Ana Ban joined BookEnds in March 2025 to devote herself exclusively to international rights sales, a growing business within the agency, to expand the department and seek new opportunities.

Ana’s career started as a journalist in her native country of Brazil, later becoming a literary translator with more than two hundred titles published in Portuguese, by authors ranging from Virginia Woolf to Ottessa Moshfegh, from John Steinbeck to Al Gore.

She moved to the United States to pursue a master’s degree in Publishing at Pace University in New York City, aiming at working with foreign rights and expanding her passion of seeing books travel, bringing their different ideas and experiences to the farthest parts of the globe. Ana is still involved with the university, tutoring and advising students in the publishing course who are interested in foreign and subsidiary rights.

Before coming to BookEnds, Ana worked at independent nonfiction publisher The Experiment and at Trident Media Group, where she handled major properties such as Frank Herbert’s DUNE and R.J. Palacio’s WONDER.

In her free time, when not attending a live concert, Ana’s listening to an audiobook while she cooks or bikes. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.