Sharmaine Lovegrove

Sharmaine Lovegrove is a literary agent and cultural activist based in Berlin with two decades of experience across publishing bookselling strategic cultural consultancy and media.

She was formerly Managing Director of Dialogue a division of Hachette UK where she championed underrepresented voices and published acclaimed and bestselling authors.

At ICA she is building a list of fiction and nonfiction with international ambition seeking distinctive voices emotional resonance and stories that broaden how we see the world.

She is a founding member of the Black Writers Guild former Chair of the Black Cultural Archives and founder of Chapters in Berlin.