Como varias editoriales se encuentran en el mismo país (o incluso en la misma ciudad), es necesario ampliar el país o la ciudad que le interesa para ver todas las editoriales.
Derrière la DGSN, Yaoundé – Nlongkak
B.P. 14268 - Yaoundé
Camerún
Tél: +237 677 39 62 80
www.editionsakomamba.com
Fundada en 1995, Akoma Mba Editions es la editorial más antigua especializada en álbumes ilustrados y cómics de África Central. Su principal objetivo es promover África y los valores africanos, universales para los niños pequeños, a través de contenidos editoriales innovadores. Dispone de un catálogo de un centenar de títulos, publicados en varios idiomas (francés, inglés, lenguas locales).
Akoma Mba distribuye sus libros en Camerún y a nivel internacional. Sus autores proceden de Bélgica, Benín, Brasil, Camerún, Costa de Marfil, Francia, Kenia, República Democrática del Congo (RDC), Togo, etc. Inicialmente perteneciente a la asociación AILE Camerún, fue retomada en 2018 por Robert Nkouamou, un empresario cultural camerunés con la ambición de dar a conocer nuevos pintores y escritores de talento y promover el crecimiento personal de los lectores del continente.
La editorial Akoma Mba ha ganado varios premios internacionales: Biblioteca Internacional de Munich, Unicef en Dakar, IBBY Internacional. Magoulina, de Joël Eboueme Bognomo, ganó el Premio de Honor de Literatura Infantil de la editorial estadounidense Boyds Mills Press.
Akoma Mba participa en ferias y salones internacionales del libro: Bolonia en Italia, Montreuil y París en Francia, FIBDA en Argelia, Frankfurt en Alemania, Casablanca en Marruecos, Fildak en Dakar...
La editorial organiza una Feria del Libro Juvenil en la ciudad de Yaundé (SALIJEY) y recientemente ha lanzado un Premio de Cómic Africano y un Gran Premio de Libros Juveniles «Marie Wabbes», que lleva el nombre de la escritora belga que inició el proyecto Akoma Mba en los años 90. Desde enero de 2020, está dirigida por Ulrich Talla Wamba, escritor y profesional del libro y la edición.
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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
Contacto : Ulrich TALLA WAMBA
Rotterdam
Países Bajos
www.denabooks.com
Dena publica libros cuyos autores están en exilio o que no pudieron publicarse en Irán debido a la censura.
A pesar del número limitado de publicaciones, Dena, única librería de lengua persa en los Países Bajos, desempeña un papel importante dando acceso a libros persas a los iraníes que residen en los Países Bajos.
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.
Contacto : Reza CHAVOUSHI
Čechova 23
Praha 7 Bubeneč 170 00
República Checa; Chequia
www.by-wo-men.com
Esta pequeña editorial independiente wo-men publishing está orientada a los libros de arte documental centrados en el género. La editorial fue creada en 2012 por la documentalista literaria Barbora Baronová para publicar libros ambiciosos tanto en contenido como en diseño. El principal objetivo de la editorial es compartir proyectos de no ficción literaria y fotográficos de alta calidad creados por autores checos. En su mayoría, los libros de wo-men publishing incluyen voces de personas marginadas, como mujeres, personas mayores, personas con discapacidad, y tratan temas no convencionales, como el feminismo, el envejecimiento, el activismo, la paternidad y el medio ambiente. Los libros publicados por wo-men publishing se imprimen en pocas cantidades (a veces como ediciones limitadas) en papeles ecológicos de alta calidad en imprentas locales. Muchos libros han sido premiados en la República Checa y en el extranjero.
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
Contacto : Barbora BARONOVÁ
c/ Amparo 76
28012 Madrid
España
www.laovejaroja.es
La Oveja Roja es fruto del azar y producto de mil empeños. El azar quiso que alguien no destinado a la edición se encontrara con varios libros pendientes de publicar en sus manos. La Oveja Roja nació, como todos pueden imaginar, en medio del campo, en un prado a pies de los Pirineos. Se obsesionó con no abandonar la cultura a los hijos de las clases superiores. Se empeñó en hablar en política y sociedad cuando nadie la había invitado a esa cena. Los notables, por supuesto, no escucharon. Pero ella siguió. Desde los Pirineos emprendió una marcha a Madrid, donde tiempo después acabaría haciéndose carpintera para abrir una librería. Desde ella sigue empeñándose en vivir por y para sus obsesiones, que cubren ya la narrativa, la poesía, el cómic, el ensayo y hasta el libro infantil. En su bagaje se cuentan obras firmadas con diferentes acentos. Éric Hazan, Nathalie Quintane, vincianne Despret, Brigitte Vasallo, Enrique Falcón o Antonio Orihuela son sólo algunos de los nombres que pronto se convirtieron en amigos de camino. Y la oveja, con sus libros, ahora en medio de maderas en una librería, continúa pensando y soñando en prados, y en libros.
Contacto : Alfonso SERRANO
Reino Unido
www.nogaam.com
Nogaam Publishing, basada en Londres, utiliza el crowdfunding para editar las obras de autores iraníes censuradas. Nogaam publica, en forma de libros electrónicos gratuitos, libros que no han podido publicarse en Irán debido a la censura.
Nogaam apoya y potencia a los autores iraníes, defiende la libertad de expresión, promueve la edición digital en lengua persa y facilita el acceso a libros en farsi de gran valor. Nogaam es también la fundadora de la Feria del Libro de Teherán sin censura ‘Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored’, organizada cada año por editores independientes iraníes en el extranjero.
Twitter/Instagram: @Nogaambooks
Escuchar la entrevista de Azadeh Parsapour sobre el Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored (9 de mayo de 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
Contacto : Azadeh PARSAPOUR
Av. Augusto Meyer 163/605
Porto Alegre (RS) - CEP 90550-110
Brasil
Tél: +55 51 3024-0787
www.dublinense.com.br
Dublinense es una editorial independiente especializada en la publicación de ficción literaria. Su catálogo contiene una mayoría de ficción contemporánea, algunos relatos y ensayos de no ficción contemporáneos muy singulares y una pequeña colección de psicoanálisis. Nos comprometemos a promover lo mejor de la narrativa literaria brasileña contemporánea, así como obras relevantes que puedan presentar diferentes culturas y ofrecer enfoques y puntos de vista singulares al lector brasileño. Nuestro objetivo es generar un debate sobre temas relevantes a través de una literatura de calidad. A lo largo de nuestros 12 años de existencia, nuestros títulos originales han recibido importantes premios como el Prêmio Jabuti, el Prêmio Açorianos, el Prêmio da Biblioteca Nacional, y son constantemente seleccionados para otros premios literarios. Nuestros títulos internacionales también han sido galardonados con importantes premios como el Prêmio José Saramago y el Premio de Literatura de la Unión Europea, entre otros.
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
Contacto : Gustavo FARAON
Zemoriya 25, bajo
20013 Donostia-San Sebastián
España
Tél: (+34) 943 292 349
www.editoreak.eus
La Asociación de Editores en Lengua Vasca, fundada en 1984, reúne a las editoriales que publican en euskera. Su objetivo principal es la promoción y protección de la edición en euskera, y, asimismo, la representación, coordinación y protección de sus asociados.
La finalidad de la Asociación es, además de proteger los intereses de los asociados, promocionar el libro y la lectura en lengua vasca.
Contacto : Ana URRESTARAZU
Navarra
España
www.editargi.com/es
La Asociación de editoriales independientes de Navarra - Nafar Editore Independiente en Elkartea (Editargi) está formada por editoriales no dependientes de grandes grupos o instituciones públicas y cuya actividad económica principal es la edición y venta de libros. Entre sus fines se encuentran la defensa del libro como un soporte cultural que debe ser especialmente considerado; el asentamiento y fortalecimiento de las empresas e industrias navarras que trabajan en el ámbito de la creación, edición, distribución y divulgación del libro; promover ante los poderes públicos la implementación de políticas de apoyo al libro, a sus industrias locales, a la bibliodiversidad y a la lectura en general; así como defender y promover la diversidad cultural y lingüística propias de Navarra.
Contacto : Aritz OTAZU LUJANBIO
Egipto
www.daraltanweer.com
Dar Altanweer tiene oficinas en Beirut, El Cairo y Túnez. La estrategia global de la empresa es coordinada entre las tres oficinas. Dar Altanweer publica desde 1982 obras filosóficas y literarias clásicas y contemporáneas. En 2012, se vendió a un grupo de editores experimentados que se unieron para reestructurar y relanzar el negocio en cada uno de los sitios.
Desde 2012, Dar Altanweer ha ampliado su alcance y sus géneros literarios. También ha reforzado la calidad y el impacto de su estrategia comercial. Algunos títulos se imprimen en tres países, lo que permite una distribución y comercialización más eficaces. Los géneros literarios incluyen la ficción literaria clásica, moderna y contemporánea, la ficción empresarial, la filosofía para principiantes, la autoayuda, la ciencia popular, la sociología/ciencia política y las novelas gráficas.
Contacto : Sherif Joseph RIZK
Siria
Tél: +00971557195187
marwan@mamdouhadwan.net
La editorial, fundada en Damasco (en 2005), se creó en homenaje al escritor sirio Mamdouh Adwan (1941-2004), autor de más de noventa poemas, obras de teatro, novelas y traducciones. Nuestra editorial nació de su sueño de ofrecer una plataforma a los nuevos escritores y traductores.
Por ello, damos prioridad a la publicación de libros literarios e intelectuales de escritores y traductores jóvenes que puedan enriquecer el catálogo de obras del mundo árabe.
Nuestra editorial sabe lo importante y necesario que es revitalizar la vida cultural, dar a conocer las diferentes formas de expresión cultural y el inmenso impacto que tienen en la formación de la conciencia intelectual en las sociedades árabes. Por ello, se empeña en publicar importantes obras literarias árabes que ya no están disponibles en los distintos mercados, y en ofrecer traducciones precisas y versiones revisadas de libros de escritores internacionales.
La editorial paró sus actividades entre 2012 y 2014 debido a la compleja situación en Siria. Retomó el trabajo a finales de 2014 y actualmente cuenta con más de 250 títulos, entre los que se incluyen poesía, obras de teatro, obras intelectuales y literarias, cuentos y novelas de escritores de diferentes países árabes, así como traducciones del inglés, francés, español, sueco y alemán.
En la Feria del Libro de Sharjah 2016, la editorial recibió el premio de Mejor editorial árabe 2016.
Khalifa Al KHUDER
Khalifa Al-Khader, winner of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press 2017, writes some scenes of fear in the details of his experience in ISIS prisons in the city of al-Bab, his escape from prison, and his return to him later after ISIS was expelled from the city.
Khalifa does not tell us about ISIS from outside, he stayed inside the monster, and went out to narrate some of what he saw, heard, and lived...
Khalifa Al KHUDER is a Syrian photographer, journalist and writer, winner of the Samir kassir Award in Opinion Article category 2017.
152 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-39-5
Fiction
Mamdouh ADWAN
The world of organized and random oppression that a person lives in this age, is a world that is neither suitable for man nor for the growth of his humanity. Rather, it is a world that cultivates the “animality” of man (i.e. turning him into an animal). The writer deals with this topic like a researcher, but with the mentality, the temperament and the style of a writer. He is not going to propose another theory or refute another.
Our perception of the human being that we should be is not impossible to achieve, even if it comes from a literary or artistic conception. But this perception makes us, “when we see the reality in which we live”, feel the size of our losses during our human journey, which are cumulative and continuous losses as long as the world of oppression and humiliation exists and continues. And we will end up becoming creatures of another type whose name was “man”, or aspired to be a human being, without changing form.
Mamdouh ADWAN was a prolific Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic. He published his first collection of poetry in 1967 then he published 18 further collections. He has also published 2 novels, 25 plays, translated 23 books from English including the Iliad, the Odyssey and a biography of George Orwell. and Report to Greco by Nikos Kazantzakis, he wrote a number of TV series. He wrote regularly on Arab current affairs, he also taught at the Advanced Institute for Theater in Damascus.
288 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-06-7
Non-fiction
Mamdouh AZZAM
After twenty years of work, Salem finishes his service in the gendarme’s cavalry and returns to his home and family in Deir al-Qarn, bringing with him the only companion who has stayed with him for all those years: his horse. Family members have mixed feelings towards this guest, who will now be part of the family. The storytelling chains take place between the five children and the mother, and as they rotate, they weave stories and build worlds. In this novel, Mamdouh Azzam writes, in a new and different way from his previous novels, a tale about a simple family living its tranquility and fear, its surrender and rejection, its peace and struggles, to move within us endless questions and reflections, while freedom writes in its broad sense the chapter of the end.
Mamdouh AZZAM is a Syrian novelist. His most celebrated and controversial novel is The Palace of Rain, a powerful and daring treatment of taboos in the conservative Druze religion and community. His novel Ascension to Death was translated into English and French. And was adapted into an acclaimed film in 1995.
256 pages - ISBN: 978-9933-540-75-3
Fiction
Contacto : Marwan ADWAN
PO Box 105
Mission Beach
Queensland 4852
Australia
Tél: +61 418 506 645
www.spinifexpress.com.au
Spinifex Press es una editorial independiente y feminista, que publica libros innovadores y contravertidos con un aspecto optimista. Spinifex es una planta de las regiones áridas de Australia que es útil para la consolidación del terreno. Publicamos una gran variedad de obras, con enfoque sobre ecología, desarrollo, los derechos humanos y de los indígenas en el campo documental, y cuentos del mundo en el campo de la ficción y de la poesía. Estamos a la vanguardia de la publicación digital, con muchos de nuestros títulos disponibles en forma de eBook.
Spinifex is an Australian desert grass that holds the earth together.
Leer aquí la entrevista con Susan Hawthorne y Renate Kein, publicada en colaboración con ActuaLitté (25 de junio de 2018).
Merlinda BOBIS
1987. The Philippine government fights a total war against insurgency. The village of Iraya is militarised. The days are violent and the nights heavy with fireflies in the river where the dead are dumped. With her twelve-metre hair, Estrella, the Fish-Hair Woman, trawls corpses from the water that tastes of lemon grass. She falls in love with the Australian Tony McIntyre who disappears in the conflict. Ten years later, his son travels to Manila to find his father.
How much can the heart accommodate? Death and love, an enemy and a sweetheart, war and an impassioned serenade, and more. Only four chambers but with infinite space like memory, where there is room even for those whom we do not love.
Awards
Winner: 2014 Juan C. Laya Prize for Best Novel in a Foreign Language
Winner: 2013 Most Underrated Book Award
Finalist: 2013 Davitt Awards. Best Crime and Mystery Books by Australian Women
“As I was reading my thoughts kept turning to Wide Sargasso Sea. It shares with Jean Rhys’s masterpiece more than just a threat to topple into tragedy, but Fish-Hair Woman takes a wider view. It is a love story, a murder mystery, a story about family and a story about the impact of the kind of self-perpetuating government corruption that so often befalls a country in political turmoil. It’s ambitious and sprawling, and things could quickly go wrong. Fortunately, they don’t. Bobis is a talented, passionate writer who is unafraid of exploring the storytelling potential of the novel.”
–Tristan Foster, Verity LA
Published by Spinifex, co-edition with Anvil Press, Philippines; Translation into Spanish by JC Sáez Editor, Chile (2017).
2011 - 232 x 154 mm - 303 pp - AUD$29.95 - ISBN: 9781876756970
khulud kHAMIS
Jewellery designer, Maisoon, wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn’t easy for a tradition-defying, activist, Palestinian citizen of Israel, who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. Frustrated by the apathy of her boyfriend Ziyad and her father Majid—who want her to get on with her life and forget those in the Occupied Territories—she lashes out, only to discover her father isn’t the man she thought he was.
Raised a Christian, in a relationship with a Muslim man and enamoured with a Palestinian woman from the Occupied Territories, Maisoon must decide her own path.
khulud khamis unpacks the multiple layers of culture, religion, sexuality, politics, feminism and nationalism in the hope of gathering the fragmented pieces of the past and reclaiming the lost contiguity of being Palestinian.
—Samah Sabawi, Palestinian playwright and commentator
... khulud khamis has the rare gift of speaking directly to a reader’s soul; this radiant novel shows just what can happen when women challenge the limits of their world. —Sharon Olinka, author of The Good City
khulud khamis is a Palestinian feminist writer, born to a Slovak mother and a Palestinian father. She holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Haifa and works in the field of social change organizations. She is a member of the feminist organization Isha L’Isha – Haifa Feminist Center. She lives in Haifa with her daughter. This is her first novel.
Published by Spinifex Press; co-edition with New Internationalist UK; Italian translation FILA37 (2015); Turkish translation Gulduniya (2017).
2015 - 192 pp - ISBN: 9781742199009
Fiction
Susan HAWTHORNE
In a globalised world, megacorp publishing is all about numbers, about sameness, about following a formula based on the latest megasuccess. Each book is expected to pay for itself and all the externalities of publishing such as offices and CEO salaries.
It means that books which take off slowly but have long lives, the books that change social norms, are less likely to be published.
Independent publishers are seeking another way. A way of engagement with society and methods that reflect something important about the locale or the niche they inhabit. Independent and small publishers are like rare plants that pop up among the larger growth but add something different, perhaps they feed the soil, bring colour or scent into the world.
Bibliodiversity is a term invented by Chilean publishers in the 1990s as a way of envisioning a different kind of publishing. In this manifesto, Susan Hawthorne provides a scathing critique of the global publishing industry set against a visionary proposal for organic publishing. She looks at free speech and fair speech, at the environmental costs of mainstream publishing and at the promises and challenges of the move to digital.
Susan Hawthorne has worked in the book industry for more than 30 years as a writer, festival organiser, reviewer, editor, publisher and mentor. In 1991, she co-founded Spinifex Press with Renate Klein, after working for Penguin Australia for four years. She has written extensively about the industry, co-organised digital training for small and large publishers, taught Publishing Studies and Creative Writing, and has been an active member of peak bodies for publishers and writers. From 2011 to 2016, she was the English-language Coordinator for the International Alliance of Independent Publishers based in Paris. She is Adjunct Professor in the Writing Program at James Cook University and Publisher at Spinifex Press.
Bibliodiversity can be read as a manifesto for the defence and promotion of diversity in all its forms, but also as a master class in ethics.—JUAN CARLOS SÁEZ C., Director Gerente, JC Sáez Editor, Chile
This publication should be mandatory reading for anyone within the publishing industry.—MARY MASTERS, General Manager, Small Press Network, Australia
2014 - 104 pp - ISBN: 9781742199306
Non-Fiction
Rights: World. Published by Spinifex Press; Canadian rights sold to Fernwood Publishing; Translations into Arabic: December 2015, Tunisia, Éditions Med Ali, Arabic; Syria, Atlas Publishing, Arabic; Egypt, Elain Publishing, Arabic; Lebanon, Dar-Alfarabi and Arab Diffusion. French, 2016: France, Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer; Switzerland, éditions d’en bas; Benin, Éditions Ruisseaux d’Afrique; Mali, Éditions Jamana; Cameroun, Presses universitaires d’Afrique ; Spanish, 2017: Chile, JC Sáez; Mexico, Trilce Ediciones; Uruguay: Ediciones Trilce; also publishers in Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Bolivia. German, 2017, Verbrecher Verlag.
Contacto : Susan HAWTHORNE
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www.contracapa.com.br
Creada en 1992 en Copacabana, la librería Contra Capa inició sus actividades editoriales en 1996. Basadas al principio en las áreas de interés de la propia librería, esas actividades se diversificaron y hoy incluyen artes plásticas, fotografía, cine, psicoanálisis, antropología, economía, sociología, historia, crítica literaria y poesía. Su objetivo principal es producir libros que conjuguen la interdependencia entre texto e imagen, a la vista de las continuas transformaciones tecnológicas ligadas a la producción y a la diseminación del conocimiento y de la información.
Fernando VELOSO, Sergio GUIMARÃES FERREIRA (orgs.)
Este importante livro mostra que é possível alcançar redução expressiva da violência armada, da insegurança e da criminalidade que aterrorizam a população de grandes áreas urbanas do Brasil. Seus autores mostram – com fatos e não vagos discursos – que isso não se trata de uma esperança insensata. Não apenas porque foi alcançado em Nova York, Boston, Bogotá e várias outras cidades do mundo, mas principalmente porque, no Brasil, reduziu-se a violência em lugares em que isso era mais improvável: no Jardim Ângela, bairro da periferia da cidade de São Paulo que chegou a ser considerado o bairro mais violento do mundo, e em Diadema, que deixou de ser em quatro anos a cidade mais violenta de São Paulo, passando a ocupar o 18º posto.
Se você não pretende se deixar levar pelo desencanto, pela frustração, pelo ceticismo e pela desesperança, leia este livro. Entenderá, com base em experiências reais, que é possível, sem ilusões voluntaristas, apelos messiânicos e excessos e abusos no exercício da autoridade do Estado, mostrar aos bandidos armados que essa é uma longa guerra de muitas batalhas, mas que, ao fim e ao cabo, eles não só não podem ganhá-la, como a estão perdendo – e a perderão.
2008 - 208 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 35,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-046-1
Lêdo IVO
Pinturas de Gonçalo IVO
Desenho de Gianguido BONFANTI
O poema narra a visão da infância guardada pela memória. Obra de perda e despedida, seus versos longos se desdobram como as ondas do mar alagoano. Música e imagem se fundem para exprimir uma reflexão sobre o sentido da existência, da qual as pinturas de Gonçalo Ivo não são comentário ou simples ilustração.
2008 - 64 páginas - 16,8 x 24,5 cm - R$ 38,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-040-9
Katia MACIEL (org.)
37 textos de teóricos e artistas que compõem, em suas inter-relações, amplo panorama sobre as novas situações de cinema, em que superfícies híbridas de luz e movimento se conjugam com a participação e a imersão dos espectadores. A introdução da organizadora define o título do livro.
2009 - 432 páginas - 16 x 23 cm - R$ 65,00 - ISBN: 978-85-7740-009-3
Contacto : Araken GOMES RIBEIRO
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