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20th July 2008

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PFD loses New York chief

08.05.08 Joel Rickett

Literary agency Peters, Fraser & Dunlop (PFD) has lost the head of its US office. Zoë Pagnamenta, who has run PFD's New York office since it opened in 2003, left this week to form her own independent agency. She said she had spent "five very happy years" at PFD, "but the time has come to move on to pastures new".

It follows the exodus of agents from PFD in London. Caroline Michel, c.e.o., said the Manhattan operation would now be run by Pagnamenta's colleague Erin Edmison with assistant Anne Jump. "We have plans for expansion which we will be announcing in due course."

Pagnamenta, who joined from the Wylie Agency, has represented writers including Alan Bennett and Hisham Matar into the US and Canada on behalf of PFD and other UK agencies. Her own clients include Wangari Maathai, Tom Vanderbilt and Dirk Wittenborn.

She said she would continue to handle literary fiction and a range of non-fiction by writers from both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. The Zoë Pagnamenta Agency LLC will have offices on Bond Street in Manhattan.

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