{"id":2172,"date":"2023-04-24T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2023-04-24T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T07:58:58","slug":"congratulations-to-aisha-hassan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2172","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Aisha Hassan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Orion Fiction has acquired MSt alum Aisha Hassan \u2018s d\u00e9but novel The Boy Who Built Lahore<\/em>\u00a0and one other title in a six-figure deal. Charlotte Mursell, publishing director, pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights from Hellie Ogden at Janklow & Nesbit UK in under 24 hours. US rights have been sold at auction to Alison Callahan at Simon & Schuster and translation rights have sold at auction in Spain (Almuzara) and the Netherlands (Mosaiek). Orion will publish in May 2025. \u00a0See https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/rights\/rights\/orion-fiction-pre-empts-hassans-heartbreaking-debut-in-six-figure-two-book-deal<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Orion Fiction has acquired MSt alum Aisha Hassan \u2018s d\u00e9but novel The Boy Who Built Lahore\u00a0and one other title in a six-figure deal. Charlotte Mursell, publishing director, pre-empted UK and Commonwealth rights from Hellie Ogden at Janklow & Nesbit UK in under 24 hours. US rights have been sold at auction to Alison Callahan at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-publications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-z2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1449,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1449","url_meta":{"origin":2172,"position":0},"title":"MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u2019s first adult novel to be published by Picador","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"April 11, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"After a \"hotly contested\" auction, MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave\u2019s first adult novel is to be published by Picador. 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