Yann Martel’s The High Mountains of Portugal has sold in Vietnamese, Jaspreet Singh’s Chef has sold in Arabic, and Don Thompson’s The Supermodel and the Brillo Box has sold in Ukrainian.

New Zealand–based Cloud South Films has acquired film rights to Canadian environmental activist and former Greenpeace vice-president Varda Burstyn’s 2005 eco-thriller Water Inc.

Claire Cameron’s 2017 novel The Last Neanderthal has sold in the Czech Republic, while the Toronto author’s 2014 novel The Bear has sold in Italy.

Penguin Canada has acquired Samra Habib’s memoir about being a queer Muslim.

Figure 1 Publishing has acquired the first cookbook by Toronto chef and Food Network host Corbin Tomaszeski.

Simon & Schuster Canada senior editor Laurie Grassi has acquired Canadian rights to bestselling author Catherine McKenzie’s The Good Liar,

Penguin Canada has acquired We All Love the Beautiful Girls, the second novel by Joanne Proulx, for the Viking Canada imprint. Grand Central Publishing will release the title in the U.S. Tiffany Stone’s children’s book Tree Song will be published by Annick Press.