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
has studied German, English and American Language and Literature. After a Masters and an M.A. degree various teaching assignments brought him to England, the USA and to France where he finally settled. After translating books from French and English into German he founded Agence Schweiger in 1992. He works and lives near Cahors in the Southwest of France (north of Toulouse and east of Bordeaux).
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
is an author and publisher for children and teen books, but also translator of adult and children’s literature from German and English. His bibliography includes over 300 books. He spent several months in Nicaragua as a brigadist, and several more in the Moroccan Sahara to bear witness of the conflicts there. In 2005, he created a publishing house for youth: “Le Griffon bleu”. 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.
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.