Film & Performance Rights

We collaborate with an extensive group of producers, studios, and co-agents in Hollywood and around the world in order to adapt our clients’ work into film, TV, podcast and other creative formats. Some of our clients’ work that has been adapted for the screen:


Translation Rights

DeFiore & Company works strategically to license our clients’ books in translation. Our foreign rights director, Linda Kaplan, has thirty-five years of subsidiary rights experience. Linda joined the agency in 2015 after 14 years as VP, rights director at Crown.

She has long-standing relationships with publishers and co-agents around the world and works in tandem to ensure maximum potential for each title in each language. We oversee all aspects of our clients’ work from submission, then contract negotiation through international publication and throughout the life of the book.

Linda Kaplan participates in the major book fairs in London, Frankfurt and Bologna as well as other fairs and international publishing events.

Baltic States: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Kyiv)
Brazil: The Riff Agency
Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Sofia)
China: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Beijing)
Czech Republic, Slovak Republic and Slovenia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Prague)
France: Agence Eliane Benisti
Germany: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (London)
Greece: JLM Literary Agency
Hungary, Croatia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Budapest)
Israel: Book Publishers Association of Israel
Italy: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Milan)
Japan: Tuttle–Mori Agency
Korea: Eric Yang Agency
Netherlands: Sebes Bisseling Kleuver
Poland: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Warsaw)
Russia: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Moscow)
Scandinavia: Sebes Bisseling Kleuver
Spain/Portugal: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (London)
Taiwan: Andrew Nurnberg Associates (Taipei)
Turkey: Kayi Agency

UK & Commonwealth Rights

DeFiore & Company works diligently to license our clients’ books in the UK and ANZ territories. Our UK rights are represented by Andrew Nurnberg Associates (London).

Please contact us for more information.