People 10/18

Due to a restructuring of the art team, veterans Paul Buckley and Roseanne Serra have left the company. (They joined Penguin in 1989 and 1990 respectively.)

The formerly separate cover design departments will become a single team under Anthony Ramondo. Reporting to Ramondo are art & design vp and directors Jason Ramirez and Helen Yentus and directors Jennifer Heuer and Jess Morphew.

Maria Espinosa joins as an assistant editor. Previously she was an editorial assistant at Little, Brown and Company.

Sabrina Papas has joined as marketing and publicity coordinator.

Nour Sallam has become associate agent. She will be acquiring adult fiction and non-fiction.

The company has acquired a majority stake in Finnish novelist Arto Paasilinna’s (1942–2018) literary estate. His work has been translated into 40 languages and is reported to have sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.