Szilvia Molnar, Foreign Rights Director

Szilvia oversees the Foreign Rights department at the agency. She also represents the Angolan-Danish writer and artist Aaiún Nin (Broken Halves of a Milky Sun, Astra Books, 2022), the award-winning Arabic writer and poet Iman Mersal, and the Kathy Acker Estate.

She graduated from University College London with First Class Honors, studying Hungarian and Comparative Literature, and began her publishing career at ICM Books London as the assistant to the Foreign Rights Director. She has also worked at Salomonsson Agency in Stockholm as the literary agent to range of internationally prominent writers, including Sofi Oksanen, Karolina Ramqvist, and Antti Tuomainen. She is the author of The Nursery (Pantheon Books, 2023) which was a New York Times Notable Book.

Originally from Budapest, Hungary but raised in Sweden, Szilvia is based out of Austin, Texas.