The Graal Agency was founded in 1993 as a family business by Maria and Zbigniew Kański. Maria endowed the company with her long publishing and editorial experience, while Zbigniew invested his academic and translational expertise. Their different backgrounds resulted in a natural division of the agency into a literary section (fiction, literary and popular non-fiction) and an academic-professional section (computer science and technology, business, humanities, sciences).

As the company grew rapidly in terms of the number of business partners and license contracts handled, the owners faced the dilemma of either maintaining a SOHO type family business formula or expand into the world of small to medium-sized companies, with a regular office and employment adjusted to the business opportunities. The latter option was chosen, and today The Graal Agency is proud to represent hundreds of bestselling authors, publishers and literary agencies. The agency’s success now depends to a great extent on the knowledge and enthusiasm of its steadily increasing number of young agents employed at Graal.

The Graal Agency’s primary business is licensing translation rights to Polish publishers on behalf of authors, publishers and authors’ agencies round the world. In recognition of Graal’s good business in Poland, some of our clients have hired the agency to represent their licensing business in other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. While most numerous group among our clients are American, British and German authors and companies, the agency has increased its business with French, Spanish, Latin American, Australian, Canadian, Russian and other clients.

Graal Agency has started to represent Polish authors both in Poland and overseas.