As many publishing houses are located in the same country (or even in the same city), it is necessary to zoom in on the country or city you are interested in to see all the publishing houses.
280 rue Saint-Joseph Est, Bureau 1
Québec, G1K 3A9
Canada
Tél: +1 418-522-1209 (poste 1)
www.editionsalto.com
Alto is an independent literary press founded in Québec City in 2005 by Antoine Tanguay. Very active on the international publishing scene, Alto publishes unusual and bold literary fiction from Québec, Canada and abroad. As we try to follow the mantra “Publish less, publish better”, we only publish 10 to 12 books per year.
In our quest to astound and confound, Alto has a new tool at its disposal: a publishing lab we call Alea. A playground for a team bursting with crazy ideas for books, a sort of R&D department even, Alea is to our publishing house what a yard is to a real house: a space where we can run free and also plant beautiful things.
Nicolas DICKNER
Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général – Rights sold in 10 countries
Lisa is a young girl who wants to push the limits of human experience and free herself from the constraints of modern life. Her only problem is that she doesn’t have a dime to her name. Her best friend, a computer hacker trying to manipulate international marine traffic, might just have the solution for her: living and traveling as a stowaway in a shipping container. Demonstrating a wild imagination and sparkling erudition, Nicolas Dickner is in top form here. Considered a unique writer in both Quebec and beyond, he is part of an elaborate family tree whose branches include Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, William Gibson, Nick Hornby, and Haruki Murakami.
2015 - 344 pages - 16,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-253-4
Dominique FORTIER
Prix Renaudot (Non-fiction) – Rights sold in 14 countries
One of the most important writer of the nineteenth century, a mythical figure of American literature, Emily Dickinson remains an enigma to this day. With Les villes de papier, Governor General’s Literary Award-winner Dominique Fortier explores the quiet existence of “the lady in white” from the inside, through the books she loved, her garden, her ghosts. Inspired by episodes of both Emily’s life and her own, the author gives us a novel as limpid as it is earnest about how the worlds we build within ourselves in turn build us.
2018 - 192 pages - 15,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-469-9
Larry TREMBLAY
Prix des libraires du Québec | Prix littéraire des collégiens + 8 others prizes – Rights sold in 23 countries
Somewhere in the Middle East, twin brothers have lived peacefully under the shade of the orange trees until, one day, an explosive crosses the sky, killing their grandparents. The horrors of war seize hold of their childhood and crush their destiny. Men come to take vengeance for the blood that has been shed. One of the brothers must wear an explosive belt over the mountains and into a military camp. Who will be the chosen one?
2013 - 152 pages - 14,95$ (format CODA) - ISBN : 978-2-89694-231-2
Contact : Anne-Marie GENEST
Via Santa Chiara 30 bis
10122 Turin
Italy
Tél: +39 01 15 21 17 90
www.forumeditoria.it
Forum Editoria was founded by Anita Molino, editor at Il Leone Verde, who after 25 years of working in publishing associations, decided to invest her experience in this new venture in 2022.
Forum Editoria aims to be an association open to all publishing houses, a space of mutual support to share skills, thoughts but also tools (contract templates, etc.) and where editors can benefit from training.
The objective is to fly high and together, like a flock of hummingbirds: so small, but so skillful and capable of unimaginable feats!
Contact : Anita MOLINO
Derrière la DGSN, Yaoundé – Nlongkak
B.P. 14268 - Yaoundé
Cameroon
Tél: +237 677 39 62 80
www.editionsakomamba.com
Founded in 1995, Akoma Mba publishers is the oldest publishing house specialised in illustrated comic books in Central Africa. Their main objective is to promote Africa through innovative editorial content as well as African, universal values to young children. They have a catalogue of about a hundred titles, published in several languages (French, English, and local languages).
Akoma Mba distributes its books in Cameroon and internationally. Its authors come from Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, France, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Togo, amongst others. Initially part of the association AILE Cameroon, it was taken over in 2018 by Robert Nkouamou, a Cameroonian cultural entrepreneur aiming to support new talents for the development of readership on the continent.
Several books published by Akoma Mba were awarded internationally, including the International Library of Munich, UNICEF in Dakar, and IBBY International. Magoulina by Joël Eboueme Bognomo won the Honorary Prize for Youth Literature with the American publisher Boyds Mills Press.
Akoma Mba participates in international book fairs and events: Bologna in Italy, Montreuil and Paris in France, FIBDA in Algeria, Frankfurt in Germany, Casablanca in Morocco, Fildak in Dakar...
The publishing house organises a Youth Book Fair in the city of Yaoundé (SALIJEY) and recently launched an African Prize for Comics and the “Marie Wabbes” Grand Prize for Children’s Books, named after the Belgian writer who initiated the Akoma Mba project in the 1990s. It is directed since January 2020 by Ulrich Talla Wamba, writer, book and publishing professional.
Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Ed.AkomaMba/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ed_AkomaMba
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ed.akomamba/
Mani LI (Cameroun), auteur ; Georges PONDY (Cameroun), illustrateur
Depuis la disparition de son père, Noah n’aime plus lire. Un jour, il est aspiré mystiquement au fond d’un livre qu’il avait donné à manger à son chien. C’est le début d’une belle aventure dans Il était une fois, le pays des contes de fées. Découvrez les aventures d’un petit garçon qui n’aime pas les livres, mais qui doit retrouver et sauver son père en parcourant plusieurs histoires dans le bouquin magique.
Illustrations : 2D réaliste
2021 - 68 pages - 21 X 29,7 cm - 10 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101917
Aude PERALTA EXCOFFIER (France), autrice ; Edji ONABEL (Cameroun), illustrateur
Ce matin-là, tout semble paisible. Pourtant, cette quiétude va bientôt être troublée. Le chef Tabot s’installe sereinement et improvise une visite aux parents de Yoaddan, Eseck et Muslimah. Chef autoritaire, il a déjà dix épouses. Ébloui par la beauté de Yoaddan, il se marie avec elle sans aucune épreuve. Mais la jeune femme ne l’aime pas et noue secrètement une relation amoureuse avec un autre. Que se passe-t-il ensuite ?
Illustrations : 2D très réaliste
Critique : https://frankfurtrights.com/Books/Details/the-magic-coconut-tree-19001831
2021 - 52 pages - 21 X 14 cm - 4 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789956101771
Simon de SAINT-DZOKOTOE (Togo), auteur ; Maryse MONTRON (France), illustratrice
La petite Ayélévi est très rusée. Elle gagne toujours le jeu “Qui trouvera la plus jolie fleur”. Cette situation intrigue son frère qui veut comprendre le secret de son succès permanent. Ayélévi est très sage. Le sera-t-elle encore longtemps ?
Illustrations : aquarelle
Critique : https://takamtikou.bnf.fr/bibliographies/notices/afrique/le-secret-d-ayelevi
2020 - 32 pages - 14,5 x 20 cm - 3 000 XAF - ISBN : 9789789561414
Contact : Ulrich TALLA WAMBA
Rotterdam
Netherlands
www.denabooks.com
Dena is publishing books whose authors are in exile, or books that were not allowed to be published in Iran due to censorship.
Despite the limited publication of the books, Dena as the only Persian-language bookseller in the Netherlands, plays a significant role in the availability of Persian books for Iranians living in the Netherlands.
Nasim KHAKSAR
This collection includes nineteen short stories written by Nasim Khaksar between 2001 and 2014.
The title of the book is taken from the name of one of the stories that Nasim wrote fourteen years after the massacre of political prisoners in 1967 in memory of the victims of this massacre.
Mehdi YAHYAWI
The collection of short stories “A Butterfly Under the Rain” written by Mehdi Yahyawi was published in the spring of 2019 by Dena Publishing in Rotterdam.
Dimitri VERHULST
Dimitri Verhulst presents the history of mankind in less than two hundred pages, in a big bang of language. From the moment we crawled out of the water and started walking on two legs to the years when we bombed each other to the other world. A story with a main character in which you will no doubt recognize yourself every now and then.
Contact : Reza CHAVOUSHI
Čechova 23
Praha 7 Bubeneč 170 00
Czech Republic
www.by-wo-men.com
The small independent wo-men publishing is oriented toward gender-focused art documentary books. The publishing house was established in 2012 by a literary documentarian Barbora Baronová to create books ambitious both in content and design. The main aim of wo-men publishing is to share high quality literary and photographic non-fiction projects created by Czech authors. Mostly, the books by wo-men include voices of marginalized people, such as women, seniors, people with disabilities, and cover non-mainstream topics, such as feminism, aging, activism, parenthood, and environment. The books published by wo-men are printed in low numbers (sometimes as limited editions) on high-quality ecological papers in local printing companies. Many books by wo-men were awarded in the Czech Republic, as well as abroad.
Barbora BARONOVÁ, Dita PEPE
The stylized artistic literary and photographic documentary project Intimacy opens up important personal and social issues in women’s lives, such as disability, prostitution, depression, cancer, and dying. Individuals are often unable to respond to these topics in direct confrontation other than with stereotypes and prejudices. Intimacy seeks to describe some habitual patterns of behaviour and demonstrate their real content through the stories of six specific women. The book-object contains one book of text and six photographic notebooks with flaps and coated embossed motifs. The book got the highest Czech award Magnesia Litera for the publishing achievement and received the 2nd place within Fine-press and Artist´s Books Category in The Most Beautiful Czech Books of 2015. The book was also shortlisted for the Les Prix du Livre – Prix Photo-Texte at Les Rencontres de la Photographie Arles 2016 in France and at the 28th International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2018 in the Czech Republic.
2015 - 588 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-905239-3-7
Price: 698 CZK
Published in Czech only
Barbora BARONOVÁ; Dita PEPE
The publication Voices of Women: Australia brings twenty-two narratives of prominent Australian women artists, writers, filmmakers, activists, photographers, scientists, politicians, and journalists, exploring themes inherent in women regardless of their different cultures, such as their status, career options, and the expectations placed on them. The book is based on interviews recorded during Barbora’s research stay at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, in 2017. Among the people telling their stories is prominent feminist Anne Summers, who describes her own abortion as one of the moments that initiated her activism. Anthropology professor Diane Bell tells the story of a struggle for respect for women in science. Alison Whittaker’s story is the tale of a young Australian lesbian poet’s journey from rural communities to Harvard Law. Publisher Susan Hawthorne thematises her transition from an employee at the global publishing house Penguin to a publisher of non-mainstream titles. The story of Olga Horak and Halina Robinson reflects the topic of the Holocaust – while Olga survived five concentration camps, Halina was thrown over the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto and was on the run from the Nazis for eighteen months. Barbora Baronova and Dita Pepe’s documentary book on Australia is part of a free-form literary and photographic series, Voices of Women, in which the authors explore the lives of contemporary women from diverse parts of the world.
2021 - 522 pages - 17 X 24 cm - price: 1 390 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Dita PEPE et al.
Borders of Love is a photographic and literary book from internationally renowned Czech photographer Dita Pepe that in thirteen chapters investigates the borders of love, trauma as motivation to create art, and photography as therapy. In this publication, which is also the creative part of her doctoral thesis at Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Dita combines an artistic approach with scientific research. She worked on the publication with many interesting artists and researchers as well as people who analyzed the topic from purely personal perspectives and experiences. Besides photos, the book contains dozens of texts in many forms – interviews, reports, personal diaries, letters, short stories, essays, passages from lectures, and specialized texts through which Dita together with invited guests look at various forms of love. These are interlaced with her photos – self-portraits, archival family photos, stylized portraits, photo collages, documentary photos, still lifes… The photographic part of the book typically involves an almost obsessive examination and repetition of motifs with the same form and content to strengthen the feeling of order and clarity the author would like in her life. The book is being published in a small printing of 700 in a Czech–English version as a cooperation between wo-men publishing and Tomas Bata University in Zlín.
2021 - 804 pages - 17 X 24 cm - ISBN: 978-80-907641-5-6
Price: 1 590 CZK
Published in English and Czech
Contact : Barbora BARONOVÁ
c/ Amparo 76
28012 Madrid
Spain
www.laovejaroja.es
It was chance combined with great effort that led to the launch of La Oveja Roja. As chance would have it, someone with no plans to work in the publishing industry found themselves in the possession of several previously unpublished books. He founded La Oveja Roja, located, as its name [the red sheep] might suggest, deep in the countryside, in a meadow at the foot of the Pyrenees. The founder was adamant about ensuring that culture was accessible to all children and not only to the upper classes. This sheep insisted on talking about politics and society even though no one had invited him to the table. Notable figures, of course, did not listen. But he continued anyway. From the Pyrenees he went to Madrid, where he found himself becoming a carpenter in order to open a bookshop. From that moment on, he has lived only for his obsessions, which now include storytelling, poetry, graphic novels, essays and even children’s books. His catalogue contains works of a variety of tones. Éric Hazan, Nathalie Quintane, Vincianne Despret, Brigitte Vasallo, Enrique Falcón and Antonio Orihuela are just some of the names who have become friends along the way. And the sheep, with his books, now finds himself surrounded by wooden bookshelves in a bookshop, and continues to think and dream about meadows and about books.
Contact : Alfonso SERRANO
United Kingdom
www.nogaam.com
Nogaam Publishing, based in London, uses crowdfunding to publish Iranian censored authors. Nogaam publishes books that could not be published inside Iran due to censorship as free e-books.
Nogaam supports and empowers Iranian authors, advocates freedom of speech, promotes Persian-language digital publishing and provides easy access to invaluable Farsi books. Nogaam is also the founder of ’Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored’ which is an annual book fair by independent Iranian publishers abroad.
Twitter/Instagram: @Nogaambooks
Listen the interview of Azadeh Parsapour, about the Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored (May 9, 2021)
James JOYCE; trad. Dr Akram PEDRAMNIA
This is for the first time that James Joyce’s masterpiece is being published in Persian uncensored. This project, translated and written by Dr Akram Pedramnia, is a combination of research and translation presented in six volumes supported by Literature Ireland.
Specifications of Vol.1 (to be published in 6 volumes)
2019 - 570 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-42-6 -
Hardcover/Paperback
16 short stories by 16 writers about the catastrophic events of the calendar year 1398 (2019-2020) in Iran. Mass protests over the rise of oil price in Iran and the brutal crackdown of the protests by the Iranian regime. Ukrainian Flight 752 was shot by Iran and all 176 passengers - mostly Iranians- and crew were killed, Covid-19, etc.
2021 - 130 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-59-4 -
Paperback
Karim POURHAMZAVI
Comprehending the rise of Jihadism and ISIS
The first ever original research work about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in Persian by Karim Pourhamzavi.
First published in 2016 by Nogaam.
The second edition published in 2020.
166 pages - ISBN: 978-1-909641-50-1
Paperback
Contact : Azadeh PARSAPOUR
Av. Augusto Meyer 163/605
Porto Alegre (RS) - CEP 90550-110
Brazil
Tél: +55 51 3024-0787
www.dublinense.com.br
Dublinense is an independent publishing house focused mainly on literary fiction, with the vast majority of its list formed by contemporary fiction, a few very singular contemporary non-fiction narratives and essays and a small collection of psychoanalysis. Our focus is to present the best in contemporary Brazilian literary fiction along with relevant works that can present different cultures and singular approaches and points of view for the Brazilian readership. Our goal is to start conversations on relevant subjects through good literature. During our 12 years, our original titles have received important recognitions such as Prêmio Jabuti, Prêmio Açorianos, Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional and are constantly shortlisted for other literary awards too. Our international titles were also distinguished with important awards such as Prêmio José Saramago, European Union Prize for Literature, among others.
Natália BORGES POLESSO
Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti
Vencedor do Prêmio Açorianos
Vencedor do Prêmio AGES (Associação Gaúcha de Escritores)
Seria pouco dizer que os contos de Amora versam sobre relações homossexuais entre mulheres. Também estão aqui o maravilhamento, o estupor e o medo das descobertas. O encontro consigo mesmo, sobretudo quando ele ocorre fora dos padrões, pode trazer desafios ou tornar impossível seguir sem transformação. É necessário avançar, explorar o desconhecido, desestabilizar as estruturas para chegar, enfim, ao sossego de quem vive com honestidade.
2015 - 256 pages - ISBN: 9788561249564 - R$ 54,90 - Literatura brasileira / Contos
Cristina JUDAR
Ana e Joan. A primeira é diurna e contemporânea, bombardeada pelo consumismo e por pressões estéticas e comportamentais. A segunda é noturna, influenciada por noções de ancestralidade, ritos de passagem e intuições do inconsciente. Ambas estão prestes a completar dezoito anos e acompanhamos suas histórias em paralelo, mês a mês, até a data de seus aniversários. Mas não se engane: mais do que o relato da jornada de duas jovens mulheres, Elas marchavam sob o sol é um romance sobre violência, perseguição religiosa, perda de liberdade e direitos, além de ser um libelo sobre a necessidade dos ritos, dos sonhos e da ressignificação dos corpos, questionando papéis sociais através da linguagem vibrante e singular de sua autora.
2021 - 160 pages - ISBN: 978-65-5553-031-5 - R$ 44,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Henrique SCHNEIDER
Vencedor do Prêmio Paraná de Literatura
Raul é um bancário dedicado, um cidadão de bem levando uma vida tranquila em junho de 1970: destina todas as suas energias ao trabalho e a política não lhe interessa. Até que um dia, em meio ao clima de euforia patriótica às vésperas da final da Copa do Mundo, ele é confundido com um militante, preso e atirado em uma cela para confessar algo que não sabe. A partir daí, o jogo vira, e ele passa a viver o que de mais terrível aconteceu no Brasil nos anos de chumbo.
2019 - 152 pages - ISBN: 9788561249700 - R$ 39,90 - Literatura brasileira / Romance
Contact : Gustavo FARAON
Zemoriya 25, bajo
20013 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain
Tél: (+34) 943 292 349
www.editoreak.eus
Contact : Ana URRESTARAZU
Navarra
Spain
www.editargi.com/es
The Association of Independent Publishers of Navarre - Nafar Editore Independiente en Elkartea (Editargi) is made up of publishers who are not dependent on large groups or public institutions, and whose main economic activity is the publishing and sale of books. Their objectives include the promotion of books as a cultural medium with specific needs; the creation and strengthening of companies and industries in Navarre that work in the field of book creation, publishing, distribution and dissemination; the promotion of the implementation of policies to support books, their local industries, bibliodiversity and reading in general with the public authorities; and the defence and promotion of the cultural and linguistic diversity of Navarre.
Contact : Aritz OTAZU LUJANBIO
49 Al-Makhzan St. Omranya
Giza
Egypt
Tél: +(20) 1110787870
www.sefsafa.net/en
Sefsafa Publishing established in 2009, since then Sefsafa has published more than 200 titles and organized many activities proved to be one of the most active small cultural entities in Egypt.
Sefsafa Publishing translated more than 50 titles (fiction & non-fiction) from 18 languages including: Irish, Slovak, German, English, French...
We like to describe ourselves as a progressive publisher, supporting the freedom of publishing and ideas of “Enlightenment”.
One of our non-fiction titles: Temptation of Absolute Power won a prize (the Ahmed Bhaa El-Din prize) in 2010, and one of our novels Al-Hareem won the Cairo International Book Fair award for best novel in 2015.
Sefsafa distributes through the independent bookstores in Egypt and Arab countries, also through Arab and international book fairs.
Contact : Mohamed EL-BAALY
28 avenue des F.A.R., 5ème étage, app. 59
20000 Casablanca
Morocco
Tél: +212 5 22 29 68 48
www.etlettres.com
Since 2014, En toutes lettres is specialised in the publication of essays by writers, researchers and journalists. Our books address societal issues related to Morocco, by exposing the situation on the ground, as well as making the work of researchers and academics accessible to the general, non-specialised public. They contribute to the dissemination of discussions and critical thinking. This aim is achieved through five collections: ‘Les Presses de l’Université Citoyenne’, ‘Enquêtes’, ‘Les Questions qui fâchent’, ‘Droit et Citoyenneté’, et ‘Traduction’. En toutes lettres also spearheads Openchabab, a training project for emerging journalists and civil society leaders, bound to become future authors espousing humanist creeds and investigative reporting.
To read:
*« Au Maghreb, il y a urgence à structurer le secteur du livre », Kenza Sefrioui, Le Monde Afrique, 8 February, 2019
*“A Moroccan Publisher Reflects on the Struggles Independent Presses Face”, Kenza Sefrioui, Al-Fanar Media, 10 January, 2019
Fadma AÏT MOUS et Driss KSIKES
Collection “Les Presses de l’Université Citoyenne” / Prix Grand Atlas 2015 et Prix Grand Atlas des étudiants 2015
Depuis les soulèvements de rue en 2011, les peuples attendent des intellectuels qu’ils les aident à mieux s’orienter dans la sphère publique. Au Maroc, quinze penseurs, ayant en commun une éthique de chercheurs et restant en interaction avec la société, livrent le fond de leurs pensées, puisant dans les héritages humanistes et analysant les réalités politiques et sociales.
2014 - 380 pages - 14 x 20,5 cm - 95 DH / 20 € - ISBN : 978-9954-33-164-4
Hicham HOUDAÏFA
Collection “Enquêtes” / Prix spécial du jury du Prix Grand Atlas 2017
Filières des études islamiques à l’Université, parcours de salafistes, problématique de l’enseignement religieux à l’école, quartiers marginalisés en proie à la délinquance, niqab… À travers huit enquêtes et reportages, Hicham Houdaïfa éclaire la banalisation de l’extrémisme religieux dans la société marocaine.
2017 - 94 pages - 14 x 20,5 cm - 65 DH / 13 € - ISBN : 978-9954-39-363-5
Asma LAMRABET
Prix Grand Atlas 2017
Voile, polygamie, égalité dans l’héritage… Asma Lamrabet fait l’inventaire des discriminations imposées aux femmes au nom de l’islam. Elle démontre que la plupart des interprétations médiévales classiques, produit de leur milieu social et culturel, se sont construites à la marge et parfois à l’encontre du Coran, porteur d’une vision beaucoup plus égalitaire et ouverte.
2017 – 214 pages – 14 x 20,5 cm – 95 DH / 20 € – ISBN : 978-9954-39-271-3
Contact : Kenza SEFRIOUI
Wanfield Hall - Woodcock Heath
Kingstone - Uttoxeter
Staffordshire, ST14 8QRT
United Kingdom
Tél: +44 (0)1650652370
www.victorinapress.com
Victorina Press is an independent publishing house in the West Midlands, UK. Established in 2017 by Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, a Chilean-British Teacher of EFL, poet and writer of short stories, MA in Sociology and Women’s Studies, PhD in Women’s Studies and MA in Publishing. She chose to name her press “Victorina Press” to honour her mother who passed her love for reading and literature on to all her six children.
To achieve her mission of publishing great and inspirational books as well as to publish local authors in Spanish and English, Victorina Press follows principles of Bibliodiversity.
Listen here the conversation with Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, by Christopher Fielden (July 2020).
Contact : Consuelo RIVERA-FUENTES
BP E 5229
Bamako
Mali
Tél: +223 76 71 57 13 / 76 46 21 14
www.editionstombouctou.com
Éditions Tombouctou was co-founded in 2007 by the Malian writers Ibrahima Aya and Aida Mady Diallo. From the name of the famous city of knowledge and writing, it gives to authors and other writers the means to express their word towards the African continent and the whole world. It aims to produce and disseminate quality writing at affordable prices for the local market in particular, thus contributing to the fact that Mali and Africa are telling themselves and the world.
Éditions Tombouctou is the initiative of the “Rentrée littéraire du Mali”, the reference literary event in Mali, created in 2008, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in February 2018 and which hosts for some years between 40 and 50 foreign writers by edition.
Furthermore, since the break-up in 2012 of the security, institutional and identity crisis in Mali, Éditions Tombouctou has initiated several collective reflections that have resulted in the publication of reference books on this crisis and Mali: High voices for Timbuktu, Mali between doubts and hopes, Africa of secularisms, Contemporary Mali, Regionalization in Mali, Challenges of the reconstruction in Mali...
Albakaye Ousmane KOUNTA
Talfi, originaire de Tombouctou, rêve de sillonner le Sahara et de devenir un caravanier renommé et fortuné. Mais son père l’inscrit à l’école moderne. Talfi ne renonce pourtant pas. Ses études terminées, il rentre aussitôt au bercail. Commence alors une odyssée épique pleine de chants, de bravoure et d’amour.
2014 - 248 pages - 12 X 21 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-53-14-1
Paul-Marie TRAORE
S’amouracher de sa sœur au point de lui faire un enfant relève plutôt du grand scandale. Un jeune fonctionnaire talentueux, ignorant tout de sa vraie identité, mène une existence décousue. Les conquêtes et les enfants abandonnés se suivent. Mais les chemins se croisent. Alors le passé resurgit, brûlant, déchirant…
2016 - 216 pages - 12 X 21 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-53-26-4
Kabiné Bemba DIAKITE
Lobèle et Bata, employées d’une entreprise, se vouent une haine inaltérable pour un poste de secrétaire. Elles placent au centre de leur brûlant antagonisme Diarisso et Kariba, membres de la junte militaire qui régente le pays. Désormais, rien ne peut les arrêter, tout comme leurs protégées, jusqu’au dénouement tragique.
2016 - 216 pages - 12 X 21 cm - 5 000 FCFA - ISBN : 978-99952-53-27-1
Contact : Ibrahima AYA
København
2400 Copenhague
Denmark
Tél: (+45) 20 84 50 65
www.diyareketab.wordpress.com
Diyar-e Ketab is an independent publisher of literature in Persian language. Texts published by Diyar-e Ketab are uncensored and the purpose is to promote a culture of reading in Persian as well as create an open space for the literary and linguistic exchange about Iran and other subjects.
Diyar-e Ketab aims to assist Iranian authors in publishing their works and to promote understanding and appreciation of Persian culture and literature.
Masoud KADKHODAEE
In this novel, along with Ketayoun and Bahram and their young children, we leave Iran. Behind the borders of the homeland, we encounter with this family a variety of problems, the problems that we sometimes face and need to resolve. We evaluate our previous moral and historical boundaries with a fresh look.
282 pages - 130 DKK (17 €) - ISBN: 978-87-970588-0-0
Contact : Esfandiyar SANAYE
Regensi Melati Mas A9/10
Serpong
Tangerang Selatan 15323
Indonesia
Tél: +62 813 85319131
www.marjinkiri.com
Founded in 2005, Marjin Kiri (literally means “left margin”) is a small independent Indonesian publisher dedicated to fostering critical/leftist thinking within the academia and general readers. Marjin Kiri mostly publishes on humanities and social theory, political-economy, history, cultural studies, ecology, and literature.
The team…
Ronny Agustinus, Muhammad Iqbal, Roos Wijayanti Ken Petung, Mia Fiona Erlita, Pradewi Tri Chatami and Ramandhatia Ulfa Atrianto
Wijaya HERLAMBANG
“When normality is built atop mass graves, and secured by terror and lies, a moral vacuum is inevitable. Wijaya Herlambang brilliantly analyses both the historical development and discursive dynamics of this vacuum.”
— Joshua Oppenheimer, director of the award-winning documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
The persistence of anti-communism in Indonesia was not only a result of years of political campaigning by the New Order regime, but also of cultural aggression against communism, particularly through the justification of the violence against the alleged communist members in 1965-1966.
By discussing how the New Order and its cultural agents utilised cultural products –literary works, school textbooks and films—in legitimating violence against communists, this book attempts to explore the ways in which the 1965-1966 massacre was normalised.
A controversial bestseller upon its release, this book reveals the previously unknown ties between Indonesian literary giants like Goenawan Mohamad and Mochtar Lubis with CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom and its agents in Asia. It also analyses the resistance of contemporary cultural organizations in Indonesia against the anti-communist legacies of the New Order.
November 2013 (first published); third edition - 334 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR85,000 - ISBN: 978 979 1260 43 5
Mahfud IKHWAN
Winner of the Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2017
“This is a story that happened not so long ago. A grim tale full of blood. Just about two times village chief’s elections ago, probably right after the government party won for the first time against Islamic party around here.”
Thus how Warto Kemplung began his story to whoever wanted to listen to him on the coffee stall: a love story between Mat Dawuk and Inayatun, an ugly withdrawn youngster and a beautiful flirtatious girl—controversial couple disdained by their own neighborhood, with social life in a remote Javanese village as a background, an idyllic life that was transformed heavily by cash crop, illegal logging and job as migrant workers in Malaysia.
The problem is: was there any truths on Warto’s story, or was it just a babbling nonsense to cover up his own past?
A powerful novel told with humor, actions and rhytms of Hindi movies—from the erudite pen of a rising star in Indonesian literary scene.
June 2017 (first published); third printing - 182 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR58,000 - ISBN 978-979-1260-69-5
Saras DEWI
Environmental ethics and movements have accurately demonstrated the various damages and degradation of nature due to human activities. The anthropocentric worldview has been blamed as the source of disequilibrium between men and nature.
However, ethical approach to the problem of disequilibrium is no longer sufficient. There must be a new and vigorous method to solve the crux of the matter. Ecophenomenology proposes new ontology towards human and nature. Through the philosophies of Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger, ecophenomenology aims to a more rigorous argument to investigate the relation between human and nature, enables us to think a more radical problem of disequilibrium.
“[The author] believes that philosophy is conscience, and intellectual arguments were built upon that. This book was written to defend Benoa Bay from the threat of reclamation.” — Bali Post
March 2015 (first published); second printing - 172 pages - 14 X 20,3 cm (paperback) - IDR54,000 - ISBN: 978 979 1260 42 8
Contact : Ronny AGUSTINUS
Responsable : Pradewi TRI CHATAMI
Rue Edgar Laurent
Curepipe
Mauritius
www.atelierdesnomades.com
L’Atelier des Nomades is a French-Mauritian publishing house created in 2010 by Corinne Fleury and Anthony Vallet. Over the years, the publishing house has developed a list with a strong visual writing in lifestyle and children’s books. Each book is a bridge towards the valorisation of art in the Indian Ocean region through the meeting of cultures, the mixing of ideas and creation.
Read here two interviews with Corinne Fleury, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (March 20, 2018) and in partnership with ActuaLitté (August 19, 2020).
Shenaz PATEL et Sébastien PELON
Comment Tizan a transformé une sauterelle en vache? Pourquoi un éléphant et une baleine sont convaincus qu’un petit lièvre est beaucoup plus fort qu’eux? Autour de Tizan, du compère jaco, du lièvre et des personnages populaires de la tradition orale mauricienne, ce recueil réunit 9 contes rusés et drôles pour découvrir une île Maurice remplie de malice.
2013 - 48 pages relié cartonné ou 24 pages broché - 18 x 26 cm - 12,50 € - ISBN : 978-2-919300-03-7
Corinne FLEURY et Sébastien PELON
Dans un village de l’île Maurice vit le dodo aux plumes d’or. Son fabuleux pouvoir attire la convoitise des villageois. Le dodo est menacé. Seule la bonne femme Mimine décide de le protéger.
Mais saura-t-elle déjouer les ruses des cupides villageois ?
2014 - 24 pages - relié cartonné - 21,5 x 19,5 cm - 9 € - ISBN : 978-2-919300-07-5
Shenaz PATEL et Emmanuelle TCHOUKRIEL
Les singes chapardeurs, des bêbêtes-ciseaux qui n’ont peur de rien, un gecko qui se prend pour un papillon, un courtpas bien trop rapide... Un recueil de 9 contes tendres, drôles, malicieux autour des animaux de l’île Maurice.
2016 - 48 pages - relié cartonné - 18 x 26 cm - 13 € - ISBN : 978-2-919300-09-9
Contact : Corinne FLEURY
46, avenue Bosembo, 7è rue
Quartier Industriel, Limete
Kinshasa
Democratic Republic of Congo
Tél: (+243) 89 89 75 868
elondja.blogspot.com
Founded in 2004 by Dan Bomboko, Elondja focuses distinctly on Congolese comics in order to promote comics creators from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Elondja is specialized in comics and children’s books.
Read here the interview with Dan Bomboko, published in partnership with ActuaLitté (October 9, 2018).
Dessin : Dick ESALE
Après s’être enfui du centre de réinsertion pour enfants, Elikya est recueilli par son parrain. Malheureusement pour le petit garçon, sa belle-mère décide de le faire passer pour un enfant sorcier. Il retourne auprès de l’Abbé Simon où il retrouve ses 4 amis, Jeannot, Coco, Bambi et Doudou. Peu de temps après, ils sont obligés de prendre la fuite suite à l’arrivée des rebelles qui envahissent le village et menacent de faire d’eux des enfants soldats.
2017- 48 pages - 16,2 x 22,9 cm - 3 euros - dépôt légal : JU 3.0116-57114 - ISBN : 99951-610-8-7
Dessin : Dick ESALE
Elikya, le petit orphelin se retrouve avec ses 4 amis, Jeannot, Coco, Bambi et Doudou dans un centre de réinsertion pour enfants. Malheureusement, la discipline imposée au sein du centre ressemble plus à de la maltraitance. Nos cinq amis vont prendre la décision de s’enfuir de ce lieu isolé du monde.
2009 - 44 pages - 21 x 29,7 cm - 1,5 euros - dépôt légal : XR 3.0908-5734 - ISBN : 99951-610-2-8
Alain PIAZZA
Dinanga et Paya, deux jeunes africains décident de partir pour l’étranger dans le but de trouver une vie meilleure. Durant leur voyage, ils sont victimes de la cupidité et de la malhonnêteté de leurs passeurs et la vie se transforme en un cauchemar.
2017 - 44 pages - 16,2 x 22,9 cm - 3 euros - dépôt légal : MS 3.01703-47103 - ISBN : 99951-610-9-5
Contact : Dan BOMBOKO
345 Archway Road
N6 5AA London
United Kingdom
www.plutobooks.com
Pluto Press is a radical political publishing house. Founded in 1969, we are one of Britain’s oldest radical publishers, but our focus remains making timely interventions in contemporary struggles. Though our collective outlook has developed over time, we proudly identify as anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent.
To read: “Inside the UK’s most radical indie publishers, Pluto Press”, published by huck, June 2018
Contact : Anne BEECH
9, rue Ricour Omar - Ben Aknoun Rp
Alger
Algeria
Tél: (+213) (0) 21 91 16 17
https://www.facebook.com/apiceditions/
Founded in 2003 by Samia Zennadi (archaeologist) and Karim Chikh (electrical engineer), APIC publishing has since embarked on a literary cruise aboard a paper ship blackened with words.
A cruise that did not necessarily sail on a calm sea, under a bright sun, sailing off where new horizons would on the next page and waves a parenthesis to be opened; rather on a stormy sea, struggling to balance on a semicolon – one foot anchored on the ground, as a perched dot on land –, and to navigate through an unstable equilibrium among letters, words, verbs, without jostling or belting the woes caused by the abuse of iodine. Full stop.
A cruise that can be conjugated in all climates and tenses, with a preference for the literary near future, so that nobody can forget.
“A publishing house that tombe à-pic” (“just in time”), some said. “Apic, ça pique!” (“it bites!”, said others. Also reminiscent of a beekeeper, passionate by shaping literature and harvesting an intoxicating nectar.
Between novels, poetry, short stories, essays and coffee table books, the waltz of books lulls the contrasts of a daily newspaper on the run and dreamy nights, always on the lookout for a new literary cruise, aboard a paper ship blackened with words, with one destination: safe arrival at the harbour of letters.
« Les éditions qui tombent à-pic », nous avons souvent travaillé avec des auteurs qui sont tombés à-pic ; « Apic, ça pique ! » avec des textes qui dérangent, qui suscitent des questionnements, à contre-courant ; « Apiculture, ou la passion du façonnage des belles lettres et la récolte du nectar enivrant », dans l’espoir d’apporter, dans le courant de l’évolution humaine.
Mohamed ABDALLAH
« Une sage malice rayonnait de ses traits, et on avait toujours l’impression qu’il en savait plus qu’il ne voulait bien le dire, qu’une réflexion astucieuse se cachait derrière ses sourires. Son esprit vif et sa bonne bouille faisaient le bonheur de la Mauresque et de ses environs ; un rappel par son charme si tranquille que le monde pouvait encore recéler de la délicatesse. » M. Abdallah
Oran, automne 1954.
À la Mauresque, un espace symbole de tout un pays en agitation, au cœur de la ville indigène d’Oran, les doutes de ses occupants se multiplient et les questions abondent.
Journalistes, politiques, romanciers, poètes, artistes se débattent dans un moment charnière
de l’Histoire de leurs pays. Le monde ancien se meurt, tandis que le nouveau tarde à naître pour eux. Les hésitations comme les initiatives sont légion.
Ils essayent de naviguer à vue dans un océan si vaste qu’il se confond avec l’horizon ; un horizon qu’ils semblent parfois oublier mais que l’auteur a essayé de donner en permanence
à voir aux lecteurs à travers son roman : Le Vent a dit son Nom.
Multipliant les références aux figures emblématiques de l’éveil des consciences pour la liberté, Mohamed Abdallah tente d’offrir un regard neuf sur le rôle que peuvent tenir les hommes de lettres, les intellectuels, et plus généralement les gens de la culture, au moment où une Nation s’apprête à connaître de nouvelles épreuves. Autant de thèmes qui résonnent encore avec notre actualité.
Mohamed Abdallah est auteur de trois romans. Épris de littératures et d’Histoires, il fait partie de cette nouvelle génération de romanciers algériens qui ne cessent d’étonner par leurs audaces littéraires.
Les éditions APIC ont reçu le Grand Prix Assia Djebar 2022 pour Le vent a dit son nom.
Djawad ROSTOM TOUATI
« Il pensa alors écrire une pièce, en s’inspirant de la grève des résidents, qui battait son plein. Il était en cinquième année de médecine et son avenir était directement engagé par l’issue de ce mouvement, pour lequel il s’enthousiasma. Pourtant, lorsqu’il voulut s’intéresser aux rouages, aux détails qu’il pourrait fondre dans son art, une gêne indéfinissable le prit, sans qu’il pût en saisir tout à fait la cause. Le projet restait en berne dans un coin de sa tête, et la fin de la grève acheva d’accumuler dessus la poussière de l’oubli. » Dj. R. Touati
L’un est multiple, et ce qui réunit, passé le moment de l’égrégore, devient ce qui divise ; irréconciliablement. Dans une époque où jamais n’a été aussi prégnante, aussi généralisée, la défaillance de l’intuition du divers, il a semblé salubre à l’auteur de montrer — sans chercher à démontrer — par la peinture d’une réalité esthétique, que si un moment historique a suscité débats et divisions au sein d’une même classe, rien n’est alors plus absurde — ou plus spécieux — que la prétention à l’unanimisme au sein de tout un peuple. Contre la fausse identification schizophrénique, tenter de saisir la totalité apparait comme l’unique moyen de faire
face au totalitarisme, qui est, comme font mine de l’ignorer ceux qui le dénoncent afin de mieux s’en disculper, LA PARTIE QUI SE PREND POUR LE TOUT.
Sur scène, se jouent alors de l’histoire Molière, Brecht, Kateb, Alloula et les autres… sur fond de rideaux rouge bordeaux, où un dialogue de sourds impose une cécité aux comédiens en action. Loin du « bruitage » imposant du mouvement, La scène et l’histoire, tel un filtre « socio-temporel », remet les pendules à l’heure historique : lever de rideau.
Le professeur de théâtre Nadji, à l’affût de l’ancien temps, Rahim et Lamia, les prétendants d’un avenir politiquement meilleur, et tous les autres… adeptes de la culture, c’est nous…, (se) battent le parquet du présent.
Djawad Rostom Touati est l’auteur de La civilisation de l’ersatz, Prix Ahmed Baba de La Rentrée Littéraire du Mali 2020, deuxième volet de sa trilogie romanesque, «Le culte du ça ».
Contact : Karim CHIKH
International Alliance
of Independent Publishers
38 rue Saint-Sabin
75011 Paris - France