Marlene Seegers of 2 Seas Agency to Represent World Translation Rights for Deep Vellum Publishing

Deep Vellum is thrilled to announce that Marleen Seegers of 2 Seas Agency has been appointed to represent worldwide translation rights for all of our imprints, including Dalkey Archive Press. Sarah McEachern, Rights Director and Associate Publisher, will maintain rights representation for English language rights in the UK and other territories, in addition to audio markets.

Deep Vellum is the largest publisher of translated literature in the United States, with a catalogue of nearly 2,000 titles across 7 imprints, featuring work from 100 countries, 80 languages, and 6 continents. Our mission has always been to bring a wide array groundbreaking world literature to English language readers. We now also publish an extensive list of English originals, which 2 Seas Agency will help us send in the other direction: to publishers and readers around the world.

2 Seas Agency was founded by Marleen Seegers in 2011 in Ojai, California. 2 Seas is a boutique literary agency that represents a select number of publishers, literary agencies and authors in international markets.

Marleen Seegers was born in the southern Dutch town of Maastricht, graduated in Liberal Arts at Utrecht University in the Netherlands majoring in Modern European Literature, and obtained a post-graduate diploma in Comparative Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She interned and worked at several French publishing houses and agencies, including Editions Jean-Claude Lattès and Agence Michelle Lapautre, and spent several years at Editions Stock, part of Hachette Livre. She founded 2 Seas Agency with Derek Dodds in 2011. She is fluent in Dutch, English, French and Limburgish (a dialect spoken by natives of the Maastricht area), and she has working proficiency in German, as well as knowledge of Spanish and Italian. See the 2 Seas Agency website for more information.