Julie Finidori Agency
“With freedom, flowers, books and the moon, who would not be happy?”
Oscar Wilde
Julie Finidori Agency is a literary agency that represents innovative and committed authors and publishers.
The Agency’s goal is to accompany authors on their road to publication and help publishers make their books travel and get published in as many languages, territories and formats as possible.
The Agency’s services are proposed “à la carte” according to the needs of each client.
Author oriented activities
Prospecting publishers for committed
fiction & non-fiction texts.
Negotiating deals with publishers
on behalf of my authors.
Reading and consulting with authors on their publishing contracts.
Publisher oriented activities
Foreign Rights
Working with an important network of foreign publishers presenting books and negotiating rights deals directly or with the help of co-agents.
Participating in international book fairs.
Subsidiary Rights
Working with French and international publishers, negotiating deals for pocketbook, audiobook deals in order to optimize the sales of books within the French speaking territories.
Audiovisual Rights
Working with French and international producers and partners to adapt books in theater, television or cinema. Negotiating option deals and adaptation contracts.
Books in translation
Publishing Clients
Julie Finidori, photo by Mathilde Finidori
Who am I?
I decided to start my literary agency after spending five years travelling the world to attend international book fairs for Editions Albin Michel. My goal is to continue doing the work I love, promoting books and authors I believe in by proposing my services to authors accompanying them to find the right publisher for their work, and to help commited publishing houses promote their books for translations.
Avid reader from a young age, my taste for literature and languages developed during years living abroad in Indonesia, Sweden, the US as a child and later in Canada and Turkey. Back in France to study social sciences and literature and then attending business school, my interest in different cultures as well as real and fictional travels didn’t diminish. I discovered rights sales and acquisitions during various experiences in publishing, cinema and television. Focused on local or international cultural production as well as the protection of intellectual property, this job had me hooked from the start!
The books I will strive to represent and present to the world are books infused with values and issues that are important to me and social justice oriented such as, for example, feminism, antiracism, fatphobia, LGBTphobia, ableism, mental health awareness, ecology, whether they are fiction, non-fiction, adult or children’s books.