Vintage’s Maloku to join Daunt Books as editor

Dredhëza Maloku is leaving Vintage after two years as assistant editor to join Daunt Books Publishing as editor from 19th April.

Maloku has worked across the Vintage and Harvill Secker imprints, focusing on experimental stories including Jo Hamya’s Three Rooms and supporting the Harvill Secker crime and crossover list.

She worked on debuts such as Susan Stokes-Chapman’s Pandora and Mahi Cheshire’s upcoming Deadly Cure, as well as an array of paperback fiction including Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands and Megan Nolan’s Acts of Desperation. Before that, she was the editorial assistant at Transworld. 

Together with publisher Katie Ellis-Brown, Harvill Secker deputy publishing director for crime, thriller and crossover, Maloku recently acquired all world language rights to a "blistering" debut novel by Ela Lee for six figures in a two-book deal.

Maloku said: “I am so thrilled to be joining Daunt Books. I have long admired their stylish, bold and inventive publishing and feel lucky to be joining a team with such impeccable taste. Their ambition and passion for writing from all corners of the world is particularly exciting, and I cannot wait to work on this distinctive list.”

She will report to publisher Marigold Atkey, who said: “I am over the moon that Dredhëza is joining us as our new editor at Daunt Books. We were so impressed by her wide-ranging editorial experience, her infectious, inspiring love for literature and her exciting ambition and vision for our list. I cannot wait for her to start, and for this new chapter at Daunt to begin.”