part of the name comes from the country where the company was first set up.The Agency is  now  Europe  based, but  it  still  keeps  a  close  working relationship   with   the  most  authoritative  Latin  American publishers.

Since 1964 the head office of the Agency has moved from Montevideo to Rome, from where we operate worldwide, primarily in  English, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese speaking areas.  We  promote  the  cultural exchange among these linguistic areas and between these areas and the rest of the  world, particularly Eastern countries of notable commercial interest as China, Japan and Korea. We negotiate and license literary rights, serializations,  permissions,  audio, film and co-production rights on behalf of our clients all over the  world. We monitor production-related  activities of licensees, we  collect payments due and we research, if necessary, financial solvency and business  history of potential licensees.

Rights We License

We deal with both fiction and non-fiction, commercial and literary.  Our  focus  is  on authors and publishers  with  international  appeal,  selling   rights  worldwide. 

Our outlook is open: to various genres, controversial opinions, and new voices.

Our experience of  dealing directly  with publishers in all continents has enabled the successful marketing of our clients' works throughout the world.

We bring to our clients a qualified and dedicated team which has emerged in the last 30 years as one of the major licensing agencies based in Italy.

Our Structure

It structures in four areas:

• the management, dealing with public relations and planning promotional strategies;
• the readership, examining books, manuscripts, press and catalogues, selecting publishers whom books are offered to;
• the correspondence department in the six Agency’s languages: English, French, German, Italian, Hungarian and Spanish;
• the royalty department, dealing with the proceeds of license  contracts.
  

Our Clients

Our clients include such internationally renowned authors as Mário Cláudio, Vilém Flusser, Agnes Heller, Nuccio Ordine and publishing houses as Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Campus Verlag, C.E.D., Columbia U.P., Cornell U.P., Jaca Book, Peter Owen, Routledge, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Vision/Fusion Press.

Our Outcomes

Eulama has always  been known  for  offering quality both in know-how and in the relationship with its business partners.

Our reputation and contractual strength come from the number and quality of our customers, from the Good relations kept over the years  and  for the efficiency in taking care of  the economic interests entrusted to  the  Agency.

We feature some very important international authors among the ones promoted to leading publishers around  the  world: