Patrizia van Daalen, an Italo-German raised in France, has been an editor for seven years and is the senior rights and acquisitions manager for Shanghai 99 Readers’ Culture Co., a private Chinese publishing company. She is responsible for worldwide acquisitions of fiction and non-fiction. Authors she has worked with include Michael Ondaatje, David Grossman, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Colum McCann, Luis Sepúlveda, Philip Roth, Patrick Modiano, and Stieg Larsson.