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Alto

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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.

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Six degrés de liberté (Six Degrees of Freedom)

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 (...)

Les villes de papier (Paper Houses)

Dominique FORTIER Prix Renaudot (Non-fiction) – Rights sold in 14 countries One of the most important writer of the nineteenth century, a (...)

L’orangeraie (The Orange Grove)

Larry TREMBLAY Prix des libraires du Québec | Prix littéraire des collégiens + 8 others prizes – Rights sold in 23 countries Somewhere in the (...)

Contact : Anne-Marie GENEST

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Forum Editoria

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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

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Akoma Mba

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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.

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Le pays des contes (la fille des vents)

Mani LI (Cameroun), auteur ; Georges PONDY (Cameroun), illustrateur Depuis la disparition de son père, Noah n’aime plus lire. Un jour, il est (...)

Le Cocotier magique

Aude PERALTA EXCOFFIER (France), autrice ; Edji ONABEL (Cameroun), illustrateur Ce matin-là, tout semble paisible. Pourtant, cette quiétude va (...)

Le secret d’Ayélévi

Simon de SAINT-DZOKOTOE (Togo), auteur ; Maryse MONTRON (France), illustratrice La petite Ayélévi est très rusée. Elle gagne toujours le jeu “Qui (...)

Contact : Ulrich TALLA WAMBA

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Dena Publishing

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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.

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Az Zire Khak (From Below the Ground)

Nasim KHAKSAR This collection includes nineteen short stories written by Nasim Khaksar between 2001 and 2014. The title of the book is taken (...)

Parvaneh ee zir e baran (Butterfly in the rain)

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 (...)

Rouz haye Nefrideh bar khak e nefrideh (Godverdomse dagen op een godverdomse bol)

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 (...)

Contact : Reza CHAVOUSHI

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wo-men

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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.

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Intimacy [Intimita]

Barbora BARONOVÁ, Dita PEPE The stylized artistic literary and photographic documentary project Intimacy opens up important personal and social (...)

Voices of Women: Australia [Hlasy žen: Austrálie]

Barbora BARONOVÁ; Dita PEPE The publication Voices of Women: Australia brings twenty-two narratives of prominent Australian women artists, (...)

Borders of Love [Hranice lásky]

Dita PEPE et al. Borders of Love is a photographic and literary book from internationally renowned Czech photographer Dita Pepe that in thirteen (...)

Contact : Barbora BARONOVÁ

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La Oveja Roja

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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

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Nogaam Publishing

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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)

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Project Ulysses in Persian

James JOYCE; trad. Dr Akram PEDRAMNIA This is for the first time that James Joyce’s masterpiece is being published in Persian uncensored. This (...)

Ninety-Eight

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 (...)

The Burning of the Middle East

Karim POURHAMZAVI Comprehending the rise of Jihadism and ISIS The first ever original research work about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (...)

Contact : Azadeh PARSAPOUR

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Dublinense

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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.

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Amora

Natália BORGES POLESSO Vencedor do Prêmio Jabuti Vencedor do Prêmio Açorianos Vencedor do Prêmio AGES (Associação Gaúcha de Escritores) Seria pouco (...)

Elas marchavam sob o sol

Cristina JUDAR Ana e Joan. A primeira é diurna e contemporânea, bombardeada pelo consumismo e por pressões estéticas e comportamentais. A segunda é (...)

Setenta

Henrique SCHNEIDER Vencedor do Prêmio Paraná de Literatura Raul é um bancário dedicado, um cidadão de bem levando uma vida tranquila em junho de (...)

Contact : Gustavo FARAON

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Asociación de Editores en Lengua Vasca (Euskal Editoreen Elkartea)

logoAsociación de Editores en Lengua Vasca (Euskal Editoreen Elkartea)

Zemoriya 25, bajo
20013 Donostia-San Sebastián
Spain
Tél: (+34) 943 292 349
www.editoreak.eus

Contact : Ana URRESTARAZU

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Editargi (Asociación de editoriales independientes de Navarra)

logoEditargi (Asociación de editoriales independientes de Navarra)

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

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la marca editora

logola marca editora

Pasaje Rivarola 115
1015 Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tél: +(5411) 43 83 62 62
www.lamarcaeditora.com

Founded on 1992 by Guido Indij, la marca editora is an independent publisher specialized in art, photography, essays and poetry. In the last few years it has ventured into the publication of multiple numbered portfolios and experimental art books, along with more famous authors such as Michel Foucault, J-F Lyotard, Paul Virilio, J-L Nancy, Sylviane Agacinscki. The main innovation of la marca editora is to experience in the relation between formats and contents. Thus, in each project it looks to extend the limits of the concept of what is known as a “book“.

Cuando creamos la marca hace 25 años, sabíamos que queríamos producir cultura y creatividad. Y sabíamos que para eso debíamos forjar una marca. El primer sistema de isologos que nos entregó el estudio de diseño incluía la marca videos, la marca cine, la marca música, la marca diseño y la marca editora. Aunque desde que alineamos una estrategia de trabajo y solo usamos el último...

Listen here the interview with Guido Indij, directed by the CERLALC, September 2018.

Contact : Guido INDIJ

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Editorial El Conejo

logoEditorial El Conejo

6 de Diciembre N26-97 y la Niña
Edificio Brother, piso 3, ap. 17-03-4629
Quito
Ecuador
Tél: (+593) 222 7948 / (+593) 222 7949
www.editorialelconejo.com/contactese.html

El Conejo is a not-for-profit publishing house, focussing on the publication of books by Ecuadorian authors and the promotion of reading to children, young people and adults. Since its inception in 1979, it has added considerably to its backlist and has become the leading publishing house in Ecuador. It boasts some 500 works in its catalogue, including books, cultural supplements and fascicules, with as its backdrop the protection of liberty and democracy. Its editorial line is to promote Ecuadorian and Latin-American literature, in a wide variety of genres: novels, short stories, poetry, plays, human and social sciences. It has gained respect and support from Ecuadorian institutions and intellectuals.

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La globalización y sus espejismos. Globalization and its Apparitions.

Michael HANDELSMAN Olaf BERWALD Vengo de Ecuador, un país pequeño que está sobre la línea equinoccial (de allí su nombre) una línea imaginaria que (...)

Contact : Santiago LARREA

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Ankur Prakashani

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40/1 Purana Paltan
Dhaka 1000
Bangladesh
Tél: +880 (0)2 9564799/7176
www.ankur-prakashani.com

Ankur Prakashani started its journey in the year 1984 as a publisher of books on various topics. Now Ankur has established itself as one of the leading publishers in Bangladesh. Particular focus areas are books on social development issues, women liberalization, health, fiction and nonfiction, as well as children’s and youth literature.

Ankur arranges co-publications with renowned foreign publishers: Tulika (India), South Asia Publication (India), UBSPD (India), and Impart (U.K). Ankur publishes Bengali versions of quality bestselling books and also imports and exports books and journals on a wide range of subjects.

Ankur publishes books of renowned national and international authors like: Dr. Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, Dr. Kamal Hossain Abdul Gaffar Chowdhury, Humayun Ahmed, Taslima Nasrin, Syed Shamsul Haque, Dr. Ali Riaz, Dr. Hasanuzzaman, Dr. Ali Manwar, Dr. Fazlul Alam, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Dr. Heide Richter, Shorodindu Shekhar Chakma, Sunil Gangapadhyay, Astrid Lindgren, J.K. Rowling, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Contact : Mesbahuddin AHMED

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Zellige

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15, rue des Prés
Lunay
77171 Léchelle
France
Tél: +33 (0)1 64 00 86 92
www.zellige.eu

Zellige: enamel-coated chips of terra cotta set into plaster, used to decorate monuments and home interiors in the Arab world.


With a firmly international focus, and a deliberately diversified catalogue (novels, essays and albums), Zellige aims to develop close partnerships with publishers, bookstore managers and distributors in the French-speaking world. So the works can be published simultaneously in all the countries involved. And at prices tailored to local buying power.
Steering clear of the centralising mindset, programmes are not systematically initiated in France. Out of the thirty titles featuring in this catalogue, half have originated from one of Zellige’s partners, in Algeria, Haiti, Morocco, Tunisia, Belgium or Lebanon.
Furthermore, Zellige has expanded into graphic design and communications, with customers sometimes hailing from other walks of life than publishing.

As for the publishing house’s name, recalling mosaics, it expresses its sharing, partnership-focussed, open attitude.

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Algérie, Maroc, histoires parallèles, destins croisés

Benjamin STORA À quand un couple algéro-marocain, indispensable moteur d’un Maghreb des régions ? Une telle perspective réclame, de ces deux pays (...)

Amour, Colère et Folie

Marie VIEUX-CHAUVET Un chef d’œuvre de la littérature haïtienne signé d’un écrivain qui l’a payé cher (Le Magazine littéraire) Édité initialement en (...)

Kalila et Dimna

Ibn AL-MUQAFFA Une nouvelle traduction, fluide et agréable de ce classique de la littérature arabe (Le Temps, Genève) Étudié dans toutes les (...)

Contact : Roger TAVERNIER

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Yomad

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28, rue Dayat Aoua
Agdal
10000 Rabat
Morocco
Tél: (+212) 53 7 68 64 30
www.yomadeditions.net

Yomad was founded end 1998. It is a small publishing house specialising in books for young people. Its means are tiny but its ambition is huge, stemming from the dearth of local creation witnessed in literature for young people. It is true that the children’s departments in bookstores are crammed with books from elsewhere, books filled with references which are completely foreign to the culture and environment of Moroccan children. Whereas children need to set down roots in order to forge their identity and live in harmony with society. This is what underpins Yomad.
An initial collection, “mini Yemma”, of three books by Driss Chraïbi and a second collection, entitled “Yemma”, comprising two books by Habib Mazini were published in March 1999. With Driss Chraïbi as the star author in the catalogue, Yomad was able to get noticed quickly. Next came Zaïna et le fils du vent which proved highly popular among young readers. It received the high-school children’s Grand Atlas 2001 award. Further to requests from young readers, a second volume was published: Le défi de Zaïna.

The Yomad catalogue now features 10 collections comprising 40 books. The collections “Hikayat”, “Mini-Yemma”, “Mini-Yemma novels”, “Yemma”, “Contes du Maroc” (Moroccan folk tales), “Rêves d’enfants” (Children’s dreams), “Yemma junior”, “Raconte-moi l’Histoire” (Tell me a story), “Mini-plume” and “Nostalgie”.

Heavyweights in Moroccan and Algerian literature have contributed several of their own writings, including Driss Chraïbi, Fouad Laroui, Abdellatif Laâbi, Abdelhak Serhane, Zakya Daoud, Mohamed Dib and other less well-known authors such as Jocelyne Laâbi, Habib Mazini, Mehdi Degraincourt, Ouadia Bennis, Charlotte Bousquet, Véronique Abt, Dominique Logié, Françoise Chémaô, Christian Devèze, Zidrou, Samia Benatya, Keltoum Mosdik, Majid Al Amiri and Florence Deville-Patte. The illustrators who have provided pretty decorations for the texts are Nathalie Logié, Alexis Logié, Virginie Soumagnac, Abdellatif Mitari, Moshine Drissi, Saïd Boucetta, Karim Yahia, Noureddine Lahrech, Tasneem Allouch, Carole Gourat, Saïd Oumouloud, Jean-Paul Favreau, Pierre Léger and Orélie Gouel.

Je suis partie de « nomade » car pour moi, l’éditeur, l’écrivain, le lecteur, le livre sont tous des nomades. Le nom n’a pas été accepté, car il existait déjà. J’ai juste retiré le N et je l’ai remplacé par Y. Je trouve que Yomad a une belle sonorité.

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Le voleur de Volubilis

Laurence LE GUEN - illustrations d’Anthony COCAIN Lorsque Briac et Maëlle posent leurs pieds sur le sol marocain, ils sont loin de se douter que (...)

Salim wa sahîr / Salem et le sorcier

Mohammed DIB - illustrations de Virginie SOUMAGNAC Bilingue arabe / français Il y a bien longtemps, un méchant sorcier était servi par un petit (...)

Ma place est à l’école !

Véronique ABT Aïcha vit dans un village au Sud du Maroc. Tous les jours, elle regarde, avec envie, les enfants qui se dépêchent sur le chemin de (...)

Contact : Nadia ESSALMI

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Women Unlimited

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7/10, First Floor, Sarvapriya Vihar
New Delhi 110 016
India
Tél: (+91-11) 2652 4129 / (+91-11) 2686 6596
www.womenunlimited.net

Women Unlimited is an associate of Kali for Women, India’s first and oldest feminist press, which publishes scholarly and academic books in the social sciences; fiction; general interest non-fiction; autobiographies, reminiscences and memoirs; oral histories; books for young adults; pamphlets and monographs; and activist material. The Kali for Women/ Women Unlimited list combines the best of Kali’s titles published between 1984 and 2004, and an exciting range of books and authors commissioned by Women Unlimited. Women Unlimited has close links with the women’s movement, and the women’s studies in India, South Asia, and internationally. We participate in campaigns, nationally and regionally, and have organised extensively on issues to do with alternative media, women’s writing, and gender-based censorship. We consider all this as just an extension of our publishing activity.

WU is an active and organizing partner of the Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), a collective of 10 Delhi-based independent publishers formed in March 2005; and of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD Alternatives), a partnership of 8 independent Indian publishers set up in late 2005, which handles the distribution of titles published by nearly 20 small/independent publishers (including those of the 8 partners).

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Soil Not Oil

Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Food Insecurity - by Vandana Shiva “One of the world’s most prominent radical scientists.” —The Guardian (...)

Mother India

Sexual Economies in Contemporary Bombay Cinema - by Karen Gabriel This insightful analysis of popular Bombay cinema presents a comprehensive (...)

Terror, Terrorism, States and Societies

Edited by Samir Kumar Das & Rada Ivekovic Terror has had different philosophies in history; and philosophies have their own engagement with (...)

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Tulika Books

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No. 44, First Floor
Shahpur Jat
New Delhi 110 049
India
Tél: Tél: (+91-11) 2649 7999 / (+91-11) 4617 0894
www.tulikabooks.in

Tulika Books is an independent publisher based in Delhi, India, specializing in non-fiction, academic books in the social sciences and humanities. Established more than 10 years ago, it has published nearly 65 titles to date, and has been able to attract reputed scholars from various disciplines — such as history, economics, development studies, literary theory, cultural studies, art, sociology and politics — as its authors.

Tulika Books is an active and organizing partner of the Independent Publishers’ Group (IPG), a collective of 10 Delhi-based independent publishers formed in March 2005; and of the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPD Alternatives), a partnership of 8 independent Indian publishers set up in late 2005, which handles the distribution of titles published by nearly 20 small/independent publishers (including those of the 8 partners).

Listen here the interview of Indira Chandrasekhar - interview by Frederick Noronha at the workshop on ’Spreading the Word: Copyright, Dissemination and Independent Publishing’ organized by the Independent Publishers’ Distribution Alternatives (IPDA) in collaboration with Alternative Law Forum, 24–25 June 2010, Bangalore.

Contact : Indira CHANDRASEKHAR

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Vents d’ailleurs

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11, route de Sainte-Anne
13640 La Roque d'Anthéron
France
Tél: +33 (0)4 42 50 59 92
www.ventsdailleurs.com

Vents d’ailleurs was founded in 1999 by Gilles Colleu and Jutta Hepke. Publishing professionals for about 25 years, our starting point was when we noticed a great emptiness, a great shortage in the publishing industry. Book supply is substantial in France, yet many cultures are missing or under-represented. We are convinced that the knowledge of cultures from abroad, the others’ cultures, helps build a society with more solidarity and enriches any human being in his quest for humanity. It is therefore important to build bridges and to make available to everybody the tools to become or to be a citizen of today’s world. Written works, literature, arts, books contribute to this.
We want to contribute to building tomorrow’s world, to opening doors and windows wide to other visions of the world. We have thus opened our door to authors and illustrators, to visions and ideas from abroad, so as to continue together, on the long term, the journey of creation and literature.

Our editorial policy focuses on books telling stories from the “inside”, texts, narratives which do not contemplate other cultures or faraway fantasies – but which, on the contrary, come to us from elsewhere. These stories make us dream and wonder, they question us. The approach is reversed; shifting the point of view changes everything. Our representations, here in France, in a rich Northern country, are questioned, and our landmarks shifted away. Imaginations, languages, ideas, images, cultural expressions clash, cross, permeate each other.

Vents d’ailleurs is a member of the Alliance of independent publishers, the association Éditeurs sans frontières and the association Jedi Paca. Vents d’ailleurs is distributed in Haiti by Communication Plus and in Canada by Dimédia.

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Sankofa & Gurli Éditions

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01 BP 3811
Ouagadougou 01
Burkina Faso
Tél: (+226) 78 72 98 00
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Sankofa & Gurli is a Burkinabe publishing house created in 1995. With its creation, several objectives were fixed to promote literature while acting in various and complementary plans which include writing (support of and follow-up with authors), reading (communication with the public), and output and diffusion; to promote and revalorize the African languages, especially those spoken in Burkina Faso and transnational languages, across an editorial policy which avoids marginalizing publication in African languages (aesthetic of the form and the contents, topics, circulation of the publications...); to produce literature of quality at costs corresponding to the local purchasing power; to work to arouse in the children and the young people the taste for reading and writing, and anchor in them, as soon as possible, practices of output and consumption of the writing; in a general way, to contribute to the promotion, the development, and the reinforcement of culture, especially literary, in a context of generalized illiteracy. Since 1999, the contacts have been diversified, the commitments reinforced and widened: Sankofa & Gurli Editions participate with various partners (African, European, North American) in co-publishing projects;
Member of the Alliance of independent publishers, Sankofa & Gurli contributes to the debate and to the fight for bibliodiversity and solidarity in publishers’ independence across the world.

Le nom de la maison d’édition est double. SANKOFA est le nom de l’oiseau qui, dans la cosmogonie des peuples AKAN, symbolise la conscience historique. Son slogan est « Il n’y a pas de honte à revenir sur ses pas pour prendre ce qu’on a perdu/oublié en cours de chemin ». GURLI est le nom du hérisson en gulmancema. Il symbolise aux yeux du fondateur de la maison d’édition l’ingénuité enfantine et le caractère absolu de la liberté des idées. On racontait souvent aux enfants qu’il était impossible de garder prisonnier un hérisson. Toutes les tentatives par ces enfants d’en enfermer un se révélaient vaines, le hérisson disparaissait toujours de sa prison. Bien des années plus tard, l’enfant que j’étais (suis ?) a appris que c’étaient nos aînés qui libéraient le petit animal. Ainsi en est-il des idées : on a beau les enfermer, les emprisonner, il se trouvera toujours un moyen, une personne, une circonstance, qui les libérera...

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Mémoire d’encrier

logoMémoire d’encrier

1260 rue Bélanger, Bureau 201
H2S 1H9 Montréal (Québec)
Canada
Tél: (+1-514) 989 1491
www.memoiredencrier.com

Mémoire d’encrier was founded in March 2003 in Montréal by the writer Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI. It publishes works of fiction: novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, essays and accounts. Mémoire d‘encrier offers a varied catalogue that builds bridges between cultures and imagination in the North and South. The basic idea underlying our work is that of dialogue between cultures in a perspective of solidarity and of accepting the Other. Mémoire d’encrier is geared around a body of over a hundred works by authors from Canada, Quebec, the Caribbean, Native America, Africa, and Europe. The goal being to refuse exclusion and to redefine collective living.

Mémoire d’encrier : enraciner l’encre (l’écrit) dans le patrimoine oral. Associer la mémoire à l’écrit ; associer en ce sens littérature (écrits) et oraliture (traditions orales) ; assumer la continuité entre mémoire et modernité.

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Duvalier. La face cachée de Papa Doc

Jean FLORIVAL Spectateur et souffleur, Jean Florival est dans l’œil du cyclone; à l’intérieur du régime, sans un quelconque titre officiel. C’est en (...)

Litanie pour le Nègre fondamental

Jean BERNABÉ Une dizaine de personnages, hauts en couleurs, issus de différents milieux sociaux et castes de la Martinique, sont mis en scène. (...)

Ainsi parla l’Oncle suivi de Revisiter l’Oncle

Jean PRICE-MARS “Ainsi parla l’Oncle” est le premier manifeste de la condition noire. Paru pour la première fois en 1928, l’ouvrage a influencé (...)

Contact : Rodney SAINT-ÉLOI

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