An Industry of Rejection

'There were times when I loved a book and felt in my bones that I could publish it well, only to bring it to a meeting and find that my colleagues didn’t feel the same.'

Essay 28th July 2022

Angelique Tran Van Sang

Angelique Tran Van Sang is a literary agent at Felicity Bryan Associates. She moved to the agency in 2021, after seven years as an editor at Bloomsbury, where she worked with authors such as Kamila Shamsie and Reni Eddo-Lodge, and published Jenny Zhang, Olivia Sudjic and Saba Sams, amongst others. At FBA, her authors include Amy Key, K Patrick and Clara Kumagai. Angelique was a guest judge for the inaugural Stinging Fly/FBA Fiction Prize.