Meet Our Team of Clavis Rights Agency

We are the ones responsible for making your favorite books travel all over the world!

Over the past 40 years, Clavis Publishing has built up valuable international expertise. We have a long and trusted reputation with publishers in 71 countries so far and are known for numerous sales of the rights of our picture books and novels. We also specialize in high-quality co-editions of our picture books: in 2022, we did no less than 262 co-editions for our friends worldwide.

The motto of Clavis Publishing is “We make children’s dreams come true” and it’s our goal to extend that motto to include children all over the globe.

Would you like to bring one of our books to your country? Our team will happily tell you all you need to know!

Your direct contact:

Lise Merken
Lise.Merken@clavisbooks.com
Tel: +32 11 26 99 56

Our adventurous sinologist. She lived for a year in China after college graduation and joined the Clavis family to help expand Clavis into the East Asian subcontinent. Now, she utilizes her diverse set of skills to manage markets all over the world.

Jana Versée
Jana.Versee@clavisbooks.com
Tel: +32 11 26 98 72

Our young polyglot. Whether you speak Dutch, English, French, Arabic, Greek, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or German, Jana can help you out as she speaks all ten languages!  She is also an avid reader so she is really at home at Clavis Rights Agency.

Elise Lemmens

Elise.Lemmens@clavisbooks.com

Our enthusiastic world citizen. She has been in the local book trade for over 10 years, first as a bookseller and more recently as a sales representative. Now she can't wait to broaden her horizon — both literally and figuratively —as part of Clavis's Foreign Rights team.

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have further questions!