Luigi read English Literature at University College London and at Dartmouth College in the USA. After working as a bookseller, he joined the publishers Macdonald Futura in 1986 as a children’s book Editor. Subsequently, he worked for a number of publishers including Harlequin Mills & Boon and Penguin Books where he was an Editorial Director at Michael Joseph. In 1997, he became a literary agent joining Sheil Land Associates where he worked for eight years before setting up LBA in 2005. He has been personally responsible for discovering and launching the careers of a large number of best-selling authors. He is Honorary Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University and the Literary Consultant for The Sunday Times Oxford University Literary Festival. In 2010 he won The Bookseller Industry Award for Literary Agent of The Year.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-927689","agent","type-agent","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n