A BRIEF HISTORY

      BIG APPLE AGENCY, INC. will be celebrating its 33rd anniversary in 2020. Founded in 1987 by Ms. Lily Chen and Dr. Luc Kwanten, the agency was originally known as BIG APPLE LTC CONSULTING. In December 1989, the name was changed to BIG APPLE TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY when it began working with Tuttle-Mori Agency Japan. The agency represented foreign proprietors around the world in the Chinese language markets in both Mainland China (Simplified Chinese) and Taiwan (Traditional/Complex Chinese). In 2010 with the expansion into the Southeast Asian territories, the company name was officially changed to BIG APPLE AGENCY, INC.

      There was no copyright law in either China or Taiwan protecting authors’ translation rights when the agency was founded. In November 1992, China and Taiwan enacted copyright legislation that protected the rights of foreign authors against unauthorized reproduction and unauthorized translation of their works. Subsequently China became a member of the Berne Convention and other international agreements on copyright and intellectual property protection. In spite of the five-year long handicap, the agency was able to enter into proper translation agreements in China as well as in Taiwan.

      BIG APPLE AGENCY, INC. handles translation rights into Mainland China – Simplified Chinese character rights – and into Taiwan and Hong Kong S.A.R. – Traditional (complex) Chinese character rights, i.e. that for each title handled by the agency there is the possibility of two contracts. Readers of Traditional Chinese have difficulties reading simplified Chinese and vice-versa. The agency also handles translation rights into Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Mongolia.

      In addition to handling foreign authors in the above territories, the agency occasionally represents Chinese authors for translation rights abroad.

      大苹果创建于1987年，在不断拓展业务的过程中，于1989年底与版权代理公司东京TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY合作后更名为BIG APPLE TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY，使得大苹果能在最短的时间里得到国际版权界最密切的支持。1989年底，大苹果开始与中国出版社接触，《斯佳丽》就是与上海译文出版社于1990年合作的第一本翻译书。1992年中国新的著作权法出台，国外作者翻译版权有了法律保护，大苹果代理业务也在多方面有了蓬勃发展。大苹果在2010年正式更改其英文名称为BIG APPLE AGENCY, INC. 同时，大苹果也进军东南亚开始代理授权马来西亚，印尼，越南，和泰国地区。至今为止，大苹果成功代理了诺贝尔文学奖获得者纳丁•戈迪默的《我儿子的故事》、《陌生人的世界》、《贵宾》等、维·苏·奈保尔的《河湾》、《比斯瓦斯先生有其屋》、《米古埃尔街》、《黑暗地区：印度亲历》、《印度：受伤的文明》、《到达之谜》等, ,J·M·柯慈的《屈辱》、《等待野蛮人》、《少年》等中文版权, 以及《斯佳丽》、《马语者》、《英国病人》、《相约星期二》、《谁动了我的奶酪》、《亲历历史－希拉里回忆录》《万物简史》《魔戒》《兄弟联》《美德书》，以及所有塞林格作品等等版权书，并与国内出版社保持着广泛密切的联系。

      大苹果的版权服务工作对中国出版业国际化的进程应该是有一份贡献的，不仅促使出版者的国际观念发生了根本的改变，也改变了消费者的理念，在东西方文化的互动中，搭建起一座文化交流的桥梁。这一切都是实实在在的，没有粉饰，没有雕琢，承载着全体大苹果公司同仁推广国际文化交流的决心和努力。我们期望得到各位出版精英的指导, 更希望能得到大家的支持共同为我们的读者推荐更深更广的世界知识而努力！
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS

It is not possible to list all the titles we have licensed since that fateful day in 1987 when the agency started its activities with the licensing of a Traditional Chinese character edition of PC MAGAZINE. Below are the highlights of titles with outstanding achievements.

NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

KAZUO ISHIGURO                        BOB DYLAN
PAR LAGERKVIST                        T.S. ELIOT
J.M. COETZEE                               V.S. NAIPAUL
PEARL BUCK                                DORIS LESSING
SEAMUS HEANEY                       DEREK WALCOTT
NADINE GORDIMER                   WOLE SOYINKA
SIR WILLIAM GOLDING             ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER
SAUL BELLOW                             SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

BOOKER PRIZE [winners only]

IN A FREE STATE by V.S. Naipaul
THE CONSERVATIONIST by Nadine Gordimer
OFFSHORE by Penelope Fitzgerald
RITES OF PASSAGE by William Golding
SCHINDLER’S ARK by Thomas Keneally
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K. by J.M. Coetzee
HOTEL DU LAC by Anita Brookner
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY by Kazuo Ishiguro
POSSESSION by A.S. Byatt
THE FAMISHED ROAD by Ben Okri
THE ENGLISH PATIENT by Michael Ondaatje
THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundathi Roy
AMSTERDAM by Ian Mcewan
DISGRACE by J.M. Coetzee
THE BLIND ASSASSIN by Margaret Atwood
TRUE HISTORY OF THE KELLY GANG by Peter Carey
LIFE OF PI by Yann Martell
VERNON GOD LITTLE by D.B.C. Pierre
THE LINE OF BEAUTY by Alan Hollinghurst
THE SEA by John Banville
THE GATHERING by Anne Enright
THE WHITE TIGER by Aravind Adiga
THE SENSE OF AN ENDING by Julian Barnes
MILKMAN by Anna Burns
THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood
GIRL, WOMEN, OTHER by Bernardine Evaristo
COSTA BOOK AWARDS (WHITBREAD AWARDS)
THE STRANGEST MAN by Graham Farmelo
WHAT WAS LOST by Catherine O’flynn
THE TENDERNESS OF WOLVES by Stef Penney
THE HARMONY SILK FACTORY by Tash Aw
MATISSE: THE MASTER by Hilary Spurling
SMALL ISLAND by Andrea Levy
VERNON GOD LITTLE by D.B.C. Pierre
THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME by Mark Haddon
SPIES by Michael Frayn
SAFFY’S ANGEL by HILARY Mckay
THE AMBER SPYGLASS by Philip Pullman
WHITE TEETH by Zadie Smith
BIRTHDAY LETTERS by Seamus Heaney
THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA by Hanif Kureishi
THE CHILD IN TIME by IAN Mcewan
ON THE BLACK HILL by Bruce Chatwin
THE SECRET SCRIPTURE by Sebastian Barry
THE NEW POLICEMAN by Kate Thompson
BROOKLYN by Colm Toibin
AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD by Kazuo Ishiguro
OUT OF SHADOWS by Jason Wallace
WITNESS THE NIGHT by Kishwar Desai
THE LAST YEARS OF EDWARD THOMAS by Matthew Hollis
BLOOD RED ROAD by Moira Young
TINY SUNBIRDS FAR AWAY by Christie Watson
THE INNOCENTS by Francesca Segal
LIFE AFTER LIFE / A GOD IN RUINS / BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE MUSEUM by Kate Atkinson
FIVE CHILDREN ON THE WESTERN FRONT by Kate Saunders
ELIZABETH IS MISSING by Emma Healey
THE INVENTION OF NATURE by Andrea Wulf
40 SONNETS by Don Paterson
THE LIE TREE by Frances Hardinge
GOLDEN HILL by Francis Spufford
DAYS WITHOUT END: A NOVEL by Sebastian Barry
THE EXPLORER by Katherine Rundell
THE SEVEN DEATHS OF EVELYN HARDCASTLE by Stuart Turton
THE CUT OUT GIRL by Bart Van Es

NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS [winners only]
INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
JAMES JOYCE by Richard Ellmann
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William L. Shirer
THE CITY IN HISTORY by Lewis Mumford
GRAVITY’S RAINBOW by Thomas Pynchon
THE SNOW LEOPARD by Peter Matthiessen
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO GARP by John Irving
THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Henry Kissinger
A DISTANT MIRROR by Barbara W. Tuchman
GODEL, ESCHER AND BACH by Douglas Hofstadter
THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker
WHITE NOISE by Don Delillo
COLD MOUNTAIN by Charles Frazier
HOLES by Louis Sachar
IN THE HEART OF THE SEA by Nathaniel Philbrick
THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen
THREE JUNES by Julia Glass
THE ECHO MAKER by Richard Powers
THE UNDERGROUDN RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead
ORANGE PRIZE [winners only]

THE ROAD HOME by ROSE TREMAIN
INGLORIOUS by JOANNA KAVENNA
ON BEAUTY by ZADIE SMITH
SMALL ISLAND by ANDREA LEVY

CALDECOTT AWARD [winners only]

THE HELLO, GOODBYE WINDOW by CHRIS RASCHKA
LON PO PO: A RED-RIDING HOOD STORY FROM CHINA by Ed Young
THE POLAR EXPRESS by CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
JUMANJI by CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG
WOLF IN THE SNOW by Matthew Cordell

NEWBERRY MEDAL [winners only]

HOLES by LOUIS SACHAR
CRISPIN: THE CROSS OF LEAD by AVI

BEST NONFICTION-TITLES

PETER DRUCKER’s titles
FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS by Graham Hancock
A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING by Bill Bryson
THE KINSEY INSTITUTE NEW REPORT ON SEX by June M. Reinish/Ruth Beasley
QBQ! THE QUESTION BEHIND THE QUESTION by John G. Miller
THE BOOK OF VIRTUES by William J. Bennett
MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS by John Gray
SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE by Elaine St. James
DON'T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF by Richard Carlson
YOU: ON A DIET by Michael F. Roizen & Mehmet C. Oz
ONE RED PAPERCLIP by Kyle Macdonald
PURPOSE by Nikos Mourkogiannis
OUR ICEBERG IS MELTING by John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber
A ROYAL DUTY by Paul Burrell
A PASSION TO WIN by Sumner Redstone
THE JESUS DYNASTY by James D. Tabor
CHRONICLES by Bob Dylan
READY OR NOT, HERE LIFE COMES By Mel Levine
SCHOTT’S ORIGINAL MISCELLANY by Ben Schott
THE MINTO PYRAMID PRINCIPLE by Barbara Minto
THE ELEMENT / FINDING YOUR ELEMENT by Sir Ken Robinson
THE GLORY AND THE DREAM by William Mancheter
JERUSALEM: THE BIOGRAPHY by Simon Sebag Montefiore
THE GREATEST SALESMAN IN THE WORLD by Og Mandino
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William L. Shirer
EMPIRES OF THE SEA / 1453 / CITY OF FORTUNE by Roger Crowley
METROPOLIS by Ben Wilson
HOW TO MAKE ANYONE FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU by Leil Lowndes
THE ALCHEMY OF FINANCE by George Soros
THE CHIMP PARADOX by Dr. Steve Peters
TINY HABITS by BJ Fogg
SAVE THE CAT series by Blake Snyder
DREAMS FROM MY FATHER by Barack Obama
ANGELA’S ASHES by Frank McCourt
THE LAST LECTURE by Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow
BORN SURVIVOR by Bear Grylls
WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOUR’RE EXPECTING series by Heidi E. Murkoff
ALLEN CARR’S EASY WAY TO STOP SMOKING by Allen Carr
THE GENIE WITHIN by Harry W. Carpenter
CLOUD ATLAS by David Mitchell
STRONG FATHERS/MOTHERS, STRNOG DAUGHTERS/SONS by Meg Meeker
POSITIVE DISCIPLINE by Jane Nelsen
THE HUMAN BODY by Dr. Sarah Brewer
STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST by Austin Kleon

BEST FICTION TITLES

THE GODFATHER by Mario Puzo
THE BOOK THIEF by Markus Zusak
FORREST GUMP by Winston Groom
1984 by George Orwell
THE ISLAND / THE RETURN by Victoria Hislop
ENDER’S GAME series by Orson Scott Card
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES and other titles by John Irving
THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET by Sandra Cisneros
WATER FOR ELEPHANTS by Sara Gruen
FIREFLY LANE by Kristin Hannah
THE BONE GARDEN and other titles by Tess Gerritsen
ONE DAY by David Nicholls
HOUSE OF NIGHT series by P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast
THE BUNNY SUICIDE series by Andy Riley
OPEN VEINS OF LATIN AMERICA / MIRRORS by Eduardo Galeano
THE FIGHT CLUB by Chuck Palahniuk
WORLD WAR Z by Max Brooks
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET by Jordan Belfort
WAR HORSE by Michael Morpurgo
SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS by David Guterson
ME BEFORE YOU / AFTER YOU by Jojo Moyes
BLACK CAIRN POINT / FERRYMAN / TRESPASSERS by Claire McFall
HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY SERIES by Douglas Adams

BEST CHILDREN’S/YA TITLES

THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE by Forrest Carter
THE KNIGHT IN RUSTY ARMOR by Robert Fisher
OLD POSSUMS CATS series by T.S. Eliot
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH by Norton Juster
AN ELEPHANT & PIGGIE BOOK / PIGEON series by Mo Willems
HAL & ROGER HUNT series by Willard Price
THE HUNGER GAME series by Suzanne Collins
PADDINGTON series by Michael Bond
THE LORD OF THE RINGS / THE HOBBIT by J.R.R. Tolkien
THE LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS by Rick Riordan
MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN by Ransom Riggs
THE MAZE RUNNER series by James Dashner
INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN / LISTEN, SLOWLY by Thanhha Lai
PEEK-A-ZOO / READY, SET GO! / GROW UP! by Nina Laden

EXECUTIVES

Ms. Lily Chen	Dr. Luc Kwanten	Ms. Wendy P. King
President, Co-Founder	Executive Director, Co-Founder	Vice President
lily-shanghai@bigapple-china.com	luchillelkwanten@outlook.com	wendy-king@bigapple1-china.com

RIGHTS DEPARTMENT

Shanghai	Beijing	Taipei
Ms. Maggie Han	Ms. Wanda Chou	Mr. Vincent Lin
Rights Manager	Agent	Executive VP / Rights Manager
maggie-han@bigapple-china.com	wanda-chou@bigapple-china.com	vincent-lin@bigapple-china.com vincent-lin@bigapple1-taipei.com
Ms. Erica Zhou	Ms. Lu Xing	Mr. Chris Lin
Agent	Agent	Vice Rights Manager
erica@bigapple-china.com	xing-lu@bigapple-china.com	chris-lin@bigapple-china.com chris-lin@bigapple1-taipei.com
Ms. Claire Cai		Ms. Zoe Tso
Agent		Agent
bigapple-china@bigapple-china.com		zoe-tso@bigapple-china.com zoe-tso@bigapple1-taipei.com

ADMINISTRATION
RIGHTS INQUIRIES AND OFFERS (CN = MAINLAND CHINA; TW – TAIWAN)

Ms. Sandy Lau	Ms. Claire Cai	Ms. Caddie
CN-Rights	CN-Offers	TW-Offers
cn-rights@bigapple-china.com	tw-offers@bigapple-china.com	wendy-king@bigapple1-china.com

CONTRACTS & FINANCES

ACCOUNTING -- accounting@bigapple-china.com                    ROYALTIES -- royalties@bigapple-china.com
Ms. Annie Wang annie@bigapple-china.com	Ms. WANG, Fang Accounting Manager Wang-fang@bigapple-china.com	Ms. Sarah Chen Accounting Manager sarah-chen@bigapple1-taipei.com
CONTRACTS
Ms. Fiona contracts-sh@bigapple-china.com	Ms. Shirley Zhang shirley@bigapple-china.com	Ms. Tammy Yu contracts@bigapple1-taipei.com

BOOK DEPARTMENT

Shanghai (OVERALL)	Beijing	Taipei
Ms. Hanhan Huang book@bigapple-china.com	Ms. WANG, Yang beijingbook@bigapple-china.com	Ms. Kelly Chang tw-books@bigapple1-taipei.com

ALTERNATE EMAIL IF EXPERIENCING TRANSMISSION PROBLEMS: Wendy King – king.wendy@gmail.com