PRIX PANGEA

The Prize

The Pangea Prize is an exciting new opportunity for international living authors of general fiction in English, French and Spanish. One winner from each language will be chosen and submissions from all nationalities will be considered. The winners will each receive U.S. $10,000 and will have their work published by Transit Publishing in three languages: English, French and Spanish. The Pangea Prize is unique in the world of literature in that it can be won by an author of any nationality, providing that his or her work is either in, English, French or Spanish. The Pangea Prize, symbolises Transit Publishing’s vision of crossing the international barriers of language and culture to deliver original voices in literary excellence to the world’s readers. The Pangea Prize is looking for manuscripts that have an international appeal and are able to travelling across boarders of language and culture.

The Sponsors

National Book Network
National Book Network (NBN) is an independent, full-service sales, marketing and distribution company serving North America and overseas independent publishers of non-fiction, fiction and children’s titles. For more information visit: www.nbnbooks.com

Agence Du Livre
Agence Du Livre (ADL) is the leading distributor in Quebec, Canada, supplying the francophone market. For more information visit: www.adl.qc.ca

Succes Du Livre
Succes Du Livre (SDL) is a publisher and distributor with over 25 years experience. SDL distributes in France and internationally in French speaking markets. For more information visit: www.sdlfrance.com

Georgetown Publications
Georgetown Publications provides sales, marketing and distribution for the Canadian book market. Their sales team puts their expertise to work for you, providing national coverage for Canadian, American and British publishers. They represent over a dozen publishers plus their distribution lines and handle distribution to all retail channels in the country. For more information visit: www.georgetownpublications.com

Transit publishing

The administrator of the Pangea Prize is Transit Publishing.

Transit is an international publisher based in Montreal, New York and Paris. Founded in early 2009, Transit Publishing has already achieved unprecedented success in the U.S., UK, France and Canada, especially with our second title, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson, a #1 New York Times bestseller, with rights sold to over 80 countries worldwide. In its review of the 10 biggest publishing stories of 2009, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), called Unmasked “one of the biggest publishing hits in Canadian history.”

Transit’s vision of crossing the barriers of language and culture to deliver original voices of literary excellence to the worlds’s readers has become reality through our distribution channels to the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, the Channel Isles, Australia, New Zealand, France, French-speaking Europe, Italy, Spain and Hispanic America. Transit currently publishes its works in English, French and Spanish, with rights sold in approximately twenty languages around the world, in markets ranging from China to Brazil.