Peirene Press
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| Status | Active |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2008 |
| Founder | Meike Ziervogel |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | London, England |
| Publication types | Books |
| Fiction genres | Literature in translation, Contemporary fiction, Novella |
| Official website | http://www.peirenepress.com |
Peirene Press is an independent publishing house based in London.[1] Established by novelist and publisher Meike Ziervogel, Peirene is primarily focused on bringing out high-quality English translations of contemporary European short novels. Peirene is also known for its regular literary salons, and for its pop-up bookstalls outside supermarkets and at farmers markets.[2] Peirene Press donates 50p from the sale of each book to Counterpoint Arts, a charity that promotes the creative arts by and about refugees and migrants in the UK..[3]
List of books
2010 - Female Voice
- Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi (translated from the French by Adriana Hunter)
- Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (tr from the Catalan: Laura McGloughlin and Paul Mitchell)
- Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman by Friedrich Christian Delius (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)
2011 - Male Dilemma
- Next World Novella by Matthias Politycki (tr from the German: Anthea Bell)
- Tomorrow Pamplona by Jan van Mersbergen (tr from the Dutch: Laura Watkinson)
- Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig (tr from the Austrian German: Tess Lewis)
2012 - Small Epic
- The Brothers by Asko Sahlberg (tr from the Finnish: Fleur Jeremiah and Emily Jeremiah)
- The Murder of Halland by Pia Juul (tr from the Danish: Martin Aitken)
- Sea of Ink by Richard Weihe (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)
2013 - Turning Point
- The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke (tr from the German: Jamie Bulloch)
- Mr Darwin's Gardener by Kristina Carlson (tr from the Finnish: Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah)
- Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall (tr from the Polish: Philip Boehm)
2014 - Coming of Age
- The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov (tr from the Russian: Andrew Bromfield)
- The Blue Room by Hanne Ørstavik (tr from the Norwegian: Deborah Dawkin)
- Under The Tripoli Sky by Kamal Ben Hameda (tr from the French: Adriana Hunter)
2015 - Chance Encounter
- White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen (tr from the Finnish: Fleur Jeremiah and Emily Jeremiah)
- Reader for Hire by Raymond Jean (tr from the French: Adriana Hunter)
- The Looking-Glass Sisters by Gøhril Gabrielsen (tr from the Norwegian: John Irons)
2016 - Fairy Tale
- The Man I Became by Peter Verhelst (tr from the Dutch: by David Colmer)
- Her Father's Daughter by Marie Sizun (tr from the French: Adriana Hunter)
- The Empress and the Cake by Linda Stift (tr from the Austrian German: Jamie Bulloch)
Awards
- Independent Publishers Guild Newcomer Award 2011.[4]
- Highly commended at the British Book Design and Production Awards 2011[5] and 2013.[6]
- Peirene titles have been long-listed for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2011,[7] 2012,[8] 2013,[9] 2014[10] and 2015.[11]
References
- ↑ Peirene Press: About us
- ↑ "Peirene Press: Events".
- ↑ "Peirene Press: Counterpoint Arts".
- ↑ Graeme Neill, "Continuum crowned indie publisher of the year", The Bookseller, 11 March 2011.
- ↑ "British Book Design and Production Awards 2011".
- ↑ "British Book Design and Production Awards 2013".
- ↑ Boyd Tonkin, "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: Latin America is back with a boom", The Independent, 11 March 2011.
- ↑ Boyd Tonkin, "The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize long-list spans a planet of stories", The Independent, 9 March 2012.
- ↑ Boyd Tonkin, "Boyd Tonkin: From Syria to Colombia, and Albanian to Afrikaans, enjoy a global feast", The Independent, 1 March 2013.
- ↑ Boyd Tonkin, "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014: Our long-list reveals a fictional eco-system of staggering diversity", The Independent, 7 March 2014.
- ↑ Ian Johnston, "Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: 'Delightful discoveries' in foreign fiction prize", The Independent, 12 March 2015.
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