About us

Our literary agency was created in 1992 proposing bookrights of french, english and german publishers of non-fiction titles in the fields of body, mind and spirit which were soon completed by illustrated and fiction titles. Since then we sold over 1300 foreign rights.

Today Agence Schweiger represents 130 publishers french, german, english and other in various fields and has co-agents all over the world.

Christian Schweiger

After his diplomas in German, English and American Language and Literature and teaching assignments in the UK, the USA and France Christian settled in the Southwest of France where he founded Agence Schweiger in 1992.

 

 

 

Jade Schweiger

Jade joined the Schweiger Agency in September 2025 to provide administrative and operational support and handles the agency’s children’s list. She obtained a double master’s degree in business consulting and financial strategy in France and Italy.

 

 

 

 

Vincent Read

Vincent is a long-time enthusiast of spirituality and meditation. He has a master’s degree in digital business and has joined the agency as support for managing the catalog and taking part in the agency’s day-to-day.

 

 

 

 

Paul Laffont

Paul joined Agence Schweiger for administrative and operational assistance in september 2025, after working for 2 years in the music publishing business and following his studies in management and e-business.

 

 

 

Jason Curt

Our Webmaster, after his studies in business and communication in Toulouse Jason became independent Social Media Manager. He joined Agence Schweiger at the beginning of 2020 where he handles the website and the integration of all new titles.

 

 

Sarah Wilson

Sarah has a degree in French and Linguistics, and worked for 20 years as a school teacher in the UK and New Zealand. With a passion for creativity and learning, she later studied for a diploma in Graphic Design and undertook courses in NLP and Proofreading. In addition to providing administrative assistance to Agence Schweiger, she works as a full-time artist in the Southwest of France.

 

 

 

Didier Debord

Our friend and collegue Didier passed away in an accident in June 2025. We will very much miss his humour, kindness and expertise.

Didier was an author and publisher for children and teen books, but also translator of adult and children’s literature from German and English. He translated among many others: Franz Kafka, K. Gröning, John Dunmore and Oliver Bottini. He is the author of several adult novels and countless books and stories for children. He joined Agence Schweiger in 2017.