ABOUT

Established in 2008, The Grayhawk Agency (GHA) is a leading Asian literary agency with offices in Taipei and Bangkok. We represent international publishers and agents in Taiwan, China, and Southeast Asia, with a particular focus on Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. 

GHA also brings outstanding Asian writing to the world. Through an extensive network of co-agents, we actively market translation rights for our authors and have placed their works in more than thirty countries.

We are a team of book lovers and savvy negotiators. We attend all major international book fairs. And yes, there is also Raybee, the office bunny.

 

FOUNDER

Gray Tan is the founder of The Grayhawk Agency and has spent over two decades working in international rights. He studied English at National Taiwan University and was halfway through a MA when he discovered agenting and never looked back.

He is widely credited with reshaping how foreign rights are represented and sold in Taiwan and China, bringing a passion for storytelling to a traditionally more administrative side of publishing. Through years of participation in international fellowship programs, and later by helping create and run similar initiatives in Taiwan, he has also become an important advocate for bringing Taiwanese and Asian literature to the world.

Before founding GHA, Gray was the Chinese translator of A GAME OF THRONES and THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING. A lifelong SFF nerd, he attends Worldcon every year and is rarely without an audiobook in progress.

 

THE TEAM

Gray Tan | CEO & Founder
Jade Fu | Senior Vice President
Yichan Peng | Vice President 
Ping Chang | Executive Assistant

Alyssa Wu | Literary Agent (Fiction)
Lucy Su | Associate Agent (Fiction)

Mia Lee | Head of Non-Fiction
Connie Kuo | Associate Agent (Non-fiction)
Liting Weng | Associate Agent (Non-fiction)

Nicolas Wu | Senior Literary Agent (Comics & French clients)
April Chang | Literary Agent (Comics)
Clare Chi | Senior Literary Agent (Children’s Books)
Yuming Kao | Senior Literary Agent (Children’s Books)
Jessie Hsieh | Senior Literary Agent (Korean & Asian authors)

Sherri Cheng | Head of Bangkok Office
Peeraya (Pleng) Boontawee | Literary Agent
Thansinee (Fhan) Jittamanonkul | Literary Agent

Agnes Hsiao | Project Manager
Itzel Hsu | Project Manager
Alice Wu | Project Associate

Lanting Liu | Senior Operation Manager
Anna Kuo | Operation Executive
Gabby Kuo | Operation Executive
Shuyu Liu | Operation Executive
Natcha (Hannah) Rattanapong | Operation Executive

Caro Lin | Financial Manager
Miaoyun Yen | Financial Manager

 

MILESTONES

2008
GHA was founded in Taipei. We booked our first Frankfurt table.

2009
Began selling Chinese-language titles overseas.

2013
Launched the Taipei Rights Workshop (TRW) fellowship program on behalf of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture.

2014
Launched Books from Taiwan (BFT), also on behalf of the Ministry of Culture. Together with the fellowship program, it became a key rights-selling initiative that continues to this day.

2016
Began selling Chinese-language titles to Korea through Danny Hong Agency. Designed and launched our in-house rights database, Eyrie.

2018
Celebrated our 10th anniversary. Began advocating for the use of e-signatures, laying the groundwork for fully remote work during Covid-19.

2022
Moved to our current location near Daan MRT Station. Gray was shortlisted for the LBF International Excellence Award for Rights Professional.

2023
Re-launched the fellowship program under TAICCA (Taiwan Creative Content Agency), with a new name and expanded scope.

2024
Opened our Bangkok office, marking a major step in GHA’s long-term commitment to Southeast Asia.

 

LANDMARK TITLES

Major Bestsellers

  • THE KITE RUNNER by Khaled Hosseini
  • BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP by S. J. Watson
  • FIFTY SHADES OF GREY Trilogy by E. L. James
  • WOOL by Hugh Howey
  • THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY by Rachel Joyce
  • SAPIENS by Yuval Harari
  • THE LIFE LIST by Lori Nelson Spielman
  • THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY by Gabrielle Zevin
  • EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU by Celeste Ng
  • PEAK by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool
  • MY GRANDMOTHER ASKED ME TO TELL YOU SHE’S SORRY by Fredrik Backman
  • WHAT SHOULD I SAY TO MY DEAR CHILD by Oh Eun-young
  • DUNE series by Frank Herbert

Global Rights Successes

  • THE MAN WITH THE COMPOUND EYES by Wu Ming-Yi
  • DECODE by Mai Jia
  • THE BORROWED by Chan Ho-Kei
  • KIM JIYOUNG, BORN 1982 by Cho Nam-joo
  • THE STOLEN BICYCLE by Wu Ming-Yi
  • THE SNIPER by Chang Kuo-Li
  • GHOST TOWN by Kevin Chen
  • QUIET IS A SUPERPOWER by Jill Chang
  • BEFORE WE WERE MONSTERS by Katniss Hsiao
  • TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yang Shuanzi

OFFICE

TAIPEI – HEAD OFFICE

1F, No.18, Lane 206, Sec.1, Daan Rd., Daan Dist., Taipei 106070, Taiwan

+886-2-27059231