Dado Derviskadic

Dado Derviskadic

Folio Literary Management
Likely Open
USA
Updated: 9/10/2025
Agent Information
Agent Bio

Dado Derviskadic is a Vice President and literary agent at Folio whose authors include bestselling and influential nonfiction writers across health, wellness, food, and culture.

He began his publishing career as Foreign Rights Director in Beijing in 2009 after interning with the New York Times in New York and China, has acquired major English-language nonfiction for the Chinese market, reads Chinese, Japanese, and Bosnian, and holds a degree from Middlebury College in Chinese film history and Japanese literature.

Research Links
Clients
  • Dr. Nicole LePera
  • Dr. Cate Shanahan
  • Kelly Starrett
  • Juliet Starrett
  • Matt Alt
Book Sales
  • How To Do The Work
  • Deep Nutrition
  • Built To Move
  • Pure Invention
  • Eight Million Ways To Happiness
Genres Information
Genres Represented
Fiction
Not Available or None Listed
Nonfiction
  • Art
  • Biography
  • BIPOC - Nonfiction
  • Cookbooks
  • Current Affairs
  • Diet
  • History
  • Lifestyle
  • Mind/Body/Spirit
  • Multicultural Studies
  • Narrative Nonfiction
  • Philosophy
  • Psychology
  • Reference
  • Religion
  • Science
  • Self-Help
  • Spirituality
Genres Not Represented
None listed or not available
Folio Literary Management
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