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Paul Marsh (1952 - 2009)
It is with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Paul Marsh, husband of Susanna Nicklin and founder of The Marsh Agency. Paul was visiting Publishers and clients in Milan when he collapsed on Sunday 5th July at the central station and died of a pulmonary embolism in hospital there. He will be sorely missed by his family, friends and colleagues worldwide.
Paul Marsh founded The Marsh Agency in 1994 with his wife Susanna Nicklin, after many years working as Foreign Rights Director for Anthony Sheil Associates. The agency began as an international rights specialist, selling translation rights on behalf of literary agents and publishers in the UK, the US, Canada and New Zealand. Following some early successes the agency moved to its Mayfair offices in 1997.
Building on this strong international reputation, the agency expanded and now also represents its own list of authors for world rights including English. The agency handles literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction, specializing in authors with international potential. The Marsh Agency has a strong presence at all the major international Book Fairs and makes regular trips abroad, including the Far East, to promote authors and maintain excellent relationships with publishers.
The Marsh Agency is associated with many prize-winning and internationally bestselling authors including, for translation rights: Kelley Armstrong, Kate Atkinson, Iain Banks, Simon Beckett, Giles Blunt, Bill Bryson, Meg Cabot, Jenny Colgan, Emma Donoghue, Nathan Englander, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Forster, Ariana Franklin, Linda Holeman, Derek Landy, Jonathan Lethem, Desmond Morris, Toby Litt, China Mieville, Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Vikram Seth, Daniel Tammet, Sue Townsend. And for worldwide rights including UK & US: Heinrich Harrer, Hitomi Kanehara, Robert Macfarlane, Anita Nair, Ben Okri, Alexandra & Nikolai Tolstoy, David Yallop, Taichi Yamada.
The Marsh Agency also includes its sister companies, Paterson Marsh Ltd (formerly Mark Paterson Associates) and Campbell Thomson & McLaughlin Ltd. The three companies recently moved from Dover Street, to 50 Albemarle Street W1.
Susanna Nicklin left The Marsh Agency to become Director of English PEN, and she is now the Director of Literature for the British Council. In a statement today Susie said
“Paul was particularly proud of the talented team he had assembled around him at The Marsh Agency, including Camilla Ferrier (Director Foreign Rights), Jessica Woollard (head of English language sales) and Sarah McFadden (head of client accounts). I have spoken to them all this morning and despite the shock and sorrow they are all determined to continue the Marsh Agency business as usual, as Paul would have wished. During a period of agreed leave from the British Council I will be acting in the role of CEO”.